Brooklyn Vegan — Yesterday, Beach Slang announced a new album, the day after coming to NYC to cover The Replacements' Pleased to Meet Me in full at Knitting Factory... Continue reading… more info

Roadrunner - Blabbermouth — Guitar World has uploaded a video clip of GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Richard Fortus demonstrating the Supro Black Magick amp on tour. Check it out below. Fortus spoke to the Social lifestyle magazine last year about how he felt when he was first asked ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Beach Slang, who are not broken up, have no secrets about their love for The Replacements, who they cover at most of their shows. They're now taking those covers a step further, by playing The Replacements' entire 1987 album Pleased to Meet... more info

Roadrunner - Blabbermouth — Fan-filmed video footage of SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR singer Corey Taylor's April 24 solo performance at the Capitol Theatre in Clearwater, Florida can be seen below. Taylor said in a recent interview that it would be "super greedy" of him to launch a... more info

Stereogum — Prince’s Purple Rain and the Replacements’ Let It Be, two canonical albums, came out of the same city, Minneapolis, in the same year, 1984. How crazy is that? Prince and the Replacements occupied two parallel version of the same city, with the Ma... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — The introduction to Bob Mehr’s Trouble Boys: The True Story of The Replacements is set in a funeral parlor in Minneapolis in February of 1995. As readers, we don’t get back to the events surrounding this for another 400 pages, but the eventual de... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The Replacements reunion may be done, but frontman Paul Westerberg is staying busy. He's got a new collaborative project with Juliana Hatfield (whose band the Juliana Hatfield Three also recently reunited) called the I Don't Cares. They're set to... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photo: The Replacements in Chicago in April (more by James Richards IV) The Replacements had been on another leg of their reunion tour, but it looks like it may have come to an end over the weekend. Pitchfork points out... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Miley Cyrus recently launched the Happy Hippie Foundation, a nonprofit organization with the goal of "rallying young people to fight injustice facing homeless youth, LGBT youth and other vulnerable populations." In honor of its launch, Miley has been... more info

Stereogum — Miley Cyrus recently went on record as someone who refuses to define her own sexuality: “I’m not hiding my sexuality. For me, I don’t want to label myself as anything… There are times in my life where I’ve had boyfriends or girlfriends.” ... more info