It’s 24 minutes after Wes Scantlin was scheduled to call in for our phone interview, and I’m thinking what you’re thinking now. He isn’t going to call, is he? But a minute later, after I ping his ...

With one hit song — the anthemic, good-lust-gone-bad stomper “Control” — already under its belt, Puddle of Mudd has overcome its unfortunate name to become one of the year’s hottest young hard-rock ...

With divorce, several arrests, and drug use during his heyday and subsequent years, he has kept the mentality, any press is good press. It offered him the preserving attitude necessary to carry on his ...

Coming up in the small community of Chanute in southeast Kansas, Troy McCoy found limited opportunities on the local level to explore his growing interest in creating rock music. When graduating from ...

Puddle of Mudd -- which formed in L.A. in 1999 after Fred Durst heard Kansas City-based vocalist Wes Scantlin's demo tape -- aims for a straight-ahead, no frills hard-rock sound, with memorable ...