Adler Says F**k Axl Rose Former Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler had some strong words for Axl during an interview with Psycho Babble. - more
Artists Secretly Ripping Off Their Fans The Wall Street Journal's Ethan Smith has published an interesting article about how artists are dishonestly scalping their own tickets. - more
Monkees Star Has Cancer Peter Tork, a former member of the 1960s pop group the Monkees, says he has a rare form of head and neck cancer - more
Red Hot Van Hagar Supergroup Album Details Chickenfoot, the band which features former Van Halen singer Sammy Hagar, guitarist Joe Satriani, former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, have announced the global release of their debut album Chickenfoot. - more
Motown Legend Dies Motown drummer Uriel Jones, whose hard-driving funk propelled classic tunes by the Temptations and Marvin Gaye, died in a Michigan hospital - more
Teen Metal Fan Accused of Murdering Radio Journalist The 16-year-old boy arrested in the fatal stabbing of the radio journalist George Weber was a death/black metal fan who used MySpace to profess his love for sex, violence, knives and Satanism - more
24 Year Old Rocker Dies In His Sleep The Cute Lepers posted the following tragic news for fans on their Myspace page on Saturday: Early the morning of March 28, in Cincinnati our friend and band-mate Travis Criscola passed away in his sleep. - more
Michael Jackson, Pepsi Made Marketing History Essentially two kinds of people existed in the '80s: Coke drinkers and Pepsi drinkers. And if you loved Michael Jackson, you had good reason to fall into the latter group. - more
Rothbury Festival Gets Off To Eclectic Start Guitar riffs, rhymes and polyrhythmic ragas got the second Rothbury Festival off to an eclectic start on Thursday at the Double JJ Ranch in western Michigan. - more
Michael Jackson Remains A Global Phenomenon Michael Jackson went from being Gary, Ind.'s most talented kid to one of the most recognizable human beings on the planet. And while his worldwide album sales were astounding, that wasn't the sole reason for his fame. his ascendancy went far beyond the cash register—he inspired dance moves, dictated fashion trends and raised awareness for social causes around the globe. - more
Exclusive: AEG's Randy Phillips Talks About Michael Jackson Fallout A week after Michael Jackson's death, organizers of what would have been a 50-show run at the O2 Arena in London have made significant strides straightening out what one touring executive called "the biggest mess in the history of our business." - more
Exclusive: Michael Jackson Was Working On Two Albums Billboard has learned that Michael Jackson was working on two albums at the time of his death: one in the pop vein that made him famous and another that would consist of an instrumental classical composition. - more
Michael Jackson Funeral Date Set, Mystery Deepens The Michael Jackson funeral will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Staples Center in Los Angeles. Sources said AEG Live, which owns the arena and the adjacent Nokia Theatre, will use both facilities and the surrounding plaza. - more
Search On For 'Ultimate DEVILDRIVER Fan' DEVILDRIVER and U.K.'s Scuzz TV are on the search for the "ultimate DEVILDRIVER fan." This is a nationwide search from corner to corner of the U.K. - more
SEPULTURA: Kosice Show Canceled Brazilian/American thrashers SEPULTURA have issued the following update:
"Unfortunately, the promoter canceled our show in Kosice (Slovakia) on July 2, stating that he was unable to pay us. - more
DARK TRANQUILLITY To Enter Studio In September Swedish melodic death metallers DARK TRANQUILLITY have issued the following update:
"Time to let you in on the plans for our upcoming ninth (or tenth, depending on how you count) full-length album. - more
AETERNAM Open For BEHEMOTH; Video Available Quebec's AETERNAM recently opened for BEHEMOTH in Montreal.
Video was shot of the band performing the song 'Angel Horned'. Check it out below.
As previously reported,... - more
Report: CHEAP TRICK Brings Back The 8-Track The Globe And Mail has issued the following report from Brad Wheeler:
Those who swear by vinyl say that records provide a warmer sound compared to... - more
Search On For "Ultimate DEVILDRIVER Fan" DEVILDRIVER and Scuzz TV are on the search for the 'Ultimate DevilDriver Fan'.
