Foos Fight the good fight
SYDNEY, Australia (Big Day Out Festival Website) - Some rock stars do it all for the nookie, and then others like Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters use their stardom for good. The Foos are currently headlining the Big Day Out Festival in Australia. The country has been suffering from out of control bushfires ...
| Limp Bizkit to preview album tracks online!
NEW YORK (Limp Bizkit Official Website) - Limp Bizkit fans will be able to download clips of tracks from the band's upcoming album before it is released. Lyrics to the first single, Crack Addict, will also be posted to the band's official website so fans can submit their own demos as to how the track ...
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'The war with Iraq is a bad idea' said Tom Morello
NEW YORK (Audioslave online community) - Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello is against the Iraqi war not only for the safety of that country's citizens, but also for the safety of people in America. With deployment of troops to the middle east and war waiting in the wings, Morello told us that violence ...
| 'Nevermind' tour guitar is going to be auctioned
LONDON, UK (Nirvana Fans/EBay/Cooperowen Websites) - A guitar once played by Nirvana's Kurt Cobain is up for auction in the U.K., with a starting price of 8,000 British Pounds Sterling (almost $13,000). The late musician's black left-handed Fender Stratocaster electric guitar is being sold by the British ...
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Linkin Park's 'Meteora' will hit stores March 25
LOS ANGELES (Linkin Park Official Website) - Linkin Park's newest effort will hit stores March 25. Meteora was produced by Don Gilmore, who was at the helm for the band's monster hit Hybrid Theory. The first single will be "Somewhere I Belong," and a radio arrival date will be announced shortly. Meteora ...
| Green Day collaborates with Iggy Pop
MIAMI, Florida (Green Day Fans Website) - Green Day and Iggy Pop have collaborated on two songs for Pop's forthcoming album, which is to be released in April through Virgin Records. The titles of the songs were not known at press time. For the forthcoming album Pop hooked up with two of his old bandmates ...
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A Letter From Alanis
NEW YORK (Alanis Morissette Official Website) - Alanis Morissette is welcoming in the New Year with a "Feast of Scraps', a new album made up from the offcuts of 'Under Rug Swept'. She's also letting her fans know how she's going and posted the following letter for them at alanis.com and suggests she ...
| Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day in driving under the influence
LOS ANGELES (Green Day Fans Website) - The lead singer of the punk band Green Day was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving. Billie Joe Armstrong, 30, was arrested early Sunday morning near Telegraph Avenue for allegedly driving under the influence, Berkeley police spokeswoman Mary Kusmiss said. ...
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Phish returns back with marathon NY concert!
NEW YORK (Phish Official Website) - Phish put its long-suffering fans out of their misery in style. Returning from a two-year hiatus, the Vermont jam band with the obsessive fan base played a long, high-energy show at Madison Square Garden on New Year's Eve before a raucous crowd, with some fans paying ...
| Jane's Addiction plans to release an album in more than decade
LOS ANGELES (RHCP Fans Website) - Jane's Addiction plans to release its first studio new album in the summer of 2003, on Warner Bros. Records. A world tour is also in the works. The Los Angeles outfit is finishing up the new album, which has a planned title of Hypersonic. Veteran boardman Bob Ezrin ...
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It's Alright For Nickelback
TORONTO, Canada (Nickelback Fans Website) - Just when you thought it was no longer cool to raise your fists on the weekends, Nickelback and Kid Rock are about to remind you, Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting. The Canadian Quartet and the American Bad Ass have joined forces with Pantera's Dimebag ...
| Five For Fighting hopes the album will be out next spring!
LOS ANGELES (Five For Fighting Fans Website) - Five For Fighting will soon enter the studio to record the follow-up to its 2000 release, America Town, featuring the single, "Superman (It's Not Easy)." Group mastermind John Ondrasik said that he hopes the next album will have more of a collaborative ...
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REM's 'Document' Gets DVD-Audio Treatment
LOS ANGELES (REM Fans Website) - R.E.M.'s classic 1987 album Document will be released as a DVD-Audio disc on January 28. Mixed in 5.1 surround sound, the new edition will feature the original album tracks, along with the videos for "Finest Worksong," "It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I ...
| Pearl Jam Back to Seattle!
SEATTLE, Wash. (Pearl Jam Official Website) - Pearl Jam is returning to the club circuit for two warm-up shows before its upcoming large-venue tour. Tickets for Pearl Jam's show at Seattle's Showbox for Thursday (December 5) and for Friday (December 6) went on sale Monday (December 2), and sold out ...
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Radiohead back Samaritans e-counselling service
LONDON, UK (Radiohead Official Website) - Radiohead are backing a new Samaritans counselling service, which lets people email in with their problems. The aim is to target teenagers and young men, who have trouble talking through their feelings on the phone. Drummer Phil Selway, who has been a volunteer ...
| 11,000 Downloads And Counting For The Locals!
CHICAGO, Ill. (Localsrock.com, Locals Official Website) - The Locals most recent CD, “Baby Buddhas and Little Einsteins” was released on Nov. 9 2002. The CD release party was held to a packed house at Chicago’s favorite bar turned brothel Subterranean Cabaret. In many ways this cd ...
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Sum 41 Rated XXX
NEW YORK (Monitoba Film Festival) - Sum 41's been naughty or at least The Manitoba Film Board thinks so. Earlier today, Sum 41, Ajax's hometown boys' DVD that accompanies their latest CD "Does This Look Infected?" was slapped with a XXX rating. This means that any Sum 41 fans under the age of 18 in ...
| Murderdolls Embraced By Slipknot Fans
TORONTO, Canada (Murderdolls Fans Website) - Murderdolls formed when two guitarists met while their bands toured together during the 1999 Ozzfest. The Slipknot and Static-X members have since recorded and released "Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls," their debut CD. The band came through Toronto ...
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Green Day Protest for future war in Iraq
LONDON, UK (Green Day Official & Fans Websites) - Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has begun an online petition to protest any future war in Iraq. In an audio message on greenday.com, the singer encourages people to sign the petition, which is accessible on the fan site, greenday.net. Artists ...
| Staind is going to 'Break the Cycle' next summer!
LOS ANGELES (Staind Fans Website) - Staind will release the follow-up to their 2001 breakthrough Break the Cycle next summer. They recently finished recording seventeen songs for the album with producer Josh Abraham, who also worked on Cycle, in Los Angeles. Guitarist Mike Mushok says he and his band ...
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