Despite being on announcing a year off, David Bowie made a surprise guest appearance at a David Gilmour gig at London’s Royal Albert Hall last night (May 29th) The two David’s performed classic Pink Floyd tracks Arnold Layne and Comfortably Numb. David Crosby and Graham Nash were other special guests who also performed a Floyd […]

Paul Simon wowed fans including Billy Bragg with a secret show before delighted fans in London on May 25.The star premiered his new album ‘Surprise‘ at The Bloomsbury Theatre in the West End. He played four tracks from the Brian Eno-produced record – ‘Outrageous’, ‘How Can You Live In The Northeast?’, ‘Father And Daughter’ and […]

Guns n’ Roses have announced details of a full UK tour, their first since 1993.The band, led by frontman Axl Rose, will play their biggest trek on these shores for years in July, kicking off at Sheffield’s Hallam FM Arena on July 18, support will come from Bullet For My Valentine.Following on from their recent […]

PJ Harvey performed brand new tracks at the Guardian festival, Hay-on-Wye over the weekend. In her only live appearance this year, Polly took the piano and explained to the crowd “I’ve never played the piano in front of people before, so I’m incredibly nervous. Every time I play a duff note, I’m going to pull […]

Finnish melodic death metallers Omnium Gatherum have posted the following message at their official website:“The new vocalist of Omnium Gatherum is Jukka Pelkonen, also known as the ‘J’, from the band called Elenium.Jukka and ‘The New OG‘ will do its debut gig at Finnish Tuska Open Air Metal Festival after party at Gloria, Helsinki on […]

Former Anthrax guitarist Paul Crook has posted some pictures and video footage from VH1’s Rock Honors Show at the band’s official website featuring guitarist Scott Ian playing bass on a cover of the Kiss classic ‘God Of Thunder’. Go to this location to check the material out.

According to an advertisement placed by Sydney’s Gaelic Theatre in Street Press Publication Drum Media, German thrash legends Kreator will be in Australia, and playing Sydney on August 25th. And Kreator have just confirmed the aforementioned “leak” on their official website: “Yes, the rumours are true! Kreator will tour Australia in August! We will announce […]

US metalheads Nile have signed to Nuclear Blast. But don’t expect any new album until ’07.

Mike Patton, of Peeping Tom/Fantomas fame, has strongly refuted ongoing rumours that there will be a Faith No More re-union. The frontman insists this will not happen.

Celtic Frost have brought in former Mayhem/Satyricon guitarist Anders Odden to augment their line-up for upcoming touring commitments.