ContactMusic — Lady Gaga Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift are leading the way with nominations at Mtvs second annual O Music Awards The stars will all compete for the digital ceremonys Fan Army prize alongside acts including Iron Maiden Demi Lovato and Lil Wayne whil... more info

Altsounds — *An evening with Nicko - A Night of Drums and Drumming - The Slade Rooms, Wolverhampton: Tuesday 15th November 2011* Nicko McBrain hardly requires an introduction. Having joined Iron Maiden in 1982, Nicko has become an established and charismatic fi... more info

Guardian Music — Our writers are picking their favourite albums. Here, Dafydd Goff explains how a religious upbringing was no match for the seedy tales of Axl RoseI was eight years old when Appetite for Destruction was released in 1987 – and I wanted a copy more th... more info

ContactMusic — Heavy rockers Iron Maiden have raised more than 57600 36000 for the ongoing relief efforts in Japan following the devastating earthquake and tsunami in March 11 The band was travelling to Tokyo for two shows when the massive 9 0-magnitude tremor s... more info

Stereogum — I sort of can’t believe I’m typing this, but Ryan Adams has been straight killing it lately; his new songs “Lucky Now” and “Ashes & Fire” and his Iron Maiden cover are all varying degrees of great. And now here comes another song from the... more info

Stereogum — In the run-up to his new album Ashes & Fire, Ryan Adams has been on, uh, fire lately. First there was the lovely, scaled-back new single “Lucky Now.” Then, there was the equally (and improbably) lovely cover of Iron Maiden’s “Wasted Years.”... more info

Metal Injection — A little media trick for all you metal fans. It used to be fairly common practice for musicians to have live performances overdubbed with "playback" of the originally recorded song, in pop music particularly. Maiden was asked to perform on a German T... more info

CNN Showbiz — Now that you can fly to Iceland on the Iron Maiden plane (check out our recent Q&A with the plane's captain, Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson), we thought we'd acknowledge a few other ways you can travel 'with the stars' -- by going to their own shops, ... more info

Guardian Music — Let us know what you think of Laura Marling's third albumThings have changed for Laura Marling. The once fey folkie who wouldn't say boo to a goose now comes wrapped in an Iron Maiden T-shirt and plays thrash-metal songs called things like The Beast.... more info

Guardian Music — (EMI)Despite having won "best new act" awards from both Kerrang! and Metal Hammer last year, London-based metalcore five-piece Rise to Remain have attracted almost as much attention for the fact that frontman Austin Dickinson is the son of Iron Maide... more info