Led Zeppelin unveil rare film
LONDON, UK (Led Zeppelin Fans Website) - More than eight hours of rare concert films and sound recordings of rock band Led Zeppelin are to be released for the first time. Fifty-eight tracks recorded over a decade of live performances will be spread across two DVDs and three CDs. Guitarist Jimmy Page ...
| Pearl Jam drop 'Bu$hleaguer'
NEW YORK (NY Times) - Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready recently told a Buffalo radio station that the band has dropped their anti-George Bush song, "Bu$hleaguer," from their live sets. Eddie Vedder has smashed a George Bush mask during past performances of the song, reportedly to mixed reactions from ...
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Metallica behind bars
LOS ANGELES (Metallica Fans Website) - Metallica are spending the day at California's San Quentin State Prison today. The band will be shooting a video on the prison grounds. As payback for the use of the location, Metallica will play a set for the inmates. The video will be for the title track from ...
| Excommunication For Evanescence?
NEW YORK (Evanescence Fans Website) - Zomba Music's Christian distribution arm, Provident Music, has dropped Evanescence from their roster and has recalled the band's hit debut, "Fallen," from Christian retail stores. The move follows an Entertainment Weekly interview with Evanescence guitarist Ben ...
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Nickelback strikes back
TORONTO, Canada (Nickelback Fans Website) - Nickelback has sold millions of records worldwide but these Canuck rockers are still having to continually defending themselves and their music. "The thing people don't realize when they say Nickelback sucks [is] no Nickelback doesn't suck. Eight and a half ...
| Live DVD of new Metallica album!
NEW YORK (Elektra press release) - With palpable anticipation building for the release of their first Elektra studio album in six years - the long awaited St. Anger - Metallica continues to amaze as one of the most innovative and forward thinking bands in the history of rock. The proof this time around ...
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Metallica is going to give a free bonus DVD
NEW YORK (Metallica Official Website) - Metallica's forthcoming album St. Anger will include a free bonus DVD of the band playing all 11 songs on the collection. St. Anger is set for a June 10 release. The DVD performances are currently being taped in Metallica's HQ studios, and will mark the first ...
| Led Zeppelin reunion rumors
NEW YORK (Led Zeppelin Fans Website) - Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page is again denying rumors that the surviving bandmembers will reunite in the near future. Page recently told Music Week that the only way he'll be playing with Robert Plant and John Paul Jones is "on my DVD player" - referring to ...
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Metallica and Ozzy make the swap
NEW YORK (Metallica Fans Website) - It's official. Former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted has joined Ozzy Osbourne's band. Newsted will accompany Ozzy on this summer's Ozzfest tour. This means Ozzy and Metallica have essentially traded bass players. Osbourne's previous bass player left to fill an empty ...
| Anthrax releases new album and lunches tour dates with Motorhead!
NEW YORK (Anthrax Official Website) - Metal innovators Anthrax have announced that their new album 'We've Come For You All' will include a special "enhanced" portion containing an official bootleg video and never-before-seen photos. 'We've Come For You All' will be released on May 6, 2003, on Sanctuary ...
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If you want AC/DC, you got it in black!
NEW YORK (AC/DC Fans Website) - AC/DC guitarists Angus and Malcolm Young know it's more fashionable these days for rock stars to be sensitive and earnest. But frankly, they'd rather watch The O'Reilly Factor. "We like to watch people argue on TV," says Malcolm, 50. "It's entertaining, in portions. Some ...
| Metallica Talk About New Album
NEW YORK (Metallica Official Website) - On the verge of completing 'St. Anger', Metallica have set aside a few more to mix the album before they master it and then ship it off to the record label. During a brief moment of downtime, frontman James Hetfield gave a quick interview to their official site ...
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Nightwish and Rage will be coming to USA!
ATLANTA, Georgia (ProgPower festival website) - Finland's Nightwish and Germany's Rage have been confirmed to make their American debuts as headliners of ProgPower USA IV, which returns to Atlanta's Earthlink Live on September 5 and 6. "It is always exciting for us as a band to take on new areas and ...
| Judas Priest to realese double CD 'Live In London'
NEW YORK (SPV Records) - The very name Judas Priest conjures immediate respect from heavy metal fans worldwide. True heavy metal evolved from the groundbreaking work of Judas Priest 30 years ago. The double CD 'Live in London' is testimony to the band's staggering legacy. The 25-song 'Live in London' ...
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Saxon: name decision
LONDON, UK (Courtnews UK Website) - The High Court in London has made a judgment regarding the legitimate right to use the Saxon name. Mr Justice Laddie has ruled that no one individual member of the band owns the name, that it is in fact an asset of the Saxon partnership. This means that there are ...
| Limp Bizkit's 'Just Drop Dead' has offered up on official website!
NEW YORK (Limp Bizkit Official Website) - Limp Bizkit has offered up "Just Drop Dead" on its website, which is a brand-new song and the first since Wes Borland left the band after the cycle for Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water. Durst was asked if the tune will be on Limp Bizkit's May ...
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Robert Trujillo: new bassist for Metallica
NEW YORK (Metallica Official Website) - Metallica has named Robert Trujillo its new bassist. The band announced it on their website, and Trujillo is the first permanent bassist since the departure of Jason Newsted a few years ago. Metallica wanted to have things in place before its new album, St. Anger, ...
| Sigur Ros new untitled video unveiled at Sundance 2003
NEW YORK (Sigur Ros Official Website) - Having debuted their new video/short film for the first untitled track from the acclaimed album ( ) at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Sigur Ros will be returning to the US for a series of dates beginning with an already sold out March 15 appearance at Boston's ...
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Aerosmith drummer bulldozes his mansion
MARSHFIELD, Mass. (Aerosmith Fams Website) - Aerosmith drummer Joey Kramer knows a thing or two about bringing down the house. The 52-year-old rocker has taken the bulldozer to his 15-room mansion south of Boston to build cozier quarters in its place. Kramer had put the 1910 Georgian colonial on the ...
| Limp Bizkit is set to release new album on April
NEW YORK (Limp Bizkit Fans Website) - Limp Bizkit is set to release its first album without guitarist Wes Borland on April 1. Band leader Fred Durst feels he has a lot to prove with Lessismore, and he told us he also feels he has something to prove with the band's live show. "I've got a lot to show ...
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