A hospital spokeswoman says former Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker and popular disc jockey DJ AM (real name – Adam Goldstein) have been critically injured in a Learjet crash in South Carolina that killed four people. Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen says the plane carrying six people was departing shortly before midnight Friday when […]

Just a few months after releasing their self-titled album (a.k.a. “The Red Album”), Weezer doesn’t plan to waste any time in getting to work on the next one. Drummer Pat Wilson told Billboard that the quartet plans to start recording the CD in early November.

Canadian progressive rock gods Rush are to release their eagerly awaited “Snakes & Arrows Live” DVD at the end of November. The three-disc set was mainly filmed during the band’s show in Rotterdam, Holland in October 2007.

This Sunday’s Fracture weekly metal show on MM TV shall feature videos by Nile, W.A.S.P., Def Leppard, Rammstein, Scar Symmetry, Trivium, One Way Warrior, In Flames, Sonic Syndicate, Nightwish, Die apokalyptischen Reiter, Metallica and many more.

The new James Bond theme song, called “Another Way to Die” and written and performed by Jack White and Alicia Keys, is streaming online now at thirdmanrecords.com. The new Bond film itself, “Quantum of Solace“, is due to hit theatres in November.

After leaving Soilwork some three years ago, guitarist Peter Wichers has now rejoined the ranks of the Swedish extreme metallers. He’s taking over from Daniel Antonsson, who replaced him in 2006.

After reuniting with their original vocalist Jonny Santos a month ago, California’s Spineshank have already started working on songs for their next full-length album. THe first fruit of it – a new track entitled “Born Conform Repent“, can be listened to on myspace.com/spineshank. Spineshank – “Synthetic“

Two new solo tracks from Scott Weiland, entitled “Missing Cleveland” and “Paralysis“, can be heard online. They are available for streaming respectively here and here. Both cuts will appear on the singer’s sophomore solo album, “Happy in Galoshes” (view cover in the left), scheduled for release on November 25 via the artist’s label Softdrive Records.

Ohio-based masked metallers Mushroomhead will release their second official DVD, simply entitled “Volume 2“, on October 28. The follow-up to “Volume 1” (2005) features two-and-a-half hours of videos, live footage and more stuff. Meanwhile, Mushroomhead prepare to enter studio this winter to record the follow-up to their album “Savior Sorrow” (2006) for a spring 2009 […]

Kiss frontman Paul Stanley will release a new solo live DVD, entitled “One Live Kiss“, on October 21 via New Door/Universal. The effort (view cover in the left) was filmed on November 6, 2006 at the House of Blues in Chicago, Illinois. The tracklist for “One Live Kiss” is as follows: 01. Prologue02. Live to […]