Sick Of It All and Reel Big Fish have been announced as headliners at the Radio One Lock-Up stage at this year’s Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds Festivals.Hundred Reasons and Bouncing Souls also join the line up for the three-day event which takes place over the weekend of August 25-27.

Due Aug. 22 via Merge, “Post-War” is Рњ. Ward‘s first “full band” record. The artist recruited percussionists Rachel Blumberg (formerly of the Decemberists) and Jordan Hudson (formerly of the Thermals), who toured with him over the past year and a half, to fill out the record. Multi-instrumentalist Mike Coykendall, singer Neko Case and My Morning […]

Despite reports that he’d quit the band, it seems that guitarist Rob Patterson is now back as Korn‘s touring guitarist. His place was taken for three shows by Fear Factory‘s Christian Olde Wolbers.

Drowning Pool have left the Wind-Up label. The band, currently fronted by former Soil man Ryan McCombs, will spend this Summer touring in America, before seeking a new record company deal.

Zao have posted new song ‘American Sheets On The Deathbed‘ online. This comes from new album ‘The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here‘, due out next month on Ferret.

Twelve Tribes are to release their new, as yet untitled album through Ferret during the Autmun. This is being produced by Andreas Magnusson, and is to be mixed by Eric Rachel.

Liam Frost and the Slowdown family are amongst the latest acts to added to this year’s Somerset House bill.The Manchester based singer/songwriter and his band will support Elbow on July 13 during the annual summer series in London.Also joining the line up are Fat Freddy’s Drop who will play a show on July 8 joining […]

Splendour in the Grass (Belongil Fields, Byron Bay) has made it’s third and final line up announcement. Bands added for Saturday July 22nd are Mogwai, Dungen, Something For Kate, TZU, Mos Def, Tex Perkins, Lior, Bob Evans, The Predators, Angus and Julia Stone and Raz Bin Sam and the Lion I Band.Line up additions for […]

The last song ever written Johnny Cash will be included on the album ‘American V: A Hundred Highways’, to be released in July. In the months before his death on 12 September 2003, Cash teamed up with producer Rick Rubin to record new material. Cash reinterprets works as diverse as Hank Williams’ ‘On The Evening […]

Atlanta band Rockets To Ruin, featuring Cleveland Willis (vocals), Mike Grimmett (guitars), Chris Taylor (bass) and Rob Hammersmith (drums), have completed work on their full-length CD, entitled “Love * Drugs * Rebellion”, with producer Rachel Bolan (Skid Row bassist) at Koda Studios in Atlanta. They are putting the finishing touches on the artwork and packaging, […]