Albert Hammond, Jr. Reveals “Rude Customer”

Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond, Jr. has released a song from his upcoming EP AHJ. The song is called “Rude Customer” and it debuted on Zane Lowe’s BBC Radio 1 show earlier today. The track is a great upbeat rocker and with some sublime guitar work. You can listen to “Rude Customer” below. Albert also did a short interview on the show, which you can check out at thestrokesnews.com. AHJ is set for release on October…

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Christine McVie joins Fleetwood Mac onstage at London’s O2 Arena

Christine McVie, who quite Fleetwood Mac in 1998 rejoined the band on stage in London to perform ‘Don’t Stop’ with the band. In the public’s frantic applause, they started singing ‘Don’t stop’. Another former band member, Peter Green – who left the group in 1970 – was in the crowd for the show, and Stevie Nicks dedicated the song ‘Landslide’ to the founding member of Fleetwood Mac. However, she will only sing with the band…

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Foals unveil ‘Out Of The Woods’ video

A new video from the band’s third album ‘Holy Fire’ was released. It’s a good song, a ncie video, nothign really out of the ordinary, just good music from the Foals. The single will be out on October 28, and meanwhile, the Foals are working on releasing a recording of their gig at London’s Royal Albert Hall earlier this year on CD and DVD. They also recently added three more dates to their UK and…

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King Crimson Announce Comeback and New Lineup

After 4 long years of hiatus, the prog legends are back in business, with a new line-up: guitarist and mastermind Robert Fripp announced the big news in his latest diary entry, noting that the band will now feature a seven member lineup. The addition is remarkable; to be more precise, the lineup will feature Porcupine Tree drummer Gavin Harrison, second drummer Bill Rieflin of R.E.M, virtuoso bassist Tony Levin, third drummer Pat Mastelotto, Mel Collins…

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Alter Bridge Streaming New Album ‘Fortress’ in Full

The Florida rockers have officially streamed their new album, ‘Fortress’, prior to the 8 October release. Featuring 12 new song, the album is the 4th effort from Alter Bridge, and it goes a long way towards what guitarist Mark Tremonti called the process of “proving themselves”: “When I was growing up and I’d see a band’s fourth album, I’d feel like, ‘Wow, they’re at the end of their career. I’ll be lucky to have four…

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Mumford and Sons go on indefinite hiatus

It’s as simple as it sounds: Mumford and Sons will go on a hiatus, and the hiatus won’t end in the forseeable future. The band revealed their plan to take a break following a mammoth tour of their newest album “Babel” which won several Grammys, broke sales records and ended in Kansas. “There won’t be any Mumford & Sons activities for the foreseeable future following Friday’s show,” said keyboardist Ben Lovett on what will be…

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The Strypes – A Snapshot into the Future?

Snapshot… Where to start? This album is the closest we’ve had to the raw sound of the early sixties since the early sixties. Aged only between 16 and 17, and with their debut album reaching the top 5, these 4 boys are really starting to make a name for themselves. They’ve already got Jeff Beck, Paul Weller, Roger Daltrey, Noel Gallagher and Dave Grohl behind them, and I think  if 5 of the biggest musicians in the…

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Upcoming Artists – Dave Giles

Since first appearing in 2007, with indie-rock band The Rileys, Dave Giles has made a big impact on the UK music scene. After The Rileys split in 2010, Dave began to establish himself as an independent singer-songwriter, frequently touring and continuing to build up his ever-loyal fanbase. Dave performing with The Rileys So far he’s released 4 EP’s, with the most recent, Call of Duty, reaching number 7 in the iTunes singer-songwriter chart. His most impressive…

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Black Label Society began working on a new album

Source Black Label Society decided to work at a new album after 3 years (actually these guys haven’t released any new material since their latest album, Order of the Black, released in 2010). Talking to Billboard, Wylde said that: It’ll have all the heavy riffs and other stuff everyone knows and loves… Order Of The Black was already three years ago, which is pretty insane. But the whole time we’ve been…

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Check out newest Pearl Jam video: Sirens

Source Yeah, that kind of sirens. The American grunge legend released a new video for one of their songs from their forthcoming album, Lightning Bolt. Sirens is the 4th track from the album which is going to be released on 15th October this year. Last month they also released a video from another song from their upcoming album, Mind You Manners, which was also directed by Danny Clinch, like Sirens video. This…

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