RageAgainstTheMachine

While we've all been living our 'American Idol' free lives here in the States, Simon Cowell, the acerbic 'Idol' judge with the affinity for V-necks, has been wowing British television audiences with 'X Factor,' the U.K. reality series that inevitably spawned 'American Idol...

As we previously told you, Slash got together some of his buddies to benefit a good cause, the Los Angeles Youth Network, for a benefit gig in L.A. Well, the show took place Nov. 22, and as host George Lopez said, "No disrespect to the AMAs," referring to the 'American Music Awards' also going on in Downtown L...

Even over a phone line from California, Throwdown frontman Dave Peters is a formidable presence, and during Noisecreep's podcast interview, he took command the same way he does when he's onstage, clutching a mike, sweat pouring down contorted face and tattooed sleeves...

Tom Morello's latest project, Street Sweeper Social Club, has been doing very well since their opening dates for Nine Inch Nails, but Morello's reputation alone has been a considerable draw. He was as magnetizing to the media as Zack de la Rocha in Rage Against the Machine, and stood alongside Chris Cornell in the now-defunct supergroup Audioslave, so it comes as an entertaining surprise to learn

The only rockers we've actually heard of from Taiwan, Chthonic are a savage and political black metal band that incorporates instrumentation from the Far East (including the violin-like erhu) into their Western-inspired sounds. The band has been raising eyebrows and pushing buttons since they formed in Taipei in 1995 and released five albums to date...

GGGarth Richardson has produced albums for such bands as Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against The Machine, Atreyu, L7, Rise Against, and From Autumn To Ashes, and is the son of Jack Richardson, famed producer for The Guess Who, Badfinger, Bob Seger, and others...

"It's physical and political," guitarist Steph Carter told Noisecreep about Gallows' music on their major label debut, 'Grey Britain,' which was released by Warner Bros in May. "No band anymore seems to make a statement about what is going on...