Poison and Cheap Trick kicked off their summer tour of North America in Irvine, CA

Slipknot and Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor reveals in a recent radio interview that he was approached to star in VH1′s Rock of Love, taking over for Poison frontman Bret Michaels in the dating series

Producers of 'Rock Of Love' wanted Corey Taylor to replace Poison's Bret Michaels

The massively influential Portland hardcore legends have been steadily ripping shit for 35 years. Their new album Confuse & Conquer is their first since 2006, but it doesn’t sound like the work of people who have been quiet for a while, and it doesn’t sound like something that middle-aged men could’ve made....

Other than a five-year break in the ’90s, Portland punk heroes Poison Idea have been making blistering, intense, full-bore hardcore since 1980. Though they’ve been playing regularly, the band’s forthcoming album Confuse & Conquer will be their first since 2006’s Last Will & Testament. The...