Alice in Chains recently canceled a brief spring US tour, including a couple of high-profile festival appearances, after drummer Sean Kinney experienced a medical emergency. The veteran stickman has now addressed his health, saying, “I’m […]
Opening Cannes, like closing it, has traditionally been a poisoned chalice. The festival has tried a few moves to address the latter, mostly predicated on the fact that, by the end of nearly two exhausting […]
A contestant on The Voice named Lucia Flores-Wiseman put a jazzy twist on the Soundgarden classic “Black Hole Sun” on Monday night (May 12th), eliciting a polarizing reaction from viewers. Flores-Wiseman sang the first couple […]
Creed will have their own car racing in the 109th running of the Indianapolis 500 on May 25th. The band has teamed up with Meyer Shank Racing for the No. 60 Honda via the team’s […]
via Adult Best Friends I watched a movie called Adult Best Friends on a Friday night after coming home from a party in Hollywood where Green Day, a quintessential band of my middle school years, […]
Heavy Song of the Week is a feature on Heavy Consequence breaking down the top metal, punk, and hard rock tracks you need to hear every Friday. This week, No. 1 goes to the debut […]
Soundgarden will rise — and rock — again. And, yes, with Chris Cornell. Indeed, the black hole that was left when the grunge god died by suicide in 2017 will be filled with some sun […]
James Baker, the veteran rock drummer who played with The Scientists, Hoodoo Gurus, and Beasts of Bourbon, has died. He was 71. Videos by Suggest In 2014, Baker was diagnosed with liver cancer and fought […]
Heavy Song of the Week is a feature on Heavy Consequence breaking down the top metal, punk, and hard rock tracks you need to hear every Friday. This week, No. 1 goes to “The End” […]
Green Day were honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today, May 1st. As promised, Matt Pinfield made his first public appearance since suffering a massive stroke in January to serve as emcee. […]
Metallica have announced an expanded deluxe reissue of their 1996 album Load, arriving June 13th. Billed as the definitive re-release of Load, the new reissue was remastered by Reuben Cohen at Lurssen Mastering with oversight […]
Guess Mariah Carey and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame don’t belong together. For her second nomination in a row, the superstar pop diva was denied enshrinement into music’s most exclusive club when the […]
It’s hard to define which genre of music the song “In Moonlight” belongs to — a track from the original soundtrack to Ryan Coogler’s Sinners that dances between blues, grunge, and so many other influences. […]
As a member of Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Temple of the Dog, drummer Matt Cameron is grunge royalty. One of his most famous performances came on Soundgarden’s iconic hit “Black Hole Sun.” In a new […]
Billie Joe Armstrong has invited enough audience members onstage to sing or play guitar with Green Day for a song or two that at this point you figure he’s developed a keen sense for what […]
Heavy Song of the Week is a feature on Heavy Consequence breaking down the top metal, punk, and hard rock tracks you need to hear every Friday. This week, No. 1 goes to Turnstile’s first […]
As they embark on the 2025 Summer of ’99 and Beyond Cruise, Creed has also unveiled the lineup for their 2026 voyage. The multiplatinum post-grunge act will be joined on next year’s bill by 3 […]
On the Shelf Fahrenheit-182 By Mark Hoppus with Dan OzziDey Street Books: 400 pages, $33If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. […]
You would think most people would need a break after spending 18 months in the military. But most people aren’t international pop stars such as Jung Ho-seok, better known as j-hope of BTS. It seemed […]
Comedian Bill Burr spent his teenage years headbanging to ’80s hair metal and hard rock, so he was none too pleased when grunge came along in the early ’90s and knocked his favorite bands off […]