The X-Fest, due to happen on June 6 in Athens, has been cancelled. The Greek promoters say poor ticket sales are to blame. The bill was to include Dio, In Flames, Trivium and Hatebreed.

AFI fans, you may want to get four copies of the band’s new album ‘Decemberunderground‘, due out next week. Why? Because there are four different versions of the accompanying booklet, each featuring one member of the band on the cover.

Fall-Out Boy were unwittingly at the centre of a controversy, because of their song ‘Dance, Dance’. Plans were announced for this tРѕ be covered by a group of children, for the compilation album ‘Kidz Bop 10’. However, when it was pointed out that this featured overly sexual lyrics, the song was quickly dropped.

Brian Eno has re-united with his old band Roxy Music on their next album. Eno actually worked with the band last year writing two new tracks and playing keyboard on others for the follow up to 1982s Avalon. The as-yet-untitled album is being slated for an autumn release.

Rhino Records recently bought the rights to Queensryche‘s Q2K album from Atlantic Records for re-release. According to the band’s official website the track list is as follows: ‘Falling Down’, ‘Sacred Ground’, ‘One Life’, ‘When The Rain Comes…’, ‘How Could I?’, ‘Beside You’, ‘Liquid Sky’, ‘Breakdown’, ‘Burning Man’, ‘Wot Kinda Man’, ‘The Right Side Of My […]

Sick Of It All and Reel Big Fish have been announced as headliners at the Radio One Lock-Up stage at this year’s Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds Festivals.Hundred Reasons and Bouncing Souls also join the line up for the three-day event which takes place over the weekend of August 25-27.

Due Aug. 22 via Merge, “Post-War” is Рњ. Ward‘s first “full band” record. The artist recruited percussionists Rachel Blumberg (formerly of the Decemberists) and Jordan Hudson (formerly of the Thermals), who toured with him over the past year and a half, to fill out the record. Multi-instrumentalist Mike Coykendall, singer Neko Case and My Morning […]

After spending its entire career on Epic, folk/rock duo the Indigo Girls has signed a new deal with Hollywood Records. The first release under the agreement will be a new, as-yet-untitled studio album, due Sept. 19.Principal members Amy Ray and Emily Saliers are recording with producer Mitchell Froom in his Los Angeles studio. The album […]

The last song ever written Johnny Cash will be included on the album ‘American V: A Hundred Highways’, to be released in July. In the months before his death on 12 September 2003, Cash teamed up with producer Rick Rubin to record new material. Cash reinterprets works as diverse as Hank Williams’ ‘On The Evening […]

Porcupine Tree are to release a live DVD in september called ‘Arriving Somewhere…’. The band will tour the UK to coincide. the first confirmed dates are Manchester University September 30, Glasgow Academy October 1.