Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner and The Rascals singer Miles Kane have teamed up in a side-project. The duo is currently recording under the name Turner & Kane with producer James Ford, and an album should be due for release sometime in 2008, after The Rascals put out their debut album. What’s curios is that […]

Former Sentenced vocalist Taneli Jarva and his current Finnish band The Black League are working on their fifth full-length album. The follow-up to last year’s “A Place Called Bad” is going to surface by the summer of 2008, and its working title is “No Parole”.

Electric Light Orchestra are to have a 20-track compilation released by SonyBMG on October 8. It’s called “The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra, Volume 2: Ticket to the Moon”, and playes the role of a sequel to 2005’s “The Very Best of Electric Light Orchestra: All Over the World”.

Axl Rose is being sued by security guard Gary Armijo. The latter claims the Guns N’ Roses singer kicked him in the head during a show at the Gibson Amphitheater in Universal City, California last December. As a result, Armijo says he suffered severe injuries. Poor Gary…

Ben Moody and David Hodges, both former members and songwriters of Evanescence, have teamed up to write and produce the new Celine Dion song “This Time”, set to appear on her new album, “Taking Chances”, due out on November 13 via Columbia. The happy trio can be seen on the small photo in the left… […]

Marilyn Manson has started producing his own brand of absinthe – “Mansinthe” – in collaboration with the family-run distillery Matter-Luginbuehl in the Swiss village of Kallnach, Agence France-Presse reported. Manson created the artwork for the label himself (view it in the left), and the production started in the beginning of August. So far 6,000 bottles […]

Marduk, KoldbrannВ and Massemord were supposed to tour the Balkans during the second half of September. Local promoters in Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania, Croatia, Greece and Hungary blame the Polish booking agency Rose Production, calling it a fake one. Hopefully new dates should be rescheduled for the beginning on 2008.

A brand-new Down song, entitled “I Scream”, is now available for streaming HERE. The track comes off the band’s upcoming third full-length studio album, “Over the Under” (view cover in the left), due in Europe on September 24 via Roadrunner Records. The complete tracklist for Phis Anselmo & Co.’s effort has already been revealed here.

A month before taking part in the 20 Years Nuclear Blast Fest in Sofia, Bulgaria on November 3, Bulgaria’s extreme metal leaders The Revenge ProjectВ shall headline the first evening of the Chaos Festival in Romania. The event, set to take place at the Live Metal Club in BucharestВ on October 5-6, shall also feature performances by […]

Andy Warhol‘s 1975 portrait of Mick Jagger (shown in the left) sold for $46,800 at a Sydney auction. The screen-print painting, signed by both Warhol and Jagger, had been originally commissioned by Jagger and was expected to only fetch up to $35,000. Warhol has previously designed The Rolling Stones’ cover for 1971’s “Sticky Fingers” and […]