Live Daily — Billy Corgan is gearing up for a series of concerts, during which he'll hit the stage without his Smashing Pumpkins [ tickets ] cohorts. Dates and venues for the trek--which is billed as "Billy Corgan with special guests Spirits in the Sky"--will ... more info

The Music Fix — Gig Review: Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Mastodon and the rest at Sonisphere on Sunday. more info

A planned music festival in Iowa featuring classic rock acts like SAXON, TWISTED SISTER and GREAT WHITE has been scrapped after a bust up between organisers and venue bosses more info

Totally Fuzzy — perfectradio@btinternet.com (MIKE) said...Frank Sinatra - Live In Australia 1974 full concert FM stereo mp3@160kbps.http://beehivecandy.blogspot.comDeaf, Dumb, Blind said...The Damned - Phantasmagoria (1985)Ian McCulloch - Candleland (1989)Ian McCull... more info

Guardian Music — Ian Astbury believes iTunes kas killed the album. And all the people who download single tracks are proving him right. But is it too soon to say RIP to the LP?This summer has seen the loss of many greats: the King of Pop, the king of psyche-garage-po... more info

Thrash Hits — Saxon @ Sonisphere Festival 2009 photos courtesy of Gary Wolstenholme more info

Altsounds — Metal titans *Saxon *confirmed at last weekends Sonisphere Festival that they will be headlining the Saturday of Hellfire Festival on November 7th at NEC Birmingham. Expect lashings of Heavy Metal Thunder from the original masters of Metal who cont... more info

Thrash Hits — While we were wandering around the Sonisphere Festival arena in a drunken, slightly damp haze, we spotted several posters for Hellfire Festival which had some very interesting names on it. (Saxon and Anvil, just in case you can’t read the title.) S... more info

Bones from a mass burial pit (above) in Weymouth have been dated to the late Saxon period after initial scientific testing. Picture courtesy Oxford Archaeology Scientists analysing the bones of executed bodies from a mass grave uncovered at an ancien... more info

Rolling Stone — Billy Joel and Elton John’s Face 2 Face tour has been slightly derailed. The pair were forced to cancel dates in Buffalo and Albany, New York, because Joel is suffering from flu-like symptoms, the AP reports. Billy Corgan debuted a new song tentati... more info