Have you ever found yourself wondering what a statistical breakdown of all the songs in Rock Band 2 might look like while in the midst of one of the game's heavy metal power solos? Admittedly, that's not the most hard rockingest thing we've ever heard -- still, you may want to point your mathematica...

Explode Into Colors is a band out of Olympia featuring “three weird aunts”– one of which is Lisa of longtime Catbird favorite Kickball (the other members are Claudia Meza of Japanther and Heather Treadway of Tender Forever). Kill Rock Stars will be putting out a single later this s...

  This year has been a great year for introduction of new, more underground musicians in the rock genre. I have two more in bands in addition to the few that I have already mentioned this year that I have been quite impressed with. I love simplicity when it comes to rock. I like bands that focu...

The Importance of the Non-Techie or How I Learned to Stop Pulling Out My Hair and Love my Luddite by: Mick Jacobsen My wife mocks Twitter thoroughly, “You don’t even know these people,” she repeats. She thinks Facebook/MySpace is weird. She considers online gaming to be silly.  Sh...

Austin, TX by way of Denton, TX rockers Riverboat Gamblers have built a reputation for being raucous performers who don’t mind bleeding a little during their frenetic live-set. The spirit of their live-performance ways are captured brilliantly in their new record, Underneath the Owl (Volcom). ...

Here Comes The… - EP Butch Walker Release Date: March 10, 2009 Total Songs: 4 Genre: Rock Price: $1.99 Copyright 2008 Power Ballad/Stay Platinum/Original Signal...

Girls just don’t rock and roll any more, at least not in the way Tina Turner, Linda Ronstadt, Janis Joplin and even new wave hanger-ons Deborah Harry and Annie Lennox did. I blame Madonna. She definitely knew how to get a nice dance beat going but she chose to focus on image rather than actual...

Australia's game rating board has announced the arrival of Nintendo's Rock N' Roll Climber, maybe a bit earlier than the publisher was probably expecting. Sadly, details are slim, even for a governmental video game rating. Development duties on Rock N' Roll Climber are credited to Vitei Inc. They're...

Editor's Note: This blog was contributed by Shaun Rogan. Be sure to read his previous blogs for Zoom In Online: A Trip Thru Hell with the C.A. Quintet and Lux Interior (1946-2009): A True Legend of Rock N Roll. read more...

Uh, that's Paul, not Jesse. The ex-Beatle -- whose latest release as The Fireman is incredibly awesome, by the way -- will be playing April 19 the New Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The 4,000......