Former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante has been voted the best guitarist of the last 30 years by listeners of under-threat radio station BBC6 Music. Their Axe Factor contest polled more than 30,000 listeners, who voted for Frusciante ahead of stars including Slash, Prince, Matt Bellamy of Muse and Johnny Marr of the […]

Jeff Beck is said to have insured his fingers and thumbs for ВЈ7 million after slicing off one of his digits chopping carrots. The guitar legend, 65, was thought to be making a stew at his Wadhurst home when the accident happened. Surgeons managed to sew the tip of his left index finger back on […]

Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith has teamed up with Mary Poppins star Dick Van Dyke to record a children’s album. ‘Rhythm Train’, which has been co-produced by Smith with LA Kids[singer Leslie Bixler, sees the sticksman play vocal characters like a pirate and train conductor on several tracks. “I may not be playing […]

What a night, huh? The second BIG Tangra Mega Rock show for the fourth anniversary bash of the one and only rock radio in Buglaria saw an amazing crowd and jaw dropping performances of FOUR killer bands at the Blue Box club in Sofia. Thursday nigh, 8 April. Headliners THE EXPLOITED had the longest set […]

A new version of Big Audio Dynamite’s debut album may have stoked interest in a band reunion. Co-founder Don Letts tells Billboard.com that while compiling “This is Big Audio Dynamite — Legacy Edition,” an expanded version of the 1985 set that comes out April 12 — he and Mick Jones broached the idea of putting […]

Famed rock ‘n’ roll raconteur Malcom McLaren, best known as the manager of the Sex Pistols, died Thursday (Apr. 8) in New York City at the age of 64. McLaren’s spokesman, Les Molloy, told the U.K.’s Independent that McLaren had been battling cancer “for some time, but recently had been in full health, which then […]

FinlandВґs finest AMORPHIS have revealed the cover artwork and tracklisting of their forthcoming DVD package called ‘Forging The Land Of Thousand Lakes’, which will be released on June 25 (Europe) and June 23 (Finland) and not on June 4th, as announced earlier. The tracklisting can be viewedВ at this location!

A dozen more names has been confirmed for the Sonisphere Festival. These are: Alice In Chains Dir En Grey Europe Evile Lacuna Coil Municipal Waste Pendulum Renegades Rise To Remain Terrorvision Therapy? (playing the ‘Troublegum’ album in its entirety) Sick Of It All The festival happens at Knebworth Park from July 30 to August 1

British guitar legend Jeff Beck is releasing his first studio album in seven years, ‘Emotion & Commotion’ world -wide April 13th. In advance of release though, for a limited time, through the date of release one can stream the entire album, exclusively courtesy of NPR at this location. April 13th’s Emotion boasts both originals and […]

For ex-Dresden Doll Amanda Palmer, freedom sounds like a sweet folk ballad. The cabaret songstress has just posted a new song, ‘The Truth…,’ as a free download on her website to commemorate her release from Roadrunner Records. The tune features Jason Webley on guitar and Sam Kulik (from Palmer’s touring band the Nervous Cabaret) on […]