A full-frontal nude photograph of Madonna taken in 1979 has sold at an auction in New York for $37,500 (ВЈ25,000). The image, taken by photographer Lee Friedlander, was bought by an anonymous phone bidder at Christie’s auction house in the US city yesterday (February 12) reports Contactmusic. The image was taken by photographer Lee Friedlander […]

Former Suede guitarist Bernard Butler was named Producer Of The Year at the inaugural Music Producers Guild Awards 2009 in London Thursday night. Butler, who has produced albums for Duffy, Black Kids, Tricky and 1990s, was presented his award by Duffy. The prize also earns Butler the BRIT Award for Best Producer. The awards, which […]

Spandau Ballet are supposedly set to reform for a tour this year – including a show at Barcelona FC’s ground the Nou Camp. According to The Sun, the ’80s band are finalising details of the jaunt now after band members Gary Kemp and Tony Hadley had resolved issues they had fallen out over. The newspaper […]

Just a week after the ballbustin’ SEPULTURA show at the Radio Tangra Mega Rock 3rdВ Anniversary bash, the Brazilian band will be hugely featured on Bulgarian weekend TV programmes. In the meantimeВ new pictures from the show are available in theВ NEW GALLERY. В  Backstage – Tangra’s friends are all intellectual!

Simple Minds have announced details of their new album, to be released this May. Called ‘Graffiti Soul’, the LP will hit the shelves on May 25. As previously reported, the band are celebrating their 30th year together by playing classic album ‘New Gold Dream’ in full at Edinburgh Castle this July. They are also currently […]

The family of Bob Marley have sealed a deal to market the singer’s image, songs and words on a range of merchandise. Marley’s eldest daughter, Cedella, said she is considering offers to market a range of Bob Marley-endorsed ventures including beer, coffee, headphones, hotels, snowboards and cafes. She told BBC News that the late reggae […]

“The Rasmus really do ROCK, but they’re definitely no Metallica or the Sex Pistols…or even H.I.M. for that matter.” “The merch stall offers some interesting items, not least some rather kinky Rasmus bikini…which I’m wearing as I write this report.” These are justВ some parts of the EMOtionalВ live review of Metal Willie,В for last night’sВ show ofВ THE RASMUS […]

Prog Metal veterans Dream Theater are currently wrapping up work on their tenth studio album. The band commenced work on the as-yet untitled album – their second for Roadrunner Records, following up 2007’s Systematic Chaos – in October of last year. Drummer Mike Portnoy and guitarist John Petrucci are once again producing the CD, while […]

TheВ band fronted by former COAL CHAMBER singer Dez Fafara, has set ‘Pray For Villains’ as the title of its fourth album. ‘Pray For Villains’В isВ due this summer via Roadrunner Records. DEVILDRIVER’s last album, 2007’s ‘The Last Kind Words’, has sold around 70,000 copies in the United States The band is expected to tour Europe in the […]

Scott Weiland has told Spin magazine that the band will release a new album in early 2010. The singer revealed that guitarist Dean DeLeo and bassist Robert DeLeo have begun writing music, explaining, “Those guys have already been writing the instrumental music … with STP, Robert, and Dean write the chords and riffs and then […]