At Will Burton's new school, the band geeks are not geeks at all. On his first day of classes after moving to New Jersey, he's shocked to see a school-sanctioned live rock band cranking it to 11 ...

Bandslam stars Vanessa Hudgens, Gaelan Connell and Alyson Michalka have taught us that music education is very important but so are books. The trio recently sat down with Scholastic to chat about ...

Nobody swears in “Bandslam.” Can you believe it? Here it is, a movie about teenagers gearing up for a high school battle of the bands, with a cast of characters that runs the usual gamut from nerd to ...

The perky, hollow “Bandslam” is the latest in a long line of movies that steal liberally from the John Hughes playbook of high-school comedies, but lack the heart and insight Hughes invested in his ...

The perky, hollow “Bandslam” is the latest in a long line of movies that steal liberally from the John Hughes playbook of high-school comedies but lack the heart and insight Hughes invested in his ...

When I read the initial synopses for the movie “Bandslam,” I thought it was just going to be “School of Rock,” but with angsty teens. But I’m glad to say that I was way off and “Bandslam” is a fun ...

"I really love supporting parts," says actress Lisa Kudrow. "You don't have the burden of doing all this exposition. And you don't have the burden of playing a character who -- especially in a big ...

This was emailed to me by a Bandslam insider who’s also a prominent filmmaker (and asked to be anonymous) in response to my box office report that the Walden Media/Summit Entertainment pic had a ...

WASHINGTON — Mop-top actor Gaelan Connell has come a long way from his days playing with his band, Exist, in his parents’ Silver Spring, Md., basement. Suddenly, he is the star of the movie “Bandslam, ...

Last fall, then-Friday Night Lights star Scott Porter did an absolutely terrific job guest-blogging for us from the Austin City Limits music festival. Now that he’s graduated to the big screen — ...

Vanessa Hudgens stars in Bandslam and could serve as the film to send her beyond the High School Musical galaxy to the A-list world of universal celebrity. Bandslam opens August 14 and we’ve got some ...