According to Rollingstone.com, THE ROLLING STONES will not tour to mark their 50th anniversary this year. Rolling Stone has learned after separate interviews with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. “Basically, we’re just not ready,” says Richards. Instead, 2013 is the new goal. “I have a feeling that’s more realistic,” he adds. But Stones insiders say […]

JACK WHITE continues to provide tantalizing previews of his forthcoming solo album, Blunderbuss. On Tuesday (March 13), the former White Stripe issued ‘Sixteen Saltines,’ the album’s second single, as an online stream. As reported previously, WHITE made his solo live debut last week in Nashville at a birthday bash for his Third Man Records label. […]

Australian metal legends, MORTAL SIN have been at the forefront of the metal scene for over a quarter of a century. That’s a long time to be banging your head and while members have come and gone, the legacy of the band has remained. In February 2012 original vocalist Mat Maurer made the announcement that […]

THE MELVINS are releasing a five-song EP titled ‘The Bulls and the Bees’ as a free download via ScionAV.com. And it is available now at this location.   MELVINS fans are in for a big year in terms of new music; the group just recently announced that they will also be releasing a full-length album […]

California punk rock pioneers PЕNNYWISE will release their 10th studio album, All or Nothing, on April 27 via Epitaph Records. All or Nothing is the veteran punk band’s first release with new singer Zoli Téglás (Ignite), who stepped in for already-booked live dates in 2009 when longtime vocalist Jim Lindberg was unable to make the […]

Three of Bulgaria’s hottest rock bands SMALLMAN, VRANI VOLOSA and CENTER will be playing at the first gig promoted by fanzine Rawk’n’Roll. The show is at *MIXTAPE 5* club on Thursday, 15 March.  TICKETS priced 10 BGN are on sale via www.Eventim.bg and will go up to 12 BGN at the door. Here are the running orders: 20:00 – doors 20:30-20:45 – 21:30 – CЕNTER 21:45 – […]

Bulgarian metal band THE A.X.E. PROJECT has its first official live DVD. ‘Dark Tales: Live 2011’ is out tomorrow, 15 March. There is also a Special Edition which features, besides the regular DVD, a bonus CD with the band’s debut studio album ‘Stories From A Lost Realm Part One’. The live tracks are already available as mp3 via iTunes, Amazon and CD […]

Multi-platinum rock act CANDLEBOX are set to hit the road this spring in support of their first studio album in nearly four years. Love Stories & Other Musings will be released April 3, 2012. Produced by Ken Andrews (Pete Yorn, A Perfect Circle, Tenacious D, Beck) the album features nine new tracks and will include five […]

This week, DROPKICK MURPHYS release ‘Going Out in Style: Fenway Park Bonus Edition’ – an expanded version of the critically acclaimed ‘Going Out in Style’ album – on the band-owned Born & Bred Records. The new version includes the ‘Live From Fenway’ bonus disc, recorded on September 8 and 9 in front of 20,000 DROPKICK […]

MIKE HOSSACK, a longtime member of U.S. rock band THE DOOBIE BROTHERS, has died of cancer at the age of 65, the band’s manager said on Tuesday. Hossack, who helped give the band its distinctive sound with two drummers in the early 1970s, died peacefully on Monday at his home in Dubois, Wyoming, manager Bruce […]