Robert Plant is to be the main attraction at the Cornbury Oxford Music Festival 2006, which happens on July 8/9.

The Doors will celebrate their 40th anniversary by releasing a 12-disc box set in the Autumn through Rhino. As yet untitled, this will include their first six studio albums – all remastered, with bonus tracks – plus six DVDs featuring 5.1 remixes of the studio albums and bonus material.

Limp Bizkit mainman Fred Durst has announced that the band’s next release, ‘The Unquestionable Truth (Part 2)’, will be a full album, followed by a tour. Durst is currently directing his first movie, ‘The Education Of Charlie Banks’.

According to unconfirmed reports, Velvet Revolver – and former Guns n’ Roses – bassist Duff McKagan will join the re-formed Alice In Chains for their Summer tour of the UK and Europe. This will be as a second guitarist.

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.

The V Festival 2006 takes place on the weekend of 19-20 August 2006 at Weston Park, Staffordshire and Hylands Park, Chelmsford. Here’s the full line-up: The V Stage: MorrisseyRadioheadBeckBloc PartyFaithlessHard-FiPaul WellerMagic NumbersKeaneSugababes Other Stages: RazorlightGroove ArmadaThe CharlatansKasabianEditorsFatboy SlimOrdinary BoysThe Go! TeamBic RungaDaniel PowterDelaysGavin De GrawGirls AloudJames Dean BradfieldKubbOrsonPhoenixRufus WainwrightStarsailorThe CardigansThe FeelingThe RiflesThe Saw DoctorsWe Are […]

Franz Ferdinand are planning to work with Sparks on a new album. Alex Kapranos said that his band had met with the Mael brothers a number of times in Los Angeles over the past few months to discuss it. The plan is for each band to write songs for each other to perform and to […]

Former Dimmu Borgir/Cradle Of Filth and current Benediction drummer Nick Barker joined Fear Factory on stage as a special guest for one song during the band’s headlining appearance at the Manchester Academy 2 in England on Sunday, April 9. Barker reportedly performed “Martyr” with the band in what marked the first time Fear Factory have […]