Robert Laing

A whopping 17 new acts have been announced as additions to the existing Download Festival line-up – set to take place between 12 and 14 June at Donington raceway.

A quarter of a century in the making

Chuck Berry has postponed his UK tour until March 2010.

Leading guitar retailer World Guitars is offering an amazing PRS Private Stock guitar in a once-in-a-lifetime competition.

Dhani Harrison, son of late Beatles legend George Harrison, has confirmed he is helping to produce new controllers for Rock Band that could help users learn to play real instruments.

How do you fancy a week of rock in the sun?

Sweden’s hard rock heroes Europe have confirmed a run of UK dates for February next year. Tickets go on sale this Friday at 9am: £17 each for all dates except London, which will be £18.

Absolute Guitars are lending their support to the Bristol Festival with a Guitar Hero competition – but we’re not talking videogames here, they want the real thing.

Wolfmother have recorded a number of Jimi Hendrix covers that will be used as b-sides on forthcoming singles, Gigwise can reveal.

We've got to be honest, we never thought we'd see the day when a digitalised Kurt Cobain appeared in a videogame but Courtney Love has opened the floodgates and that day has come.

Lead guitarist and songwriter Billy Howerdel — founder and producer of A Perfect Circle — is launching a solo project called Ashes Divide. And this time he's taking on the role of lead singer too.

If only for the fact their bassist was called Pat Badger, Extreme are a band to be remembered fondly.

Fancy yourself as a guitar hero in the making? There's still time to enter Slash's Ultimate Guitar Showdown, an online competition in search of the ultimate guitar solo.

Hawthorne Heights guitarist Casey Calvert has died suddenly.