Sonic Youth‘s Thurston Moore has been chosen to curate the Nightmare Before Christmas edition of the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival later this year. The event will be held Dec. 8-10 in Somerset, England, and will feature performances by Sonic Youth and Iggy and the Stooges. The full lineup will be announced in the coming months.

Judas Priest have announced that they are creating their first conceptual album based upon the life and predictions of Nostradamus. The CD will be theatrically staged and performed in its entirety as an epic musical by Judas Priest.

German power metallers Gamma Ray will be filming their May 6 show at Medley in Montreal, Quebec for an upcoming double DVD, to be released in September. In addition to the concert, which will be filmed with several cameras, the DVD will contain lots of bonus features, like a road movie, a documentary covering the […]

VH1 announced Thursday (April 6) that it will debut the “VH1 Rock Honors” next month to pay homage to the gods of hard rock. The inaugural honorees are Kiss, Queen, Def Leppard and Judas Priest. The ceremony, to take place May 25 in Las Vegas, will pay tribute to hard-rock legends much like the Rock […]

Nine of the ten Ozzfest 2006 dates that are expected to feature OzzyВ Osbourne in the headlining slot have been revealed. Ozzy will also be playing one other Ozzfest show that has not been announced yet. The main-stage lineup of this year’s Ozzfest will feature Osbourne for 10 shows, along with System Of A Down, Disturbed, […]

Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton told WZLX-FM’s Carlson & McKenzie on Wednesday (April 5) that frontman Steven Tyler‘s throat had an “overuse injury…like tendonitis” that forced them to cancel shows. “He had this minor, minor, minor [surgery] done and it went really well,” Hamilton told the morning men. Despite this setback, Aerosmith plan to return to […]

Neil Hannon returns as The Divine Comedy in June with the follow up to 2004’s ‘Absent Friends’. ‘Victory For The Comic Muse’ will be released on Parlophone on June 19th. This will be preceded by a new single on June 12th. The album was recorded virtually live in the studio over a period of two […]

The line-up for this year’s eagerly anticipated Carling Weekend has now been confirmed. As is now tradition the festival has an eclectic mix offering something for everyone from indie kids to emo fans and even the welcome return of a legendary act from Generation X. Also in keeping with tradition some of the most interesting […]

After their recent chart success with ‘Over and Over’, Hot Chip announce that their next single will be ‘Boy from School’ available as two 7″s, a CD and a 12″ featuring new songs ‘The Bell Ringers’, ‘A Glue Too Thick’, ‘Laws Of Salvation’ and ‘A Bad, Bad, Tackle’, as well as a version of ‘Boy […]

Primus bassist Les Claypool is to release a new solo album next month. It’s called ‘Of Whales And Woe’, and is on the Prawn Song label.