Our colleague Frank Kimenai is in Austin, Texas right now where is visiting the SXSW festival. He is so kind to let us know what we are missing up there. Today: Report of day one. SXSW: Day one, Tuesday, March 13 After an exhausting travel of about 16 hours in total, thanks to missing connections in Houston, I arrived [...]
[Report] Frank at SXSW: Part one
March 15, 2012
[Listen] New project with guitarist Iron Maiden and members of SikTh and Bat For Lashes
January 3, 2012
Any of you still remember the band SikTh? A phenomenal English band which played some weird version of metal, or something like that. They were awesome. But they split up. Now 2 members (one of the vocalists and the drummer) teamed up with Adrian Smith. He’s guitarist in some band called Iron Maiden or something. And [...]
Metalachi: Metal Mariachi music
November 18, 2011
Metalachi. The kings of metal mariachi. Run to the hiiiiiiills!
[Watch] Video premiere Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier
July 13, 2010
The video for Iron Maiden’s The Final Frontier just released. Spacy!
The Japanese Iron Maiden wishes you a great weekend!
April 23, 2010
[Special] Best tv appearances ever: Iron Maiden
October 15, 2009
Today, we start our new special with weird (live) television appearances by bands. Some are lip-syncing, some are just acting weird, some are doing both. Or sometimes it’s in a strange setting with equally strange public. You may remember we’ve already posted blogs about Fear shocking the public of Saturday Night Live or a very [...]
The gods among reviews
August 6, 2009
Reading reviews can be pretty boring. But Ben Patashnik made a really beautiful one in the last NME (1 August 2009). Here are some other great ones we came across: Various Artists | How Soon Is Now? Smiths Tribute Niet doen dus. (Just don’t do this) CD, Sorepoint/Suburban Text: Joris Heemskerk Nee! Nee! Nee! Nee! [...]
Oldest heavy metal fan around
January 19, 2009
An 82-year-old heavy metal fan from Weobley in Herefordshire has spoken about his longstanding love affair with rock music like Iron Maiden etc.. Read more.
Iron Maiden guitar stolen
August 6, 2008
Well, the Stooges got robbed, as you could read a couple of posts ago, but now, Iron Maiden also got robbed from their unique, one of a kind, only existing specimen in the world guitar, owned by Adrian Smith. It meant more to him than all of his children together. If you return it, you [...]
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[Spotifriday] Your weekend soundtrack – Week 21
May 25, 2012
Exitmusic – Passage This duo consists of husband and wife Devon Church en Aleska Palladino, from (Shit, again?!) Brooklyn, New York. With EP From Silence, which they released a year ago Exitmusic showed us their first sign of life.. Passage, their debutalbum, is a bit more bombastic, but still got the sultry sound. Next to this sultry [...]