No Criteria here, just some cool rock dudes with cool rock beards. I’m sure I’ve missed a bunch so please comment on your favorites!

1. Dimebag Darrel – Pantera
Gone long before his time. Losing Dimebag was perhaps the biggest tragedy in rock history, nonetheless his beard lives on.

2. Kerry King – Slayer
This guy is just all [...]

Vancouver is going to be hosting the Olympics in a couple of weeks and Mother Nature, it seems, has a bit of a sense of humor. There is no snow on the mountains and the forecast looks like it’s just going to be way above seasonal. As such, Vancouverites have been scrambling to stockpile snow [...]

Hi,
This is Ryan Keating, lead singer of the Sons of Kain.
The earthquake and its aftermath in Haiti have touched many lives.
Starting on today, January 25th, 2010, and continuing for two weeks, when you buy our album, Pleasure to Burn, on www.cdbaby.com/cd/ryankeating, $1 from every CD sold or album download sold will be donated to [...]

Audiko is a new web app that allows you to upload a song or point it to an mp3 file on the web, then select the portion of the song you want to be your ringtone, then download! Sounds pretty simple. Personally I just use my own audio editing software to make my own ringtones, [...]

Blyper is a new service that will keep you up to date on your favorite artists, letting you know when they release a new album or single. You can add the artists you’ve scrobbled on Last.fm as well, making it a lot easier for you to add a lot of artists. You must register for [...]

Many of you know that Drummer John played with a band called the Playa Dawgs when we lived in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico. But what you don’t know is that they played at a bar on the beach called Bad Boys. This place is magical. You sit at a table with your feet digging into [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MiniBoone, the much-blogged-about indie rock band from Brooklyn, NY, will release their new EP Big Changes on January 26th, via Drug Front Records. Produced by NYC underground legend Dean Rispler (The Star Spangles, 25 Ta Life), and engineered by Jesse Cannon (Animal Collective, The Cure), Big Changes conjures up the noisy guitars of [...]

Someone has stealthily and annonymously put Phil Collins on in the office today and it got me thinking about guilty pleasures. So here’s my top 5:
1. Erasure – A little Respect
2. Phil Collins – In the Air Tonight
3. Twisted Sister – I Wanna Rock
4. Limp Bizkit – Nookie
5. Wheatus – Teenage Dirtbag
So there you have [...]

Criteria:
Group must be known for sporting long flowing locks, and/or wearing more make-up than a 15 year old girl raiding moms make-up stash for the first time. Hot Leather pants are also an asset. Song must also STILL rock!
1. Skid Row – 18 and Life
2. Motley Crue – Too Fast for Love
3. Poison – [...]

I feel really dirty doing this, and Kurt would totally revoke my #1 Nirvana Fan of All Time card if he was still trodding around on planet Earth, but alas, I am compelled. Like the whole car accident thing: so sick you have to share.

As Kevin McAllister immortalized in Home Alone, “Uncle Frank, is this [...]