Slayer are to release an EP on June 6. This will feature new song ‘Cult’. The band’s still untitled new album is due out at the end of July.

Green Day are keeping busy. Not only are they demoing songs for their next album, but also working up ideas for a movie based on the ‘American Idiot’ record. More news on both fronts soon.

System Of A Down bassist Shavo Odadjian is to start work later this month on an album with RZA from the Wu-Tang Clan. This should be released before the end of the year.

Pink Floyd (the sans Roger Waters version) are set to release a new live double DVD set from their 1994 tour, in which the band play ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’ in its entirety.To be released on July 11, the DVD contains the first ever film of the band performing their seminal 1973 album. Filmed […]

After spending its entire career on Epic, folk/rock duo the Indigo Girls has signed a new deal with Hollywood Records. The first release under the agreement will be a new, as-yet-untitled studio album, due Sept. 19.Principal members Amy Ray and Emily Saliers are recording with producer Mitchell Froom in his Los Angeles studio. The album […]

Phish‘s June 17, 2004, show at Brooklyn’s Keyspan Park is headed to CD and DVD this summer. “Live in Brooklyn” will arrive July 11 via the now-defunct band’s JEMP Records label in association with Rhino both as a three-CD set and a two-DVD package.Here is the track list for “Live in Brooklyn”: Set 1:“A Song […]

Roadstar are the final act added to the bill for the Monsters Of Rock Festival, which happens at the Milton Keynes Bowl on June 3. They join headliners Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, Journey, Thunder, Queensryche and Рўed Nugent.

Rob Halford has started his own company called Metal God Entertainment. The company will release all future Halford solo projects. This includes the re-issue of the first three Halford albums: ‘Resurrection’ (2000), ‘Live Insurrection’ and ‘Crucible‘. A new album, ‘Halford IV’, is expected in 2008, as well as a film called ‘Fight, War Of Words […]

36 Crazyfists will make an instore appearance at London’s Virgin Megastore, Oxford Street at 1pm on June 12. This is the day their new album, ‘Rest Inside The Flames’, is released by Roadrunner.

Snow Patrol have been forced to cancel a series of dates in the US after lead singer Gary Lightbody failed to recover from laryngitis.The band have pulled dates in Atlanta, Washington DC, Boston and an instore performance at Newbury Comics following the singer’s throat problems. The shows are in the process of being rescheduled, and […]