Former Dream Theater keyboard player Derek Sherinian believes that drummer Mike Portnoy will return to the band sooner rather than later. Talking exclusively to British Classic Rock magazine, Sherinian [now with Black Country Communion] said: “I was more a little surprised, rather than shocked, at his departure. He’s been doing it for 25 years, and […]

Bassist extraordinaire Marco Mendoza has unveiled his second solo album, Casa Mendoza, on Mascot Records. Casa Mendoza is a Latin-flavored melodic rock record with a commercial edge that is sure to appeal to fans of any of Mendoza’s work. “Being of Latin-American descent, I have always heard music with the Latin influence in it,” Mendoza […]

The legendary British band is set to play a long overdue first gig in Bulgaria. The show, promoted by Tangra Mega Rock radio is on November 20 at Sofia’s Blue Box club. TICKETS go on sale from Ticketstream.bg and Eventim.bg, with the first 100 going for the special price of 30 BGN, then 35 BGN […]

Red Hot Chili Peppers and Chickenfoot skinbeater Chad Smith has announced that a new album by his other band, the Bombastic Meatbats, entitled More Meat, will be released on 19 October. Which leads us to ask the burning question: Where does he find the time? After all, it was only last year, during the midst […]

Kings of Leon star Caleb Followill is officially off the market – he’s set to wed to his model girlfriend Lily Aldrige. The rocker, 28, proposed to the 24-year-old beauty over the weekend, a representative for the band has confirmed. A date for the nuptials has yet to be set, according to UsMagazine.com.

Leonard Skinner was a Jacksonville, Florida high school gym teacher who, during the late 1960s sent a group of his students to the principal’s audience for wearing their hair too long.В  A few years later, those school friends, Ronnie Van Zant, Allen Collins and Gary Rossington, named their newly formed rock band, Lynyrd Skynyrd as […]

Following a slew of sold out headlining shows on their first North American tour in over three years, Sweden’s progressive metal act, KATATONIA, hit their first major bump in the road over the weekend when the band realized they had two guitars (seen below), straps and wireless transmitters stolen from them at their stop in […]

Nine Inch Nails mainman Trent Reznor and collaborator Atticus Ross recently composed the score for the upcoming movie “The Social Network”. The much-hyped new film from “Seven” and “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” director David Fincher follows the controversial story of Mark Zuckerberg, the young man who created Facebook. Jesse Eisenberg plays Zuckerberg, while […]

Steven Tyler is to release a solo single in November. Blabbermouth are reporting that the song is the theme for the upcoming Japanese movie Space Battleship Yamoto. The song itself is called Love Lives. The single will also feature acoustic, piano and instrumental versions of the song, as well as the original. Apparently, the Aerosmith […]

Those looking to heal the emotional scars left by Audioslave and Chris Cornell’s solo career may finally rejoice in the new video for Black Rain, a wicked previously unreleased bonus track off Soundgarden’s upcoming greatest hits/rarities album Telephantasm: A Retrospective. The video finds an animated version of the band uniting to fend off gargantuan supernatural […]