Exactly 35 years ago, on January 30, 1973, Kiss performed their very first concert ever. The show took place in Queens, New York, when the band played two sets for a crowd of under 10 people… Below you can see and hear footage of Kiss playing live just a few months after this historic event: […]

Notorious bass player Nikki Sixx announced that he and his band mates have written “10 songs done for the new Motley Crue album so far… A couple of song titles are called “A Scar on Hollywood Blvd.” and “The Saints of Los Angeles”… The album is called “The Dirt”.” There’s still no word when the […]

Arctic Monkeys, The Cribs, Klaxons and My Chemical Romance are among the bands who lead the way in the Shockwaves NME Awards 2008 nominations. The ceremony shall take place on February 28 at the Indig02 in north Greenwich, London, and the winners shall be picked until February 25 from the nominees, some of which are: […]

A Simon & Garfunkel concert recordings compilation, simply entitled “Live 1969“, shall surface as a Starbucks exclusive on March 11. The effort features previously unreleased cuts from Simon & Garfunkel’s November 1969 U.S. tour. To be more precise, here’s the CD’s complete tracklist: “Homeward Bound” (Long Beach, CA) “At the Zoo” (New York) “The 59th […]

Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed, Kirk Windstein (Down, Crowbar), Steve Gibb (Crowbar, ex-Black Label Society), Derek Kerswill (Unearth) and Matthew Brunson, collectively known as Kingdom of Sorrow, shall release their self-titled debut album (view cover in the left) on February 25 via Relapse Records. You may check out the U.S. metal bulldozers’ music at myspace.com/kingdomofsorrow, and […]

Tarja Turunen has released the video for her new solo single, “Die Alive”, which can be watched below. The footage was shot in December 2007 in Berlin, Germany, while the song itself comes off the former Nightwish singer’s solo album “My Winter Storm”. Tarja Turunen – “Die Alive“

Two of the 11 tracks from the upcoming debut album by Cavalera Conspiracy – “Sanctuary” and “Inflikted” – can be downloaded for free, respective ly HERE and HERE. As for the eagerly awaited full-length CD by the reunited Cavalera brothers, it shall be entitled “Inflikted” and is scheduled for release on March 24 via Roadrunner […]

John Paul Jones (on the photo) has done a special orcehstral arrangement of the Foo Fighters song “The Pretender“… and there’s more: The Led Zeppelin man shall conduct the orchestra himself during Dave Grohl & Co’s performance of the above-mentioned hit single at the Grammy Awards ceremony on February 10. Foo Fighters – “The Pretender” […]

To celebrate the release of the double CD compilation “Credit to the Nation”, Sofia’sВ Stroeja ClubВ shall host 4 concerts featuring 13 Bulgarian alternative rock bands in total: February 4 – Cigaretta, MacrophoneВ and Кълн. February 5 – Panican Whyasker, Bad HabitВ and Jeremy. February 11 – Awake, Skre4В and Better Place Navy. February 12 – Ostava, Animacionerite, MatchpointВ and Blush. […]

Hypocrisy’s Peter TГ¤gtgren announced that he’s started working on the new full-length studio album by his electro-metal project Pain. The follow-up to last year’s “Psalms of Extinction” shall surface in September. The recording for the effort shall begin after Pain’s European tour as support of Nightwish, which starts on February 17 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Pain […]