On Saturday, June 7, Foo Fighters played a show in front of 86,000 fans at London’s Wembley Stadium (view the stage in the left). Definitely the most important moment hapened at the end of the concert, during the encore, when Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones joined Dave Grohl & Co. for the performance of […]

Arch Enemy are planning to release an album of re-recordings next year. The CD will feature songs from the albums which pre-date singer Angela Gossow‘s addition to the band. Sounds interesting… Arch Enemy – live at Donwload 2006

Reunited Boston hard rockers Extreme will release “Saudades de Rock” – their first studio album in 13 years – on August 12 on Open E Records. The CD was recorded in LA in a line-up featuring vocalist Gary Cherone, guitarist Nuno Bettencourt, bassist Pat Badger and new drummer Kevin Figueiredo, and is going to include […]

In a survey carried out by Gigwise.com, Freddie Mercury has been voted the ideal frontman in a dream rock band. The late Queen frontman beat off Mick Jagger and Kurt Cobain for the title. Here’s how a dream rock band’s line-up should look like: vocalist – Freddie Mercury (Queen) guitarist – Jimi Hendrix bass player […]

America’s industrial rock weirdos Revolting Cocks have posted a new track, called “Homo Song (I’m Not Gay)“, at myspace.com/revoltingcocks. This comes from the full-length album “Sex-O Olympic-O“, due later in the year via 13th Planet Records. “Homo Song (I’m Not Gay)” was recordedin a line-up featuring Al Jourgensen (Ministry) on vocals and guitar, Luc Van […]

Nine Inch Nails have made a new five-track EP available for free download. Entitled “Lights in the Sky Over North America – 2008 Tour Sampler” (view cover in the left), it features high quality, DRM-free, fully-tagged MP3 songs from all 5 bands that will unite for the upcoming Lights in the Sky U.S. tour, namely […]

Drummer Bryan “Brain” Mantia (a.o. Primus, Guns N’ Roses, Godflesh), funky bass legend William “Bootsy” Collins (ex-Parliament, Funkadelic), current Guns N’ Roses guitarist Buckethead, and vocalist Greg Hampton have finally finished working on the debut album by their project Science Faxtion. The CD is going to be entitled “Living on Another Frequency” and is due […]

Former Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch is to release his debut solo album in mid-September. As already known, the CD by the musician who found god shall be entitled “Save Me from Myself“…

Van Halen‘s two-month-long reunion tour ended up a massive success, wrapping with a total gross of more than $93 million and close to one million in attendance from 74 shows. The shows marked the first time original vocalist David Lee Roth had performed with Eddie and Alex Van Halen in more than 23 years.

Rolling Stone Magazine published a list of the 100 greatest guitar songs of all time in its latest issue. The winner is 1958’s “Johnny B. Goode” byВ Chuck BerryВ (check it out below), and the entire chart goes like this: 001.В Chuck Berry – Johnny B. Goode (1958)002.В The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Purple Haze (1967)003.В Cream – Crossroads (1968)004.В The […]