FM, who headline the annual Firefest at ‘Nottingham Rock City’, UKВ on October 24 along with names like Treat, Romeo’s Daughter,Drive She Said and many more,В are to release an eight-song EP called ‘Wildside’ in time for the event. The new material introduces FM’sВ new guitarist Jim Kirkpatrick who replacedВ  the departed Andy Barnett.

Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford is to release his first solo album in seven years. This is theВ good news. The bad news is that it’s a Christmas record. Titled ‘Halford III – Winter Songs’, this will feature new single ‘Get Into The Spirit’, plus Christmas faves as ‘Come All Ye Faithful’ and ‘Oh Holy Night’ […]

Sofia Music Enterprises revealed the following information: “Bulgaria’s rock lady Milena Slavova is celebrating 25 years on stage. Various guests will be paticipating in the event like Review, Ahat, Era, Konkurent, Wickeda and many more. Tickets will cost 30 BGN until Nov. 11 and 40 BGN after that and will be available at www.ticketpro.bg. Special […]

According to Dana Parker-McClain from Pollstar.com, Van Halen will hit the road earlyВ in 2010. This was not expected to be the time when the next VH tour would be announced, but some lines got crossed and the information was brought by ‘Ticketmaster’ key figures.

After they decided to strip their naked female bodies in order to promote new single ‘Pussy’, now Rammstein reveal the new album ‘Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da’ artwork which is no less confusing. Music inside will be available to judge and comment on next month, onВ 19 Oct.

John Michael Bieganski is doing fine now, but he might not be doing so great if not for the quick action of a group of people willing to step forward and help him Saturday night after he was stabbed in the leg by a knife-wielding assailant. Bieganski, 23, a Clarence resident, had his leg cut […]

Arctic Monkeys, who recently released theirВ new singleВ ‘Crying Lightning’ , have revealed they were actually struck by lightning this summer. They said they gotВ struck by lightning near Hanover, GermanyВ in the bus, and the bus broke down. Probably this is the reason why tha band named thier first single like that.

Slayer guitarist Kerry King has told U.K.’s ‘Metal Hammer’ magazine that he has heard about plotting a tour that would include Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax. Should this tour materialize, this would be the first time that the so-called ‘Big Four’ of thrash have toured together as part of the same bill. Megadeth, Slayer and […]

John Lydon, formerly Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols, is re-forming his band Public Image Ltd or PiL with a five-date tour in December. Lydon told oneВ Britain’s newspaper that the band would reform with a new line-up. He said the new PiL will not contain original band members but will feature guitarist Lu Edmonds, drummer […]

According to Norway’s newspaper ‘FГ¦drelandsvennen’, guitar legend SlashВ of Velvet Revolver, ex-Guns N’ Roses was paid 10 million Norwegian kroner (approximately $1.65 million) for his appearance at this year’s edition of the Quart Festival (June 30th) inВ  Norway. In comparison, David BowieВ was paid 1.2 million Norwegian kroner (approximately $198,000 US) in 2002 for his appearance at […]