Arctic Monkeys have announced that their new album will be entitled Humbug. The 10-track record will be released on 24 August and has been produced by James Ford and Queen Of The Stone Age‘s Josh Homme. This is the third studio album from the Sheffield four-piece. Humbug will be released shortly before the band’s performances […]

Billy Corgan has tapped 19-year-old drummer Mike Byrne as the replacement for Jimmy Chamberlin in The Smashing Pumpkins. Byrne, drummer for Oregon-based band Moses, Smell the Roses apparently landed the gig after working for a week with Corgan last month, and blogged on his MySpace page that he was “off for another couple of weeks […]

The book will be out next week through Mahaloto Publishing house. The bestseller of Stephen DaviesВ is a perfect hardback with 448 fascinating pages and more then 150 photos.

Anvil, the Canadian heavy metal band that spent more than 30 years in near obscurity before the documentary about its struggles became a surprise hit, is getting the ultimate rock and roll salute this summer. AC/DC, arguably the most successful hard rock band in history, has personally selected Anvil as the sole support act for […]

Tickets for the concert of Dutch metallers GOD DETHRONED went on sale today. The badn will play at the The Box clubВ in Sofia supported by FLESHGOD APOCALYPSEВ and SACRAMENTAL BLOOD.В Tickets are priced 30 BGN (15 Euro) and will go up to 35 BGN at the day of the show!

Post-production work on the much-anticipated John Fogerty: ‘The Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again’ is now complete with a late summer/early fall album release date pending. The new album is, after 36 years, the conceptual follow-up to 1973’s ‘Blue Ridge Rangers’, the first release from Fogerty following the break-up of Creedence Clearwater Revival. Unlike the first […]

Sonic Youth are set to perform a free show in New York CityВ tonight (June 9) to celebrate the release of their new album ‘The Eternal’. The band will play at the Apple store’s Soho location on Prince Street at 9pm, with doors opening at 7.30. The band’s North American tourВ will kick off June 27 in […]

Members of The Bee Gees are to be made freemen of their home borough of Douglas in the Isle of Man. The honour will be conferred on Barry and Robin Gibb, and their late brother Maurice, in a ceremony at Douglas Town Hall on 10 July. Other members of the family, including Maurice’s widow and […]

TheВ band has signed an exclusive worldwide deal with EMI’s Virgin Records and are gearing up for the release of their first new studio album in more than 10 years. AIC and producer Nick Raskulinecz (Rush, Foo Fighters) began recording last October at Studio 606 in Northridge, CA and recently finished mixing at Henson Studios in […]

This year’s Download has just got even bigger, with the announcement that the majority of performances from the Main Stage are to be streamed LIVE right here on www.downloadfestival.co.uk throughout the weekend of 12th-14th June. Following on from 2007’s hugely successful live web stream of the festival, including Iron Maiden’s epic main stage performance, this […]