Alternative Rock Links

Avenged Sevenfold headlines alternative rock show at Coliseum (The Pantagraph)

Earlier this fall, the Creation Festival Tour promised to weigh down Bloomington’s U.S. Cellular Coliseum stage with its most amperage-laden bill to date, with eight acts slated to appear.

Tonight In Rock: Warren G, Jane's Addiction, The Sounds, West Indian Girl (LAist)

El Guincho will be playing tonight at the Echo | Picture via El Guincho's Myspace Our Pick: El Guincho, Glasser, ORO11 @ The Echo Tonight alternative rock band Jane's Addiction will be performing the rather small room at El Cid . Swedish rockers the Sounds are taking over the spacious and recently renovated confines of the Palladium . Local indie rock band West Indian Girl ...

Rockers Placebo to play anti-slavery gig at Cambodia's Angkor Wat (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Alternative guitar band Placebo are to headline the first rock concert at Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple complex, putting years of catering to their fans' teenage angst behind them to speak out against human trafficking.

Web video developing into cable alternative (San Jose Mercury News)

For consumers fed up with their cable companies, a new alternative is emerging. Call it Cable 2.0: You get many of the same TV shows and movies, often with fewer commercials.