It’s no joke: ‘Family Guy’ creator Seth MacFarlane has signed a record deal to release his debut album. MacFarlane has joined forces with Universal Republic Records to deliver an album of 1940s and ’50s show tunes paying tribute to Broadway classics. Unlike the songs on his animated Fox hits, these aren’t spoofs, but straight-up renditions […]

The members of metal band Fear Factory narrowly escaped certain death when their bus caught fire on Thursday morning. After playing a show in Sheffield, during their tour of England, the band were traveling to London when the bus driver noticed smoke coming from one of the back wheels. According to Dino Cazares, the driver […]

In the last couple of years, excitement seems to build for a festival’s webcast schedule as much as for the actual lineup. It offers thousand of fans a chance to experience at least a small piece of the musical weekend that they can’t attend in person. Now, with Lollapalooza coming up in a few days, […]

A longtime vegetarian (The Smiths’ Meat is Murder was released in 1985), Morrissey has penned a letter to The Times as “singer from Cheshire,” appealing to the Queen to stop her guards wearing real fur hats. Morrissey-solo.com has the entire letter in which he states: “Hats are not worth killing for: guards wearing real fur […]

With every newВ LORDI album comes a brand new look for the Finnish heavy metal monsters and now with the imminent arrival of the band’s fifth studio album, ‘Babez For Breakfast’, Lordi has new masks to reveal. This time their costumes, as well as the music on the new album, have a hint of the golden […]

A stash of reggae legend Bob Marley’s master recordings and personal belongings has been destroyed by a fire in Aburi, Ghana. The tapes were being stored at the solar-powered studio established by Marley’s wife Rita, who has lived in Africa for the past decade. The studio complex, Studio One, was set to officially open in […]

Finnish metal band Children Of Bodom is currently in the studio recording a new album for Spinefarm/Universal. Tracking is taking place in Helsinki with producer/engineer Matt Hyde (Slayer, Hatebreed) at the helm and production is expected to continue through September. Bassist Henri Seppala has issued the following update: “Drums are being tracked right now. Jaska […]

Kazaa is back. The former peer-to-peer music service has relaunched as a cloud-based streaming service with access to 1.6 million songs and 1 million song lyrics. There’s not much that initially sets the new Kazaa apart from other services in this space, and the smaller catalog will prove a challenge. But the lyrics feature is […]

Kings Of Leon’s new album Come Around Sundown will be released in the UK on 18 October and 19 October in North America. The follow-up to the Nashville quartet’s hugely successful Only By The Night, which sold over six million copies worldwide and won four Grammy Awards, Come Around Sundown was recorded in New York […]

Spirit of Burgas is back! And so is the JACK DANIEL’S ROCK STAGE – a prominent feature of the biggest Bulgarian Summer festival. Expect to see twenty killer bands over three days. The line-up – courtesy of Tangra Mega Rock – will showcase exciting and diverse new talent as well as some of the biggest […]