Linda Laban
Tracii Guns Joins ‘A Higher Consciousness’ Benefit
Tracii Guns will join many musical luminaries at Los Angeles' Club Lingerie on Jan. 28, for a special show that's been given the lofty title of 'An Evening of Higher Consciousness.' Hosted by actor Mathew St. Patrick ('Six Feet Under'), this benefit for the Drukpa Charitable Foundation will donate a portion of the proceeds towards disaster relief in Haiti...
Killswitch Engage Downsize for the Recession
Killswitch Engage launche their 2010 touring schedule with a hometown date at Boston's House of Blues on Feb. 4. The eight-week U.S. headlining tour -- the first trek through in support of 2009's self-titled album -- will feature the Devil Wears Prada and Dark Tranquility as support acts...
Killswitch Engage’s South American Travels Documented in Tour Diary
Killswitch Engage's fall 2009 South American tour is captured in a behind-the-scenes video diary series airing at the Web site of the band's label, Roadrunner Records. A new clip is added every Monday for six weeks through mid-February, capturing the Massachusetts metalcore band's first South American jaunt...
Embryonic Devourment Paid Off Mexican Cops
Techy Californian grindcorists Embryonic Devourment have announced dates for a spring tour in support of their second album, 'Vivid Interpretations of the Void,' which they expect to be released at the end of March. The initial touring bout takes them through the U...
Embryonic Devourment Avoiding the ‘Cannibal Corpse Type Gore’
Embryonic Devourment enters the recording studio this month armed with a heavy agenda. The techy grindcorists second album is strongly influenced by British writer David Icke, a former soccer player and Green Party member, who has campaigned for both animal rights and social justice, but whose reptilian humanoid conspiracy theories are often dubbed eccentric...
Killswitch Engage Guitarist Got Hurt Thanks to His Flip Flops
At the beginning of January, Killswitch Engage debuted a new video diary series capturing the Massachusetts metalcore band's first South American tour. The clips, which were shot in the fall of 2009, air every Monday for six weeks on the Roadrunner Records Web site...
Caspian Find Strength in Numbers as They Embark on New Tour
Massachusetts post-rockers Caspian reunited with founding bassist and co-guitarist Chris Friedrich and Calvin Joss, respectively, for a stellar hometown performance in Cambridge, Mass. at the end of December. True, the split had been a temporary one, at least for Friedrich, who was only absent for the band's enormous European fall tour...
Soundgarden to Reunite
How about some good news? Hot buzz for the New Year? Soundgarden are to reunite. No, it doesn't look like it's a hoax either. The Seattle grunge heroes' Web site has this less than cryptic message: "The 12 year break is over and school is back in session...
Between the Buried and Me Avoid Driving in the Snow
Kicking off Jan. 8 in Nashville, Between the Buried and Me begin a month-long North American headlining tour honoring their October-released album, 'The Great Misdirect.' In light of the recent Weezer tour bus crash, which left frontman Rivers Cuomo hospitalized and that band's dates canceled through January, the North Carolina prog metal quintet doesn't take driving in winter weather for granted.
Rob Zombie’s Persona Is Just His True Self
After more than a decade, Rob Zombie is reviving his Hellbilly Deluxe alter ego with a Feb. 2. release of the lengthily-titled 'Hellbilly Deluxe 2 -- Noble Jackals, Penny Dreadfuls and the Systematic Dehumanization of Cool.' "I like to keep things changing all the time...