Sick Of It All and Reel Big Fish have been announced as headliners at the Radio One Lock-Up stage at this year’s Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds Festivals.Hundred Reasons and Bouncing Souls also join the line up for the three-day event which takes place over the weekend of August 25-27.

Due Aug. 22 via Merge, “Post-War” is Рњ. Ward‘s first “full band” record. The artist recruited percussionists Rachel Blumberg (formerly of the Decemberists) and Jordan Hudson (formerly of the Thermals), who toured with him over the past year and a half, to fill out the record. Multi-instrumentalist Mike Coykendall, singer Neko Case and My Morning […]

After spending its entire career on Epic, folk/rock duo the Indigo Girls has signed a new deal with Hollywood Records. The first release under the agreement will be a new, as-yet-untitled studio album, due Sept. 19.Principal members Amy Ray and Emily Saliers are recording with producer Mitchell Froom in his Los Angeles studio. The album […]

Phish‘s June 17, 2004, show at Brooklyn’s Keyspan Park is headed to CD and DVD this summer. “Live in Brooklyn” will arrive July 11 via the now-defunct band’s JEMP Records label in association with Rhino both as a three-CD set and a two-DVD package.Here is the track list for “Live in Brooklyn”: Set 1:“A Song […]

Roadstar are the final act added to the bill for the Monsters Of Rock Festival, which happens at the Milton Keynes Bowl on June 3. They join headliners Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, Journey, Thunder, Queensryche and Рўed Nugent.

Rob Halford has started his own company called Metal God Entertainment. The company will release all future Halford solo projects. This includes the re-issue of the first three Halford albums: ‘Resurrection’ (2000), ‘Live Insurrection’ and ‘Crucible‘. A new album, ‘Halford IV’, is expected in 2008, as well as a film called ‘Fight, War Of Words […]

36 Crazyfists will make an instore appearance at London’s Virgin Megastore, Oxford Street at 1pm on June 12. This is the day their new album, ‘Rest Inside The Flames’, is released by Roadrunner.

Snow Patrol have been forced to cancel a series of dates in the US after lead singer Gary Lightbody failed to recover from laryngitis.The band have pulled dates in Atlanta, Washington DC, Boston and an instore performance at Newbury Comics following the singer’s throat problems. The shows are in the process of being rescheduled, and […]

Nevermore are to play four European festival shows this Summer as a four-piece. This is because guitarist Steve Smyth is suffering from end stage kidney failure, the result of a congenital birth defect. The festivals in question are Italy’s Gods Of Metal, Germany’s Rock Hard, Sweden Rock, and Ireland’s Rock Fest Belfast.

Manic Street Preachers have penned a song for a tribute album dedicated to former 80s band The June Brides.The Welsh trio have contributed their own rendition of the ‘The Instrumental’ to a 16 track record dedicated to the Morrissey favourites.The June Brides enjoyed a brief career between 1984-1986, releasing four singles and one album – […]