Bob Pantella of MONSTER MAGNET, ATOMIC BITCHWAX, and RIOTGOD is the featured session drummer on LADYKILLER‘s debut self-titled album. In addition to playing on 13 of the 16 tracks – he also engineered all of the drums and most of the guitar tracks in his recording studio in Sayerville, NJ. Visit Ladykiller’s official FacebookВ pageВ  to […]

After country star WILLIE NELSONВ got arrested in Texas last weekВ now it’s PHIL RUDD‘s turn. Stuff.co.nz has issued the following report: AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd was convicted of cannabis possession in a Tauranga courtВ on TuesdayВ morning. It is the first time Rudd has been convicted of a drug offence, SunLive website reported. Police discovered the drugs when […]

THE JELLY JAM, the three-piece progressive rock band featuring KING’S X guitarist/vocalist Ty Tabor, DREAM THEATER bassist John Myung and DIXIE DREGS drummer Rod Morgenstein, will release a new album, entitled ‘Shall We Descend?’ , in early 2011 via Molken Music. The same label will also re-release the first two THE JELLY JAM LPs — […]

The Happy Mondays just can’t seem to catch a break lately. First, dancer Bez was sentenced to prison time for choking his ex-girlfriend. Then earlier this month he got in trouble for violating a restraining order filed against him by said ex, which stipulated he wasn’t to have any contact with her and was a […]

Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith has cancelled the first-ever show booked by his supergroup – because it was advertised. Smith plays guitar in side-project Primal Rock Rebellion, which also includes singer Mikee Goodman, bassist James Leach and drummer Dan Foord from Sikth, guitarist Dan Marshall from Murder One and keyboardist James Manning from Vacant Stare. […]

Pregnant pop star Pink has decided to name her baby after her favourite whiskey. The singer and her husband Carey Hart are expecting their first child in the spring and although they don’t yet know the gender of the baby, Pink admits they’ve already decided what they are going to call a boy. Pink reveals […]

But don’t hold your breath – it’s not until September 2011. Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson will embark upon a 13-date acoustic tour of the UK in September 2011. Anderson says: “I have always wanted to go out in the UK with a small line-up, to play and to restructure the songs and music for a […]

System of a Down will headline next year’s Download festival at Donington as part of a much-anticipated reunion tour. But the band say they have no big plans for new material or a long-term continuation – they’re just playing some shows because they want to. Rumours had been rife after it was said SOAD had […]

After entering the official german charts at # 64 with their new album ‘In War And Pieces’, the German thrash metal legend have to make the following announcement: “After personal and private problems between Tom and Bobby, it was decided, by mutual agreement, to end the cooperation between Sodom and the drummer Bobby Schottkowski. Tom […]

Oscar-nominated director and screenwriter Mario Monicelli, considered one of the fathers of the Italian comedy of the 1940s-1960s, died Monday after jumping from a fifth-story hospital window, the hospital said. He was 95. Monicelli was being treated at Rome’s San Giovanni hospital for pancreatic problems and leaped to his death Monday night, said Anna Scoltore, […]