NEWS

05 June 2006

Muse are set to play a tiny gig in front of just ten fans next week ahead of the release of their new album ‘Black Holes & Revelations‘.The band will be playing at a secret location in London for an AOL Session on Monday June 12, and ten people can win the chance to see […]

05 June 2006

Snow Patrol have announced they’re going to play a charity gig in Nottingham next month.The band will play the Rock City venue on Sunday 16th July to raise money for cancer charity cancerBACUP.

05 June 2006

Graham Coxon has been added to the bill of Newquay’s Ripcurl Unleashed Music Festival.The pop legend joins bands including Feeder, Starsailor and Get Cape Wear Cape Fly at the festival, which ends a week of outdoor sporting events.The music part of the festival will take place on the 4th and 5th of August.

05 June 2006

The Raconteurs have announced a new set of North American tour dates that will see them head out again in the late summer.Having previously announced details of their first ever North American tour last month the band featuring Jack White and Brendan Benson will play ten dates in SeptРµmber.The gigs kick off in Houston at […]

05 June 2006

The Rolling Stones have confirmed details of their next single. The wrinkly rockers will release the latest track from their album ‘A Bigger Bang’, ‘Biggest Mistake’ on August 21. The release coincides with the European leg of their World Tour.

05 June 2006

“Waterloo to Anywhere,” the debut album from ex-Libertines principal Carl Barat‘s new band Dirty Pretty Things, will be released Aug. 1 in North America via Interscope. The set has been out since last month internationally; first single “Bang Bang You’re Dead” reached No. 5 on the U.K. singles chart, while the album debuted at No. […]

05 June 2006

Grateful Dead keyboard player Vince Welnick has died. He was 55. Welnick took over as the cult band’s keyboard player in 1990 and continued until the band retired from performing following the death of founder and frontman Jerry Garcia in 1995.

05 June 2006

U2 front man Bono is to power down the politics and return to music this summer with bag full of songs he has written on the piano. Talking to the Guardian, Bono explained: “I’ve got a lot of songs, oddly enough, from taking piano lessons. My kid’s piano teacher, Dawn, has been teaching me the […]

05 June 2006

Rob Zombie is to direct the latest instalment in the classics ‘Halloween’ series of horror movies. He’ll also write the script for what will be ‘Halloween 9’, and he promises his own take on the Michael Myers legend.

05 June 2006

Metallica delighted fans by playing the whole of their classic 1986 album ‘Master Of Puppets’, during their headlining sets at both the Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park Festivals in Germany.