Tigran Hamasyan Wins Thelonious Monk Institute’s International Jazz Piano CompetitionNineteen-year old piano prodigy Tigran Hamasyan – who so many of you know as Wayne’s pianist for the last year – this weekend WON the Thelonious MonkInternational Jazz Competition. Here’s what Ben Ratliff wrote in the NY Times:“the heavy-duty contest judges were Herbie Hancock, Andrew Hill […]

Dutch grindcore/sludge metal band BILE has officially changed its name to SKULLHOG.Formed in 1998 to pay homage to HELLHAMMER, SLAUGHTER and DEAD INFECTION, among others, the group’s focus, lyrically and visually, is on slasher films, with their debut EP, “The Shed” (2000), based on “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2“, and their full-length album, “Camp Blood” […]

The first new music from The Who in 24 years has been posted online.You can hear two brand new tracks from the bands forthcoming studio album online. “Tea & Theatre” and “It’s Not Enough” can be heard here.

After fourteen years flying solo Bjork is to reunite this autumn with her former band The Sugarcubes.The Icelandic quintet will play a 20th birthday gig in Reykjavic on November 17 according to an announcement on Bjork’s official website.All the money form the gig will be ploughed into the bands non-profit record label Smekkleysa SM which […]

MTV.com reports that a court order barring the “Rock Star: Supernova” band (featuring Tommy Lee, Jason Newsted, Gilby Clarke and now vocalist Lukas Rossi) from using the moniker SUPERNOVA has forced the act to amend its name to, er, ROCK STAR SUPERNOVA, in deference to a California band that already holds the rights to the […]

AFTER DEATH, the Tampa-based band featuring former MORBID ANGEL, NOCTURNUS and ACHERON drummer/vocalist Mike Browning, has made its latest four-song demo, “Secret Lords of The Star Chamber Below“, available for download via its MySpace page. The recording is described in a press release as “four songs of atmospheric occult metal.”

An audio recording of TOOL‘s first-ever live performance of the song “10,000 Days” (from the Sept. 14, 2006 concert in Dallas, Texas) has been posted online at YouTube.com.TOOL was forced to cancel its concert at the Kohl Center in Madison, Wisconsin last night (Sept. 19) due to frontman Maynard Keenan being sick. This is the […]

Californian alternative rockers MONSTER IN THE MACHINE are the second confirmed act to be signed to KORN guitarist James “Munky” Shaffer‘s record label emotionalSYPHON Recordings, according to Korn-Locker.MONSTER IN THE MACHINE features Shannon Crawford and Doug Ardito, both of whom were previously in CELLOPHANE. Ardito also spent time in PUDDLE OF MUDD. After CELLOPHANE, Crawford […]

Spanish black metallers BERSERK will release their third album, “Cries of Blood and Hate“, in October/November via the Swedish label Unexploded Records.Recorded at Artica Studios in Ciudad Real, Spain in December 2005, and mixed and mastered by BГёrge Finstad at Toproom Studio (BORKNAGAR, MAYHEM, VINTERSORG, ULVER) in Norway in March-April 2006, “Cries of Blood and […]

“A Twist in the Myth“, the latest album from the German power metallers BLIND GUARDIAN, has moved up to position No. 2 on the Greek national chart after debuting at No. 3 last week.“A Twist in the Myth” first-week chart positions:Greece: #3Germany: #4Italy: #9 (Media Market Chart)Sweden: #10 (#2 in the Rock Chart)Spain: #15Austria: #19USA: […]