Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism career doing freelance writing about music in the late 1990s, eventually working as a web writer, editor and ...

As alternative rock began dominating culture in the 1990s, most hair metal bands lost their record deals. The new guard wasn’t interested in “nothing but a good time.” They tried their best to avoid ...

For it not being a holiday week, this was a very light seven days for new tour announcements in the rock and metal world. We have six new tours and four new festival announcements that have been ...

Here’s five new rock and metal albums announced this week that you can look forward to. This past week’s leading announcements is for fans of the underground, ranging from deathcore, death-thrash, ...

Here is your 2025 hard rock + metal album release calendar and all of this week’s newest albums! Each week is loaded with new rock and metal releases and keeping track of it all can be pretty ...