Yesterday in New York major record labels and SoundExchange have inked a deal with big webcasters like AOL, Live365, MTV, RealNetworks, Pandora and Yahoo! that the latter will not have to pay more than $50,000 per service as a per-station or per-channel minimum royalty to webcast sound recordings. So far there was no limit to […]

Joy Division‘s classic final single “Love Will Tear Us Apart” is to be-released September 24. This way the song will get a third chance to become a chartbreaker, after getting into the Top 20 twice – in June 1980 and in June 1995. Two weeks later, on October 5, the movie biopic about the life […]

The Killers have announced they’ll release another CD at the end of the year. It’s going to include all the Las Vegas-based indie rockers’ b-side tracks, as well as a few remixes and a brand-new Christmas song entitled “Don’t Shoot Me Santa”…

Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante and George Harrison’s son Dhani Harrison have recorded some instrumental parts for Wu-Tang Clan‘s cover version of The Beatles‘ classic “‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps”. The track is going to appear under the title “Gently Weeps” on the legendary NY rappers’ upcoming studio album, “8 Diagrams”, due out […]

German metal veterans Helloween have revealed the front cover artwork for their upcoming new full-length studio album, “Gambling with the Devil”, due in Europe on OctoberВ 29 via the label SPV. You could check it out below. The CD will feature 16 songs, a.o. “Crack the Riddle” (feat. Biff Byford of Saxon), “The Bells of the […]

Machine Head and Enter Shikari were the only two bands that whon two awards each at this year’s annual Kerrang! Awards. Rob Flynn & Co. scooped Best Album for “The Blackening” plus the Hard Rock Hero awards, while Enter Shikari won Best Live Act and Spirit of Independence awards. Welsh rock band The Lostprophets have […]

“”Eva” is very, very far away from what the album is like. I think it’s the softest song ever done by Nightwish. Рўhere are алсо songs like “Amaranth” that are a bit more easy listening and radio-friendly, but as a whole, “Dark Passion Play” is the heaviest album Nightwish have ever done.” This statement was […]

R.E.M. are to release their first official live album on October 18. Simply entitled “R.E.M. Live”, the effort shall contain an entire show by the band recorded on February 27, 2005 in Ireland’s capital Dublin. “R.E.M. Live” is going to appear in the form of a two CD and one DVD set, featuring following tracklist: […]

Poland’s death metal veterans Vader have announced they’ll be releasing a DVD via their native label Metal Mind Productions in October. As obvious from its title, “…and Blood Was Shed in Warsaw”, the effort features footage recorded live during one of the band’s shows in Poland’s capital.

The doom metal machine The Hidden Hand, fronted by former Saint Vitus and Obsessed man Scott “Wino” Weinrich, has officially split up. Wino is now to concentrate on his new project Shrinebuilder, formed together with Scott Kelly of Neurosis and Chris Hakius and Al Cisneros of OM.