Atheist guitarist/vocalist Kelly Shaefer will be performing the Atheist classic ‘Piece Of Time’ with Australian metalers Alarum on Wednesday, May 24th in St. Petersburg, Florida at the State Theatre. This will be the very first time Kelly has performed this song live since 1993.

The Dillinger Escape Plan are to release their download only EP on June 13. Available through iTunes, it will feature new versions of old DEP songs ‘Unretrofied’ and ‘The Perfect Design’, plus covers of ‘Wish’ (Nine Inch Nails), ‘Angel’ (Massive Attack), ‘Jesus Christ Pose’ (Soundgarden) and ‘Like I Love You’ (Justin Timberlake).

Fireball Ministry will support Finland’s H.I.M. at the House of Blues in Hollywood, CA on June 11th. This will be H.I.M.’s final U.S. performance of the summer, and the groups’ first West Coast show together. (They performed five concerts along the East Coast late last year as part of Bam Margera‘s inaugural Viva La Bands […]

Train, Pink and Nickel Creek are among the acts confirmed to play Atlanta’s Star Fest, set for July 22 in the city’s Atlantic Station.Рўhe all-day concert will feature two stages. Aqualung, Mat Kearney and Atlanta’s own the Whigs are also set to perform, along with a host of local acts yet to be named.

Izzy Stradlin joined Guns n’ Roses onstage at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York last night. He performed the song ‘Think About You’ with Axl and the band.

A reformed Alice In Chains played a free show in its Seattle hometown on May 16 with help from such local heroes as former Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil and Heart principal Ann Wilson.Subbing for vocalist Layne Staley, who died of a drug overdose in April 2002, is William Duvall.Other guest performers at the Moore show […]

The Raconteurs, the band staffed by the White Stripes’ Jack White, Brendan Benson and the Greenhornes‘ Patrick Keeler and Jack Lawrence, make their first big splash this week with their V2 debut, “Broken Boy Soldiers.”Рўhe album is led by the single “Steady, As She Goes,” which is No. 5 this week on Billboard’s Modern Rock […]

Queensryche‘s new video for the song ‘The Hands’ is available for viewing at the Windows Media website here. ‘The Hands‘ is lifted from the band’s Operation: Mindcrime II album, which was released on April 4th by Rhino.

Funk-rock band the Red Hot Chili Peppers topped the U.S. charts for the first time in its 22-year history on Wednesday. The Chili Peppers‘ two-disc set, “Stadium Arcadium,” opened with sales of 442,500 copies, a record for the Los Angeles-based quartet.“Stadium Arcadium” was also tops in Austria, Belgium, Britain, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, […]

Elbow, The Divine Comedy, Jose Gonzalez and Damian Marley are among the acts who will play at The Summer Series.The gigs kick off on July 6 and run until the July 16 at the London venue.Robert Plant and Corinne Bailey Rae also perform.