It took the Vines all of 94 seconds to get the Brits in bed. That’s the length their debut single, “Highly Evolved,” clocks in at, and that little jolt of prickly, radiated pop was enough to cause the ...

Forget about Jay-Z, Elton John, and the rest of the music industry’s December shopping-mall bait. The Year in Rock is already over, and the story of the year is the Strokes, the Hives, the White ...

The hype machine for young rock bands is starting to get a little ahead of itself. In their rush to find the next Strokes, White Stripes or Hives, the international purveyors of mainstream culture are ...