When Vines frontman Craig Nicholls gets ready to scream, his Muppet-like face scrunches up and he rolls back his eyes, sticks out his tongue and folds his lips over his teeth. And then the scream ...

Forget about Jay-Z, Elton John, and the rest of the music industry’s December shopping-mall bait. The Year in Rock is already over, and the story of the year is the Strokes, the Hives, the White ...

The Vines are not to be confused with the Hives, although that wouldn't be hard to do. While the latter are from Sweden and the former from Australia -- but now based in L.A. -- both bands play ...

The hype machine for young rock bands is starting to get a little ahead of itself. In their rush to find the next Strokes, White Stripes or Hives, the international purveyors of mainstream culture are ...

Ever since MTV pitted them against the Hives in a so-called battle of the bands at the network’s 2002 Video Music Awards, a lot of folks have been calling the Vines a garage-rock band. But this ...

Two years ago, it was easy to write off the Vines. After making a splash with 2002's "Highly Evolved," diminishing sales and a reputation for increasingly erratic live shows consigned the Australian ...