LIVING COLOUR guitarist Vernon Reid has issued the following update:“[Friday] night [Sept. 22] something truly extraordinary happened: for the first time in 17 years, LIVING COLOUR played with Muzz Skillings on bass. The occasion was a private party the iconic master drummer/mentor-musician Jack DeJohnette threw for his lovely wife Lydia. Doug was unable to come […]

A revealing portrait of U2 guitarist The Edge has been filmed by his bandmate Bono – and can now be viewed online.Bono filmed his pal in Miami during last year’s US leg of U2‘s ‘Vertigo‘ world tour. The footage includes The Edge getting out of bed, doing yoga and chasing paparazzi down the beach.You can […]

Damon Albarn‘s new band The Good, The Bad And The Queen are set to release their debut single ‘Herculean‘ on October 30.The track will be available on CD and 7″ and deleted on the day of release.As previously reported by NME.COM, the artwork for the single has been created by the band’s bassist – former […]

Jarvis Cocker is set to release his debut solo album ‘Jarvis‘ later this year.The tracklisting for the album, out November 13, does not include the online release ‘Running the World‘, a former NME single of the week.The track does feature on the soundtrack for the film ‘Children Of Men‘, which stars Michael Caine and Clive […]

Rolling Stone magazine reports that Marilyn Manson will begin filming his movie project, “Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll“, in just a few weeks in Paris, France. In addition, he will celebrate the Halloween opening of his new L.A. art gallery, located at the nearly satanic address of 667 Melrose. (“I looked at the lease […]

KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons will publish his book, “Ladies of the Night: A Historical and Personal Perspective of the First and Oldest Profession“, on November 1, 2006 via Simmons Books/Phoenix Books. Amazon is currently taking pre-orders for the 244-page book at this location.

Swedish death/thrash metal band TAETRE has posted a couple of video clips online at YouTube.com: a live video for the song “Virus” (from TAETRE‘s third album, “Divine Misanthropic Madness“, released by Mighty Music back in 2002), recorded in the summer of 2005 at Belsepub in Gothenburg, Sweden; and a clip for the song “Departure Suicide” […]

Florida-based death metallers OBITUARY have set “Frozen Alive” as the title of their first-ever live DVD, which was shot on August 24 at the Stodola Club in Warsaw, Poland. The group’s setlist was as follows:01. Intro: Rain02. Redneck Stomp03. On The Floor04. Insane05. Chopped In Half06. Turned Inside Out07. Dying08. Intro09. Internal Bleeding10. Back To […]

German hard rockers S.I.N. (SOMEWHERE INTO NOWHERE) have announced the addition of Norwegian singer Patrick Simonsen (HUSH) to the group’s ranks. A short audio sample of the song “Nail it to the Wall“, featuring Patrick, can be heard on the band’s MySpace page.S.I.N.‘s sophomore album, “Equilibrium“, was released last year through Metal Heaven Records.

TO/DIE/FOR‘s new single, “Like Never Before“, is currently at position No. 5 on the Finnish chart after debuting at No. 14 last week. An audio sample of the title cut has been posted online at this location. The single, which also features a cover of OZZY OSBOURNE‘s “(I Just) Want You“, was delivered to Finnish […]