This is a nationwide search from corner to corner of the UK... - more
Queen Latifah promotes beauty, empowerment at Essence Music Festival NEW ORLEANS - Queen Latifah dropped by the Essence Music Festival on Friday to help celebrate its 15th year of uplifting and empowering the African-American community through issues-filled seminars by day and high-powered musical performances by night. - more
LA braces for Jackson mourners LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles city officials are preparing for massive crowds downtown during Tuesday's public memorial for Michael Jackson at Staples Center. - more
Live Review: Jonas Bros. in Edmonton EDMONTON - The Jonas Brothers are not the new Beatles. They are a talented, ambitious, determined, massively successful pop trio whose romantic hits are aimed square at their target demographic -- young women. - more
Live Review: The Offspring in T.O. TORONTO - California punk stalwarts The Offspring have been at the punk rock game for roughly a quarter century. And it's beginning to show just a little bit. - more
Outloud Posts "We Run" Music Video Online Frontiers Records has launched the new video of ?We Run,? the first single off the forthcoming self titled debut album from OUTLOUD. The album is to be released on Frontiers Records on August the 28th in Europe and September 15th in the USA.
The hard rock band was formed by guitarists Tony Kash and Bob Katsionis (Firewind) in Athens, in 2004. Th... - more
Nightwish Posts Live Graspop Footage Online Nightwish has posted live video clips online of their performance at the Graspop Festival in Dessel, Belgium. The clips can be viewed below. - more
Solemnity Posts Live DVD Teaser Online Solemnity has posted a teaser trailer online for their upcoming live DVD, which can be viewed here. The band also issued the following statement about the DVD release:
'As a teaser for our upcoming live-DVD (probably this Autum) we posted our new videoclip 'Lords Of The Damned' completely on our homepage. Just check out our metal madness!!!' - more
Rudra Introduce New Guitarist Singapore-based metallers, RUDRA, have issued the following update:
'It is with great pleasure that I am announcing the entry of our new guitarist, Vinod. He isn't someone new to Rudra or the Singaporean metal scene. Vinod has played in many bands before and has been known to us for almost 8 years. We are looking forward to writing the new album... - more
Burnt By The Sun Posts New Song, ?Inner Station,? Online BURNT BY THE SUN have posted a second advance track, ?Inner Station,? from their new full length album 'Heart Of Darkness.' ?Inner Station? can be heard now via the band?s MySpace page along with ?F-Unit? and a preview of the 'Heart Of Darkness' artwork. The brand new track is also available now as an exclusive advance download via the Relapse Reco... - more
Cauldron To Support Wolf On UK Tour Canadian heavy metal band, CAULDRON, is set to support Swedish heavy metal act WOLF on a UK tour later this year.
Catch CAULDRON and WOLF at the following shows:
09 Oct 09 - London, UK - The Underworld
10 Oct 09 - Leeds, UK - Rio's
11 Oct 09 - Glasgow, UK - Ivory Blacks
13 Oct 09 - Newcastle, UK - Trillians
14 Oct 09 - Manchester, UK - Mo... - more
W.A.S.P. Announces U.K. Tour Dates W.A.S.P. has announced a string of tour dates in the United Kingdom which will take place around the end of the year. The shows are part of the bands lengthy tour of Europe which was launched recently.
The tour dates are as follows:
November 27 - JBs - Dudley, England
November 28 - Rock City - Nottingham, England
November 29 - Manchester Ac... - more
Vader Posts New Song, "We Are The Horde" Online Polish death metal legends Vader has posted a song from their forthcoming new studio album, 'Necropolis' online. You can check out the song 'We Are The Horde' at the bands official Myspace. The album will be released on August 21st in Europe via Nuclear Blast Records and on September 22nd in North America. - more
Megadeth Reveals "Endgame" Tracklisting And Release Date American thrash metal legends Megadeth has revealed the release date for their forthcoming new studio album, 'Endgame.' The record will be released on September 15th through Roadrunner Records. The band has also revealed the albums tracklisting, which is as follows;
'Dialectic Chaos'
'This Day We Fight!'
