Grateful Dead keyboard player Vince Welnick has died. He was 55. Welnick took over as the cult band’s keyboard player in 1990 and continued until the band retired from performing following the death of founder and frontman Jerry Garcia in 1995.

As promised, Gorefest launched their new website on June 1st. Go to this location to check it out.The band has also updated their tour schedule for 2006.

Primal Scream have announced a UK tour in support of new album ‘Riot City Blues’.The band kick off the tour in Newcastle on November 14 and will run through November 29.‘Riot City Blues’ is out on Monday (June 5). Before the tour, the band play a number of UK Festivals this summer, including Isle Of […]

Glass Casket are to release their new album through Abacus in mid-June. It’s to be called ‘A Desperate Man’s Diaries’.

Open Hand have posted a new track on their myspace page: www.myspace.com/openhand

Former Faith No More/Bad Brains frontman Chuck Mosley has a new band: Vandals Against Illiteracy. They’re currently working on a debut album, which will be called ‘Will Rap Over Hard Rock For Food’.

Slayer are to release an EP on June 6. This will feature new song ‘Cult’. The band’s still untitled new album is due out at the end of July.

Green Day are keeping busy. Not only are they demoing songs for their next album, but also working up ideas for a movie based on the ‘American Idiot’ record. More news on both fronts soon.

System Of A Down bassist Shavo Odadjian is to start work later this month on an album with RZA from the Wu-Tang Clan. This should be released before the end of the year.

Pink Floyd (the sans Roger Waters version) are set to release a new live double DVD set from their 1994 tour, in which the band play ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ in its entirety.To be released on July 11, the DVD contains the first ever film of the band performing their seminal 1973 album. Filmed […]