Guardian Music — So what if the Monkees didn't play on their first two albums? It hasn't stopped their songs from becoming classic guitar-pop hits. Time is the only true judge of authenticityOn the occasions when I've let slip that I don't really mind the Jonas Broth... more info

Kerrang! — The annual Kerrang! sponsored Download festival is only a few months away and we wanna know who you think is gonna rock the hardest? You lot have already been hard at work voting in your MILLIONS! In fact, nearly six million of you think Limp Bizkit... more info

Kerrang! — K! Dot Com can exclusively reveal that the third headliner for this year's Kerrang!-sponsored Download festival is... Faith No More! The highly-influential Californian quintet originally split in 1998, following their world tour for 1997's Album Of ... more info

Kerrang! — At 8PM (GMT) this evening Kerrang! Dot Com will exclusively reveal just who will be joining Slipknot and Def Leppard as the third headliner of this year's Kerrang!-sponsored Download festival! Also on the bill of THE rock and metal event of the summ... more info

Kerrang! — Sean Smith – vocalist with Welsh rising stars The Blackout – will be co-presenting the XFM Rock Show live this weekend with regular host K!’s Katie P. The two will be presenting a four-hour Nu-Metal special, honouring the late ... more info

Thrash Hits — Five more names have been announced for Download 2009 - Welsh rockers, The Blackout, prog-metal kings, Dream Theater, Canadian post-hardcore types, Billy Talent, still-wishing-it-was-the-1980s throwbacks, Buckcherry, and the real-life Spinal Tap, Anv... more info

Kerrang! — Five more acts have been added to the bill of the Kerrang!-sponsored Download festival. And they are as follows: Anvil, Billy Talent, The Blackout, Buckcherry and Dream Theater. They will be joining headliners Slipknot ad Def Leppard plus previousl... more info

Roadrunner - Blabbermouth — DREAM THEATER, BUCKCHERRY, BILLY TALENT and THE BLACKOUT have been confirmed for this year's Download festival, set to take place June 12-14 at Donington Park, United Kingdom. more info

Altsounds — **The Blackout’s** Sean Smith to co-present **XFM Rock Show** live Nu-Metal special Sean Smith – vocalist with Welsh rising stars The Blackout – will be co-presenting the XFM Rock Show live this weekend with regular host ... more info

Said the Gramophone — There are at least two ways to be a curmudgeon.Sole & the Skyrider Band - "A Sad Day For Investors (Astronautalis remix)". You can build a house out of cinders, chalk and dustbunnies. A perfect house, no one would ever know but you. Then you sit in y... more info