As plans were been made to go into the recording studio in 2001 by famous US band Metallica, their bass guitarist Jason Newstad left the band due as he put it to ‘A physical damage I have done to myself over years playing in Metallica’.

Legendary personalities dint memories in hearts of their fans and supporters and the Kiss band is the prove. Though Kiss has been disbanded, it has influenced music and fashion styles of many band-followers, through their live performances, featuring firebreathing, blood spitting, smoking guitars, and pyrotechnics are hard to reestablish.

The Madchester trend was coined for the alternative music scene that developed in Manchester, the Great Britain in late 1980s and mixed indie rock and dance. The founders of the newly emerged musical style are labelled the Happy Mondays and the Stone Roses from Manchester, UK. Their music is quite complicated to describe, however, very easy to remember.

What started out as a love for music and simply having fun jamming with buddies has led Greg Grunberg and his friends to an unusual place: packed venues playing rock and roll for charitable causes!

Motley Crue are back with a new album, a song that's a hit with gamers and an upcoming festival tour, but the bad-boy rockers are frustrated that a long-awaited movie about their lives is going nowhere.

Who said you can never go home again? For Dublin-born singer-guitarist Dave King of Irish-American punk rockers Flogging Molly, all it took was a little help from his eventual wife and bandmate, violinist Bridget Regan.

Coldplay are currently holed up in a studio in northern London, trying to hammer out the details for their still-untitled fourth album, due out in May.

Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page said that he is ready to take the band out on a world tour after last month's one-night reunion concert in London.
But, he warned fans that it is not going to happen soon as the lead singer has other plans.

"U2 3D," a film of the band's 2005-06 Vertigo tour, shot at several shows in South America with new 3-D technology. "It's kind of horrific," to see himself on stage in 3-D, said Bono.