Nearly 30 years after its formation, influential rock act Wire, featuring vocalist Colin Newman, bassist Graham Lewis, guitarist Bruce Gilbert and drummer Robert Gotobed, has reissued back-to-the-basics CD versions of its first three albums (“Pink Flag” (1977), “Chairs Missing” (1978) and “154” (1979)) and bundled them with a pair of live discs as a special […]

Slayer, Mastodon and Coheed And Cambria are among the latest names confirmed for the Carling Weekend Festival. Slayer, Mastodon, Less Than Jake and Taking Back Sunday will be in Leeds on August 25 and Reading on August 27. Coheed And Cambria and Jet play in Reading on August 26 and Leeds the next day.

Kid Rock has just filmed two shows in his town, Detroit. This is for a live DVD, due out later in the year.

Testament are teaming up with Onslaught and Xentrix to play Bradford Rio’s on June 3. The previous day, Testament are in London, at the Islington Academy.

Tool are likely to have songs included in the upcoming video game ‘Guitar Hero 2’. The enigmatic band are also planning a live DVD.

Stunted Records have just released a nine-track compilation called ‘Sound Invasion’. This features Fulc, Kite, Ten Seconds Of Chaos, Tacoma and Somewherenothere. It’s currently available only on Karmadownload as digital downloads.

The current line-up for this year’s Download Festival is as follows: June 9: Main Stage Tool, Deftones, Coheed & Cambria, Soulfly, Strapping Young Lad, Soil, Amplifier. Snickers Stage All-American Rejects, Atreyu, InMe, Sevendust, Clutch, Fishbone, Dredg, Bleeding Through, Throwdown. Gibson/ MySpace.Com Stage Ginger & The Sonic Circus, Backyard Babies, Cathedral Engerica, Bullets & Octane, My […]

House Of Blow, featuring Sean Martin of Hatebreed and Daryl Palumbo from Glassjaw/Head Automatica, are working on an album. Wanna see them in action?

Slayer‘s Tom Araya has had a minor gallbladder operation. But this does mean that the start of the ‘Unholy Alliance’ US tour, headlined by Slayer, has been postponed until June 10. Also on the bill are Lamb Of God, Children Of Bodom and Mastodon.

Nine Inch Nails mainman Trent Reznor is currently working songs with poet/rapper Saul Williams. These are expected to be used by the latter on his next album, due out in ’07.