Carl F. Gauze reviews Dreamers Never Die, the loving documentary on the career of rocker extraordinaire Ronnie James Dio.

In the news today: GIDEON, Woz, Pussy Riot, Woody Guthrie, Kamala Harris, Vinyl, George Harrison, Tenacious D, Animals As Leaders

In the news today: The Pretenders, Dolly Parton, Paul McCartney, Mick Fleetwood, Lizzo, Miley Cyrus, Frank Kozik, 100 Gecs, Tenacious D, The Sisters of Mercy

This Is Your Life: A Tribute to Ronnie James Dio (Rhino Records). Review by Christopher Long.

Rize of the Fenix (Columbia Records). Review by Laura Pontillo.

How to Make a Bad Situation Worse? (In Music We Trust). Review by Tim Wardyn.

Textbooks, chalkboards, the Ramones – another Rock ‘N’ Roll High School? Make that “grade school”…Jack Black is back, and more tenacious than ever, in School of Rock. Resident scholar Steve Stav stopped laughing long enough to offer his thoughts on the latest Richard Linklater film.

After two million songs, 7500 shows, and more than a few cold ones, the Energizer bunny of rock and roll keeps on going. Liza Hearon talks to Robert Pollard of Guided By Voices.

Volume (Popularity / Artemis). Review by Stein Haukland.

Two dozen short animated films your mother would NOT want you to see? Must be the return of Spike & Mike’s Sick and Twisted Animation Festival! Carl F. Gauze takes you there.

Tenacious D with Greasepaint at the House of Blues in Orlando, FL on April 2, 2002. Concert review and photos by Julio Diaz.

Christopher R. Weingarten gets a few words with the punk rocker most hated by his own community, the “Atom” half of Atom and His Package, Adam Goren. The Package, alas, remains unavailable for comment.

Ah, the pressures of being an in-demand writer. Matt Cibula had many Web sites beating down hs door for his year-end picks, but only Ink 19 was willing to go the extra mile to get the next 19 records on his list…

Matt Cibula presents his choices for the 19 best sets of lyrics of 2001. Let the arguments begin.