Multi-platinum rockers Candlebox are back with their first studio album in almost four years called Love Stories & Other Musings.

While you were home popping zits, collecting baseball cards, and/or straining your hands playing X-Box, Zack Lopez and Sean Stockham were setting off to become rock stars.

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When you're 40something, you're probably better off trying to live in the present tense and not in the past -- even at your high school reunion.

Last winter, Mary Forsberg Weiland, the ex of Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland, released her autobiography Fall to Pieces: A Memoir of Drugs, Rock 'n Roll and Mental Illness.

With Layne Staley's death, Alice In Chains was all but done. But fourteen years later, here we are with something that sounds a lot like what the group would have had they returned to the studio a couple years later.

This week's picks: Alice in Chains, Elvis Costello, Corey Harris, Ian Hunter, Kris Kristofferson, Madness, Rod Stewart, Madonna and more.

Smoking Kills was one of the best import releases of 2008, and with two extra tracks added, it's now one of the best albums to come out Stateside in '09.