On March 26, 2009, Alpha Media Group announced that it was closing Blender magazine. The periodical, which began in 1994 as the first digital CD-ROM magazine, specialized in music reviews and employed thirty people. AMG will be reducing its portfolio... 

Pitchfork has announced the dates and some of the lineup for the 2009 Festival. The festival will be held July 17-19 at Chicago's Union Park. Pitchfork is THE festival to see in Chicago during the summer in my humble opinion because the lineup is the... 

NIN|JA NIN, Janes Addiction and Street Sweeper have released a free EP on their NIN|JA 2009 website. The EP was released to promote the upcoming 2009 tour. Just supply an email address and you get two songs each from NIN, Janes Addiction and Street Sweeper.... 

Okay, this is very hard for me to say, but I love the Lady GAGA album. It all started innocently enough, my 5 year old daughter Frida saw a picture of her on youtube and asked me to play the video. I played it, she loved it, I bought it for her reluctantly... 

GNR has announced DJ Ashba will be their new lead guitarist taking over for the departed Robin Finck who is going back to NIN.  Ashba comes from the Nikki Sixx project Sixx A.M.  I guess from the press release on GNR's website Ashba will be joning the...