Clean Bandit “Rather Be” single review

Cambridge based Clean Bandit have returned with an absolute gem for the charts with their new single Rather Be. Featuring the lovely vocals of Jess Glynne, the fresh and memorable tune appears to be lighting up the eyes of every listener. The band are well known for their blended classical club chart hits and Rather Be is no different. The blend of violins and pianos with dance pop rhythms are definitely what keeps this track…

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Opeth, Phil Anselmo, Black Label Society and many more added to Download Festival 2014

The organizers of Download Festival 2014 mean business – they’ve just announced a lot more participants, confirming artists such as Opeth, Phil Anselmo and the Illegals, Black Label Society, Bowling For Soup, Flogging Molly, Bad Religion, the BossHoss, Skid Row, Tesla, Bury Tomorrow, Danger Danger, Powerman 5000, Huntress, the Graveltones and Anti-Mortem. The headliners had been previously announced: Avenged Sevenfold, Linkin Park and Aerosmith. Rob Zombie, Fall Out Boy and Alter Bridge were announced as…

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Wild Beasts announce new album and release new video

Source Wild Beasts – Present Tense album artwork The English indie rock band decided to release their latest video for the first song, Wanderlust, from the band’s upcoming album, Present Tense. The album was recorded at Konk Studios in London and at The Distillery in Bath, co-produced by Lexxx and Brian Eno collaborator Leo Abrahams; the video was directed by Barcelona’s NYSU films. Also the band announced some upcoming tour dates…

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Black Label Society reveal new details about upcoming album

Source Black Label Society finally reveals the release date for their upcoming album, Catacombs of the Black Vatican. The band’s forthcoming album is set to be released on April 8 and was announced through a video trailer and a message posted on the band’s official facebook page: WE WON’T STOP UNTIL IT’S COMPLETE BLACK LABEL WORLD DOMINATION! Share the video with your friends and DESTROY AND CONQUER! tBLSt GIFD Talking to…

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Rare footage of Nirvana’s final Los Angeles gig emerges – watch

Documentary maker Dave Markey has uploaded the footage he shot in December 1993 at Los Angeles’ Great Western Forum – one of the last concerts Nirvana performed. Four months later, Cobain would take his own life. The footage, which you can watch above, includes performances of ‘All Apologies’ and a cover of David Bowie’s ‘The Man Who Sold The World’. Writing about the footage, Markey says: “20 years ago tonight (December 30, 1993) I stood…

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Bullet For My Valentine started recording new album

Source Bullet For My Valentine logo This year has barely started and this guys already entered the studio to record their fifth album , the follow-up of their Temper Temper album released last year. The band actually tweeted the message below in order to announce this: Happy new year everyone!! Today we enter the studio for session 1 of album 5. Time to get heavy. MT. — BFMV (@bfmvofficial) January 6, 2014…

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Xandria reveals details about upcoming album

Source Xandria – Sacrificium album artwork The symphonic metal band decided to reveal some details about their upcoming album on their official facebook page. Sacrificium, is going to be the band’s sixth album but the first one with their newest singer, Dianne Van Giersbergen. The album is set to be released on May 2 and the band also decided to share some official tour dates for Accompanying the album release, as the band wrote…

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Bruce Springsteen stream upcoming album: High Hopes

Source Bruce Springsteen – High Hopes album artwork The American rocker decided to stream his entire upcoming album, High Hopes, one week before its release. The album is set to be released on January 14 via Columbia. High Hopes is the artist’s follow-up to Wrecking Ball, which was released in 2012, and is his 18th album so far. The album contains covers, remastered versions of some past songs and of course some…

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Joey Jardison talks about not leaving Slipknot

Source Joey Jordison Even though at the end of last year, in an interview for  Minneapolis radio station 93x, Corey Taylor, Sipknot’s frontman, talked about Joey’s departure, it seems that drummer does not intend to leave the band. I can confirm that we have parted ways with Joey and as soon as we can say something, we will, but we’re trying to protect him, trying to protect us, just making sure that we do…

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Anette Olzon released new lyric video: Falling

Source Anette Olzon Former Nightwish singer already announced earlier this month to release a new solo album on February 28th next year, but now she unveils a new video for one of the songs from her upcoming album, Falling. According to the artist, the upcoming pop-rock album: The album is very personal with songs I have started writing already in 2009 but also very recent songs. The overall message of the album is that…

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