The Fireman – the project by SirВ Paul McCartneyВ and Killing Joke’s Youth, shall release it’s new album on November 24. The CD shall beВ entitled “Electronic Arguments” and will contain 13 songs. All of them are now available for streaming on myspace.com/thefiremanmusic. The Fireman – “Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight” (audio)

My Chemical Romance’s guitarist Frank Iero shall release the debut album with his punk/hardcore project Leathermouth on January 26. The CD shall be entitled “XO” and is going to surface via the legendary label Epitaph Records. Additional info and music can be found on myspace.com/leathermouthlives.

Placebo are set to play a gig at the world famous ancient temple Angkor Wat in Cambodia on December 7. The show – the first ever rock gig at the historic site – will be part of an MTV Exit concert.

Velvet Revolver have parted ways with RCA Records (a Sony BMG label) – the record company that released the group’s first two full-length albums, “Contraband” (2004) and “Libertad” (2007). There’s still no word neither who’ll release the band’s third effort, nor who’ll sing on it…

At the end of this news you can see how Kirk Hammett celebrated his 46th birthday by performing with Metallica on November 18 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. We think any comment is useless.Happy birthday, Kirk! Metallica – “Seek & Destroy” (live 2008)

La Coka Nostra’s Ill Bill and Big Left shall perform live at the Backstage Club in Sofia, Bulgaria on December 11, 2008. Go get tickets via ticketstream.bgВ and eventim.bg. La Coka Nostra – “That’s Coke“

An interview with Madball‘s frontman Freddy Cricien is available for reading HERE.

As we informed you a while ago, Canadian prog rock veterans Rush shall release a three-disc DVD set entitled “Snakes & Arrows Live” (view cover in the left) on November 25. The footage was filmed in October 2007 at the Netherlands’ Ahoy Rotterdam arena with 21 high-definition cameras in 16×9 widescreen format over two nights… […]

The Kinks are releasing their first ever box set on December 8. Entitled “Picture Book”, the lavishly packaged six disc collection shall feature dozens of tracks compiled by Ray Davies – all-time classics such as “You Really Got Me”, “Sunny Afternoon”, “Waterloo Sunset”, “Lola”, “Dedicated Follower of Fashion”, “Dead End Street” and many more, as […]

The whole of the new Guns N’ Roses album “Chinese Democracy” is now being streamed on myspace.com/gunsnroses.