NEWS

18 May 2006

Reel Big Fish are to release a three disc live CD/DVD this Summer. It’s to be called ‘Our Live Album Is Better Than Your Live Album’, and will have two CDs plus the DVD. The ska punks will initially put this out digitally through Rock Ridge Music on July 18. Two weeks later, it’s due […]

18 May 2006

Newfoundland stoner crew Sheavy have expanded their line-up. They’ve added second guitarist Tommy Boland.

18 May 2006

Panic At The Disco! bassist Brent Wilson has left the band. No news yet on who’ll replace him, but the split is said to be amicable.

18 May 2006

One of the most influential American-spawned bands will be celebrated with the five-disc box set, “The Byrds: There is a Season.” Due Aug. 29 via Columbia/Legacy, the package compiles 99 studio and live tracks on four CDs and pairs them with a DVD featuring the band’s appearances on U.S. and U.K. television shows in the […]

18 May 2006

Bassist Rob ‘Blasko’ Nicholson has left Rob Zombie‘s band. He’s officially joined Ozzy‘s recording/touring line-up.

18 May 2006

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.

18 May 2006

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.

18 May 2006

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 […]

18 May 2006

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 […]

18 May 2006

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.