The new James Bond theme song, called “Another Way to Die” and written and performed by Jack White and Alicia Keys, is streaming online now at thirdmanrecords.com. The new Bond film itself, “Quantum of Solace“, is due to hit theatres in November.

After leaving Soilwork some three years ago, guitarist Peter Wichers has now rejoined the ranks of the Swedish extreme metallers. He’s taking over from Daniel Antonsson, who replaced him in 2006.

After reuniting with their original vocalist Jonny Santos a month ago, California’s Spineshank have already started working on songs for their next full-length album. THe first fruit of it – a new track entitled “Born Conform Repent“, can be listened to on myspace.com/spineshank. Spineshank – “Synthetic“

Two new solo tracks from Scott Weiland, entitled “Missing Cleveland” and “Paralysis“, can be heard online. They are available for streaming respectively here and here. Both cuts will appear on the singer’s sophomore solo album, “Happy in Galoshes” (view cover in the left), scheduled for release on November 25 via the artist’s label Softdrive Records.

Ohio-based masked metallers Mushroomhead will release their second official DVD, simply entitled “Volume 2“, on October 28. The follow-up to “Volume 1” (2005) features two-and-a-half hours of videos, live footage and more stuff. Meanwhile, Mushroomhead prepare to enter studio this winter to record the follow-up to their album “Savior Sorrow” (2006) for a spring 2009 […]

Kiss frontman Paul Stanley will release a new solo live DVD, entitled “One Live Kiss“, on October 21 via New Door/Universal. The effort (view cover in the left) was filmed on November 6, 2006 at the House of Blues in Chicago, Illinois. The tracklist for “One Live Kiss” is as follows: 01. Prologue02. Live to […]

A Metallica fan from Los Angeles, Mick Cassidy (on the photo), has finally shaved his beard after growing it for two years, following a vow he made in 2006 – not to shave until his favourite band released another album. Now, as “Death Magnetic” finally appeared, Mick’s beard was eventually shaved off personally by James […]

Alexander Veljanov, best known as singer of Germany’s new wave masters Deine Lakaien, shall release a new album with his solo project Veljanov on November 7.Entitled “Porta Macedonia”, the CD will feature following songs: 01. Der Kongress 02. Nie mehr 03. His Vita 04. We Can’t Turn Back 05. Mein Weg 06. The New Order […]

Coldplay bassist Guy Berryman, Magne Furuholmen from A-Ha and Jonas Bjerre from Mew have formed a new side-project called The Apparatjik. The debut song of the collective, entitled “Ferreting“, will surface on October 6 in the compilation album “Amazon Tribe: Songs for Survival” (view cover in the left) – a soundtrack the new Bruce Parry […]

Scotland’s Mogwai unleashed its new video on the Internet, as you can see below. The track chosen is an instrumental called “Batcat“, which comes off the group’s new full-length album, “The Hawk Is Howling“, due out on September 23 via Matador Records. Mogwai – “Batcat“