BLACK KEYS’ Dan Auerbach will produce Los Angeles rocker Hanni El Khatib’s sophomore album, Khatib revealed. “My new songs lean toward ’60s garage but without nostalgia. I want a record that makes sense to me today,” he told LA Weekly. The musician, whose blistering take on vintage blues has much in common with Auerbach’s day […]

British pop star ROBBIE WILLIAMS has asked fans for baby name suggestions following news he is set to become a first-time father. The Take That singer took to his official blog on Friday to announce his wife Ayda Field is pregnant, gushing, “We’ve seen scans and cried… Looked at babies in commercials and teared up.” […]

THE KING BLUES have announced yesterday (April 3) that they have split up. The London six-piece, who formed in 2004, announced on their official website www.Kingblues.com that they had parted ways, saying in a statement that they had “taken things as far as they can go” and that they were not prepared “to go through […]

NIGHTWISH’s Tuomas Holopainen is part of a fantasy hockey team, Karelian Division. They did a song called ‘Suomi!’ for the upcoming hockey championships in Finland / Sweden. Check out the song and video at this location.

The video for ‘Let Them Fall’, a new track from US doom legends SAINT VITUS, is now available. The video was produced and directed by Michael Panduro of Siegfred Productions (CEPHALIC CARNAGE, ROTTEN SOUND, NO AND THE MAYBES) for Scion A/V and shot in Copenhagen, Denmark. The long-awaited new album from SAINT VITUS, entitled Lillie: […]

One iconic band will send another (slightly older) iconic band into the annals of rock immortality, as Green Day will induct Guns N’ Roses into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool will deliver the GN’R induction speech at the April 14 ceremony in Cleveland. The rock […]

April 2006 was a nice sunny day. It was the day e actually started this amazing radio. With all the concerts, charity actions etc we tend to forget the exact date, but this time you can count on us that we are all going to remember the day with a crazy pub crawl for the […]

GODSMACK frontman SULLY ERNA is currently playing some solo dates before the band regroups to hit the road again late next week. ERNA is out promoting the upcoming release of ‘Avalon Live,’ a live DVD/Blu-ray featuring the singer performing material from his 2010 solo effort, ‘Avalon.’ The DVD was filmed at Erna’s Boston show on December […]

THE CHRIS ROBINSON BROTHERHOOD are to release their debut album in June. Plus there’ll be another album in September. The album’s called Big Moon Ritual, and is out through Silver Arrow/Megaforce on June 4. Not only that, but there will be a second album, The Magic Door, put out in September. The track listing for Big […]

LITTLE CAESAR vocalist Ron Young has provided BraveWords.com with the following exclusive update: “Little Caesar is entering Unison Music Studios in Los Angeles, CA this week to start recording their fifth full length album titled American Dream. There will 11 new tracks and we’ll be working with Bruce Witkin, Ryan Dorn and Carlos ‘apple g’ […]