Conor Oberst returns to the moniker (and the passion) that made him famous.

America’s favorite Southern rockers deliver another set of consistently rocking, less-than-brilliant material.

This Chicago band makes a great first impression with their debut EP – it’s so good, you’ll cut your penis off.

Arcade Fire return with their first new album in three years, and it’s a monumental success.

Tim and Oswald review the new Godsmack album. Together.

Assault’s favorite band releases a new record; we shit our pants. Oswald Hobbes explains why.

Finally. A tool that will find all the correct album art, and song information automatically for my iTunes library automatically. The best iTunes add-on since iLike is here.

The first single of 30 Seconds to Mars second album, This Is War has been out for awhile, and admittedly almost made it onto our Songs We’ve Put on Repeat post, but it was just too soon. Needless to say, I am a big fan of the single, and the same could be said about the majority of the album in its entirety.

Good news: Editors are back with their third album, and they’ve got a brand new sound. Bad news: They still suck (mostly).

Grohl + Homme + Jones. You already know it rocks.

After undergoing numerous lineup changes and the usual amount of toil and trouble, these guys seem to be on the cusp of breaking out and getting the recognition they deserve.

The second album from Malibu rapper Shwayze is a mellow good time slightly lacking in depth.

The accurately titled seventh album by these perennially endearing oddballs is loud, fast, and unapologetically fun. Just check your ideas about artistic maturity at the door.

Based on the title and cover art alone, you might guess this is a new Slayer release. Unfortunately, you’d be wrong – Congregation Of The Damned (Opens in iTunes) is the fifth release from California’s Atreyu, and it’s another predictable-but-pleasing collection of shouty metalcore. When we describe metal albums as “punishing,” that’s typically a compliment. [...]

America loves a comeback story, and Creed’s is a doozy: after racking up huge sales, conquering the world, and becoming the critical community’s favorite punching bag, the band’s arrogance and stupidity finally caught up with them. After listening to their new album Full Circle (opens in iTunes) for six long hours, I have returned with a verdict…

The amount of enjoyment you get out of any Rammstein record depends on your ability to ignore certain factors that define their sound. First, there’s the whole foreign-language thing: the lyrammrics are almost exclusively in the band’s native German. Second, there’s the creepy cabaret element as a backdrop to all of their tunes. The band can pulverize with some truly explosive riffage, but, even at their most forceful, everything is accented with dance floor keyboards.

Out of Ashes is a refreshing switch from the uniformly downbeat output of Bennington’s other band, and one that figures prominently in Out Of Ashes overall success – every time a lowly angst-nugget like “Let Down” clogs the record’s flow, a stomper like “Condemned” is right around the corner to blast the proceedings back into high gear.

Daisy is a rare beast in the oft-uninspiring alternative rock genre. It can clobber and caress in equal measures, and at no point does the band consider those qualities mutually exclusive.

Martin Atkins has played drums along side John Rotten, Chris Connelly, Trent Reznor, and countless other rock n rollers over the last 30 years. I was lucky enough to interview him via email, and I think just about anyone can learn something interesting/cool from what he had to say.

When we released our summer line of shirts we put out the word that we were looking for some honest reviews of our new work. Of all the reviews we received, one particular site stood out–so we decided to interview the brains behind the operation, Paul Baines from Buy-Tees.net