Kravitz talks about new album

His upcoming album is titled, “It Is Time for a Love Revolution,” with songs including “Love Love Love” and “Will You Marry Me.”. But his romantic side is a bit more mature and he said the album focuses on many aspects of love, and not just romantic love. “There are spiritual love songs, and social love songs, political, sad, happy and everything in between – it’s about a lot of things,” the 43-year-old rocker said…

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The Queens extend tour with European dates

A while back we released the tour dates for the [tag]Queens of the Stone Age[/tag] all US tour, now we’ve been informed that a couple of new shows have been announced that will surely delight European Queens fans. Right after they finish their US trek, the band will head to rock it out in Germany, before unleashing they royal rock to the Brits. Dates after the jump.

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Catch Queens of the Stone Age on tour this fall

When i get to talk about [tag]Queens of the Stone Age[/tag], It’s just so easy to write and to lay my words on ‘paper’, I mean there’s no secret I love this band to the death (not really, it’s just a figure of speech), their music has influenced my musical taste in a unimaginable degree, I could even go to such lengths and say I’ve discovered Rock’n’Roll alongside them. Few bands can light up a…

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Lita Ford-Out: For Blood/Dancin’ on the Edge

The people at BGO (Beat Goes On) records recently re-mastered Lita Ford’s first two releases and stuck them on one disc. Those who like what she sings probably had them recorded to some cassette. Dancin’ On the Edge is the epitome of what all other female rockers should strive for in an album. The track Dancin on the Edge keeps the fast pace moving along. Run with the $” and “Hit and Run” are Loverboy-style…

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Kiss frontman stole to many hearts…

Paul Stanley, guitarist and lead vocalist, for one of the ’80 rock icon bands [tag]Kiss[/tag], had some serious heart issues during a sound check, which required immediate medical treatment, this Friday 27 July. As Paul was absent the rest of the band (Gene Simmons, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer) was forced to complete the gig, at Soboba Casino, about 90 miles east of Los Angeles, as a trio. This is actually the first time in…

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Led Zeppelin to release ‘Mothership’ retrospective

[tag]Led Zeppelin[/tag] are considered by most critics the true pioneers of Heavy Metal, but also they epitomized the synthesis of multiple influences that characterized the best of 70s rock, while producing music that was stamped with their own dynamic identity. Along the years Led has had a brilliant career, spanning through their 12 year existence until John Boham tragic death, selling over 300 million records all around the world, releasing 8 LPs (all #1 both…

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Tragically Hip hungry for more

They have been together for almost 25 years, yet very little about them has changed. The big boys from Kingston, Ont., are very much the same. They have sold many copies of their most recent CD, World Container in Canada but outside the border they have not experienced the same success. There is breakup on the horizon. They are just the same old Tragically Hip, and guitarist Paul Langlois says they couldn’t be happier about…

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Pink Floyd anniversary debut album

[tag]Pink Floyd[/tag]’s smashing debut album “The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn”, launched 40 years ago on August 5 1967, is set to be remastered and re-released as a 3 disc tribute special edition on August 28, of this year. The packaging’s cover was designed Storm Thorgerson, resembling a cloth-covered book. Besides the 3 CDs the package contains a 12-page reproduction of Syd Barrett’s notebook, a excellent idea as Syd used to devise some brilliant…

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Josh Homme continues tour despite injury

Josh Homme, the notorious frontman for the stoner rock band [tag]Queens Of The Stone Age[/tag] has reveled he has some serious medical issues, namely knee problems. Josh made some medical interventions on his knee in 2005, but it seems his pain has relapsed. His knee issues could be clearly seen during this weekends T In The Park and Oxegen festivals, as was severely limping and using a walking stick. Stereo Warning did a very interesting…

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Smashing Pumpkins: ‘Zeitgeist’

Artist name: Smashing Pumpkins Album name: Zeitgeist Label: Reprise Gender: Alternative Rock/ Hard Rock Release date: July 10, 2007 ZMErating: 6.5/10 Website: http://www.smashingpumpkins.com/ The [tag]Smashing Pumpkins[/tag] are back, or should I say [tag]Billy Corgan[/tag] is back, after a 7 year hiatus. The band was a ’90 alt legend, seconding in my opinion [tag]Nirvana[/tag] as alt kings of our times. During the years, however, something went terribly wrong; after their classics 2nd and 3rd albums “Siamese…

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