AC/DC is finally selling its music digitally. But not on iTunes. Verizon Wireless has snagged the exclusive rights to sell the band’s entire back catalog through March 2008, becoming the first and only digital music store to offer the Australian combo’s content. However, the deal is limited to full-album downloads, one of the reason’s AC/DC’s […]

MINISTRY mainman Al Jourgensen has revealed that the group’s previously announced “final” album, “The Last Sucker”, will be followed by an all-covers release, tentatively due in 2008. According to Jourgensen, the as-yet-untitled effort will contain “a lot of different cover songs from various bands,” some of which have already been released on MINISTRY albums over […]

As expected, Pearl Jam will unveil a Danny Clinch-directed live DVD this fall, featuring footage from five Italian shows last fall. “Immagine Nel Telaio” (Picture in a Frame) is due Sept. 25 via Rhino. The band’s Web site will offer a pre-sale with a limited edition T-shirt beginning Aug. 22.В Clinch describes the DVD, which is […]

To celebrate his 30th anniversary as a professional drummer, acclaimed hard rock/heavy metal drummer Mike Terrana (MASTERPLAN, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, AXEL RUDI PELL, METALIUM, RAGE) will release a new DVD, entitled “The Rhythm Beast – In Session”, on September 24. Terrana explains: “My reason for making this latest DVD serves two purposes; the first was to […]

“Ozzy Unauthorized” is the first title in the catalogue of the new BulgarianВ publishing house Mahaloto. The house is set to continue publishingВ  books from and about the big world rock heroes. “Ozzy Unauthorized” by Sue Crawford describes Ozzy Osbourne’s bizarre life and career with passion and willingness to uncover hisВ  true self. This is a […]

The Eagles are planning to take flight with a long-awaited new album and a tour. Guitarist Joe Walsh tells Billboard.com that the album — the Eagles’ first full-length studio set since “The Long Run” in 1979 — is “almost out. We’re just finishing vocals and mixing it. We’re all finally signing off on it.” Walsh […]

According to The Associated Press, a guitar adorning the figure of THIN LIZZY frontman Phil Lynott is among the items that are missing after a raid on wax figures owned by Ireland’s National Wax Museum. At least 50 figures were stolen or wrecked several weeks ago, the museum reported yesterday. The wax museum, closed since […]

The members of New Order continue to spar about whether the legendary U.K. rock combo is still an entity. In a statement earlier in this month, singer Bernard Sumner and drummer Stephen Morris rejected bassist Peter Hook‘s assumption that the band is no more by saying plans were afoot for New Order projects and that […]

Italian film director Michelangelo Antonioni has died aged 94. His first full-length feature film Cronaca di un amore appeared in 1950, and he made his big impact on modern avangarde art with uncredible movies like Blowup (1966), The Passenger(1975) and the trilogy L’avventura (1960), La Notte (1961) and L’eclisse (1962).But in the history of Rock, […]

KISS guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley has issued an update on his condition after he was forced to pull out of the band’s July 27 show in San Jacinto, California, about 90 miles (145 km) east of Los Angeles when his heart started beating at more than twice the normal level. “I wanted to let all of […]