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 […]

New York’s extreme metal machine SUFFOCATION will enter the studio to begin the recording of their new steamhammer “Blood Oath“. Once again the recording will be produced by Joe Cincotta (Obituary, Animosity) and mixed by Zack Ohren (All Shall Perish, Decrepith Birth). Some tentative song titles for „Blood Oath are: “Dismal Dream”, “Undeserving”, “Confines of […]

Placebo have announced that they will release their as-yet untitled next album in June. The album was produced by David Bottrill and wil be the follow-up to 2006’s ‘Meds’. The record will be the first to feature new drummer Steve Forrest. The band have signed with [PIAS], a European entertainment group they will now release […]

Last Thursday we had SEPULTURA‘s vocalist on the phoneВ live from Brazil and he really told us everything weВ wanted to know.В  YOUR PREVIOUS ALBUM ‘DANTE XXI’..THE COVER ARTWORK WAS DONE BY A GUY CALLED STEPHAN DOITCHINOFF. HIS PARENTS ARE BULGARIAN, BUT THE GUY WAS BORN IN SAO PAOLO AND DOESN’T SPEAK BULGARIAN AT ALL. DID YOU […]

The former Culture Club singer, tried under his real name George O’Dowd, will start serving his sentence straightaway. O’Dowd was found guilty of false imprisonment in December. The case relates to an incident that happened in his east London flat in April 2007. The singer is said to have tied up, beaten and falsely imprisoned […]

After the news that Metallica would join Run DMC, Jeff Beck and others in being inducted into this year’s Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, the metal behemoths have spokenВ at a press conference. James Hetfield saidВ  ‘Life is good in Metallica right now,’ and when asked who will induct the metal titans, he commented, ‘I […]

The band’s mainmen Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett are set to start recording sessions on their third album in March. The pair confirmed work on the follow-up to 2005’s ‘Demon Days’ would begin in earnest with a collaboration in Syria. ‘I’m going to Syria because I’ve got a real fascination with Arabic orchestral music,’ explained […]

‘The Godfather of Grunge’В has released the title-track from his forthcoming album ‘Fork On The Road’ You can hear the track at the Neil Young offical Website. ‘Fork On The Road’ is due out in the Spring and this would appear to put pay to the rumour that his ‘Archives Vol 1′ project would see release […]

The young band from Canada won a record deal with Nuclear Blast and their debut album ‘Profugus Mortis’ will be released on March 20th! ‘When we decided to organize a MySpace Contest where up and coming (unsigned) bands could win a record deal with Nuclear Blast, we never expected that we would receive almost 3000 […]