Rob Dukes, vocalist of Bay Area’s thrash metal veterans Exodus, has spread the following message via the band’s official MySpace page: “Hey Fuckers, Someone sent me an e-mail saying that moshpits were now banned at the Whiskey in LA… and it’s all because of Exodus!!! I just want to thank all the crazy fuckers that […]

Britain’s rock veterans The Who have announced they’ll release two DVDs on November 6. The first, “Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who”, chronicles the band’s history through interviews with Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey, as well as rare concert footage. It will premiere on September 12 at the Toronto International Film Festival. The second […]

After more than a year of being out of Nevermore‘s live shows due to ill health, guitarist Steve Smyth has now officially left the band because of “personal and business differences”. Svete, who has recovered from his illness already, will now go on tour in Europe as a member of the Danish metallers Hatesphere. Afterwards […]

Due to bad weather, the Ian Anderson Plays Orchestral Jethro Tull concert in Plovdiv, Bulgaria won’t take place at the ancient Roman theater, but at FairВ Hall 14. All other details regarding the show remain the same – Saturday, September 1, 8 p.m.

Sweden’s extreme metallers In Flames have spread the following news: “We are about to start pre-production for our new album, which will be released next year at some point, hopefully around spring time. It will be recorded in IF Studios in Gothenburg. “You can follow the entire recording step by step by checking myspace.com/inflames, where […]

Former Jane’s Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Panic Channel guitarist Dave Navarro has directed his first adult movie. Entitled “Broken” and due out next month, the film was produced by the company Teravision, run by former Biohazard bassist and vocalist Evan Seinfeld and his wife, pornstar Tera Patrick. The movie stars actress Sasha […]

Italy’s experimental post-punk/jazz/metal/electro/bossa nova psychopaths Thee Maldoror Kollective are working on two new studio albums – an instrumental one, entitled “Need the Needle”, and a more pop oriented effort named “Knownothingism”. Both should appear by the end of the year. Additional info and some compositions by TMK can be found on their MySpace profile at […]

Icelandic post-punk minimalists Sigur Ros will release a double CD and a DVD on November 6. The audio effort is entitled “Hvarf/Heim” (meaning “Disappeared/Home”) and consists of unreleased (disappeared) songs plus live acoustic versions of tracks from all four Sigur Ros studio albums recorded in Iceland (home). As for the DVD, its title is going […]

Pink Floyd’s frontman David Gilmour is to release a new concert solo DVD in September. Entitled “Remember the Night: Live from The Royal Albert Hall”, the issue shall consist of two discs with over five hours of footage.

Hilly Kristal, founder of the legendary New York punk rock venue CBGB, died on Tuesday from complications from lung cancer at the age of 75. Kristal, who opened the now-defunct venue in December 1973 in the then-gritty Bowery neighborhood in Manhattan under the name CBGB & OMFUG (“Country, Bluegrass, Blues and Other Music for Uplifting […]