KILL ROCK RADIO

Rock music has never had quite the same obsession with beef as hip-hop. Rock stars generally don’t need a 14-track album to tell someone they’re an asshole. And when a rock musician really, really doesn’t like somebody, the preferred method of communication is apparently to record a song about them, release it to the entire…

There was a time when being in a successful rock band required three things: a guitar, a power ballad, and enough hairspray to violate several international environmental treaties. Then the 90s happened. Suddenly, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains were selling millions of records, flannel was fashionable, and looking like you spent $400…

Let’s get something out of the way right up front: Being born to a famous rock star is cheating. Not literal cheating, obviously. Your parents aren’t going to get disqualified from the Grammy Awards because they gave birth to you. But if your dad is Bob Dylan, John Lennon or Eddie Van Halen, you’re starting your music…

Some rock feuds eventually die. Some get buried beneath decades of therapy, retirement announcements and increasingly expensive reunion tours. And then there’s Godsmack vs. Mötley Crüe. Nearly two decades after the two bands apparently couldn’t survive one tour without throwing verbal punches at each other, former Godsmack drummer Shannon Larkin has dragged the feud back into the spotlight.…