Guitars & Stuff

Despite his recent cancer diagnosis, Tony Iommi is apparently on a creative roll. Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler revealed on his website that Iommi recently wrote the music for two songs for the forthcoming Sabbath album. “Today [January 19], we got the engines back up and running at Tony’s home studio,” Butler writes. “Far from …

Nickelback have their fair share of detractors, and let’s face it, they are often the unfair scapegoat for everything that is wrong with modern rock music, but no one can accuse the band of taking themselves too seriously. After laughing off the insults hurled at them by The Black Keys, engaging in a Twitter tiff …

Megaupload.com founder Kim Dotcom was arrested earlier this week (January 20) after New Zealand police found him hiding in a safe room with a loaded shotgun, according to reports. Reuters reports that Dotcom – also known as Kim Schmitz – was apprehended following the closure of Megaupload earlier this week, when dozens of police officers …

Riot guitarist Mark Reale is in a coma after suffering a brain haemorrhage as a result of his continuing battle against Crohn’s Disease. The band last week announced he’d miss some live shows after being taken to intensive care, and that his condition was critical. Now they’ve confirmed Reale, 56, the only founding member to …

Adele‘s second album “21” has spent 16 weeks at the top of the US Billboard 200 chart, meaning that it has now broken records set by both The Beatles and Pink Floyd. The Tottenham bred soul singer has now matched the success of the soundtrack to the 1997 film “Titanic“, but beaten The Beatles “Sgt …