System Of A Down have been confirmed as one of the headliners of the Kerrang!-sponsored Download festival, which is set to take place at Donington Park in Leicestershire between June 10 - 12, 2011.
Download will be one of the recently reunited band's first shows since they went on hiatus in 2006. During their time away frontman Serj Tankian embarked on a successful solo career, releasing two albums - 2007's Elect The Dead and this year's Imperfect Harmonies - while guitarist Daron Malakian and drummer John Dolmayan formed Scars On Broadway, whose eponymous debut album was released in July 2008.
SPIN's David Marchese offers his picks for the season's best page-turners for the music lover who wants the stories beyond the sounds, from reefer to riot grrrls, from punks to rappers.
Fred Durst gave fans a peek at the progress of Limp Bizkit's fifth album 'Gold Cobra' during a live web chat yesterday (November 24).
The singer played a number of tracks, including one the band have recorded with Wu Tang Clan rapper Raekwon.
Durst prefaced the track by saying, "You guys might not be able to handle it because it's not rock shit. It's some fuckin' cock your fuckin' gun shit."
He referred to the tracks as "non-album tracks", but the songs played were described as ... ...
Jared Leto, singer of the band 30 Seconds To Mars, posted very incriminating pictures of Linkin Park singers Mike Shinoda and Chester Bennington on his Blog. Apparently the rivalry between the two successful Rock bands reached its climax when 30 Seconds To Mars won the MTV EMA for Best Rock against Linkin Park and found their hotel room vandalized with a mocking message left by their rivals:...
No longer haunted by boyish break-up demons, the pop dynamo returns with startling maturity.Oh, lady, you just earned our 15 bucks. Rihanna will sell millions of copies of Loud, her fifth album, and she'll deserve every penny of it -- not because it's a dependably excellent club-shaker, though it is, but because no woman should have to endure the kind of pick-up line Drake shoots her way on "What's My Name," the record's second single. "I heard you good with those soft lips / Yeah you know word of mouth," purrs the Canadian rapper (and Ri-Ri's rumored fling). "The square root of 69 is 8 something, right / 'Cuz I been trying to work it out."
Woof. But while Casanova rolls over in his grave, Rihanna smirks and takes it in stride. Drake may open the track, but she reigns in their shared world -- with a coquettish flip, she glides into a chorus that leaves no doubt: "Hey boy, really wanna see / If you can go downtown with a girl like me." In the video, she struts happily around New York's Lower East Side in a zebra-striped jacket, a nod to the actual animal she sat atop in the video for last year's "Rude Boy" -- with her bodysuit covered in Keith Haring-esque graffiti to match the floor and walls, like Haring himself was bodypainted to melt into his own squiggly backdrop in Annie Liebovitz's 1986 portrait. "Rude Boy," from last year's defiantly terse but uneven Rated X, was released when the young pop star was still struggling to overcome her well-documented romantic difficulties with boyfriend Chris Brown, and seemed about to melt into the tabloid stories.
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