Extreme, one of the biggest bands of the late 1980s, are to re-form for a show in their home town, Boston, on June 30. The line-up is Gary Cherone (vocals), Nuno Bettencourt (guitar), Pat Badger (bass) and Paul Geary (drums).

Motorhead, Saliva, P.O.D. and Shadows Fall all have tracks featured on the album ‘WWE: Wreckless Intent’. Released by Columbia in America at the end of May, this is a compilation of intro themes, used by WWE superstars. Also included are songs from Brand New Sin, Zebrahead, Killswitch Engage and Theory Of A Deadman.

Motley Crue will have to finish up their Canadian tour without drummer Tommy Lee, who’s still suffering from tendonitis. His replacement is former Skrape man Will Hunt, with Dark New Day.

New Order are to release a live DVD on June 19th called New Order – New York / Hyde Park. The live shows were recorded in June 2005 from Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City and Hyde Park in London. The band will be playing a small number of festival dates later this year in […]

The Who have revealed they intend to release a mini-album this June. The release, titled ‘The Glass Household’, based on Pete Townshend‘s ‘The Boy Who Heard Music’, will last just eleven minutes, and precedes a full-length album planned for the Autumn.

Wilco has been road-testing material intended for its next Nonesuch album and will return to the studio next month for more recording. The group has no firm timetable for the release of the as-yet-untitled set, which will be the follow-up to 2004‘s “A Ghost Is Born.”

The Lostprophets are to call their new album ‘Liberation Transmission’. It’s to be released in late June.

Earache Records have teamed up with Metro 3D for develop a new computer game called ‘Earache: Extreme Metal Racing’, which is to be launched in various formats on July 7. Featured on the soundtrack are such bands as Napalm Death, At The Gates, Cathedral, The Haunted, Hate Eternal, Cult Of Luna, Beecher, Urkraft, Anata, Mistress […]

As I Lay Dying are to release an album of early recordings next month. It’s to be called ‘A Long March: The First Recordings’. This is also to feature new versions of old songs.

Robert Plant is to be the main attraction at the Cornbury Oxford Music Festival 2006, which happens on July 8/9.