Music giant BMG has just significantly added to their cache of great songs by acquiring the worldwide rights to Virgin Music Publishing Companies, Famous U.K. Music Publishing and select current songs from Sony/ATV and EMI Music Publishing. As part of the deal, they're acquiring tracks from artists like Nirvana, Iggy Pop, Lenny Kravitz, Tears for Fears and more.
While A Day to Remember may have broken through at radio and delivered something a little more catchy with 'All I Want' from their last album, the band still knows how to rock and they show it with the release of the new song, 'Violence (Enough Is Enough).' The blistering cut finds frontman Jeremy McKinnon returning to full scream while the rest of the band provide a furious backing to the song.
Ministry and Rigor Mortis guitarist Mike Scaccia has died at the age of 47 after collapsing onstage at a performance in Fort Worth, Texas, on Saturday night (Dec. 22). The musician had been performing with thrash metal veterans Rigor Mortis at the Rail Club when he suddenly fell to the ground after suffering a heart attack. Classic Rock magazine reports that one of the band's members returned to the address the crowd, stating only, "It doesn't look good." Scaccia was rushed to the hospital, but passed away soon after.
Metallica just keep rocking along, year after year, becoming one of metal's most enduring acts. But with that longevity comes the possibility of complacency, which is something that drummer Lars Ulrich says he doesn't think will ever happen.
Alan Vine, a former bassist and personal assistant for Motley Crue's Vince Neil, is threatening legal action against his former employer if he doesn't help resolve his current tax issues. Vine, who was a member of Neil's band in the early 2000s, claims that the singer's manager wrongly reported his salary, thus leading the IRS to look into his financial background, and he's asking for some help in clearing things up.
The latter portion of 2012 has found the members of Green Day mostly off the grid while singer Billie Joe Armstrong completes his rehab. But the band is taking the first steps in regaining their footing, beginning with a new music video and their first announced dates of 2013.
Yes, we've not even turned the calendar on 2013 yet, but Stone Sour's Corey Taylor is thinking so far ahead that he says 2014 may be an even bigger year for the band than what's immediately on the horizon.
The cameras will be rolling when the members of Suicide Silence and their all-star lineup of guest vocalists team up for a memorial concert to salute the band's late singer, Mitch Lucker. The vocalist died in a motorcycle crash Halloween night and the idea of the show is to not only pay tribute to the singer, but to also raise money for the future education of Lucker's daughter, Kenadee.
In shocking news out of the United Kingdom, Lostprophets lead singer Ian Watkins has been charged with six child sex offenses, including conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a female under 13, along with the possession and distribution of "indecent images of children."
Alice in Chains have unleashed the first taste of their upcoming album in the form of the new single 'Hollow.' The track can be heard in the lyric video below.
Danko Jones is one of the more outspoken musicians in rock and his viewpoint and willingness to speak out has made him the perfect guest columnist for the Huffington Post. This past week, the world lost music great Ravi Shankar who died at the age of 92 and Jones decided to dedicate this week's column to remembering the sitar icon and Beatles collaborator and relating it to his own experiences with music growing up.
