Kraftwerk co-founder quits band

Tuesday 6th January 2009

Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider has announced that he has quit the band. →Full Story

Jennifer Hudson will not sing at Obama inauguration

Tuesday 6th January 2009

Jennifer Hudson will not be performing at the inauguration of Barack Obama in Washington D.C. this month. →Full Story

Full Blown Chaos, See You Next Tuesday, Graves Of Valor and Rose Funeral To Tour Together

Tuesday 6th January 2009

Full Blown Chaos and See You Next Tuesday will team up with Graves Of Valor and Rose Funeral for a March/April tour. The schedule has yet to be announced, but the following dates can be revealed so far: 3/4 Providence, RI @ Club Hell 3/10 Fairdale, KY @ Bulldog Cafe 3/17 Seattle, WA @ Studio Seven 3/20 Canoga Park, CA @ Cobalt Cafe 3/21 San ... Read More / Post Your Comments →Full Story

Femme Metal Records Signs A.D.D. and hAND

Tuesday 6th January 2009

Femme Metal Records has announced the signing of UK gothic metal band hAND as well as Illinois hard rock/metal band A.D.D. Expect a new EP from hAND late 2009. In the meantime, you can check them out here. A.D.D. Will be releasing a longer verison of their previously released CD, "Elements of Emptiness," very soon on their new label. Until t... Read More / Post Your Comments →Full Story

SLIPKNOT Claim 1st US Number One!!!

Thursday 18th September 2008

The Des Moines hard rock band take top placing from The Game after a re-count, while Dragonforce, The Verve and Motorhead score new entries On Wednesday morning, Billboard’s Chart Alert column was running a story claiming that, in the closest race for number one since SoundScan began tracking Data in 1991, “The Game’s LAX beats Slipknot’s All Hope Is Gone by a mere handful of units.â€� It went on to say that the former sold 238,285 copies, the latter 238,272. The margin: a mere 13 copies, or 0.005%. Twelve hours later, the story had been re-written, with Slipknot’s album now adjudged the bigger seller, “barely (winning) out over LAX, moving 239,516 copies...1,134 more than the rapper’s 238,382. Somewhere along the way, errors were detected in the data, and the chart re-run but the margin for error was small, and the records flipped. Chart re-runs are nothing new – we have had our own share of them here, the most notorious being in 1976, when Manuel & The Music Of The Mountains’ recording of Rodrigo’s Guitar Concerto was announced as the new number one single, only for the former incumbent, The Four Seasons’ December 1963, to be restored to pole position a few hours later because of a “computer glitchâ€� – but Billboard undoubtedly suffered some embarrassment from the error. So, it’s a first ever number one for hard rock heroes Slipknot and not the third number one for The Game. Also new to the Top 10 are a Now! spin-off that hasn’t been tried here – the very first Now! That’s What I Call Country arrives at number seven on sales of 50,000 - and Solange’s Sol-Angel & The Hadley Street Dreams, debuting at number nine on sales of 46,000. Of 25 new entries in total, three are by British acts. Dragonforce debut at number 18 with Ultra Beatdown on sales of 24,000 copies; The Verve’s Forth debuts at number 23 on sales of 21,000; and Motorhead’s Motorizer earns a number 82 slot from sales of 6,500. The Verve’s last album, Urban Hymns, is their only previous chart entry, and also reached number 23, in 1997. Metal band Dragonforce have also had just one previous chart entry, reaching number 103 last year with Inhuman Rampage. Motorhead – actually an Anglo/Swedish alliance these days - have had five previous Top 200 entries, the first being Iron Fist in 1982, the last 1916, confusingly, in 1991. The latter album provided the group’s previous highest placing, reaching number 142. Coldplay’s Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends continues to be the top UK album, rebounding 11-10 on sales of 44,000, while their Viva La Vida single continues at number seven on the Hot 100. Leona Lewis’ Spirit – originally listed as a non-mover at number 18 but shuffled down to 19 on the chart re-run - sold 24,000 copies to increase its career tally to 1,042,000. In the lower regions of the chart, Led Zeppelin’s Mothership makes the most impressive upwards progress, vaulting 142-88 on its 42nd week in the chart. The album, which peaked at number seven last year, has sold 966,000 copies, including 6,000 last week. Its sudden lurch back into the top half of the chart is due to sales of the newly-issued deluxe four LP vinyl version of the set. On the Hot 100, T.I.’s Whatever You Like continues at number one but faces a tough battle against Pink, whose So What leaps 9-3. The top UK act on the list is M.I.A., whose Paper Planes glides 6-5, a move fuelled by increased airplay, though its sales are off from 124,000 to 114,000. Leona Lewis’s Better In Time also suffers a minor sales slip but still climbs 22-19 on the download chart and 28-22 on the Hot 100. Finally, Natasha Bedingfield’s Pocketful Of Sunshine holds at number 30 on the Hot 100, while reversing 39-43 on the download chart – but the 27,000 copies it sold last week bring up its two millionth sale in total. Her album of the same name climbs 72-64, with sales of 8,000 lifting its to-date tally to 404,000. →Full Story

