Perhaps no artist seemed less likely to rule 2009 than Phoenix. After all, this was the same band whose first three albums, 2000’s United, 2002’s Alphabetical and 2006’s It’s Never Been Like That, made them only marginally famous in the US: Their song “Run Run Run” became a minor hit earlier in the decade, but [...]

Be safe and rock hard! What will the new year bring in music? The world will just have to wait to find out!

Four albums into their career, Canadian indie rockers Metric have been named MySpace Music’s Triumph of the Year thanks to the success of their 2009 album Fantasies, which took only four weeks to beat previous album’s Live It Out sales over four years. The feat was more remarkable because Metric accomplished it without the aid [...]

Jimmy “The Rev Dead” Sullivan Update : Avenged Sevenfold Drummer is Dead! On this recent news Avenged Sevenfold drummer , James Owen Sullivan at 28 was found dead. The authorities who investigate this issue about “The Rev” stated that Jimmy Sullivan was found dead and appeared to died in natural causes It’s been a long while [...]

Vic Chesnutt, the Georgia-based singer-songwriter known for his darkly comic songs, died yesterday in Athens, Georgia, after spending several days in a coma caused by an overdose of muscle relaxers. Chesnutt, who was confined to a wheelchair after a car crash at age 18, was discovered in the late 1980s by R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, who [...]