Avenged Sevenfold are to release a live CD/DVD package entitled ‘Live in the LBC & Diamonds in the Rough‘ on the 15th September.
The package combines a live DVD recorded earlier this year in the band’s hometown with a CD comprising rare and previously unheard material.
The CD will feature seven previously unreleased b-sides with a remix of ‘Almost Easy‘, an alternative version of ‘Afterlife‘ and Avenged Sevenfold’s covers of Iron Maiden’s ‘Flash of the Blade‘ and Pantera’s ‘Walk‘.
Avenged Sevenfold are also playing Reading and Leeds festival this weekend.
In celebration of the release of Million Dan’s ‘Spektrum Special Edition‘ there will be a launch party on September 1st at Astoria 2, Tottenham Court Road.
Muxtape.com, a website where users post a 12-song mixtape online that anyone can stream has been shut down by The RIAA. Some of the compilations were loaded with copyrighted music so it was only a matter of time before the RIAA got involved.
Stephen Malkmus has recruited some friends for his new video.
The Subways have called out Pete Doherty.
Slipknot have pulled out of this weekend’s Reading And Leeds Festivals.
San Francisco’s Jello Biafra is set to be one in a panel of judges at the finals of the US Air Guitar Championship. The winners will go forward to represent the US in the world championships in Finland.
Founding member of hugely influential Jamaican ska and reggae group, The Skatalites, Johnny ‘Dizzy’ Moore, has passed away. He died at home in Kingston last weekend after being treated for colon cancer.
Rise Against have posted a new song on their MySpace
Underoath have announce the tracklisting for their new album.