A spokesperson for The Rolling Stones’ Ronnie Wood has confirmed that the guitarist has entered rehab. He told the BBC NewsВ that Wood was “seeking help” in a rehab centre for alcohol-related issues. Ronnie previously entered rehab in 2002…

Southern California progressive instrumentalists Cosmosquad, featuring guitarist Jeff Kollman (UFO, Glenn Hughes), bassist Christopher Maloney (Dweezil Zappa, Hardline), and drummer Shane Gaalaas (MSG, Glenn Hughes, B’z), will release their first-ever live DVD on July 22. Entitled “Lights… Camera… Squad!” (view cover in the left), the effort was recorded during the band’s October 18, 2007 performance […]

Metallica kicked off the second leg of its summer 2008 European tour last night, July 16, at the Bergenhus Castle in Bergen, Norway. The group’s setlist can be seen below – hopefully it will be (almost) the same next week, on July 25, when James, Kirk, Lars and Rob will play at the Vassil Levski […]

In an era of low-budget videos, R.E.M. are back with one full of special effects. The band makes good with its major-label budget for the video for “Man Sized Wreath“. It’s the third single (after “Supernatural Superserious” and “Hollow Man“) off this year’s album “Accelerate“. R.E.M. – “Man Sized Wreath“

At the end of this new you can watch Radiohead‘s new video for “House of Cards“. No cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video was created entirely with visualizations of that data, and was directed by James Frost. Radiohead – “House […]

High-quality fan-filmed video footage of veteran San Francisco thrash metallers Exodus performing on July 5, 2008 at the Tidal Wave Festival at the Jerry Garcia Amphitheater in San Francisco’s McLaren Park can be viewed below. As we already informed you, Exodus shall play at this year’s Thrash Till Death Festival in Kavarna, Bulgaria on August […]

Austrian Death Meachine – the new solo project of Tim Lambesis, best known as frontman of California’s metalcore masters As I Lay Dying – has put up two songs off the upcoming debut album “Total Brutal” on myspace.com/austriandeathmachine. The tracks’ titles are “Come with Me If You Want to Live”, “If It Bleeds We Can […]

A medley of five new songs by the Swedish metallers Falconer, taken from the group’s forthcoming album, is available for download as an MP3 audio file here. Entitled “Among Beggars and Thieves” (view cover in the left), the full-length CD was recorded at Andy La Rocque’s Sonic Train Studio and is due in August via […]

Nuclear Blast Records have signed the Tasmanian death metal band Psycroptic. The first fruit of this new cooperation shall surface this autumn in the form of the group’s fourth album, entitled “Ob(Servant)” (view cover in the left). The follow-up to 2006’s “Symbols of Failure” was mixed and mastered by former Machine Head and Soulfly guitarist […]

Fleetwood Mac guitarist Lindsay Buckingham is to release a solo album in mid-September. Entitled “Gift of Screws“, it will include guest appearances by his main band’s colleagues Mick Fleetwood and John McVie. Lindsay Buckingham – “Big Love“