When a band calls their album Booty Shakers Ball it’s a pretty good indication that having fun is what said band is all about. The four members of the Los Angeles-based rock band Vista Kicks have been making having fun a priority for a long time; singer Derek Thomas, guitarist and singer Sam Plecker…

When the Alan Parsons Project had a big hit with their Eye in the Sky album in the early ’80s, fans had to be content just with playing their copies of the album, as the band did not tour. That’s because there was no band. Parsons, the man who engineered the Beatles’ Abbey Road and […]

While there won’t be another Christmas album from country songsmith Kacey Musgraves, the singer-songwriter is going to do one better. Musgraves has announced a new album, Golden Hour, due out early 2018. Musgraves revealed some of the details about the new record in an interview with Entertainment…

Jeff Lynne, the famous producer, songwriter and founding member of Electric Light Orchestra, is headed to the Grammy Museum in downtown Los Angeles on Nov. 16 for an early screening of Wembley or Bust. The live concert film (and album) chronicles the Electric Light Orchestra’s hugely successful…

Beck fans in London had an eventful Sunday after the alt-rock star performed a surprise show at the Omeara where he previewed his upcoming album Colors. The show was announced earlier in the day via Twitter, as the veteran rocker tweeted out “All the #Colors live.” According to NME, the intimate…

Run to your local bookstore, Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson is turning the page to a new project this fall. The iconic heavy metal singer will release his anticipated autobiography, “What Does This Button Do?” on Oct. 31, and he’ll make a series of appearances in New York, California and New…

<img src="https://i.axs.com/2017/07/38453-optimized_596e23dba87c5.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt=" Toy Connor ” align=”left” border=”0″ /> Her fans have probably never seen any of the television commercials that she did as a little girl, but that’s okay because there’s still plenty of Toy Connor’s work out there to enjoy. Toy starred in the Emmy Award-winning HBO program “The Corner” and […]

As the excitement grows in anticipation of the forthcoming and seventh studio album by South African rockers Seether, fans just got another taste of what to expect on this long-awaited release, and it’s pretty awesome. The follow up to their 2014 album, Isolate and Medicate, the multi-platinum…

<img src="http://i.axs.com/2017/03/27594_58c04f8bb26be.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt=" Ghost Bath announce the forthcoming release of ‘Starmourner’ this April ” align=”left” border=”0″ /> Although most heavy metal might be a far cry from the vibe of the Pharrell Williams smash hit “Happy,” there is an array of moody vibes in metal as well. And then there’s North Dakota’s black metal masters […]

Although 3,000 passengers from 74 countries had a backstage pass for four days aboard the seventh annual 70000 Tons of Metal cruise, one unique event was off limits to fans. Until now. As one of the 61 bands on Royal Caribbean’s Independence of the Seas from Feb. 2-6, Arch Enemy held a press…