Violent Femmes will release their first full-length album in over 15 years, We Can Do Anything, on March 4th. We Can Do Anything follows 2000’s Freak Magnet and marks the group’s ninth LP. It was recorded in Brooklyn, Nashville, Los Angeles, Milwaukee and Denver during their summer tour. Jeff Hamilton — a multi-instrumentalist in the […]
Dustin Diamond, known for his role as Screech in cult TV sitcom Saved by the Bell, will serve a four-month jail sentence early next year. According to Reuters, the actor withdrew the appeal of his conviction stemming from a bar stabbing in Port Washington, Wisconsin. The actor was arrested after an incident last Christmas, where […]
David Bowie has shared “Lazarus,” the second song lifted from the British legend’s forthcoming 25th album release. Bowie is back to alt-jazz territory with his broody downtempo “Lazarus,” which runs at more than six minutes and is peppered with sax and dirty guitars. “Look up here, man, I’m in danger I’ve got nothing left to lose,I’m so […]
MÖTLEY CRÜE singer Vince Neil spoke to Las Vegas Magazine about the status of the long-awaited film adaptation of the group’s biography, “The Dirt – Confessions of the World’s Most Notorious Rock Band”. He said: “Making music and making movies is two different things. We’re involved in it, but … we just got a new […]
Legendary British hard rockers DEEP PURPLE — who have been eligible for induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame for two decades now — will finally enter the Rock Hall as part of the class of 2016. The band’s classic lineup is being inducted with original lead vocalist Rod Evans, and from the […]
Steve Miller and Chicago will also be inducted at Brooklyn ceremony on April 8th The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has officially announced next year’s inductees: Cheap Trick, Chicago, Deep Purple, N.W.A and Steve Miller will all join the class of 2016. They will be inducted April 8th during a ceremony at Brooklyn’s Barclays […]
Niclas Müller-Hansen of RockSverige.se recently conducted an interview with MÖTLEY CRÜE and SIXX: A.M. bassist Nikki Sixx. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On MÖTLEY CRÜE‘s “The Final Tour” coming to and end: “I’m a person who believes in manifesting stuff, and I’m usually about 24 months ahead of whatever […]
With the announcements for the 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees coming today, the rock community is anxiously waiting to see if Deep Purple will once again get snubbed or will finally be counted among hundreds of other artists who have made it in before them. The band’s founding drummer Ian Paice is […]
Ashmedi, frontman for Sumerian black/thrash pioneers MELECHESH, was recently arrested for assault in his hometown of Jerusalem. As rumors about the incident have spread over the past two weeks, he has decided to speak out on the situation. He says in a statement: “While on vacation in Jerusalem, I was arrested for beating up somebody […]
English singer-songwriter and pop-culture juggernaut Adele is known for her vocal acrobatics, but she might have met her match in Coheed and Cambria frontman Claudio Sanchez. In a video that premiered today on Team Coco, Sanchez covers Adele’s “Hello”, the lead single from her record-shattering third studio album, 25. It’s a haunting acoustic rendition that […]
The Game can finally settle his beef with Stitches without risk of ending up in jail — he has an offer to step into a boxing ring … and Stitches has already signed on the dotted line. Damon Feldman is promoting the celebrity boxing event and tells us the fight would be 3 rounds, each being 90 […]
Rikki Rockett is fighting oral cancer, and says it was caused by HPV … the same way Michael Douglas got it. Poison’s drummer was on the Sirius XM show “Eddie Trunk Live” when he revealed his diagnosis, saying it all started over the summer when he had a cold and a sore throat. He says […]
