Most college students aren’t interrupted in the middle of class by autograph-seeking frat boys. And most college students can’t claim to have appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone clad in nothing but a single tube sock. So no, Flea is not your typical freshman. But with the Red Hot Chili Peppers on an open-ended [...]

Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant has scotched rumours that he is to tour with the band, describing speculation as “frustrating and ridiculous”.
Last week, The Sun newspaper reported that he had agreed to a reunion tour.
But he has not and will not go on the road with anyone for at least two years after [...]

As if plastic guitars, drums, basses and microphones weren’t enough, “Guitar Hero” publisher Activision Blizzard is also working on a DJ-based music game called “DJ Hero,” a source confirmed to MTV News.
On Friday, gaming blog Kotaku reported the first alleged details on a new Activision Blizzard music title, currently called “DJ Hero.” MTV News [...]

Can a Metallica album be too loud?
The very thought might seem heretical to fans of the legendary metal band, which has been splitting eardrums with unrivaled power since the early 1980s.
But even though Metallica’s ninth studio release, “Death Magnetic,” is No. 1 on the album chart, with 827,000 copies sold in two weeks, some fans [...]

Word Magazine readers have been busy building this map showing where iconic album cover photographs were taken. You can zoom in by double-clicking an area of the map or by using the slider on the left hand side. Click on a blue marker to see full details of that album.

Music Animation Machine is a sweet litte and free application which makes great animations from every MIDI file. Here is J. S. Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor as you never seen it before, plus more info about the Music Animation Machine.

(Kaki King, september 26, Vera, Groningen. Photo: Klaas)

She’s the hottest chick in Danity Kane and she DEFINITELY loves to be sexy…

I would have thought the novelty of the Pussycat Dolls would have worn off by now but apparently I would have been mistaken because here they are performing at the launch of their new album Doll Domination. Their outfits look like they’re ready for a little domination. Nothing sexual, I just want them to come [...]

Simon Iddol is happy this week and you will be happy as well if you listen this weeks best mashup. We have gold brothers and sisters, we have gold in this post. Hi-brid just created  the perfect example what mashups are good for. To create new from old, to make new better, to put huge [...]

(Lykke Li, september 23, AB Club, Brussel. Photo: Joris)

Residents of northern Los Angeles County are not grooving to this music.
Lancaster city officials said this week that they’re paving over a quarter-mile strip of asphalt grooved to play the William Tell Overture when auto tires speed over it.
The road was completed this month as part of an ad campaign for Honda. It’s engineered to [...]

The one-man-band is playing this classic AC/DC song

(My Brightest Diamond, september 21, Melkweg, Amsterdam. Photo: George)

(Crystal Castles, september 20, Tivoli De Helling, Utrecht. Photo: Dennis)

Robbie Williams could be abducted by aliens any day and become an ambassador for their race.
The pop star is a “point man” for extraterrestrials and will soon start a new religion in their honour, according to the director of the New York Centre for Extraterrestrial Research, Michael C Luckman.
Luckman - the author of [...]

Simon Iddol is late, very verrrrrry late with the MOTW this week. I blame this track. I got addicted, I listen it in repeat for days. I lost my sense of time and Attu had to kick my ass to realize, that I forgot to post the track what I’m enjoying so much. I don’t [...]

Nicole Scherzinger, that hot singer for the Pussycat Dolls, looks like a present ready to be unwrapped when she’s wearing an outfit like this.

(Bowerbirds, september 17 september, Rotown, Rotterdam. Foto: Riny)

I can’t put it any other way: these are music’s best beards.

I’ve said this before, but I think Paulina Rubio is a dirty dirty girl. I don’t know why, I just have a feeling about it. Maybe dirty isn’t the right word, more like naughty, and it may have something to do with the golden hotpants she’s wearing. Come on! I though only strippers and roller [...]

(Zuco 103, september 13, Assen. Photo: Klaas)

Say what you will about Brooke Hogan but that rack… I mean, c’mon, that rack is not only amazing, it keeps her safe and afloat at the beach.

Pink Floyd keyboard player and founder member Richard Wright has died aged 65 from cancer.
Wright appeared on the group’s first album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, in 1967 alongside lead guitarist Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and Nick Mason.
Dave Gilmour joined the band at the start of 1968 while Barrett left the [...]