Rock Music

25 June 2009

Kurt Cobain’s Bass Sells For $43,750

A bass guitar once owned by a young Kurt Cobain sold at auction in New York on Tuesday for over $40,000 (£26,600). The tragic Nirvana star's Sears model bass guitar was ...
25 June 2009

Fall Out Boy To Split?

Bands are forever plagued with rumours of a split, but as Fall Out Boy deal with more and more gossips predicting the end, Pete Wentz has finally spoken out against ...
24 June 2009

Foo Fighters Former Band Regroups

The original line-up of cult Seattle, Washington rock band Sunny Day Real Estate has reformed for a North American tour. The dates, which begin in September, will mark the band's first ...
23 June 2009

Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue

Alice In Chains’ first new studio album in more than 10 years will be released in the UK through Parlophone on September 28th. The band and producer Nick Raskulinecz (Rush, ...
23 June 2009

Dragonforce: News Update

After bringing their fiery fretwork to Donington Park last weekend for a capacity Download Festival performance, the band are set to play almost a month of shows in November & ...

23 June 2009

Kerrang! Awards’ Week Of Rock

Kerrang! Magazine have today announced that their annual Kerrang! Awards ‘Week Of Rock’ shows are back for 2009! Running across five nights at the HMV Forum from 28 July – ...
23 June 2009

Metallica Star Gets Biography

Late Metallica rocker Cliff Burton’s life is to be immortalised in a new biography, thirteen years after his tragic death. The guitarist was killed when the band's tourbus crashed in Sweden ...
23 June 2009

Poison Scrap Shows

Poison rocker Bret Michaels cancelled two solo shows in California at the weekend so he could fully recover from a stage accident that left him with a fractured nose and ...
22 June 2009

Van Halen Thinks Sobriety Makes Guitar Harder

Van Halen star Eddie Van Halen has confessed he has to work hard to maintain his guitar-great reputation - because sobriety has robbed him of his skills. Van Halen tells FemaleFirst ...
22 June 2009

Motley Crue Star Launches Clothing Line

Motley Crue fans in the U.K. will soon get the chance to dress like their idols - rocker Nikki Sixx is taking his clothing line to British shores. The guitarist launched ...
22 June 2009

Paramore Get New Guitarist

Pop punks Paramore have made guitarist Taylor York a permanent member of the group. York has been touring with the rockers since last guitarist Hunter Lamb left in 2007, and in ...
19 June 2009

Fightstar - Never Change Video

With their future now in their own hands with current album, ‘be human’ set on their own Search and Destroy label Fightstar’s incredible story of triumph and credibility against the ...
19 June 2009

Madina Lake - Let's Get Outta Here Video

FemaleFirst’s latest bunch of celeb best mates, Madina Lake have raided their local tailors for the video of their new single, Let’s Get Outta Here, and because it’s summer, we ...
19 June 2009

Benji Madden Dating Pete Wentz’s Sister

I love how rock stars try to keep it in the business… rocker Benji Madden has moved on after his split from Paris Hilton and is now dating fellow musician ...
18 June 2009

Courtney Love Reforms Hole

Courtney Love has reformed her rock act Hole after giving up on solo career plans. Following numerous delays and false starts to her solo album Nobody’s Daughter, Love will release the ...
17 June 2009

Nirvana Star Quits Politics

Former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic has given up his bid to change political policy in his home state of Washington - insisting he has made his point. The grunge rocker entered ...
17 June 2009

Kiss Star Inspires Urinal Cakes Thief

Kiss star Gene Simmons has sparked a new craze for stealing used urinal cakes from public toilets across America. The rocker thought it would be a giggle to promote his reality ...
16 June 2009

Golden Gods Award Winners

Last night was one of the most coveted award ceremonies in the world of rock music, The Metal Hammer Golden Gods awards, and saw everyone who’s anyone turning out to ...

15 June 2009

Metallica Stars Plan Homecoming Show

Metallica bandmates Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield are to rock their adopted Marin, California for the first time in a bid to raise funds for a planned museum exhibit. The two ...
15 June 2009

Kiss Frontman Turns To Painting

Kiss frontman Paul Stanley turned to art as a way of expressing his pain during his divorce. The singer was devastated when his marriage to first wife Pamela Bowen broke down ...
15 June 2009

Bo Bice To Be A Dad Again

American rocker Bo Bice is set to be a dad again - his wife is expecting their third child in January. Bice announced his partner Caroline's pregnancy on Friday night at ...

11 June 2009

Smashing Pumpkins Hire Teenage Drummer

Smashing Pumpkins rocker Billy Corgan has plucked a 19-year-old drummer from obscurity to join his Grammy-winning band.Mike Byrne, currently performing with a band called Moses, Smell the Roses, revealed he's ...
11 June 2009

Corey Taylor Attempted Suicide

Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor plunged into a spiral of depression after the band found fame - and came close to killing himself.The rocker developed a serious drink problem and became ...
10 June 2009

Papa Roach - Lifeline (Video)

Papa Roach’s fifth album ‘Metamorphosis’ has put the Californian quartet back on the rock map with its balls-to-the-wall, in-your face rock. First viral single ‘Hollywood Whore’ impressed fans and critics ...