With the excellent Farm, J, Murph, and Lou are back and spry as ever. And with their colossal amp and pedal rigs, they are eardrum rupturing as ever, too. Dinosaur Jr. is touring to show everybody how it's done, yet again, last night playing the second of a sold-out two-night stand at the Troubadour. Tomorrow night they'll rattle teeth and test ...

Ratt and Extreme have teamed up to bring you this summer's most rockin' tour lineup?

Today's roundup of quick music news stories

After we posted the Jeff Lynne-sweetened "Blue Lips" a commentor said he was "dismayed" that the song -- along with "Laughing With" -- was "massively overproduced for my taste." When Spektor performed the Far track on Jools Holland she stripped it down to piano and subtle string accompaniment. No rattling percussion, cymbal washes, ambient drone...

Come on in to check out Slipknot's Corey Taylor rocking out on some Poison and Ratt with the one and only, Steel Panther!Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor recently joined the greatest band on gods green earth, Steel Panther, for renditions of Poison's 'Nothing But A Good Time' and Ratt's 'Round And ...