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KORN To Participate In Climate-Change Concerts

The Associated Press reports that KORN is among the artists that will take part in a series of worldwide concerts to focus on the threat of climate change, Al Gore announced on Thursday (Feb. 15). The 24-hour event on July 7 is part of a kickoff campaign, Save Our Selves - The Campaign for a ...

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PAIN Confirmed For Germany's SUMMER BREEZE Festival

PAIN, the Swedish band led by HYPOCRISY mastermind Peter Tägtgren, has been confirmed for the tenth-anniversary edition of Germany's Summer Breeze festival, set to take place August 16-18, 2007 in Dinkelsbühl. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): ABSOLUTE AFTER FORE...

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OOMPH, TÝR Confirmed For Germany's ROCK HARZ Festival

German industrial rockers OOMPH and Scandinavian Viking metalheads TÝR have been confirmed for the Rock Harz open-air festival, set to take place July 6-7 in Osterode-Dorste, Lower Saxony, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): A.O.K. AFTER FOREVER ASP CRAYFO...

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RUSH Signs With SESAC Performing Rights Organization

SESAC, the nation's fastest growing performing rights organization, has signed legendary rock group RUSH for U.S. representation. One of the music world's most successful and revered rock bands, RUSH has been a mainstay on rock stations for more than three decades accumulating multiple platinum and...

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SUFFOCATION, RAGE Confirmed For Germany's SUMMER BREEZE Festival

SUFFOCATION and RAGE have been confirmed for the tenth-anniversary edition of Germany's Summer Breeze festival, set to take place August 16-18, 2007 in Dinkelsbühl. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): ABSOLUTE AFTER FOREVER AMON AMARTH BLACK MESSIAH BOLT THROWER CO...

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AEROSMITH Frontman Lobbies For Creation Of Department Of Peace

Andrew Ramonas of The GW Hatchet Online reports that AEROSMITH frontman Steven Tyler joined actor Joaquin Phoenix, U.S. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) and other members of Congress at Lisner Auditorium in Washington D.C. Monday night (Feb. 5) to lobby for the creation of a Department of Peace in fron...

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Report: At New OZZFEST, Freedom Ain't Free

Lee Bains of CMJ (College Music Journal, a weekly magazine of and for the music industry and college radio stations in the United States and Canada) reports: "Announcing yesterday that this summer's Ozzfest will be a free event, Sharon Osbourne waxed altruistic, saying, '[We] want the kids to be abl...

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W.A.S.P., AFTER FOREVER, LAKE OF TEARS Confirmed For Germany's ROCK HARZ Festival

W.A.S.P., AFTER FOREVER and LAKE OF TEARS are among the newly confirmed bands for the Rock Harz open-air festival, set to take place July 6-7 in Osterode-Dorste, Lower Saxony, Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): A.O.K. AFTER FOREVER ASP CRAYFOX DARZAMAT DI...

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OZZFEST 2007...FOR FREE

"This will change everybody's impression of the way touring in the summer in America should be." -- Sharon Osbourne Imagine a day of wall-to-wall hard rock. Imagine the world's greatest headliner sharing a bill with cutting edge new artists. Imagine if this brass-knuckled beast was hellbent on comin...

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EUROPE To Perform At UPOP@ABBEY ROAD SESSIONS

Reactivated Swedish hard rockers EUROPE announced yesterday (February 5) that they will be performing at the UPop@Abbey Road Sessions on Feb. 14, 2007 in London, U.K. EUROPE will be showcased among some of the hottest global recording artists in a four-day international broadcast event, sponsored by...

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P.O.D. Forms Partnership With INO And COLUMBIA RECORDS

INO and Columbia Records has announced a partnership with spiritual rockers P.O.D. (a.k.a. PAYABLE ON DEATH),fresh off the heels of their New Year's Eve performance in Times Square. This event marked guitarist Marcos Curiel's first performance with P.O.D. in nearly four years. Currently involved in...

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MORELLO Says RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE Is Reuniting To Deliver 'Knockout Blow' To BUSH

AUDIOSLAVE/ex-RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE guitarist Tom Morello spoke to MTV.com about RAGE's decision to reunite for the eighth annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, on April 29. According to Morello, RAGE will be taking the stage with a singular mission in mind. "To de...

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MINISTRY To Perform Acoustic Set At Guitar Center In El Paso Today

According to a posting on the DigiTech web site, MINISTRY will perform an acoustic set today (Wednesday, January 31) at the Guitar Center in El Paso, Texas as part of the Digi-Truck-Tour, which is described as a "fifty-three-foot showcase of guitar effects and modeling." MINISTRY has been nominated...

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SQUEALER A.D., BLACK MESSIAH, PRESIDENT EVIL To Perform At Germany's SUMMER BREEZE Festival

SQUEALER A.D., BLACK MESSIAH, PRESIDENT EVIL and ABSOLUTE will perform at the Summer Breeze festival in Dinkelsbühl, Germany as part of the AFM Records label night. The groups will take the stage on Friday, August 17 starting at 1:00 a.m. after the regular festival set is finished. The tenth-anniver...

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STRYPER Frontman To Judge 'Gifted', The Christian Reality Show

STRYPER frontman Michael Sweet will serve as one of the judges on "Gifted", the two-hour primetime TBN television special that culminates months of nationwide searching to find and present the brightest new talent in Christian music. The show will air on January 26 at 7:00 p.m. The official program...