NICKELBACK to release new album!!!

Thursday 18th September 2008

Roadrunner Records announced the upcoming new album from multi-platinum rock powerhouse Nickelback. The band is currently recording the follow-up to 2005’s massively successful All The Right Reasons with famed rock producer Mutt Lange (AC/DC, Def Leppard) in their homebase of Vancouver, B.C. The album is set for release on November 18, 2008. The first single, “If Today Was Your Last Dayâ€� will impact at all radio formats on September 30th. Roadrunner and Nickelback have enjoyed unprecedented success during their ten-year partnership. The band has sold upwards of 26 million records worldwide, with All The Right Reasons accounting for 10 million of that total. In addition, the six singles from the album totaled 9.3 million downloads and 5.5 million ringtones. All proceeds of digital single and video sales for the song “If Everyone Caredâ€� between February 1 and July 31, 2007 were donated to charity, equally distributed between Amnesty International and International Childrens’ Awareness Canada. Each of the five videos from All The Right Reasons has reached #1 on VH1’s playlist: “Photograph,â€� “Savin’ Me,â€� “Far Away,â€� “If Everyone Caredâ€� and “Rockstar.â€� In 2006 Nickelback was awarded a World Music Award for “World’s Best Rock Group,â€� a Billboard Touring Award for “Breakthrough Artist,â€� an American Music Award for “Favorite Pop/Rock Albumâ€� and a People’s Choice Award for “Best Rock Group.â€� Both Roadrunner and Nickelback are looking forward to the start of a new album cycle and future success together. ‘In 1972, Robert John Mutt Lange produced our first platinum hit, now 36 years later, Mutt Lange produces Roadrunner’s Nickelback, proudly giving us another platinum record.’ says David Gresham, CEO of The David Gresham Record Company. →Full Story

MACHINE HEAD to release special limted edition of 'The Blackening'!!!

Thursday 18th September 2008

On OCTOBER 27TH, MACHINE HEAD will release a VERY limited 2CD/DVD Special Edition of their current album THE BLACKENING. The release, which will feature a bonus DVD as well as additional tracks will be a one time only run of the CD. No more will be manufactured after initial production. The package will be a 3 panel / 6 page digipak ebossed sleeve, with expanded booklet. The tracklistings will be as follows: DISC 1 1. Clenching The Fists of Dissent 2. Beautiful Mourning 3. Aesthetics of Hate 4. Now I Lay Thee Down 5. Slanderous 6. Halo 7. Wolves 8. A Farewell To Arms DISC 2 (B-Sides and rareities): 1. Hallowed Be Thy Name 2. Alan’s On Fire 3. Negative Creep 4. Seasons Wither 5. My Misery 6. House Of Suffering 7. The Possibility Of Life’s Destruction 8. Ten Ton Hammer (Extended Original Mix) 9. Hole In The Sky 10. Colors 11. Hard Times (live in New York) 12. Halo (I Want Your Soul) (demo 2005) 13. Aesthetics Of Hate (Thrash-terpiece) (demo 2005) The accompanying DVD will feature the following footage (Frontliners, please make sure you are seated...): - With Full Force 2008 - 1. Clenching The Fists Of Dissent 2. Now I Lay Thee Down 3. Halo - Rock In Rio 2008 - 4. Aesthetics Of Hate 5. Davidian - Download 2007 - 6. Imperium 7. Old - Burn My Eyes 10th Anniversary 2004 - 8. A Thousand Lies 9. The Rage To Overcome 10. Death Church 11. Blood For Blood Music Videos: 1. Halo 2. Now I Lay Thee Down 3. Aesthetics of Hate (Plus The Making Of… each video) →Full Story