Tim Karan

The albums are "divided into eras" and "will not necessarily be released in chronological order" beginning next year.

It's about a record label owner who makes a long journey and encounters a pair of musicians who play "a raucous brand of doom-laden country blues."

Frontman Jesse Hughes said, "We look forward to coming back in February and continuing our mission to bring rock ‘n’ roll to the world."

Looks like somebody took the band up on their wildly preposterous (and expensive) offer to take the bespectacled frontman on a bird-watching trip to an island in the sun.

The new duo from the alt-rock lifers will put out the 16-song 'Wild Stab' on Jan. 22.

The progressive post-hardcore outfit have enlisted La Dispute and Gates for their first tour in four years.

If you live in North America, Eddie Vedder and Co. will be coming to a venue (or possibly a baseball stadium) near you this year.

Back when Amazon was just a rainforest and the word "iPod" sounded like a one-man spacecraft, people still got musical gifts for Christmas.