My Rock Dose Top 10 Rock Albums Of 2008 covers mainly established rock acts and not this new wave of modern rock as we know it. I’ll go through each none and tell you why I chose it. Take in to consideration that I only went through bands that I’ve heard this year and not every rock album that has come out. If you expect Nickelback or Hinder to be on this list then you came to the wrong place. So what does this list mean? Nothing really, it’s just MY favorite picks of 2008, so don’t cry if …read more

Taproot have announce more tour dates in support of their latest release Our Long Road Home. Our Long Road Home was released on September 16th and sold just under 7,700 in it’s first week.
November 28 – Traverse City, MI @ StreetersNovember 29 – Flint, MI @ Machine ShopDecember 1 – Madison, WI @ The AnnexDecember 2 – Green Bay, WI @ Riverside BallroomDecember 4 – Des Moines, IA @ House of BricksDecember 5 – Minneapolis, MN @ Station 4December 6 – Chicago, IL @ SubterraneanDecember 12 – Nashville, TN @ Sommet Center w/ DisturbedDecember 27 – Ft. Myers, …read more

BuckCherry sold almost 47,000 copies of Black Butterfly in it’s first week of sales and landed a spot in the top ten of the Billboard 200 at #8. At least we don’t have to hear “Crazy Bitch” on the radio every two minutes…now we can hear a whole new Buckcherry song that will be overplayed for the next year.
Taproot got off to a slow start with Our long Road Home, only selling under 7,700 copies. Not too bad and it still landed them on the Billboard 200 at #65. This is a really good album, though I have …read more

Taproot release their newest album Our Long Road Home Today. I did a review not too far back on Our Long Road Home. I’m positive that OLRH will be a big hit among the radio and listeners.
If you were a Taproot fan before, chances are you will love this or you’ve been anticipating it for some time now. Check your local record store for Our Long Road Home and visit their Myspace for tour dates.
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In 1998 a new hard rock foursome called Taproot from Ann Harbor Michigan was trying to cut a record deal and was in negotiation with a few big names in the record industry. One of those names was a Mr. Fred Durst. He offered them a contract with Interscope Records, but the band held out and signed with Atlantic Records. Durst, being the child that he is, cursed out vocalist Stephen Richards on his home answering machine. It was rumored that Durst told Richards that his band would go nowhere and they would never make it in the music …read more

I’ve got a busy weekend ahead of me. I’ve got four CD’s in the past week or so that I’ve been meaning to get to, to review.
First Up Is Royal Bliss: Life In-Between on Caroline Records. So far I am really diggin this. It’s got a kind of Candlebox feel to it, but original enough to hold it’s own.
Next Up Is Dirt Mall: Got The Goat By The Horns. I’m not all that fond if this right now. I still have to give it a full to grasp the full concept of it.
Sound And Fury was sent to me for …read more

Taproot’s New Single ‘Wherever I Stand’ From Upcoming Album “Our Long Road Home” Available on iTunes 7/29
From Redmusic:
Los Angeles, CA (July 28) – On Tuesday, July 29th, Ann Arbor, MI-based hard rock quartet TAPROOT will release their first new music in three years when new lead single “Wherever I Stand” goes up on iTunes. The hook-ridden, hard-hitting track introduces the band’s long-awaited new album, OUR LONG ROAD HOME, which arrives in stores on September 16.
The album—Taproot’s first since 2005’s Blue-Sky Research—will be released through Velvet Hammer, the label founded by the management company of the same name (System Of A …read more