Oh yes, we could swallow the bitter bill of having to wait 14 whole years for the Guns’n’Roses top boy to release a new album, but that’s nothing compared to being forced to endure an entire 15 fucking weeks for the Babyface Clan frontman to finally decide upon a verdict on ‘Chinese Democracy’. And we […]

Residents of the Isle Of Man could soon be allowed to legally download as much music as they want. A new proposal from the Isle Of Man Government e-Business Division intends to strike a deal with major record companies to allow residents to contribute a yearly tax payment – similar to the TV licence – […]

The mega-legendary Mott The Hoople have announced a pair of reunion shows to celebrate their 40th anniversary. The concerts, which are being billed as ‘the return of one of the best loved rock’n’roll bands of all time’, are at London’s Hammersmith Apollo on October 2 and 3. These will be momentous occasions for the following […]

British heavy rock legends, Iron Maiden, in association with EMI Records, Universal (USA) and Arts Alliance Media, announce that they will be releasing a feature length documentary film into cinemas worldwide on April 21st 2009. Entitled ‘IRON MAIDEN: FLIGHT 666′ the movie follows the band on the first leg of their “SOMEWHERE BACK IN TIME […]

U2 are streaming the first single from their highly anticipated forthcoming album online now. ‘Get On Your Boots’ is the first single from ‘No Line On The Horizon’, the band’s first studio album since 2004. You can hear it here now. The Irish rockers reportedly debuted the high-energy track on Dublin state radio this morning […]

Pearl Jam‘s Eddie Vedder, Dave Grohl, Norah Jones and Jack Johnson are among the acts confirmed for a Nick Drake tribute album to be released by Johnson’s Brushfire Records. The recording process was filmed for release as part of a DVD package. It will also include the late actor Heath Ledger‘s version of “Black Eyed […]

The former Husker Du frontman will release his latest solo effort, ‘Life And Times’, on April 7. The follow-up to 2008’s ‘District Line’ features 10 tracks including ‘The Breach’ and ‘Spiraling Down’. The album tracklisting is: ‘Life and Times’‘The Breach’‘City Lights (Days Go By)’‘MM 17’‘Argos’‘Bad Blood Better’‘Wasted World’‘Spiraling Down’I’m Sorry, Baby, But You Can’t Stand […]

It appears that the Hot Leg and former The Darkness frontman will be hitting the silver screen in a ‘psychological horror’ movie. According to horror movie web-site Bloody Disgusting, Justin Hawkins will co-star alongside former ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’ hottie Charisma Carpenter in the forthcoming movie, ‘Vivid’. The story centres around a New York novelist […]

As has been widely rumoured, the Queens Of The Stone Age frontman has been working with the band for sessions that may end up on their third album. Appearing as a special guest on Biffy Clyro’s BBC Radio 1 takeoverВ lastВ week, Homme confirmed the news. Asked whether he had managed to “beat Sheffield out of them […]

Thurston Moore promises “heavy ass weirdo hooks” aplenty on Sonic Youth’s as-yet-untitled Matador debut, due this summer. “When I started writing, I was immersed in listening to the Wipers,” he tells Billboard. “‘No Way,’ the first song we recorded, has a total Wipers vibe, if the Wipers were a No Wave band.” Moore says lyrics […]