Jack White is set to embark on his second side project in a year with “Aluminium“, which is being described as an ‘avant-garde orchestral project’.With the success of his other band The Raconteurs still in full effect – including a support tour with Bob Dylan this winter – White has somehow found time to compose […]

Director Martin Scorsese is working on a documentary about The Rolling Stones.Scorsese will film The Stones‘ upcoming New York City gigs at The Beacon Theatre between October 29 and 31.It is not clear if the documentary will encompass the entire history of The Rolling Stones or just their current A Bigger Bang tour.Scorsese‘s last foray […]

Beck’s new album has been banned from qualifying for the UK albums chart after breaching strict rules on product giveaways. The Information, which was released on Monday by Polydor, was expected to be a Top 20 entry on this coming Sunday’s artist albums chart, but the record company has been told by the Official Charts […]

The cover artwork for VISCERAL BLEEDING‘s highly anticipated third full-length album, “Absorbing the Disarray“, has been posted online at this location. Aside from eleven devastating death metal tracks, the album contains two video clips as well. The full track listing is as follows:Audio portion:01. Bi-polar02. Disgust the Vile03. Despise Defined04. Perpetual Torment Commence05. Emulated Sense: […]

The Nirvana concert film “Live! Tonight! Sold Out!” will make its DVD debut Nov. 7 via Geffen. Originally issued on VHS in 1994, the release was conceived by Kurt Cobain as a way to anthologize Nirvana‘s quick ascent to rock superstardom but was not completed until after his 1994 suicide.The bulk of the DVD features […]

Blasting-Zone.com recently conducted an in-depth interview with SKID ROW bassist Rachel Bolan. Several excerpts follow: Blasting-zone.com: What initially prompted the band to begin playing again? Rachel: “We missed our fans. We kept getting a lot of e-mails about how people wish we would get back together so they could see us. But we knew when […]

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY is inviting fans to vote for the setlist for the band’s upcoming “Shot to Hell” tour. You can only vote once on each album. Voting ends October 14.To vote, visit the BLACK LABEL SOCIETY MySpace page under the “blog” section.In other news, several pictures from BLACK LABEL SOCIETY‘s September 26 concert at […]

Thom Yorke, Muse and Lily Allen were all big winners at the BT Digital Music Awards last night.The Radiohead frontman scooped the Best Artist Campaign and Best Use of Mobile awards, while Lily Allen fought off stiff competition to take the Best Pop Act award.Muse beat the likes of Hard-Fi, Kasabian and Editors to take […]

IRON MAIDEN‘s new album, “A Matter of Life and Death“, has been certified platinum in Finland for sales in excess of 30,000 copies. The CD topped the Finnish album chart for three weeks and currently stands at position No. 3.“A Matter of Life and Death” has sold 89,000 copies in the United States since its […]

SIRENIA, the Norwegian gothic metal band featuring former TRISTANIA guitarist/vocalist Morten Veland, has finished mixing and mastering its new album, “Nine Destinies and a Downfall“, due in early 2007 via Nuclear Blast Records.“Nine Destinies and a Downfall” was recorded at Jailhouse studios in Norway with engineer Hans Eidsgard and Soundsuite studios in France with Terje […]