Dark Tranquillity have been added to the bill for this year’s Ragnarock UK Festival, which happens at the Perth Concert Hall in Central Scotland on November 4. They join the following names on the bill: Gamma Ray, Dream Evil, Kalmah, Astral Doors, Charon, Elvenking, Circus Maximus, Intense and Headless Cross.

Franz Ferdinand have revealed further details of their forthcoming single ‘Eleanor Put Your Boots On’.Рўhe Glaswegian four-piece have recorded a new version of the track at a studio in Benton Harbour, Michigan. It was orginally thought that their fourth and final single lifted from ‘You Could Have It So Much Better’, would be released around […]

London band The*Ga*Ga*s have split up. However, vocalist/guitarist Tommy, drummer J Thomopoulos and bassist Toshi Ogawa are planning to start a new band.

Muse are set to play a tiny gig in front of just ten fans next week ahead of the release of their new album ‘Black Holes & Revelations‘.The band will be playing at a secret location in London for an AOL Session on Monday June 12, and ten people can win the chance to see […]

Snow Patrol have announced they’re going to play a charity gig in Nottingham next month.The band will play the Rock City venue on Sunday 16th July to raise money for cancer charity cancerBACUP.

Graham Coxon has been added to the bill of Newquay’s Ripcurl Unleashed Music Festival.The pop legend joins bands including Feeder, Starsailor and Get Cape Wear Cape Fly at the festival, which ends a week of outdoor sporting events.The music part of the festival will take place on the 4th and 5th of August.

The Raconteurs have announced a new set of North American tour dates that will see them head out again in the late summer.Having previously announced details of their first ever North American tour last month the band featuring Jack White and Brendan Benson will play ten dates in SeptРµmber.The gigs kick off in Houston at […]

The Rolling Stones have confirmed details of their next single. The wrinkly rockers will release the latest track from their album ‘A Bigger Bang’, ‘Biggest Mistake’ on August 21. The release coincides with the European leg of their World Tour.

“Waterloo to Anywhere,” the debut album from ex-Libertines principal Carl Barat‘s new band Dirty Pretty Things, will be released Aug. 1 in North America via Interscope. The set has been out since last month internationally; first single “Bang Bang You’re Dead” reached No. 5 on the U.K. singles chart, while the album debuted at No. […]

Grateful Dead keyboard player Vince Welnick has died. He was 55. Welnick took over as the cult band’s keyboard player in 1990 and continued until the band retired from performing following the death of founder and frontman Jerry Garcia in 1995.