Lucero drummer Roy Berry and lead guitarist Brian Venable were mugged last week after a show in Augusta, GA. Venable was unharmed in the incident but Berry wound up with a broken jaw that had to be wired shut morePatrick Stump has been booked to play at South by this year's Southwest (SXSW) Interactive, Film and Music Festival. Only this time, the vocalist is going to be performing solo without his band Fall Out Boy. more
Peter Gabriel's ambitious plans to have the artists he covers on his new orchestral album Scratch My Back record renditions of his songs have hit a snag - David Bowie doesn't want to join the fun. more
Johnny Rotten's Public Image Ltd (PiL) have announced that their first television performance in 18 years will take place Wednesday, April 7th when they'll appear on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live. This news follows the band's recently announced North American headlining tour more
For all you Daughtry fans who have yet to purchase their new album Leave This Town, Amazon.com will be offering the 12 track album for only $3.99 today (Friday 03/05) as part of their Amazon Daily Deal offer. Get it here
Aerosmith have confirmed a string of South American dates on their Cocked, Locked, Ready To Rock Tour 2010. The band's itinerary can be found here
The UK press report has Paul McCartney planning a farewell tour. Keep in mind this would be 20th or so retirement tour if any of the previous reports of this nature were true. We won't waste his PR peeps time asking about this latest report. If he really wants to retire, we're pretty sure he would announce it.
Reverend And The Makers frontman Jon McClure has escaped with a reprimand after being found by police with cannabis in an Inverness hotel. He tells NME: "They took my herb and were dead happy because it was the first famous person they had arrested. Anyhow f*** it. They are going to write me a letter telling me off, I might bun up a fat one with the letter." more
Scorpions will guest on the US nationally syndicated radio show Rockline, with host Bob Coburn, on Wednesday, April 7th more
Muse will return to Poland this summer to headline the Coke Live Festival on Saturday 21st August more
Former Iron Maiden vocalist Paul Di'anno has announced he will be heading to Chile for a brief stint of tour dates. The currently confirmed dates are here
Amon Amarth have added four additional dates to their upcoming North American tour. Support on the four extra dates will come from Tyr and Holy Grail. dates
An online auction has been launched to meet The Who at their concert for Teenage Cancer Trust at the Royal Albert Hall. more
Ravens Creed have announced that Stian "Iscariah" Smorholm (ex-Immortal, Dead To This World) is their new vocalist, replacing the departed Ben Ward more
For those of you not located in the Los Angeles area for tonight's the bird and the bee show at the El Rey Theatre, fear not! The show will be live broadcast on Livestream at 8pm PST/11pm EST. Don't miss Inara George and multi-instrumental/producer Greg Kurstin, as they run through new material from their forthcoming record, Interpreting The Masters Volume 1: A Tribute To Daryl Hall And John Oates, which drops March 23rd via EMI's Blue Note Records. more
How about a quick review quote? SleezeRoxx says of the new (Phil Lewis) L.A. Guns album, "Covered in Guns": "This is bad...very, very, very bad. As if warring factions resulting in two bands using the L.A. Guns moniker isn't enough, Covered In Guns just drags the once highly regarded name deeper into the mud. " Ouch, read more here. -
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