By Angus MacSwan LONDON (Reuters) - Decades on from his days as an angry young rocker, a role in a Hollywood movie playing an ageing musician struggling to make a comeback has helped give a new lease (More...)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Country-pop singer Taylor Swift will be honored as this year's songwriter and artist of the year by the Nashville Songwriters Association International, making her the onl (More...)

By Patricia Reaney NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hip-hop artists Macklemore & Ryan Lewis scored the most American Music Awards nominations on Thursday with nods in six categories, followed by country-pop s (More...)

By Piya Sinha-Roy LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Pop singer Justin Timberlake scored his second chart-topping album this year on Wednesday as his latest record debuted at No. 1 on the weekly Billboard 200 al (More...)

Were you one of the lucky people over in Germany last year to watch TESTAMENT play a great set at Wacken 2012?  Well, most of us weren’t there so via the magic of the web, here is their entire s (More...)

Last month, Season of Mist announced the signing of MENACE, the brainchild of NAPALM DEATH axeman Mitch Harris. MENACE‘s debut album is entitled Impact Velocity and will hit the stores on March (More...)

Once again, another fruitful year in extreme music draws to a close.  We saw some long awaited comebacks by legends, three quarters of the original SABBATH line up, VOIVOD and CARCASS.  The godfathers (More...)

Norwegian blackjazz masterminds SHINING have unveiled a second video in their “Live on Location” series, where the band performs and records one-take live footage in weird, unorthodox and (More...)

Members of MACHINE HEAD, METALLICA, SLAYER, TESTAMENT, EXODUS, DEATH ANGEL, FORBIDDEN, SPIRALARMS, SUICIDE SILENCE, and RUBBLE will perform classic songs by BLACK SABBATH as part of an all-star tribut (More...)

Into the Void Records (a division of Invictus Productions) sets February 10th as the international release date for Death’s Crown is Victory, the long-awaited (13 years to be exact) comeback rec (More...)

Svart Records has set February 28th as the international release date for KUOLEMANLAAKSO‘s Tulijoutsen (?The Fire Swan?), the highly acclaimed Finnish death-doomsters’ second album and th (More...)

Swedish Grammy-winning rockers GRAVEYARD been confirmed to play this year?s Coachella Music Festival twice this April.  Let’s see if the mainstream hipsters and poptards will catch on. To (More...)

VALLENFYRE has officially entered the studio to record their second full-length album and follow-up to 2011′s A Fragile King entitled Splinters. Gregor Mackintosh (vocals and lead guitars) comm (More...)

Progsters CYNIC have posted a few new tracks from their forthcoming album, Kindly Bent to Free Us. The album drops February 14th internationally and February 18th in North America. “The Lion (More...)

After a canceled tour and band turmoil that led fans to wonder whether Kings of Leon would ever release new material the group has rallied back they're set to release their sixth studio album Mechanic (More...)

The first night of Governors Ball ended up a giant mud pit with fans and concession workers scrambling in the torrential wind and rain Concert promoters finally pulled the plug on headliners Kings of (More...)

The Ontario Ministry of Labor has brought charges against Live Nation Canada as well as a staging company and an engineer over the fatal stage collapse at a Radiohead concert in Toronto last summer&nb (More...)

Tropical Storm Andrea's driving rain and high winds couldn't keep Kings of Leon from the stage for long Governors Ball announced today that Friday's rained-out headliners have been rescheduled to play (More...)

The-Dream brought Gary Clark Jr along with him to share the stage at Late Night With Jimmy Fallon on Friday Accompanied by the Roots the two gave an intense slow-burn performance of "Too Early" a trac (More...)

The roughly 16000 fans who poured into Brooklyn's Barclays Center for Saturday evening's Paul McCartney concert had a pretty good idea of what would unfold over the next few hours Judging by the vinta (More...)

It was 445 on Saturday afternoon when everyone’s day at the Orion Music + More Fest basically imploded No matter where you were either across the field watching Dropkick Murphys or in a tent wai (More...)

Instead of a temperate evening of Southern rock Friday night at Governors Ball was a wash – quite literally Torrential rain and ferocious winds marred the opening day of the newly expanded three (More...)

It took an act of God at Governors Ball on Friday – an assailing miserable rainstorm and frightening flooding – to create a miracle on Saturday night And yet one happened it really did Ax (More...)

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers playing an intimate Saturday night show in the midst of a sold-out six-night run is an obvious hot ticket Unfortunately it turned out to be too hot for the fire marshal (More...)

UK quartet Alt-J has been causing a stir stateside since releasing their debut album An Awesome Wave last September The band is currently touring the US in support of their Mercury Prize-winning recor (More...)

Everything about Empire of the Sun is larger than life The band name the futuristic stage personas the Dune-inspired album art and – most importantly – the music The Au (More...)

Artist Blake HazardSong "Weekends Are For Amateurs" Album The Eleanor Islands "The song is about this couple who's unraveling and they go out dancing He wants to go home she wants to stay out" Blake (More...)

Kinky Boots the musical from pop star Cyndi Lauper won six Tony Awards last night including Best Musical Best Leading Man and Best Original Score Lauper a newcomer to Broadway wrote the music and (More...)

"All the harmony went fallin' out of key" Karmin lament in "Acapella" the duo's new ode to independence born from disappointment For the lead single off Karmin's as-yet-untitled forthcoming new album (More...)

Arturo Vega who designed the Ramones' iconic logo died Saturday He was 65 No cause of death was given Vega's death was announced by Legs McNeil author of Please Kill Me The Uncensored Oral History of (More...)