Southern Lord has announced a collaboration between label artists BORIS and Ian Astbury of THE CULT. This finely-crafted four-song mini release, simply entitled ‘BXI’, was tracked and mixed in Tokyo in late April. The release features three new original tracks, as well as a cover of THE CULT’s song ‘Rain’, ethereally vocalized by BORIS guitarist […]

After 16 years of delivering punishing, extreme heavy metal, California’s Abscess has decided to call it quits. The band’s sixth and final studio album, Dawn of Inhumanity, was released in March on Peaceville Records. Abscess drummer/vocalist, Chris Reifert, issued the following statement: “Greetings, sickos. We need to inform you that Abscess has officially broken up. […]

Adam Yauch is set to release a documentary about legendary Beat writer and you can see a trailer for it by scrolling down. Entitled ‘William S. Burroughs: A Man Within’, the Yony Leyser film features the likes of Iggy Pop, Patti Smith and Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and Lee Ranaldo. Released by Yauch’s production company […]

In a quick, unfortunate turn of events, Wolfmother has canceled its entire European tour due to an unknown illness plaguing lead singer Andrew Stockdale. A statement from the band was released to the organizers of the Main Square Festival in France reading, “We are sorry to announce that Wolfmother have been forced to cancel its […]

AC/DC were forced to curtail their set in the Norwegian capital, Oslo, over the weekend – thanks to problems with their plane.The band had to charter another aircraft for the journey from Berlin, as a result of which they didn’t make it on stage until 9.45pm. A strict curfew time of 11pm meant they had […]

Chris Isaak began his worldwide tour on May 26th with stops in Russia, Europe and the U.S., and now comes word that the ‘Chris Isaak Live at the Fillmore’ CD will be out on June 15th. ItВ was recorded in October 2008 at the world famous Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco. Brilliantly recorded live with state-of-the-art […]

In a relaxed phone conversation with Jonsu – lead singer of Finnish all-girl sesnationВ INDICA about the band forthcoming studio album ‘A Way Away’ (26 June), produced by Tuomas Holopainen of NIGHTWISH, Jonsu faced the following question on Tangra Mega Rock:В  SINCE YOU ARE SUCH GOOD FRIENDS AND COLLEGUES WITH TUOMAS, WHY DIDN’T HE THINK OF […]

Paul McCartney had to be rescued by cops after a mob attacked his tour bus in a dodgy no-go part of Mexico City. Youths forced his driver to stop then started jumping up and down on the roof as the Beatles legend, 67, cowered inside. A source said: “At first his security team thought it […]

Though Bad Religion has posted a myriad of status updates through Twitter and Facebook, the band officially announced the onset of recording today. Guitarist Brett Gurewitz commented on the new album: While we’re celebrating our 30th anniversary as a band this year it’s also a time when Greg and I have embarked on new creative […]

Professionally filmed video footage of MEGADETH’s May 30, 2010 performance at the Rock In Rio festival in Lisbon, Portugal is now available below (the footage originally aired on the Portuguese cable television channel SIC Radical). The band kicked off its 30-date European summer tour at the festival on Sunday night. Megadeth’s set consisted of the […]