Duran Duran‘s video for their new single “Falling Down” has been banned from UK television. The cut is depicting the theme of models in rehab and won’t be aired in the United Kingdom because it has been deemed too controversial… “Falling Down” comes off Duran Duran’s upcoming studio album “Red Carpet Massacre”, due out November […]

Georgia’s pop-punksters The B-52’s have announced they’ll release a brand-new studio album for the first time in 15 years. Entitled “Funplex”, the follow-up to 1992’s “Good Stuff” is going to surface on February 26, 2008 and shall contain 11 tracks.

To mark tomorrow’s All Hallow’s Eve, Rolling Stone Magazine did a poll among the readers of its website to determine the 20 bands with the most gruesome names. After calculating the results, here’s how the The Most Gruesome Band Name Top 20 looks like: 01. Cattle Decapitation 02. Dahmer’s Icebox 03. Alien Sex Fiend 04. […]

Legendary guitarist Joe Satriani has entered studio to begin recording his new album for a tentative April 2008 release. Joining him are engineer and co-producer John Cuniberti, drummer Jeff Campitelli, bassist Matt Bissonette (worked with a.o. David Lee Roth, Julian Lennon, Steve Perry, Brian Wilson, Peter Frampton), Eric Caudieux (keyboards and rhythm guitar), Mike Manning […]

The recently closed legendary New York club CBGB is to reopen in March… as a fashion boutique! The new store will be run by designer John Varvatos.

The Booklyn, New York based metalcore veterans Merauder have made a demo recording of a brand new song available on their MySpace page at myspace.com/merauder. The track is off a demo featuring songs from the band’s forthcoming fourth studio album. “You won’t have to wait too long this time”, says the band in a bulletin…

Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night have posted online the video for the song “The Village Lanterne”, taken from the forthcoming Blackmore’s Night DVD/CD live compilation “Paris Moon”. You may check it out below. “Paris Moon” was recorded on September 20, 2006 at the Olympia in Paris, France, and is set for release in Europe on […]

On Friday, October 26, 1,730 guitarists gathered on a remote hilltop in Northeast India in an effort to break the existing Guinness world record for the largest guitar ensemble. The musicians performed Bob Dylan‘s classic “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”. The current record belongs to Kansas City’s 1,721 guitarists, who performed Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the […]

The reunited Boston ska masters The Mighty Mighty Bosstones have recorded 3 brand-new studio tracks. These are to be included on an upcoming collection of unreleased material and b-sides. Entitled “Medium Rare”, the compilation is expected to surface around Christmas.

Seattle prog metal godfathers Queensryche have posted all tracks off their upcoming collection of cover versions for free streaming HERE. Entitled “Take Cover” (view cover in the left), the CD is officially due on November 13 via Rhino/WEA and is going to contain following 11 renditions: 01. Innuendo (Queen)02. Bullet the Blue Sky (U2)03. Synchronicity […]