In what could be a landmark reformation, Led Zeppelin vocalist Robert Plant, guitarist Jimmy Page, and bassist John Paul Jones, the irrefutable, thunderous pioneers of hard rock, have reportedly agreed to reunite for the first time in nearly twenty years for a one-off memorial gig in honor of late Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun.
Indie 103.1's FREE concert series at the Hammer Museum is back. It's " Also I Like to Rock " - a free Indie 103.1 concert every Thursday night in July.
First up on July 5th is Great Northern and Foreign Born live. Doors open at 7PM. Cash bar all night. The Hammer Museum is at 10899 Wilshire Blvd in Westwood - corner of Wilshire Blvd and Westwood Blvd.
Bon Jovi topped the album charts for the first time since 1988 on Wednesday, while rock duo the White Stripes scored a personal best with a No. 2 debut for their latest release.
Bon Jovi's "Lost Highway" sold 288,000 copies in the week ended June 24, the rock troupe's biggest one-week sum since Nielsen SoundScan began tracking sales data in 1991.
During a live aired set from The Stooges in Britain, their charismatic and crazy front man Iggy Pop made a bit of a racial slur which went out to air.
The BBC, which broadcast the incident, apologized soon after.
Rage Against The Machine will be one of the headliners at the third annual Vegoose Music Festival, Billboard.com has learned. The event is set for Oct. 28-29 at Sam Boyd Stadium in Las Vegas.
After more than a year's worth of inactivity while frontman Rivers Cuomo finished an English degree at Harvard, Weezer has come back to life.
The group "is just polishing up a batch of songs for a recording session that is going to start at the beginning of July," according to a post from Cuomo on the Weezer Web site.
No Doubt reunited briefly on the weekend, when the band members joined Gwen Stefani on-stage at her hometown solo show in Orange County, California.
Tony Kanal, Tom Dumont and Adrian Young replaced Stefani's touring band during the show's finale, performing 'Just A Girl' and 'Spiderwebs', as well as their cover of Talk Talk's 'It's My Life'.
The performance has fuelled rumours that the band will
Spoon have finished recording their new album, 'Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga', which is due to be released July 9 in the UK and a day later in the US.
NME.COM caught up with frontman Britt Daniel, who divulged some of the challenges of recording the follow-up to 2005's 'Gimme Fiction'.
"I live in Portland but we made the album in Austin where the rest of the band lives, and it was a long time to be sleeping o
Sammy Hagar and band (Mona, bass; Jesse Harms, keyboards & percussion; Vic Johnson, guitar; and David Lauser, drums) is planning a major tour which begins in October at his annual birthday bash in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico.
The cross-country trek is expected to hit 60 cities with a finale July 12, 2008, in St. Louis, MO, according to a press release.
The shows will open with former Van Halen bassis
Completist Smashing Pumpkins fans will have buy 'Zeitgeist' three times to get the full experience.
Pitchfork Media have reported that the forthcoming album from Smashing Pumpkins will be released in four different formats, exclusive to major distributors, in an effort to squeeze the most out of die-hard fans who must own all the bands' music.
The rock quartet the Donnas have formed their own label in a joint venture with Redeye Distribution, after two albums for Atlantic Records.
The group’s as-yet-untitled next album is due in mid-September. Produced by Jay Ruston (Jars Of Clay, Meat Loaf, the Polyphonic Spree) the CD is said to be full of big, sing-a-long choruses, fat ’80s guitar licks and an upbeat pace.
Queen + Paul Rodgers plan to rock you again — perhaps as soon as 2008. Rodgers tells Billboard.com that he’s “recorded some nine songs” with Queen members Brian May and Roger Taylor, and that there are plans to return to the studio in October to do some more work.
The Australian music website, Undercover.com has learned that the members of Matchbox Twenty are in the studio working on new music without (for the first time) producer Matt Serletic.
The sessions, currently taking place in Los Angeles, feature Rob Thomas, Paul Doucette, Kyle Cook and Brian Yale.
Icky Thump is loved by rock snobs everywhere... Even Pitchfork
Unbelievable! Rock and Roll may already have been dead for a while now, but the Smashing Pumpkins for some reason feel the need to dig up the ashes and piss on them.
BOYCOTT greedy rockstars!
Slayer guitarist Kerry King hopes Manson will “come out and kick ass” on their co-headlining tour.
Keyboardist and songwriter Richard Bell, who played with Janis Joplin, has died of cancer in a Toronto hospital. He was 61.
A Ramones documentary will premiere at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles Friday, June 29.
Mötley Crüe is claiming that Rock Star made Tommy Lee look like less of a rock star.
The Dr. Feelgood band sued one of their managers Monday, claiming that Carl Stubner made business decisions with his own interests in mind and gave Lee bad career advice, which in turn tarnished the group's image.
Def Leppard is “about 85, 90 percent finished” with its next album, which singer Joe Elliott says it is “a very rock album” tentatively titled “Songs From the Sparkle Lounge.”
I'm not a metal fan by any stretch but this group has definitely caught my attention. Sonically, they're alt-metal/hard rock and lyrically they're pretty melancholy. Yet I find their music oddly energizing and uplifting.
Check them out. If you remotely like Evanescence, you'll definitely love this band!
Veteran metallers Machine Head took home the two big prizes at the Metal Hammer Awards in London on Monday night.
In what's being billed as a first, Bon Jovi is bundling a digital iTunes copy of the band's upcoming album, "Lost Highway," with advance tickets for October concerts in Newark, New Jersey.
Check out track one on this Pitchfork playlist! It's the feelgood hit of the summer from the awesome "Spoon."
A song from Marilyn Manson's latest album is an ode to My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way, in which the shock rocker accuses the singer of ripping off his sound.
Swedish rockers The Hives are taking their music in a new direction for their next album - they've teamed up with rap producer Pharrell Williams.
Reunited rock band Candlebox will preview new material during a US tour that kicks off this week.
Yuppie Punk has put together a list of the "the ten wettest whistles in rock history."
Foreigner is eyeing "either the end of this year or early next year" to release a new album, according to group founder Mick Jones. And it's likely to contain a mix of both brand new and familiar material.
Free performance art on Grand Avenue at California Plaza in downtown Los Angeles... see Ozomatli this Sunday 6.10
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