Idolator

Apparently some Time story got killed at the last minute, because this barely copyedited piece on the recent resurgence of hard-rock bands that can only be described as "odd" for a lot of reasons somehow made it to the magazine's site. Not only is Don Dokken referred to as "Dan" in the story's second sentence (ouch!), and not only does Vince Neil's assertion that Motley Crue is in its heyday right now go unquestioned, and not only was the Rocklahoma festival—which, if anything, was the moment that hard rock could have been claimed as ruling the roost during the just-completed summer concert season—completely ignored (as was the fact that many of these touring bands were full of reshuffled hired guns), the numbers that were presented as evidence of writer/CNN Headline News personality Kris Osborn's "rock is back!" thesis were subject to some curious inflation: More »