It appears that the rumours of a new Van Halen album are right on the money. An official statement from the band’s publishers, Warner/Chappell Music, not only confirms that their agreement with Eddie and Alex Van Halen has been extended, but tellingly ends with the following line: ‘The group is currently in the studio recording […]

Zodiac Mindwarp And The Love Reaction release a new album next month. It’s called We Are Volsung, put out by SPV/Steamhammer on September 27. Two days earlier, the band play an album launch gig at The Borderline in London. Tickets cost ВЈ12 and are on sale now. The band will also be playing both nights […]

He’s the ‘Noel Gallagher’ of the group Lionel Messi is such an Oasis superfan that he’s formed an Oasis tribute band. And not only that, but the Argentinian football star plans to take his group on a tour through Europe. Messi, whose day job consists of playing for Spain’s FC team Barcelona, is the ‘Noel […]

It’s no joke: ‘Family Guy’ creator Seth MacFarlane has signed a record deal to release his debut album. MacFarlane has joined forces with Universal Republic Records to deliver an album of 1940s and ’50s show tunes paying tribute to Broadway classics. Unlike the songs on his animated Fox hits, these aren’t spoofs, but straight-up renditions […]

The members of metal band Fear Factory narrowly escaped certain death when their bus caught fire on Thursday morning. After playing a show in Sheffield, during their tour of England, the band were traveling to London when the bus driver noticed smoke coming from one of the back wheels. According to Dino Cazares, the driver […]

The Sofia alternative outfit have just finneshed shooting the brand new DVD at Sofia Liva Club. It will feature live versions of allВ fourteen tracksВ from the latest studio albumВ ‘By You’. More information about any additional content and the release date are to follow.

In 2007, MONSTER MAGNET’S Bob Pantella and Jim Baglino created their own alternate universe under the RIOTGOD banner, inviting guitarist Garrett Sweeny and the estranged vocalist known only as Sunshine to travel the cosmos with them. Their achieved collective goal is RiotGod, their self-titled debut album containing some of the most energetic, recognizable and high […]

In the last couple of years, excitement seems to build for a festival’s webcast schedule as much as for the actual lineup. It offers thousand of fans a chance to experience at least a small piece of the musical weekend that they can’t attend in person. Now, with Lollapalooza coming up in a few days, […]

A longtime vegetarian (The Smiths’ Meat is Murder was released in 1985), Morrissey has penned a letter to The Times as “singer from Cheshire,” appealing to the Queen to stop her guards wearing real fur hats. Morrissey-solo.com has the entire letter in which he states: “Hats are not worth killing for: guards wearing real fur […]

With every newВ LORDI album comes a brand new look for the Finnish heavy metal monsters and now with the imminent arrival of the band’s fifth studio album, ‘Babez For Breakfast’, Lordi has new masks to reveal. This time their costumes, as well as the music on the new album, have a hint of the golden […]