NEWS

13 September 2006

AEROSMITH‘s Steven Tyler and Bruce Rossmeyer, CEO of 13 Harley-Davidson locations, including the world’s largest Harley-Davidson dealership located at Bruce Rossmeyer‘s Destination Daytona, along with guidance of Rossmeyer’s personal custom motorcycle designer, Tim Gabel, have teamed up to design and produce “The Steven Tyler Signature Series,” a one-of-a-kind collection of Steven Tyler-inspired, custom designed motorcycles.Limited […]

13 September 2006

Rush has penned eight songs for its next studio album, which should be out in early 2007, according to drummer Neil Peart. The artist tells Billboard.com his lyrics for the as-yet-untitled set were greatly influenced by his motorcycle journeys throughout the United States, chronicled in the new book “Roadshow: Landscape With Drums.”Peart says he was […]

13 September 2006

Two rare SCORPIONS videos were recently posted at YouTube. The clips were filmed in 1973 (“This Is My Song“) and 1974 (“Speedy’s Coming“) for German TV and were only re-broadcast this autumn. The performance of “This Is My Song” is live and it marked guitarist Uli Jon Roth‘s first-ever appearance with the band. Check out […]

13 September 2006

FIREGOD, the new Swedish/Danish “all-star” project featuring Hal Patino (bass; KING DIAMOND), Snowy Shaw (drums; ex-KING DIAMOND, DREAM EVIL), Mike Wead (guitar; KING DIAMOND, MERCYFUL FATE) and Simon Johannsson (guitar; MEMORY GARDEN, FIFTH REASON), has a inked a two-album deal with Vic Records. The group, whose sound is being described as “progressive doom,” is still […]

13 September 2006

30-second audio samples of the songs that will appear on the forthcoming tribute album to the DEFTONES, entitled “The String Quartet Tribute to the Deftones“, have been posted online at Amazon.com.Due on September 19 via Vitamin Records, the album is described as follows: “The rage and haunting beauty that is at the core of DEFTONES […]

12 September 2006

Italian metallers SOUL TAKERS have completed work on their second full-length album, tentatively titled “Flies in a Jar“, at Luigi Stefanini’s New Sin Studio in Loria (TV), Italy. The follow-up to 2005’s “Tides” (Northwind Records) will contain 11 tracks for a total running time of more than fifty minutes and will be released in early […]

12 September 2006

A lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court alleges that Warner Music Group, Atlantic Records and others helped coerce a 16-year-old girl into making a pornographic rock video when the band BUCKCHERRY advertised for extras on MySpace. According to a Los Angeles Times report, the suit alleges that BUCKCHERRY asked fans to come […]

12 September 2006

Sofia Music Enterprises has the pleasure to invite you to the 11th edittion of MUSIC JAM 2006. The event will take place in Sofia from the 20th to the 28th of October 2006. This year there will be two very special appearances: by Duran Duran (October, 20) and one of the greatest guitar players of […]

12 September 2006

MONSTER MAGNET guitarist Ed Mundell has formed a new band with fellow MONSTER MAGNET bandmembers Bob Pantella and Jim Baglino, tentatively called THE ULTRA ELECTRIC MEGA GALACTIC. The group’s first show will take place on Tuesday, October 3 at the Brighton Bar in Long Branch, New Jersey.Mundell is currently in Los Angeles writing and recording […]

12 September 2006

Australian retro-rockers WOLFMOTHER will perform a tribute to LED ZEPPELIN at the upcoming UK Music Hall of Fame ceremony, according to Undercover News. Whether they will play a ZEPPELIN tune or one of their own remains unclear.LED ZEPPELIN is set to be inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in November, alongside BRIAN WILSON, […]