Bob Dylan has cancelled several legs of an Asian tour after Beijing refused to give him permission to perform in China, a newspaper reported Sunday. Dylan originally planned to play in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, following his multi-city tour of Japan last month, the Sunday Morning Post said. Tour organisers, Taiwan-based Brokers Brothers Herald, […]

Despite the success of his reunion with Creed, Scott Stapp said in his blog that he still plans to release a new solo album, with the first single due out later this year.В  The album was rumored to be due out in 2009, but was reportedly shelved when Stapp’s reunion with Creed was announced.В  Stapp […]

3 April 2006 was a nice sunny day. It was the day e actually started this amazingВ radio. Withe 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 […]

SLAYERВ at breakfast, SLAYER at lunch, SLAYER at dinner! SLAYER in the Spring, the Summer, in FallВ and Winter. Non stopВ SLAYER! Happy Easter, lads!

Zappa Plays Zappa, featuring Dweezil ZappaВ on guitar, have announced six UK shows for the summer. The dates are: July 21: Cambridge Corn Exchange July 22: Brighton Centre July 23: Wolverhampton Civic Hall July 25: Liverpool Summer Pops July 26: Glasgow Royal Concert Hall July 27: Gateshead Sage Zappa Plays Zappa feature the music of Dweezil’s […]

Billboard.com is reporting that Steve Miller hasn’t released a new studio album in 17 years but he plans to make up for lost time with a pair of blues and R&B cover sets that will come out this year and next. “Bingo!,” Miller’s first Steve Miller Band release on his own Space Cowboy Records label […]

The Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon has had one of his cherished guitars broken by employees at American Airlines. The acoustic guitar, which the frontman used to write nearly all of the group’s songs, including the ones on their upcoming third album, ‘American Slang’, has suffered a cracked headstock. “I checked it and they just did […]

Pearl Jam are to plant $210,000-worth of trees in their home state of Washington. This is an effort to counteract the carbon footprint caused by their 2009 US tour. The band have calculated this amount based not only on their activities, but also on those of fans travelling to the shows. Pearl Jam made a […]

Cher’s son Chaz Bono has asked a judge in Los Angeles to formally change his name and gender following the sex change surgery he had last year. The 41-year-old, who was born Chastity Sun Bono, now wants to be known as Chaz Salvatore, according to a petition filed earlier this week. He revealed last June […]

Jon Spencer and his Blues Explosion are back with a bang. Or at least 
a blast from the past.
 After several years on hiatus, the underground indie-rock trio are 
testing the comeback waters with the release of the new anthology Dirty Shirt Rock ’n’ Roll: The First 10 Years. “The compilation actually leads off a […]