Motley Crue will have to finish up their Canadian tour without drummer Tommy Lee, who’s still suffering from tendonitis. His replacement is former Skrape man Will Hunt, with Dark New Day.

Simply Red, fronted by Mick Hucknall will play a gig in Sofia on September 1st. The gig will take place at Festivalna Hall starting at 8 pm. Simply Red‘s gig in Sofia is a part of their European tour, which is set to start with UK-gigs in June. The tour will feature 31 live dates […]

Extreme, one of the biggest bands of the late 1980s, are to re-form for a show in their home town, Boston, on June 30. The line-up is Gary Cherone (vocals), Nuno Bettencourt (guitar), Pat Badger (bass) and Paul Geary (drums).

Swedish metalheads Wolf are to start recording their new, as yet untitled album in June. It’s to be produced by Fredrik Nordstrom, and released towards the end of the year.

The Southport lads Gomez release their new long-player ‘How To Operate’ on May 29, which will be preceded by the single ‘Girlhshapedlovedrug’ a week earlier. The band then play a nine date jaunt around the UK in June.

Paul Weller is to release a double live album with songs spanning his entire career. ‘Catch – Flame!’, out on June 12, was recorded at London Alexandra Palace on the star’s UK tour last December. The set features a host of Weller solo tracks, as well as classics from his former bands The Style Council […]

US thrash-core act Lamb Of God have completed their drum tracks at Spin Studios in Long Island City, NY. Produced by Machine and engineered by Josh Wilbur, the band is working on a forthcoming Epic Records release while also gearing up for their upcoming tour as opening on Slayer‘s Unholy Alliance tour.

New Order are to release a live DVD on June 19th called New Order – New York / Hyde Park. The live shows were recorded in June 2005 from Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City and Hyde Park in London. The band will be playing a small number of festival dates later this year in […]

The Who have revealed they intend to release a mini-album this June. The release, titled ‘The Glass Household’, based on Pete Townshend‘s ‘The Boy Who Heard Music’, will last just eleven minutes, and precedes a full-length album planned for the Autumn.

Wilco has been road-testing material intended for its next Nonesuch album and will return to the studio next month for more recording. The group has no firm timetable for the release of the as-yet-untitled set, which will be the follow-up to 2004‘s “A Ghost Is Born.”