Musician perishes after New York accident

Paramore beat off stiff competition from Ian Brown, Newton Faulkner and Madonna to top this week's UK album charts.The Tennessee pop-punks' third studio album, Brand New Eyes, knocked The Queen Of Pop's 34-track Best Of collection, Celebration, off the top spot when the charts were revealed yesterday (Sunday October 4).Brand New Eyes also topped...

200 crazy metalheads crammed into London's Centro to hear Slayer's new album, 'World Painted Blood'. Here were our top 9 things to have happened at the launch.1. We were in the door precisely 12 seconds before we heard the first "FUCKIN' SLAYAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!" scream of the evening.2. As the first riff ...

NAME: !!! PROGRESS REPORT: Recording the last guitar and keyboard tracks for their fourth, still-untitled LP, recorded at "The basement of the club Festaal Kreuzberg in Berlin, The Hangar in Sacramento. The one in Greenpoint [Brooklyn] doesn't have a name, so I am hereby dubbing it Total Health Care Studios. I'm sure it'll stick because that's w...

Portland's Panther seems to be a project destined to constantly evolve. Just two years ago referring to Panther was the same as referring to Charlie Salas-Humara, advertised as a "one man sonic wrecking crew" and was pretty much just that, all pointed and punchy, lewd and lo-fi with his electro dance concoctions. Last year Panther became a duo w...