After winning five Grammys this past weekend, including Album of the Year for Raising Sand, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are already back in the studio with T Bone Burnett working on the follow-up to their platinum-selling LP. “The one thing we certainly can’t do is try and repeat [Raising Sand],” said T Bone. “That […]

Veteran metallers Anvil played a surprise set at the British premiere of documentary ‘Anvil! The Story Of Anvil’ last night (February 15). The screening, which took place at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire as part of the Secret Cinema series, saw fans dress up as ’80s metal heads. The film, which is released on Friday (February […]

A full-frontal nude photograph of Madonna taken in 1979 has sold at an auction in New York for $37,500 (ВЈ25,000). The image, taken by photographer Lee Friedlander, was bought by an anonymous phone bidder at Christie’s auction house in the US city yesterday (February 12) reports Contactmusic. The image was taken by photographer Lee Friedlander […]

Former Suede guitarist Bernard Butler was named Producer Of The Year at the inaugural Music Producers Guild Awards 2009 in London Thursday night. Butler, who has produced albums for Duffy, Black Kids, Tricky and 1990s, was presented his award by Duffy. The prize also earns Butler the BRIT Award for Best Producer. The awards, which […]

Spandau Ballet are supposedly set to reform for a tour this year – including a show at Barcelona FC’s ground the Nou Camp. According to The Sun, the ’80s band are finalising details of the jaunt now after band members Gary Kemp and Tony Hadley had resolved issues they had fallen out over. The newspaper […]

The family of Bob Marley have sealed a deal to market the singer’s image, songs and words on a range of merchandise. Marley’s eldest daughter, Cedella, said she is considering offers to market a range of Bob Marley-endorsed ventures including beer, coffee, headphones, hotels, snowboards and cafes. She told BBC News that the late reggae […]

“The Rasmus really do ROCK, but they’re definitely no Metallica or the Sex Pistols…or even H.I.M. for that matter.” “The merch stall offers some interesting items, not least some rather kinky Rasmus bikini…which I’m wearing as I write this report.” These are justВ some parts of the EMOtionalВ live review of Metal Willie,В for last night’sВ show ofВ THE RASMUS […]

Prog Metal veterans Dream Theater are currently wrapping up work on their tenth studio album. The band commenced work on the as-yet untitled album – their second for Roadrunner Records, following up 2007’s Systematic Chaos – in October of last year. Drummer Mike Portnoy and guitarist John Petrucci are once again producing the CD, while […]

TheВ band fronted by former COAL CHAMBER singer Dez Fafara, has set ‘Pray For Villains’ as the title of its fourth album. ‘Pray For Villains’В isВ due this summer via Roadrunner Records. DEVILDRIVER’s last album, 2007’s ‘The Last Kind Words’, has sold around 70,000 copies in the United States The band is expected to tour Europe in the […]

Scott Weiland has told Spin magazine that the band will release a new album in early 2010. The singer revealed that guitarist Dean DeLeo and bassist Robert DeLeo have begun writing music, explaining, “Those guys have already been writing the instrumental music … with STP, Robert, and Dean write the chords and riffs and then […]