Friday November 30, 2007 A Perfect Circle guitarist announces long awaited solo project
Lead guitarist and songwriter Billy Howerdel — founder and producer of A Perfect Circle — is launching a solo project called Ashes Divide . And this time he's taking on the role of lead singer too.
Howerdel has just signed to Island Records and the...
Michael Schenker News Frenzy!
It's all go in the Michael Schenker camp: putting the various troubles of his last UK tour behind him, the former Scorpions and UFO guitar star is returning to these shores to play more gigs and offer guitar lessons – at £200 an hour – plus he's also...
Thursday November 29, 2007 Win! Stiff Little Fingers DVDs up for grabs
Stiff Little Fingers are true punk legends and an all-new
DVD, Still Burning , celebrates the band’s 30th anniversary. It
charts the legacy of Northern Ireland’s original punk heroes in
a 90-minute tour de force of blistering punk noise and
attitude. The...
Wednesday November 28, 2007 It's So Easy: Enter the Ultimate Guitar Showdown competition - judged by Slash
Fancy yourself as a guitar hero in the making? There's still time to enter Slash's Ultimate Guitar Showdown , an online competition in search of the ultimate guitar solo.
Music Nation's competition will be judged by the Guns N' Roses legend and will...
Tuesday November 27, 2007 Getting The Funk Out Again: Extreme reunite for tour and new album
If only for the fact their bassist was called Pat Badger , Extreme are a band to be remembered fondly.
Of course their 1991 smash hit More Than Words may drive some of you to drinking meths to numb the agonising pain but there's no denying guitarist ...
Hawthorne Heights guitarist passes away at 25
Hawthorne Heights guitarist Casey Calvert has died suddenly.
The 25 year-old was discovered dead on the band's tour bus hours before a show in Washington DC on Saturday (24 November). The cause of death has yet to be determined.
The band posted the...
Friday November 23, 2007 Pose And Win!
They say you should always dance as if no-one’s looking, and the same goes for Rock Guitar Posing™. So what if you look stupid to the Burberry-clad numpties that pollute our streets with their petty crime and Rothmans butts? You’re a rock God, right? Top hole!...
Monday November 12, 2007 Major new musician’s website coming soon: sign up and win!
Due to launch soon, MusicRadar.com is a brand-new website for music makers from the makers of the world’s best musician’s magazines - Guitarist, Total Guitar, Guitar Techniques, Future Music, Computer Music and Rhythm.
The site brings music makers the...
Friday November 09, 2007 My Bloody Valentine: new album coming soon
Guitarist Kevin Shields has now announced that My Bloody Valentine will release a new album in the very near future. Shields say the first MBV album since
1991 is now more or less done and will surface soon, alongside a
compilation of other MBV material....
Guitars for everyone: Music For All scheme launches
Music for All (www.musicforall.org.uk) is a new sceheme of projects designed to create more opportunities for people to understand and experience the joys and benefits of music making.
Recent research has confirmed a significant demand for learning to...
Friday November 02, 2007 Led Zeppelin reunion show postponed: Jimmy Page has fractured his finger
The Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert , originally scheduled for Monday 26 November
and featuring Led Zeppelin , Bill Wyman and the Rhythm Kings , Paul Rogers , Paolo Nutini , and Foreigner has been postponed until December 10th
due to Zeppelin guitarist...
Thursday November 01, 2007 News of the day: Manowar to play first six albums live in their entirety
Jesus wept. Manowar has confirmed that they will perform the band's first six albums in their entirety at next year's Magic Circle Festival , set to take place July 9-12, 2008 in Bad Arolsen, Germany. The event will feature four days of metal, 20,000 free...
Opeth update: new guitar, new amp, new album… new baby
Opeth mainman Mikael Åkerfeldt has issued the following update on current goings on:
"On October 28 at 9:20 AM my wife gave birth to our second daughter, Mirjam Ebba Maria Åkerfeldt. She is so beautiful, just looking at her brings me to tears!
Who'd...
Tuesday October 30, 2007 Joe Satriani starts new album
Shred overlord Joe Satriani has entered the studio to begin recording his new album with aplan to releasing it next Spring.
"Joining me this time are engineer/co-producer John Cuniberti, drummer Jeff Campitelli, bassist Matt Bissonette,...
Thursday October 25, 2007 Metal for the masses: reformed At The Gates confirmed for UK's Bloodstock festival
Bloodstock , the United Kingdom's finest upcoming metal festival, has managed to book the reunited At The Gates for one of their limited run of farewell shows next Summer. A kind of 'you say hello, they say goodbye' situation for younger fans who never...
