Of late, the music industry has been doing its best to kill real rock and roll.  Whining indy bands, hollow pop stars, and insipid rock acts (Linkin Park, anyone?) have dominated the airwaves long enough.  I was beginning to worry about the future of rock music when all of a sudden Slash, Duff, Dave Kushner, Matt Sorum, and Scotty Weiland broke out with Contraband.  Real rock has come back to us, and its fitting that the band to do it is 3/5 of Guns n' Roses.  Even though Velvet Revolver is heavier than GnR (particularly GnR's Appettite days), it still manages to rock and keep itself head-and-shoulders above the mire of generic post-grunge sludgery and whatnot.  The breakdown goes like this: