Guardian Music — Academy, Leeds"I said 'Fuck you' to the record companies," begins Anvil's frontman, Steve "Lips" Kudlow. "My asshole is still hurting!" Then he whips out a metal vibrator to play guitar, tells us war is wrong because "we should all be friends", and p... more info

Live Daily — Singer/songwriter Bob Schneider [ tickets ] will spend part of the fall supporting his long-awaited new album, "Lovely Creatures." The Austin-based musician will start off Oct. 17 in Little Rock, AR, visiting major markets in the Southern states t... more info

Thrash Hits — With Hellfire Festival II only a matter of weeks away, we thought it was about time to offer up a nice prize so we got a pair of weekend tickets to the festival. Then we arranged a Meet & Greet with heavy metal legends, Saxon. Then we got a bunch of ... more info

Guardian Music — Prize-winning work by 10-year-old future Beatle contained hint of band's trademark logoThe developing imagination of Sir Paul McCartney has been revealed by the chance find of a schoolboy essay which won him a regional prize at the age of 10.The youn... more info

Guardian Music — How will the girl group survive without any of its founder members?On the 2007 Sugababes tour, an official T-shirt bore the names of all its members, past and present: "Keisha & Mutya & Siobhan & Heidi & Amelle." In an amusing – if perhaps tel... more info

Live Daily — Squeeze co-frontman Glen Tilbrook will embark on a late-summer and fall solo tour of the US behind his recently released album, "Pandemonium Ensues." The British singer/songwriter will begin the journey with a Sept. 10 show in Philadelphia to bene... more info

Thrash Hits — Our favourite Canadian hardcore merchants Cancer Bats have been added to the already great lineup at Hellfire Festival 2009 along with Swedish metal fiends Katatonia, British mentallists Ted Maul and Japanese silly buggers Electric Eel Shock. Saxon a... more info

Rolling Stone — Whitney Houston has granted Oprah Winfrey what the show is billing as “the most anticipated music interview of the decade” — the singer’s first sit-down in nearly seven years. The episode airs September 14th, two weeks after the release of I ... more info

Thrash Hits — Saxon @ Bloodstock Open Air 2009 photos courtesy of Gary Wolstenholme —– more info

Billy has formed a new group with ex-husband of former bandmate Arcy Wretzky. Corgan debuted Spirits In The Sky tribute concert for late Sky Saxon, and now he's keen to make sure it wasn't a one-off.. more info