“There’s something unreal about the number,” reckons Klaus Meine…the video for “Wind Of Change” has been viewed more than 108 million times on YouTube to date. VEVO meticulously recorded the view requests and certified them. With this, Scorpions are the first German band cracking the 100 million click mark. Once again, Scorpions have written a […]
Elvis Costello has compiled a 38-track, 2-CD set ‘Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album’ (UMe, October 9th) as a companion to his memoir “Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink” (Blue Rider Press/Penguin Random House, October 13th). Costello has chosen songs that offer the deepest emotional connection to the themes and stories in his book. The set includes […]
2015 marks a historic 50-year milestone for music legend Roy Orbison. On July 1, 1965, “The Big O” left Monument Records and signed with MGM Records, going on to release 11 studio albums, a film soundtrack and 27 singles over the course of the following eight years, and at the same time scoring another 11 […]
Joel Hoekstra’s 13 is a side project formed by current Whitesnake guitarist Joel Hoekstra, who is also well known for his work with Night Ranger, Trans Siberian Orchestra and the show Rock of Ages. The stellar musicians on the debut album “Dying To Live” are some of the absolute best the classic rock world has […]
The magical UK supergroup that is The Darkness revealed the North American dates on their Blast of Our Kind tour launching October 9th in Pomona, CA in support of fourth album Last of Our Kind – released June 2ndvia Kobalt Label Services. Last of Our Kind‘s title track features audio clips from over 500 Darkness fans, 15 of whom […]
Roger Waters The Wall, the eponymous soundtrack to the globally acclaimed feature film by Roger Waters and Sean Evans, will be released by Columbia / Legacy Recordings on November 20, 2015. Available physically on 2CD, 3LP vinyl, and digitally, the set captures Waters’ sold-out 2010-2013 “The Wall Live” tour, the first complete staging of the […]
21OCTAYNE – second round! Tentatively titled „2.0“, the highly-anticipated sophomore album by THE new rock band is a feast for all lovers of quality music. Fronted by powerhouse vocalist Hagen Grohe (The Joe Perry Project), guitarist Marco Wriedt (ex-Axxis) and drummer Alex Landenburg (Rhapsody) unleash a broad variety of ideas, sounds and songs, ranging from […]
Thrash metal genre pioneers MEGADETH will kick off the new year with the release of their 15(th )studio album Dystopia on Universal Music Enterprises /Tradecraft / T-Boy Records on January 22, 2016. With musical architect and band visionary Dave Mustaine at the helm, Dystopia was recorded in Nashville, TN, and mixed by Josh Wilbur (Lamb […]
December 24, 1975. London’s Hammersmith Odeon. Onstage at this legendary venue the four members of Queen are bringing to a close a ground-breaking show, transmitted live on BBC TV, and bringing to a climax the most eventful and exciting year in their careers so far – one that has taken them from the UK to […]
“Chronicles Of The Immortals – Netherworld II” is a fascinating symbiosis of art forms with which the German Prog-Metal Band Vanden Plas can clearly justify its exceptional status. Following the previously released “Chronicles Of The Immortals – Netherworld, Path 1” (2014), the listener can expect elaborate arrangements, sensitive piano melodies, and epic instrumental passages, paired […]