Big Scenic Nowhere team up with Reeves Gabrels and Per Wiberg for The Long Morrow

Widely credited as influential catalysts during the grunge goldrush, Dinosaur Jr. took. an embryonic Nirvana out on tour before riding the corporate alt.rock wave of the. 90s. But listening back to this box set of expanded albums spanning the trio’s major-label peak confirms founder and frontman J Mascis as a far more unorthodox avant-punk noise-metal innovator than his comically lethargic slacker-stoner lumberjack image suggests.

He was one of the most popular teen idols in the history of entertainment. As the star of the 1970s hit TV series, The Partridge Family, he rocketed to fame and then died too young.

Twisted Sister reunited for a one-off show last week, but don't expect to see Dee Snider's band reform for a world tour. Former Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider has hit out at artists who've gone back on their word when it comes to retirement plans and 'farewell' tours. Speaking to...

Tom Verlaine, singer and guitarist with New York icons Television, has died after a short illness. Television singer and guitarist Tom Verlaine has died at the age of 73 after a short illness. His death following a "brief illness" was confirmed by Patti Smith's daughter, Jesse Paris Smith, who tells...

Even the most ardent Bob Dylan fans were worrying that he’d dropped the ball with Time Out Of Mind, released in autumn 1997. There had been nothing really new from Dylan for seven years – just crumbs of comfort via an MTV Unplugged, various ‘best. of’s and...

Watch clip from Cynic's first live outing in eight years as they get ready for 70000 Tons Of Metal cruise. Cynic played their first show in eight years on Friday night in Los Angeles, California. The band were billed under the name 'Uroboric Forms' for the secret show at the...

This week on a special Sunday episode of CBS’ Fire Country, Freddy in the midst of getting big news found time to play match(re)maker, while a mysterious new threat emerged…. The catalyst for this Sunday’s post-AFC Championship game was a skywriting plane gone amok, blowing an engine or something and spiraling to the ground. The parachuted pilot was found alive and well, dangling in a tree, but his plane exploded soon after crashing, seeding multiple mountainside fires. Manny’s Three Rock inmates teamed with Vince’s Station 42 crew to battle the blazes, with the recurring concern being a home owned by Michael “Forever...

Pop producer Pete Waterman claims Judas Priest bottled releasing SAW-assisted cover of You Are Everything, saying, "It’s a Number One record – which is the last thing we want!" Pop producer Pete Waterman, one third of the hugely successful Stock Aitken Waterman songwriting/production team, says that Judas Priest...

Having broken up in 1972, burnt out following their lauded 1968-71 period during which they’d amassed multiple gold discs, earned millions by playing to millions and given the world one of its most enduring heavy rock anthems in Born To Be Wild, it. didn’t take too long for Steppenwolf...

R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe, Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea, Steve Albini, Vernon Reid, Alice In Chains' William DuVall and more pay tribute to Tom Verlaine, who passed away on January 28. Friends, peers and famous fans are paying their respects to late Television frontman Tom Verlaine, who died on Saturday (January...