The owners of a California Web site that sold Beatles songs for 25 cents each before they went on sale legally through iTunes have agreed to pay the band’s EMI Group label $950,000 to settle a copyright infringement lawsuit, court papers showed Monday. A federal judge ruled last December that Santa Cruz-based Media Rights Technologies […]

AC/DC has posted a second trailer online to promote its forthcoming live concert DVD titled ‘Live At River Plate.’ The set is planned for release on May 10, 2011 through Columbia Records and will feature the following tracklisting; 01. Rock N Roll Train02. Hell Ain’t A Bad Place To Be03. Back In Black04. Big Jack05. […]

Safety first. That’s the idea behind Iron Maiden’s move to cancel a gig in Rio Sunday night when a barricade at the front of the stage collapsed due to a surging crowd of enthusiastic fans. Terra reports the incident happened during the first song of the band’s set at HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro, […]

Seattle progressive rockers QUEENSRЕёCHE have set ‘Dedicated To Chaos’ as the title of their twelfth studio album, tentatively due mid-summer via Loud & Proud Records, a Roadrunner Records imprint focusing on established artists. The band is currently planning a tour in support of the new opus, which was recorded in the group’s hometown and produced […]

The album, ‘Remixes 2: 81-11’, will be out on June 6. It follows their 2004 collection, ‘Remixes 81-04’. UNKLE, Peter, Bjorn and John, Eric Prydz, and RГ¶yksopp are among the acts whose remixes feature on the album. It will be available as a one-disc and three-disc set. See Depechemode.com for more information. The tracklistings of […]

As previously reported, on the day after the big concert in Sofia for the Fifth anniversary of Tangra Mega Rock radio, MARK FOGGO and his SKASTERS travelled East to the city of Varna to play an intimate gig atВ the Three Lions Pub on Friday night. A fan video ofВ ‘Hashish From Amsterdam’ is available below.

According to Yahoo!, legendary hard rockers WHITESNAKE are set to surpass BRITNEY SPEARS’ comeback. The band’s 11th album Forevermore has so-far received 35% more pre-orders on Amazon.co.uk than Britney’s latest, ‘Femme Fatale’. A spokesperson for Amazon said: “Britney Spears is one of the most successful global pop acts with a career spanning more than ten […]

Porcupine Tree’s Steven Wilson and Mikael Akerfeldt from Opeth have now finishing writing the songs for their new project Storm Corrosion. Says Wilson: “There’s a lot of recording work to do, but this should definitely be out in early 2012.” Of the style of music people can expect, Wilson continues: “The one thing we didn’t […]

Despite the fact that last November, frontman Nufry denied any possible reunion of the legendary 90s rock band, now it seems we are about to see them back on stage together again. PYROMANIA guitarist Petko Drennikov posted on hisВ Facebook the following message: “Coming Soon Pyromania 2011.” Рўangra Mega Rock heard from a source close to […]

NYHC legends AGNOSTIC FRONT have released the first of three video clips from the bands most recent, chart-hitting album ‘My Life My Way’. Check out ‘That’s Life’В below. The clip was directed by Brian Darwas. ‘My Life My Way’ debuted on #67 of the German media control charts in its first week of sale. Tangra Mega […]