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A Week In Music, Depeche Mode Back With New Album, The Gaslight Anthem Storm The Boards, Have Coldplay Released The Best Album Ever?
Albums of note… In 2013, the apparent year of the comeback, Depeche Mode made a mini-one of their own, with their first album in four years Delta Machine. Dave Gahan’s still at the vocal helm...
By Contributor in Music / Festivals on 08 April 2013
Victoria Beckham Creates Prescription Glasses Range
Victoria Beckham has created a range of prescription glasses. The 38-year-old fashion designer has joined forces with Cutler and Gross to create a six-piece collection of optical frames after struggling to find a pair she...
By Bang Showbiz on 06 August 2012
Tributes Continue To Pour In For Deep Purple's Jon Lord
Ewan McGregor, Slash and Stereophonics have paid tribute to late Deep Purple musician Jon Lord. The keyboard player and founder of the heavy metal outfit passed away in London aged 71 yesterday (16.07.12), and a...
By Bang Showbiz on 17 July 2012
Deep Purple Rocker John Lord Dies
Deep Purple star Jon Lord has died aged 71.The keyboard player suffered a fatal pulmonary embolism - a blockage of the main artery of the lung caused by a moving blood clot - and passed...
By Bang Showbiz on 16 July 2012
Christian Bale Thinks Tom Hardy Is 'Phenomenal'
Christian Bale thinks Tom Hardy is a ''phenomenal'' actor.The 38 year old actor claims his talented 'The Dark Knight Rises' co-star ''knows his s**t'', but says the heavy costumes meant the pair didn't get much...
By Bang Showbiz on 31 May 2012
The Voice Recap: Christina Aguilera In Spat With Tony Lucca
Christina Aguilera had the claws out last night (April 30, 2012), when her former Mickey Mouse Club pal Tony Lucca took to the stage on The Voice. Christina has taken issue with the support that...
By Lew Irwin on 01 May 2012
Newt Gingrich Ordered To Stop Using The Heavy's Track In Political Campaign
U.S. Republican Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has been hit with a cease and desist order from Canadian music bosses after using The Heavy's How You Like Me Now? at a Florida campaign rally.The politician blared...
By WENN on 30 January 2012
Iron Maiden Announce En Vivo! Live Album
Iron Maiden are releasing a live album of their The Final Frontier World Tour, called 'En Vivo!' The album was recorded in Santiago, Chile, in April 2011 as part of the Round The World In...
By Bang Showbiz on 18 January 2012
Black Sabbath Want 'Positive Vibes' For Tony
Black Sabbath are asking fans to sent guitarist Tony Iommi "positive vibes" in the wake of his cancer diagnosis.The heavy metal musician has been diagnosed with an early stage of Lymphoma and while he is...
By Bang Showbiz on 10 January 2012
Rihanna Samples Metallica On 'Talk That Talk'
Rihanna has sampled Metallica on her new album 'Talk That Talk'. The 'Cheers (Drink to That)' hitmaker has sampled some of the guitar riffs from the heavy rockers' 'Wherever I May Roam' track on 'Red...
By Bang Showbiz on 10 November 2011
Jack Osbourne Announces Baby Is On The Way
Jack Osbourne is to become a father for the first time.The 'Adrenalin Junkie' star has confirmed fiancee Lisa Stelly - who he got engaged to two weeks ago - is expecting their first child and...
By Bang Showbiz on 12 October 2011
Metallica Announce 'Lulu' Release
Metallica and Lou Reed's 'Lulu' album will be released on October 31. The 'Enter Sandman' group collaborated with the former Velvet Underground singer earlier this year -which Lou described as "a marriage made in heaven"...
By Bang Showbiz on 22 August 2011
Ac/dc Worried By Deadlines
AC/DC never work to deadlines when making albums. Brian Johnson said none of the 'Back to Black' rockers make any choices about when to record their next album because it makes them "worried".He told the...
By Bang Showbiz on 09 August 2011
Metallica Record Album With Lou Reed
Metallica have recorded an album with Lou Reed. The unlikely pairing of the metal band and the avant-garde former Velvet Underground frontman has resulted in a ten track disc which Lou describes as "a marriage...
By Bang Showbiz on 16 June 2011
Angelina Jolie Names Directorial Debut
Angelina Jolie has named her directorial debut 'In the Land of Blood and Honey'. The Oscar-winning actress shot the movie - a love story set during the Bosnian war of the early 1990s - last...
By Bang Showbiz on 16 May 2011
Slipknot Unsure Of Future After Tour
Slipknot are unsure if they will continue after their forthcoming tour.The group are preparing to play their first shows since the death of bassist Paul Gray last May and frontman Corey Taylor has admitted the...
By Bang Showbiz on 03 May 2011
Metallica To Work With Rick Rubin On Next Album
Metallica will work with "zen guru" Rick Rubin on their next album. The heavy metal group made their most well received record in years, 2008s 'Death Magnetic', with the producer and bassist Robert Trujillo is...
By Bang Showbiz on 26 April 2011
Heavy Metal Roadie Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga has been a roadie for Iron Maiden.The 25-year-old singer is a huge fan of the heavy metal group and offered to do chores for them backstage when they met in Tampa, Florida during...
By Bang Showbiz on 21 April 2011
Can U.s. Networks Afford The Royal Wedding?
After incurring heavy costs with their coverage of the uprisings in Libya, Egypt, and Tunisia as well as the Japanese earthquake and tsunami disasters, it's unclear whether the broadcast networks and cable news channels will...
By Lew Irwin on 17 March 2011
Metallica Become Family Friendly
Metallica singer James Hetfield has made his band's live shows "more family-friendly" since becoming a father. The heavy metal singer has toned down his language when the group play live for the sake of his...
By Bang Showbiz on 07 December 2010
Bookworm Lemmy
Motorhead singer Lemmy is more likely to be spotted reading than taking groupies backstage on tour. The heavy metal bass player and vocalist is renowned as a hard living, hard drinking rocker, but despite his...
By Bang Showbiz on 06 December 2010
Russell Brand's Bullock Gift
Russell Brand and Katy Perry were given a bullock as a wedding present.The 'Get Him To The Greek' actor - who is a devout vegetarian - tied the knot with the 'California Gurls' singer last...
By Bang Showbiz on 01 November 2010
Metallica Drum Up Charity Sum
A Metallica fan paid $35,000 for an hour-long drumming lesson with Lars Ulrich.The one-on-one class with the heavy metal star was auctioned off for the huge sum as part of a charity fundraising scheme by...
By Bang Showbiz on 14 October 2010
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