Category: Active Rock

Finger Eleven and Andy Timmons Slated to play CosmoFEST 2019

CosmoFEST is back for a fifth year. The festival will run at the Cosmo Music property on Saturday, June 1, 2019 from 9:00 am to 10:00 pm. Parking and admission to the event are free. One of the highlights of this year’s festival is special guest GEDDY LEE, frontman of legendary band, RUSH. Lee will […]

Five Finger Death Punch’s ‘Blue on Black’ Cover is back on the Charts

Five Finger Death Punch’s cover of the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band’s “Blue on Black,” is hot on the charts. The original song had  a six-week No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Songs airplay chart in 1998, and has since soared back onto the Hot Rock Songs tally, dated April 27th, at a new high of No. 2 after […]

Eddie and Jill Vedder Speak at WE Day California

WE Day, the greatest celebration of social good, returned to the “Fabulous” Forum in celebration of over 16,000 students and educators committed to making a difference. Coming together from across California, they shared in a day of inspiration with renowned speakers, innovative thought leaders and dynamic performers including, host Neil Patrick Harris, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Mahershala […]

Dave Matthews Band and more Slated to play at New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival

Continuing its deep appreciation and support of musical heritage, Acura returns as a sponsor of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival as the iconic cultural event celebrates its 50th anniversary. Acura also returns for the 5th year as a sponsor of the Trombone Shorty Foundation, and this year, as presenting sponsor of “Shorty Fest,” […]

Animal Collective Announces New October Tour Dates

Recently, Animal Collective has announced a six-date trek through the United States throughout October. The trek kicks off in Tulsa, Oklahoma and is scheduled to wrap up in Big Sur, California. In 2018, Animal Collective released the audiovisual album Tangerine Reef. This year, both Panda Bear and Avey Tare have released solo albums: Buoys and Cows […]

Rob Thomas Reveals Inspiration for New Album

Rob Thomas is surprisingly OK with the fact that his brand of driving alt-rock is not currently in vogue.According to Nielsen Music, the rock star has over a dozen of radio hits and more than 18 million albums sold in the United States. He says “Everything we’ve ever done, Matchbox Twenty or my solo stuff, […]

N*E*R*D’s Sophomore Album Reissued For Its 15th Anniversary

Urban Legends reissues N*E*R*D’s critically acclaimed, RIAA gold-certified album, Fly or Die, in honor of its 15th anniversary. Featuring the hits “She Wants To Move,” “Maybe,” and “Jump” (featuring Good Charlotte’s Joel Madden and Benji Madden), the album is available now on limited edition 2LP red vinyl. Released on March 23, 2004, Fly or Die […]

We Came As Romans Prepared to Carry on After Kyle Pavone’s Death

The band We Came as Romans’ world has been flipped upside down since singer Kyle Pavone died of an accidental overdose back in August of last year. And as they adjust to life on the road after tragedy, We Came As Romans are preparing to hit the studio for the first album since the devastating, […]

Nick Cave: ‘Perhaps rock music needs to die for a while’

Nick Cave is known as a showman, icon, innovator. But the musician has cast aspersions on the beleaguered genre’s future as it faces a post-#MeToo reckoning with its legacy of bad behaviour. Cave has a website called the Red Hand files. And a fan wrote in to ask how he felt about “the current trend […]

Weezer and Tears For Fears Collaborate on ‘Jimmy Kimmel’ With ‘Everybody Wants to Rule the World’

Following the first weekend of Coachella, when Weezer surprised fans by bringing Tears for Fears (Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith) onto the main stage to perform their hit “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” they kept the carried on with a rendition of the song on Monday, April 15th’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! Smith sung the first verse of […]