Reuters - Bon Jovi had great crossover success after putting a little bit of country into its rock 'n' roll with the 2007 "Lost Highway." But the New Jersey group gets back to the business of rocking on its 11th studio album, "The Circle." The band hits a classic Bon Jovi stride out of the gate with the first single, "We Weren't Born to Follow,"...

An album of B-sides is just a chance to release the crap that was not good enough to make it on a real album. There are a few exceptions. Pearl Jam's Lost Dogs is a shining example of a b-sides collection doing good.

Tributes have poured in for Les Paul, the inventor of iconic Gibson guitar, who died yesterday.Slash, Velvet Revolver"Les Paul was a shining example of how full one's life can be, he was so vibrant & full of positive energy. I'm honoured and humbled to have known and played with him over the years, he was an exceptionally brilliant man."Joe...

Once you strip White Lies' "Nothing To Give" to its core components, there's no question the band picked the best possible artist to remix it. There's Harry McVeigh's aching, echoing vocal; that overarching adolescence to its "When you said goodbye, I almost died" emotion; even the synths, and strings, and stadium guitars -- all perfectly calibr...

A couple years ago, we caught up with Curt Kirkwood to discuss Rise To Your Knees, Meat Puppets' first release since 2000's Golden Lies, and the first with new drummer Ted Marcus. The trio, rounded out by Cris Kirkwood, of course, has clearly fallen into some sort of rhythm: Sewn Together, a collection of a dozen new Curt Kirkwood-produced track...