'44 Minutes'
'1,320'
'Bite The Han... - more
Mike Patton's Mondo Cane Paris Dates Are Still Unconfirmed Ipecac Recordings has issued a statement on some shady ticket sales of supposed Paris tour dates for Mike Patton's Mondo Cane:
'It has come to our attention that tickets are being sold for Mike Patton's Mondo Cane in Paris on February 19 & 20. Unfortunately these dates are not correct. Mike did not agree to these dates. If you bought tickets,... - more
Bands as Wimbledon - Friday Fun It's Friday once more, and to honour the climax of Wimbledon, which finishes this Sunday (July 5), we're thinking up tennis-related band names to waste some time until Blur's London Hyde Park gig tonight (July 3) begins. - more
Sonisphere latest Day tickets go on sale to the event starring Metallica, Linkin Park, Nine Inch Nails and Heaven and Hell Knebworth, August 1-2 - more
Vote in the Classic Rock awards Have your say in top categories: best band, best album, best new band, best reissue, best movie and event of the year. Full nominations and voting link inside… - more
Mustaine wary of pulling more stalkers Megadeth mainman says he’s confident, content and a legend – but if he talks to his fans the way he wanted, he’d wind up in more trouble - more
Classic Rock No.134 Editor in Chief Scott Rowley talks us through the latest edition, focusing on the roots of metal - more
Alice In Chains Reunion "Gives Way" To Album, Tour Alice in Chains singer-guitarist Jerry Cantrell and drummer Sean Kinney say the band's new album doesn't stray too far from the Seattle band's influential catalog. - more
Outloud "We Run" Posted Online Frontiers Records is pleased to launch the videoclip of "We Run" the first single off the forthcoming self titled debut album from OUTLOUD! - more
Powerful sedative found in Michael Jackson's home
(AP) AP - The powerful sedative Diprivan was found in Michael Jackson's home, a law enforcement official said Friday as the city planned for a massive crowd at the singer's memorial service. - more
Los Angeles officials brace for Michael Jackson memorial
(Reuters) Reuters - Los Angeles city officials are planning a massive security operation for Michael Jackson's public memorial service next week, and on Friday urged fans who do not win a ticket in a random drawing to stay away from the basketball arena where the singer will be memorialized. - more
LA police plan for huge crowd at Jackson memorial
(AP) AP - Los Angeles city officials are preparing for massive crowds downtown during Tuesday's public memorial for Michael Jackson at Staples Center, even though only 17,500 tickets are being offered to the public. - more
Michael Jackson's music had impact around the globe
(Reuters) Reuters - Michael Jackson went from being Gary, Ind.'s most talented kid to one of the most recognizable human beings on the planet. While his worldwide album sales were astounding, that wasn't the sole reason for his fame. His ascendancy went far beyond the cash register -- he inspired dance moves, dictated fashion trends and raised awareness for social causes around the globe. - more
Michael Jackson was working on two albums
(Reuters) Reuters - At the time of Michael Jackson's death last week, it was well-known that he was preparing for a 50-show concert series at London's O2 Arena later this month. - more
Prince booked to return to Montreux jazz festival
(Reuters) Reuters - Prince will return to the Montreux stage, closing out the famed jazz festival on July 18, with high-priced tickets expected to be snapped up quickly, organizers said on Friday. - more
Essence Fest to celebrate black music in La.
(AP) AP - The celebration of black music and culture at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans will provide comfort to artists and fans alike after a tough week following Michael Jackson's death. - more
Tributes to Jackson spring up in unlikely locales
(AP) AP - Tilesha McClurkin wanted to join other Michael Jackson fans to celebrate his life, but she knew she wouldn't be able to go to whatever official memorial celebration might be held. - more
Jermaine Jackson Talks Michael: "I Wish It Was Me"
(E! Online) E! Online - Exactly one week after Michael Jackson's death, brother Jermaine Jackson became the first member of the still-mourning musical family to sit down for an in-depth interview about the late icon, speaking to the Today show this morning from the grounds of Neverland Ranch. - more
The International - DVD Review For a man who seemed disinterested in playing the suave spy James Bond, Clive Owen has seemingly decided to fill his CV with knock-off government agents ever since. - more
Win A Pair Of Lovebox Tickets Right Now! Itβs just weeks until Londonβs premier festival, Lovebox, takes centre stage and to celebrate we’ve got three pairs of weekend tickets up for grabs! - more
Emma Watson Likes To Pretend She’s Not Filthy Rich Emma Watson could totally be richer than the Queen - but she would have no idea, as it’s been a hot minute since she counted out all the coppers in her extra-large piggy bank. - more
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Jackson tickets via internet draw Tickets for a memorial service for Michael Jackson in Los Angeles will be made available via the internet, organisers reveal. - more
Del Boy returns to TV as teenager Only Fools and Horses wide boy Derek Trotter is returning to BBC One in a comedy drama about his teenage years. - more
Andre: 'Worst months of my life' Singer Peter Andre says the months since his split with glamour model Katie Price have been the hardest of his life. - more
Blur comeback at Parklife venue Britpop heroes Blur reveal the inspiration for their hit Parklife at the first of their Hyde Park reunion gigs. - more
The Bill's theme tune to be axed The title music to long-running ITV1 drama The Bill is being dropped as the show moves to a post-watershed slot. - more
Lil Wayne delays European shows The US rapper has postponed his forthcoming European shows, expected to kick off in Paris on Thursday. - more
Blackpool to stage Variety gala Blackpool is picked to host this year's Royal Variety Performance, featuring Britain's Got Talent Winners Diversity. - more
