Earlier this week, Sufjan Stevens was in the news for writing Miley Cyrus a silly grammar-nerd open letter, so it’s nice to see some actual new music — or new-old music, as the came may be — from him. Stevens’s long-lost demos, like “Give A Little Love,” can often be more fleshed-out an...

Recorded behind a veil of secrecy that would make David Bowie raise an eyebrow, Sweden’s seminal artrockers Cult Of Luna have announced that a sequel to January’s staggering, Metropolis movie-inspired Vertikal opus, cunningly titled Vertikal II, is due out on September 20 via Indie Recordings. Even more expansive than the full-length, and fe...

By Todd Cunningham LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - After Miley Cyrus' twerking, Vogue editor Anna Wintour had done some jerking - scotching plans for the 20-year-old pop star to appear on the magazine's cover in December. Her steamy performance at last month's MTV Video Music Awards, at which Cyrus suggestively cavorted in...

After several sold-out shows last year on their inaugural North American co-headlining tour with ELUVEITIE, Finnish epic metallers WINTERSUN will return to North American shores once again for a headlining tour this August/September. Joining them are Italian symphonic death metal champions FLESHGOD APOCALYPSE, melodic tech-death kings ARSIS and...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Guitarist Jeff Hanneman of the seminal heavy metal band Slayer died of alcohol-related cirrhosis of the liver, and not as a result of a flesh-eating bacteria, the remaining members of the U.S. band said. Hanneman, a founder of the band, which was known for its fast tempo, dark themes and pounding drums, died last week at ...