Karen Bliss
Mixhell’s Iggor Cavalera Isn’t Sure If Old Fans Like His New Band, But He Does
The first question Sepultura and Cavalera Conspiracy fans will want to know -- will they like Mixhell, the electronic project drummer Iggor Cavalera formed with his wife, Laima Leyton?
"I don't know," Iggor laughs. "I really enjoy it, because for me it's still very, very extreme...
Rush’s Alex Lifeson Spreading His Acting Wings
Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson, who has taken on a few small acting roles, is set to appear in a new Canadian-made television show, tentatively titled 'The Drunk and on Drugs Happy Funtime Hour.'
Lifeson has already appeared in the 'Trailer Park Boys' -- a fantastic loser comedy about exactly that, trailer park boys -- and he re-teams for this new series with the stars of that long-running cult class
Hail the Villain Get the Word Out on the Road
So what does a band whose singer has been called "a star" and an "enigmatic manic personality onstage" by the person who signed them have to do when they plan to release only animated music videos? The answer -- tour.
"This has been one of those things where have been having a big huge battle with us as to how people are going to see us," admits Hail the Villain fro
Hail the Villain Making Animated Movie
Hail the Villain's debut album, 'Population: Declining,' has been in the can for a couple of years, and now that they are signed with Warner Music in Canada and Roadrunner for the rest of the world, you would think the Canadian hardcore band would want to hurry up and release it -- except they have ambitious plans...
Nickelback’s ‘Burn It To The Ground’ Selected for Monday Night RAW
Nickelback have entered the world of professional wrestling. No, they won't be getting in the ring, but their music will be heard loud and clear, hopefully pumping up the contenders.
Their latest single, 'Burn It to the Ground,' an industrial-strength wound-up hard rocker from their latest 'Dark Horse,' has been selected as the new RAW theme song, starting next Monday, Nov...
Three Days Grace Deal With Loss on ‘Life Starts Now’
Three Days Grace's 2003 self-titled debut dealt with the behind-closed-doors quirks of their small-town life in Norwood, Ontario; their second, 2006's 'One-X,' the temptations and stress of being in an internationally successful rock band, namely frontman Adam Gontier's addiction to painkillers and subsequent recovery...
Creed Bring Arena Show to Toronto Club
Creed brought their arena show to a 350-capacity Toronto club Oct. 29 to say hello to their Canadian fans after a seven-year absence. The Tattoo Rock Parlour was jam-packed for the Florida rockers, in town to do some promotion behind the new album 'Full Circle...
Three Days Grace ‘Bully’ Just In Time For Bullying Awareness Week
Bullying Awareness Week is Nov. 15 to 21, and coincidentally hard rockers Three Days Grace have just released their latest album, 'Life Starts Now,' which contains the song 'Bully.' It begins with schoolyard taunts and cheers and calls of "get him" and "bust his hand...
Dez Fafara, Michael Schenker, More Unite for ‘We Wish You a Metal Xmas’
Is your grandmother hard of hearing? Good, because the holidays will get that much louder on Nov. 24, when Armoury Records, via Eagle Rock Entertainment, release the digital-only EP 'We Wish You a Metal Xmas.'
Hear Anvil's Steve 'Lips' Kudlow, Doro Pesch, Michael Schenker, Girlschool, Whitesnake's Doug Aldirch, DevilDriver's Dez Fafara and others rock some life into such classics as 'Frosty the
Metallica Command Canadians at Air Canada Centre
Canadians are a laid-back, conservative bunch, eh? Not the fierce lot who congregated at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto last night for the first of two sold-out Metallica concerts. Congregate is the right word. It was like a religious experience for those die-hards, and it seemed everyone was -- right to the nosebleed sections where fists were raised...