According to Novinky.cz, The Prague Municipal Court has filed an indictment of Lamb Of God vocalist Randy Blythe on manslaughter charges. The Court will now have three months to set a date for a formal trial. Lamb Of God’s manager, Larry Mazer, has responded to Blythe’s indictment below. After a three month investigation, the prosecutor in the Czech Republic has decided to move forward with an indictment of Randy Blythe on the charge of manslaughter with intent to cause bodily harm. Obviously, we intend to fight vigorously against these charges as we feel that in no way did Randy intend[Read More…]
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Oh, Sleeper Guitarist Announces Departure From Band
Oh, Sleeper guitarist James Erwin has announced his plans to leave the band. Read below: Hello Archers, James here, I come baring bittersweet news. I’m stepping down from Oh Sleeper early next year after our Australia/New Zealand tour. After nearly 7 years, 3 records, an EP, countless tours and endless memories, I’m ready to move on. I’ll be forever grateful for the support of our fans. Thank you for everything you’ve done for us that made this dream a reality. I never deserved this. If I’ve left any mark on your lives I hope it’s this: Never give up on[Read More…]
City In The Sea Sign To Sumerian Records
City In The Sea have signed to Sumerian Records. They will release their debut album in early 2013. The label has released a video below:
Make Me Famous Vocalist Quits, Band Plans To Break Up
Make Me Famous vocalist Denis Shaforostov has quit, and they have announced plans to break up. Read below: Statement from Dusty, Sergei, Serj and Jimmy from Make Me Famous We are currently in the middle of our first, and unfortunately the last headline tour as the band Make Me Famous. This will also be our last tour and time playing in the band known as Make Me Famous. As it were, most the members of Make Me Famous were very excited and grateful for this opportunity. We would like to say that we love playing music; love touring and most[Read More…]
UPDATED: New Found Glory Going On Hiatus
UPDATE: Guitarist Chad Gilbert has denied the band is going on hiatus. Hiatus is not for NFG. We like playing shows and being a band more than anything. I think what Jordan said was misconstrued! November 28, 2012 at 10:07 pm: New Found Glory have announce that they are going on hiatus. Read below: I think we need to go away for a little bit,” explains Pundik, who’s in the process of opening a tattoo shop in Nashville. “We’ve been touring for a long time. I don’t think anybody’s in the headspace for writing a new record. We won’t go[Read More…]
Puddle of Mudd’s Wes Scantlin Cleared Of Public Intoxication
Puddle of Mudd‘s Wes Scantlin has been cleared of the intoxication charge against him for a JetBlue airline inciden. According to reports, the judge in the case ruled that there was “insufficient evidence” to prosecute the singer.
Taking Back Sunday Surprise Eddie Reyes With Male Stripper
Taking Back Sunday surprise guitarist Eddie Reyes with a male stripper for his birthday. Watch below:
The Plot In You Announce New Album ‘Could You Watch Your Children Burn’
The Plot In You have announced their new album ‘Could You Watch Your Children Burn‘. The album will be released on January 15th.
Mayday Parade Members Start Side Project, Truth Or Consequence
Mayday Parade guitarist Brooks Betts and bassist Jeremy Lenzo have started a side project called Truth Or Consequence. Read below: "Truth Or Consequence" will release music and other content all this month. Follow us for updates. @brooksbetts @AlexandraKees @jeremylenzo — Truth or Consequence (@TruthOrCons) November 24, 2012
Chiodos Guitarist Jason Hale Leaves Band
Jason Hale has tweeted that he is “not playing with chiodos anymore.” Read below: https://twitter.com/jasonhaletx/statuses/272044714755244032
Dave Grohl To Deliver Keynote Speech At SXSW 2013
Dave Grohl has been announced as the keynote speaker for South By Southwest Music Conference on March 14, 2013 in Austin, TX.
The Air I Breathe Break Up
The Air I Breathe have broken up, frontman Tony Dougard offering a brief explanation Below. band broke up. Members left one by one to do other things with their lives that they felt more passionate about. I finished some tours and shows that were already booked because I didn’t want to fuck over any promoters bands or most importantly TAIB fans who planned on seeing us… Im just one member and it doesn’t seem right to add a bunch of new members and call them TAIB regardless of the blood sweat and tears I put into that band.
Hellogoodbye Sign To Old Friends Records
Old Friends Records (Fearless’ sister label) have announced that their first official signing is Hellogoodbye. Read a statement from the band below: We’ve had some exciting news in our pockets for a while over here at hellogoodbye: our next full length record (which we’re about halfway through tracking) will be released next year by the new label Old Friends Records,” explains lead singer Forrest Kline. “Not since we released our first high school demo cassette on ‘Awkward Teenagers singing about Dawson’s Creek Records’ have we been involved with such a serendipitously named record label! Back when I was an awkward[Read More…]
Daytrader Announce Break Up
Daytrader have announced that they are no longer a band and have dropped off their UK tour with Such Gold0. Frontman Tym is currently working on a new project, while guitarist Gary Cioni is back with, Crime In Stereo.
Before Their Eyes Announce Break Up
Before Their Eyes have announced that they are breaking up. Read below: The Finale. Coming soon. We love you all. 2006-2013, the best years of our lives. THANK YOU.
Blink-182 Release T-shirt For Hurricane Sandy Relief
Blink-182 have released a benefit T-shirt for Hurricane Sandy relief. 100% of the profit will go to the American Red Cross Disaster Relief Fund. You can get it from the band’s webstore.
I See Stars & Sumerian Records Release Statement On Being Kicked Off The Falling In Reverse Tour
I See Stars and Sumerian Records have release statements after their removal from Falling In Reverse tour. Read below: All it takes is a spark to ignite my bad intentions.” – Ronnie Radke/Falling In Reverse Here is the truth: Months ago before “The Thug In Me Is You” tour started, a cop found marijuana in our van. We were arrested. As a result, Ronnie said we were kicked off the upcoming tour. All the shows on the tour were already on sale with our name being advertised, so we didn’t think it was fair to the fans or to ourselves[Read More…]
Mitch Lucker (Lead Singer Of Suicide Silence) Killed In Motorcycle Crash
Mitch Lucker of Suicide Silence passed away this morning after a motorcycle accident. Read below: Mitch Lucker, singer for the Riverside heavy metal band Suicide Silence, died Thursday morning, Nov. 1, after being in a motorcycle crash Wednesday night. The Orange County coroner’s office said Lucker was pronounced dead at 6:17 a.m. Thursday at UCI Medical Center in Orange County. Coroner’s officials said Lucker was hospitalized after a motorcycle accident shortly before 9 p.m. Wednesday. Huntington Beach police were investigating the crash and expected to release details Thursday morning. The 28-year-old lived in Huntington Beach but grew up in Riverside,[Read More…]
Rachel Taylor Rejoins He Is We
Rachel Taylor has officially rejoined He Is We as the vocalist and plans to write the next album. It is uncertain if Trevor Kelly will be in the band.
Meg & Dia Break Up
Meg and Dia have announced they have called it a day. Read a statement from Meg Frampton below: I’ve been reading about a lot of concern on twitter and Facebook since we decided to close down the Meg and Dia merch store a few days ago. So, I’m going to address your concerns here in this blog post. Firstly, we decided to close the merch store down because we all live in different cities and, since all of the merch is at Nick’s house, he’s been handling all of the tasks, such as shipping and packaging the items, all on[Read More…]