Rob Trucks

Good luck finding Derek Trucks in his hometown of Jacksonville. Though Trucks and his spouse, four-time Grammy nominee Susan Tedeschi, own a home there, the 28-year-old slide guitarist is on the road more often than not. Besides leading his own eponymous blues-based collective, Trucks is a full-time member of the...

Hourcast lead singer Patrick McBride has been a busy, busy man. Since spring 2006, his band has toured with Sevendust and then Godsmack and released its debut album, State of Disgrace — an industrial-lined fusion of grunge and alt-metal. And just two days after McBride returned home to Kansas City,...

Twenty years ago, the goth-pop tendencies of Chicago's Kill Hannah would have landed them squarely in MTV's alternative-rock buzz bin. The evidence? Look no further than the cover of the Church's "Under the Milky Way" on Kill Hannah's latest album, Until There's Nothing Left of Us. But it's not 20...

New Found Glory founding member Chad Gilbert has never seen Elizabethtown. He's not alone, of course. Plenty of folks have chosen to skip what may very well be the worst of all Cameron Crowe-directed movies. But Gilbert has another reason. "I don't plan on it because it touches too close...

Impeccable Blahs, the latest album by Brooklyn's Say Hi to Your Mom, is not only the rare synth-pop project with depth; it's also a journey through the swarm of literal and figurative bloodsuckers who walk among us. "I think that certain songs are blatantly about vampires, and other songs just...