Crazed Hits — Dino Paredes is VP of A&R for American Recordings, a record label founded and headed by Rick Rubin. The label’s most successful artists include Johnny Cash, System of a Down, Tom Petty and Slayer. You can watch the full interview here. Related Con... more info

Perez Hilton — Into every generation a slayer is born. Or so says the opening line of the hit-cult classic Buffy the Vampire Slayer. But this generation has already seen two different Buffys and now fans can gear up to see a third in the new feature length film. Th... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — DOWNLOAD: Dave Deporis - Slayer (MP3) Northside is finally upon us! The festival kicks off today with an opening party at Studio B [tix], featuring performances by Brightblack Morning Light, Mariee Sioux and more. Advance badges are still available f... more info

Starpulse — Happy Birthday to country rocker Matthew Shafer aka Uncle Kracker (1974), "Lady in the Water" star Paul Giamatti (1967), White Zombie bassist Sean Yseult (1965), Slayer frontman Tom Araya (1961), guitar hero Steve Vai[...] Read more! more info

Thrash Hits — We shouldn’t need to tell you how much Thrash Hits loves Slayer. If Slayer was a lady, we would love them in a sexy way. If Slayer was a man, we’d be having a full-on bro-mance with them. Well, we would, but we suspect Kerry King would probaly be... more info

JamBase — "NO SERVICE FEE WEDNESDAYS" ONE DAY ONLY, JUNE 3RD - 5 MILLION TICKETS - ONLY AT LIVENATION.COM Today (Wednesday, June 3), Live Nation has dropped service fees on more than five million lawn tickets and hundreds of concerts, helping add value and ... more info

Starpulse — Happy Birthday to Australian born country singer/songwriter Jamie O'Neal (1968), Phish bassist Mike Gordon (1965), Slayer guitarist Kerry King, Warlock singer Doro Pesch, 70s singer Dan Hill (1954),[...] Read more! more info

Live Daily — Live Nation this Wednesday (6/3) will launch a 24-hour, Internet-only promotion, during which the concert-industry behemoth will cut the service fees from lawn-seat tickets to a number of summer shows. Starting at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, fans will be a... more info

Perez Hilton — Yesterday, we mentioned that a new Buffy the Vampire Slayer flick iss in the works, but it will go on without Sarah Michelle Gellar and, more importantly, without beloved creator Joss Whedon. As expected, fans are raising hell! Hoping to shed some li... more info

NME - The Bands Blog — Leeds: May 16 Sweet Jesus Leeds is insania! The crowd here is crazy. There must be something in the water because the crowd were acting like it was full moon. We almost had a fatal crash on the way there so the near death experience made the show ... more info