Lostprophets return with their first single in over 18 months with the release of the euphoric anthem ‘Rooftops (A Liberation Transmission)’ on 19th June 2006 for Visible Noise. The band gave the new track, alongside 2 others from new album ‘Liberation Transmission’, its first airing in the UK recently in front of 25,000 fans when […]

Jarvis Cocker, Air and The Divine Comedy have joined forces for French actress Charlotte Gainsbourg‘s forthcoming album.Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich has also signed up for the ’21 Grams’ star’s project ‘5:55’.Cocker and The Divine Comedy‘s Neil Hannon have penned lyrics for the album, which is due out on September 4.Air‘s Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoit Dunckel […]

The Scissor Sisters will get the party restarted with the Sept. 26 North American release of its sophomore album, “Ta-Dah.” The Universal Motown set will be preceded by the Elton John collaboration “I Don’t Feel Like Dancin‘,” which will be commercially released Sept. 4 internationally.Рўhe album will probably feature a song, recorded with Roxy Music […]

Masked metal act Slipknot is midway through a year-and-a-half long sabbatical, but it doesn’t mean that the band has been completely idle. A follow-up to its 2002 DVD, “Disasterpieces,” will be issued shortly via Roadrunner, while songwriting for Slipknot‘s fourth studio effort will begin later this year.

Ash have started working on new material for their forthcoming album.The band, who are currently holed up in a New York studio, have already got 27 ‘rough songs’ to choose from for their as yet-untitled-fifth record.Since guitarist Charlotte Hatherley left the band earlier this year to pursue her solo career, Ash have continued to work […]

“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.

U2 front man Bono is to power down the politics and return to music this summer with bag full of songs he has written on the piano. Talking to the Guardian, Bono explained: “I’ve got a lot of songs, oddly enough, from taking piano lessons. My kid’s piano teacher, Dawn, has been teaching me the […]

Rob Zombie is to direct the latest instalment in the classics ‘Halloween’ series of horror movies. He’ll also write the script for what will be ‘Halloween 9’, and he promises his own take on the Michael Myers legend.

Metallica delighted fans by playing the whole of their classic 1986 album ‘Master Of Puppets’, during their headlining sets at both the Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park Festivals in Germany.