Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ singer Karen O has covered country singer-songwriter Roger Alan Wade’s 2005 song ‘If You’re Gonna Be Dumb, You Gotta Be Tough’ for the Jackass 3D soundtrack. The soundtrack album is out on October 25 in the UK, with the movie following on November 5. Weezer and Twisted Sister are among the other […]

Legendary LED ZEPPELIN singer Robert Plant has become the first major artist to build and release his own app for BlackBerry. The app is free to download to your device and it allows you to listen to samples from the album and watch video content including exclusive interviews, music video and behind the scenes footage […]

Slash has started his own film production company, and is getting involved with horror movies. The company’s called, appropriately enough, Slasher Films, and the first project is titled Nothing To Fear.В  It’s about a family who move to a small town in Kansas, where they encounter the local demon, who enjoys a quick blood feast. […]

As previously reported, the first exhibition of Roger Glover’s art – Paintings and Pictures 1964 – 2010 – will open in KГ¶ln, Germany, on October 22nd at 19:00. Between and during his travels all over the world, from time to time Glover has felt the need to take up a brush, pencil, pen or camera, […]

Status Quo have just released a new version of In The Army Now for charity. This update of the 1986 single is for charity. With all proceeds being split between the British Forces Foundation and Help For Heroes. This version, produced by Pip Williams (as was the original), features backing singers from the Corps Of […]

Joe Satriani says he’d love Tommy Lee to replace Chad Smith in CHICKENFOOT if the Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer can’t fulfill his obligations with the supergroup. Satch, Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony are gearing up to record their second album with Smith in January – but the skinbeater’s duties with his main band could […]

Long-running Swedish metal band In Flames will enter the studio next week to begin pre-production for their next album. The group will be recording at their own IF Studios in Gothenburg, Sweden for the remainder of this year and into the beginning of 2011. Further details have yet to be disclosed.

Mike Tramp has written a tribute to Ronnie James Dio called ‘Hymn To Ronnie.’ On the music-player below you can listen to and download the song for free. In a previously issued press release Mike said: “The song always needed to stand by itself and I never felt that I could include it in any […]

Primus mainman Les Claypool says rumours about Metallica believing he was too good to join them are just that: rumours. He was in the running to replace Cliff Burton in the band after the tour bus crash which killed him in 1986. He was far from the only candidate – along with Jason Newsted who […]

According to the Swiss daily newspaper Blick, vocalist Steve Lee of Swiss hard rock veterans GOTTHARD was killed in a motorcycle accident in Nevada. He was 47 years old. Lee died after being clipped a semitrailer, Nevada Highway Patrol spokesman Joe Fackrell said, according to KVVU-TV. Fackrell said a group of motorcyclists had stopped on […]