Wayne Static has lifted the lid on the backroom squabbling in Static-X – claiming bassist Tony Campos quit over Wayne's wife, adult movie star Tera Wray. And despite Campos quitting, Wayne is happy for Static-X to carry on, with or without any input from others. morePoison's Bret Michaels new solo album, 'Custom Built', will be released July 6th and features the single 'Nothing To Lose' (with Miley Cyrus), a remake of Sublime's hit song 'What I Got', a rootsy version of 'Every Rose Has It's Thorn' featuring Brad Arnold of 3 Doors Down, Chris Cagle, Mark Wills, the theme song to the upcoming VH1 show "Bret Michaels: Life As I Know It" titled 'Riding Against The Wind' and more. Preview it here
Fuel lead singer Brett Scallions tells fans that the band's guitarist Yogi Lonich will be leaving the band and be replaced by ex-Shinedown guitarist Jasin Todd. more
Rush received a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame on Friday, June 25th appropriately in front of the Musicians Institute on Hollywood Boulevard. more
Drummer Jay Weinberg, who has been playing live with Madball for several months, has apparently joined the as a full-time member for the foreseeable future according to Lambgoat. As you may already know, Weinberg is the son of Max Weinberg, drummer for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band and bandleader for Conan O'Brien. more
Last week's Sonisphere festival cinecast from the Sofia, Bulgaria - which featured the "Big Four" of Metal: Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax - was seen by more than 100,000 fans, according to promoter Stuart Galbraith. more
Since the Who's epic performance at Super Bowl XLIV, there's been raging speculation that fans might have seen the last of the rock super-group, due to guitar great Pete Townshend's continuing problems with severe tinnitus. Well fans, reports of The Who's demise are greatly exaggerated -- based on comments from rock legend and Who frontman Roger Daltrey more
Radiohead's Thom Yorke has surprised fans with a set at the Glastonbury Festival, but stand-in headliners Gorillaz struggled to ignite the crowd. BBC reports, Yorke and bandmate Jonny Greenwood played on the relatively small Park stage, which normally hosts new bands. more
Radiohead weren't the only surprise: ASB reports that U2's Glastonbury dream was reignited on Saturday night, June 26 when The Edge joined British rockers Muse onstage for a rendition of "Where the Streets Have No Name". The Irish band was forced to scrap their Friday evening, June 25 appearance at the U.K. music festival after frontman Bono was admitted to hospital for an operation on his back last month. more
Members of the Big Four of Thrash, including Dave Mustaine (Megadeth), Lars Ulrich (Metallica), Scott Ian (Anthrax) and Kerry King (Slayer), recorded a special video tribute to the late, great heavy metal singer Ronnie James Dio (Dio, Heaven & Hell, Black Sabbath, Rainbow) from the Sonisphere festival in Sofia, Bulgaria on June 22nd. The video tribute was shown as part of the June 22nd satellite broadcast of the Big Four concert from Sofia to movie theaters around the world. Watch it here
After nearly four years of inactivity, Remembering Never has lined up a handful of July shows on the East Coast. more
The organizers of Bayfest 2010 have added Godsmack as one of their top acts for the 16 annual festival taking place in Mobile, AL on October 1. more
On Tuesday, July 27,NCM Fathom and Rhino Entertainment will present Eric Clapton Crossroads 2010 on the big screen in more than 475 movie theaters nationwide. The special two-hour event, presented in HD beginning at 7:30pm local time across all time zones, will feature musical performances from the all-day prestigious Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010 more
Bob Dylan has announced a new round of tour dates for this summer, kicking off in Austin on August 4 more
My Ruin and Ana Kefr frontman Rhiis D. Lopez recently covered the rap classic 'Natural Born Killaz' under the moniker Death Work Professionals. Check out a video and grab the FREE download link here
John Mayer will join Smokey Robinson, Branford Marsalis, opera singer Harolyn Blackwell and the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center for a free concert. more
Into The Moat drummer (and founding member) Matt Gossman has joined Miami, Florida band Capsule (Robotic Empire). more
Shadows Fall will release a new concert DVD, "Madness In Manila: Shadows Fall Live In The Philippines 2009", on August 24 via Everblack Industries/Ferret Music. The disc will include footage that was shot on April 30, 2009 at the Pulp Summer Slam in Manila, Philippines. more
In what can only be regarded as an extreme act of profound benevolence, Kiss of Death has made many of their new releases available for free download. more
Black Label Society's new album Order Of The Black will be premiered on US nationally syndicated radio show Rockline, with host Bob Coburn on Monday, August 9th. more
Justin Sane of Anti-Flag has announced a solo performance at the MacBeth in London on aturday 17th July as part of club night What Ever Happened To P-Rock? more
Former Skid Row vocalist Sebastian Bach continues to work on his new solo album. In a recent posting Sebastian stated, "I'm recording the 3rd ballad for the next CD today. Nick (Sterling) is very prolific, this will be the most demos by far I have recorded for any record I have ever done" more
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