Sid Tepper, the man who wrote more than 40 tracks for Elvis Presley, has died at his home in Florida aged 96, it’s been reported. With his songwriting partner Roy Bennett, Tepper penned tracks including Once Is Enough, GI Blues, The Lady Loves Me, Puppet On A String and Stay Away for the King, while […]

Sir Bob Geldof has reportedly married his longtime partner Jeanne Marine. The Boomtown Rats musician has been in a relationship the French actress for 19 years now. And according to UK newspaper The Sun, the 63-year-old musician and the 49-year-old thespian tied the knot in an intimate ceremony with close family members in the South […]

SOULFLY are putting the finishing touches on their next album and they’ve just revealed one more key piece of info regarding the disc — the album title. In a new interview with Metal Wani’s Dawn Brown (posted below), frontman MAX CAVALERA reveals that the disc will be titled Archangel. CAVALERA previously announced that the band was […]

It doesn’t look like BILL WARD will be returning to BLACK SABBATH anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean the drummer has been inactive. In fact, he just released a new album titled Accountable Beasts. The disc is currently available via iTunes. The drummer lends his beats to seven of the nine album tracks, playing alongside […]

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. We are aware that APOCALYPTICA couldn’t remain in their wonderous primal state (think ‘Plays Metallica by Four Cellos’, ‘Inquisition Symphony’ and ‘Cult’) and their idea of moving forward and developing their unique sound is a good intention on its own. Read more…

This is the cover of the new REFUSED album. It’s called Freedom and is due out June 30 via Epitaph. There will be a limited edition release featuring a 28-page hardbound book with a poster and gold foil stamping on the album cover. “It’s not a reunion anymore,” Dennis Lyxzén said in a statement titled […]

TRENT REZNOR‘s Beverley Hills mansion is for sale for a cool $4.5million. The Summitridge house includes a studio, where the NINE INCH NAILS mainman likely wrote 2013 album Hesitation Marks and much of his soundtrack work on The Social Network, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo and Gone Girl. Estate agents The Partners Trust describe […]

After years of dormancy, THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS emerged last October, joining Lorde and Miguel on the explosive Hunger Games track ‘This Is Not A Game’. Now, Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons have returned with even more big news: They have a new album called Born in the Echoes coming out in July. The follow-up to […]

STEM OF A DOWN have streamed their Armenian peace campaign concert in full. The two-hour show, which took place in Yerevan’s Republic Square this evening, marked the band’s first-ever performance in their ancestral homeland, and aimed to draw attention to the 1915 Armenian genocide in which 1.5 million of their countrymen are believed to have […]

Courtney Love has revealed that she and her late husband Kurt Cobain shot a sex video. The Hole singer told a Q&A session at a Tribeca Film Festival screening of documentary Cobain: Montage Of Heck that director Brett Morgan stumbled across the tape as he trawled through hours of the couple’s home video collection. According […]