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Travel Agenda: Tenerife Rock Coast Festival; Mount Everest treks; Barbados; Museums at Night festival; Monastero Santa Rosa hotel
Friday 11 May 2012
Where to go and what to know
Album: Marilyn Manson, Born Villain (Cooking Vinyl)
Sunday 29 April 2012
On the first listen to Born Villain, you notice references to Shakespeare, Baudelaire and the Greek myths. Say what you like about Marilyn Manson: you don't get that stuff from Slipknot.
Album: Marilyn Manson, Born Villain (Cooking Vinyl)
Saturday 28 April 2012
One of the great things about the Sex Pistols was their brevity, the way John Lydon called time on the antagonism after a single album to embark on more fruitful endeavours.
Festival Guide 2012: Download - 'Booking festival bands is pure politics'
Friday 30 March 2012
Andy Copping, 51, senior vice-president of music at Live Nation, has been promoting Download Festival since its rebirth in 2003
The Barometer: Bon Iver; Frank Ocean; Gang Colours; Sleigh Bells; Ital; Hectic Zeniths; A$AP Rocky; The Minutes; Sbtrkt
Friday 06 January 2012
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Gene Simmons proud of KISS empire
Wednesday 09 November 2011
The veteran musician can't understand why some bands refuse to endorse products and with his own group putting their name to over 3,000 different ventures, he believes they have properly embraced the spirit of the "music business".
Is Gene Simmons the man to give our economy the kiss of life?
Wednesday 09 November 2011
Business leaders of the future are tuning into Kiss frontman's billion-dollar brand lecture
Kiss off Jackson tribute line-up
Thursday 18 August 2011
The rock band Kiss have been dropped from the line-up for a Michael Jackson tribute concert after it emerged the group's bassist had called the dead pop star a child abuser.
Tommy Lee thinks albums make no sense
Wednesday 20 July 2011
Motley Crue's Tommy Lee thinks creating albums "makes no sense".
Slipknot close Sonisphere UK
Monday 11 July 2011
Slipknot closed Sonisphere festival in the UK with a "f***ing celebration" last night.
Ozzy Osbourne in tribute to 'dedicated' NHS
Tuesday 05 July 2011
Legendary rocker Ozzy Osbourne has paid tribute to the NHS 63 years after it was founded in the year of his birth.
Video: Johnny Depp & Alice Cooper jam
Wednesday 29 June 2011
Johnny Depp surprised fans at an intimate Alice Cooper gig in London, when he appeared on stage to play guitar with the legend.
Album: Eminem Bad Meets Evil: Hell the Sequel (Shady/Interscope)
Friday 17 June 2011
Arriving unheralded by even the merest hint of advance notification, Hell the Sequel represents the belated reunion of Eminem and Royce Da 5' 9", an 11-track EP that outlasts many an album.
For those about to rock, we salute you
Sunday 12 June 2011
As 40 years of heavy metal are celebrated in Birmingham, the genre's spiritual birthplace, James McMahon picks out its top players
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