The 52nd annual Grammy Awards took place at the Staples Center in Los Angles last night (January 31). While pop stars like Beyonce Knowles and Taylor Swift scooped a record amount of awards, there were more losers than winners in the rock world.Silversun Pickups lost out to the Zac Brown Band in the Best New Artist category, Bon Jovi lost out to...

The list of nominations for 52nd annual Grammy awards have been unveiled and it’s been a bumper year for rock music!Both pop-punk heroes Green Day and classic rockers AC/DC have notched up three nominations in various categories, while Metallica have been nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance for The Unforgiven III and next week’s Kerrang...

Steve Vai will release his concert film and live CD "Where The Wild Things Are" on September 29th

The winner of the Riff Lord award is ... Legend Steve Vai.The multi-talented, multi-instrumentalist Steve Vai is crowned Riff Lord of the Golden Gods this year. Presented by Herman Li of Dragonforce, the legend Steve Vai needs no introductions nor explanations. He just is the Riff Lord!

SONATA ARCTICA guitarist Elias Viljanen will release his third solo album via Spinefarm Records in mid-June. According to the label "the music of Elias Viljanen is much influenced by Joe Satriani and Steve Vai