Gene SimmonsВ won $500,000 from the TV show “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?“. Here’s how Kiss’ singing bass player ended his game: Gene Simmons – “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?“

Ultravox’s 80s line-up comprising Warren Cann, Chris Cross, Billy Currie and singer Midge Ure are to regroup for a reunion tour starting next April. This 14 date UK tour will be the first time the original 80’s members will perform together since performing at the first Live Aid in 1985 (view video below). Ultravox – […]

The previously-scheduled P.O.D. and Filter co-headline European tour, which had been set for January and February 2009, has been cancelled after P.O.D. revealed they are to go on hiatus. In the statement, Filter said they were planning to reschedule the dates to play headline shows of their own.

Bruce Springsteen is expected to release his new album in January. The follow-up to last year’s “Magic” – number 16 in The Boss’ discography – has been recorded this autumn. Bruce Springsteen – “The Rising” (live 2008 – feat. Barack Obama)

A new archive live album of The Doors performing in San Francisco just weeks before the release of their breakthrough second single “Light My Fire” is to be issued as a two disc set on November 18. Recorded at The Matrix venue over two nights in March 1967, “Live at The Matrix 1967” includes the […]

Danish thrashers Hatesphere have completed work on their new full-length studio album with producer Tue Madsen at the Antfarm Studio in Aarhus, Denmark. The follow-up to “Serpent Smiles and Killer Eyes” (2007) is expected to surface early next year.

Drummer Craig Nunenmacher (Black Label Society, Crowbar) plus Valume Nob’s Frey Thieler on guitar and Sammy Molina on bass have joined forces in a “new hardcore/metal/thrash hybrid from New Orleans, Louisiana” called Suicide War. At present the project is writing material for its debut album. For more information, visit myspace.com/suicidewar.

Sweden’sВ Dead Vows shall play live in Plovdiv and Sofia, respectively on November 13 and 16.

The Times has praised “World Melancholy” – the new album by Bulgarian artists Bluba Lu. “Some albums come out of nowhere; this one comes from Bulgaria, which might as well be the next best thing if what you are looking for is sensual trip-hop or jazz-inspired film scores”, writes the influential British daily. “Yet this […]

Next Sunday’s Fracture weekly metal show on MM TV shall feature videos by Metallica, Exodus, The Sisters of Mercy, Killswitch Engage, Slipknot, Sammy Hagar, Whitechapel, Twisted Sister, Madball, Haggard, Motley Crue and more.