The Sunset Strip’s hottest export, STEEL PANTHER, is back and ready to unleash their third full-length album, All You Can Eat, on the world. The 12-track masterpiece is slated to hit stands April 1st in North America on Open E Records via Kobalt Label Services (KLS). The album will be available for pre-order on January […]

TEN YEARS AFTER have lost frontman Joe Gooch and bassist Leo Lyons after the pair confirmed they’ve decided to move on. Gooch took over from the late Alvin Lee in 2003 while Lyons was one of the band’s co-founding members, alongside current drummer Ric Lee and keyboardist Chick Churchill. Lyons reports he and Gooch are […]

QUEEN’s official YouTube channel has uploaded a one-hour film which finds the British rock legends at the Rock In Rio festival in Brazil in January 1985, performing over two nights. It was one of the largest music festivals in the world, with each show watched by nearly 200 million television viewers in over 60 countries. […]

Legendary Bay Area thrashers TESTAMENT have released the following statement: “It is with much respect that we announce our mutual parting with bassist Greg Christian (small picture bellow). Metal fretless bass pioneer Steve DiGiorgio will be returning to Testament. Steve previously was a member of Testament on The Gathering (1999) as well as First Strike […]

DUO DE TWANG, featuring PRIMUS‘ LES CLAYPOOL, release an album titled ‘Four Foot Shack’. through ATO on February 3. The duo also feature Bryan Kehoe. PRIMUS will join Pearl jam, Arcade Fire and Tame Impala on 2014’s Big Day Out Festival in New Zealand in Australia starting this week.  

MEGADETH‘s DAVE ELLEFSON has teamed up with ANTHRAX‘s FRANK BELLO to form ALTITUDES & ATTITUDE. Supported by drummer JEFF FRIEDL of A PERFECT CIRCLE, the band is getting ready to release their self-titled debut EP, preceded by ‘Booze and Cigarettes.’ Despite the band’s thrash pedigree, ‘Booze and Cigarettes’ is firmly rooted in hard rock. A riffing guitar leads […]

This is the BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN WEEK on radio TANGRA MEGA ROCK. ‘High Hopes’ – his eighteenth studio album is out now – on January 14, 2014. The album features the E Street Band along with guitarist Tom Morello and former E Street Band members Clarence Clemons and Danny Federici, who have both died SPRINGSTEEN is a phenomenon. One can hardly […]

The folks at NPR are currently streaming Transgender Dysphoria Blues, the new album from AGAINST ME! and the first since vocalist Laura Jane Grace (formerly Tom Gabel) came out as transgender. It’s also the follow-up to 2011′s Black Crosses. According to a press release, the album sees Grace explore themes of “gender dysphoria, the loss […]

As time goes by, we’re starting to have more and more sonic testimony as to why John Frusciante left the Chili Peppers. The guy is a geeky weirdo, he likes his music shaken, not stirred. He can’t (please don’t) do anything about it. In his latest adventure, our hero has teamed up once again with […]

We are proud to premiere a track from THE CRIMSON PROJEKCT’s upcoming release Live In Tokyo (courtesy of progrockmag.com) – hear Frame By Frame below. The King Crimson offshoot has the approval of mainman Robert Fripp and features former member Adrian Belew plus Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto, who have been confirmed as part of […]