WINDS OF PLAGUE Completes Work On New Album
Southern California metallers WINDS OF PLAGUE have completed work on their fourth album for a late 2013 release via Century Media Records.
ALICE COOPER Interviewed By DAVID ELLEFSON (Video)
David Ellefson (MEGADETH) conducted an interview with legendary rocker Alice Cooper backstage at the fifth annual Revolver Golden Gods awards on May 2 at Club Nokia in downtown Los Angeles, California.
THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN: New Video Interview With GREG PUCIATO
Omar Mena conducted an interview with vocalist Greg Puciato of the New Jersey-based "mathcore" act THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN before the band's May 23 concert at Tricky Falls in El Paso, Texas.
'DIMEBAG' DARRELL ABBOTT Wax Sculpture Unveiled
According to The Metal Den, the Rock Legend Wax Museum in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada has honored "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott by unveiling a life-sized wax figure of the late PANTERA and DAMAGEPLAN guitarist.
STONE SOUR's COREY TAYLOR Interviewed At '105.7 The X Tececig Spring Fling'
Matt Bahan of the 105.7 The X Rocks radio station conducted an interview with STONE SOUR and SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor before STONE SOUR's appearance at the 105.7 the X Tececig Spring Fling on Thursday, May 16 at Peoria Civic Center in Peoria, Illinois.
CANNES, France (AP) ? Roman Polanski says the birth control pill has had a "masculinizing" effect on women and that the leveling of the sexes is "idiotic"
Cambodian film on Pol Pot rule wins Cannes prize
CANNES, France (AP) ? An autobiographical French-Cambodian film, "The Missing Picture," which explores the bloody history of Pol Pot's dictatorship in late 1970s Cambodia, has won the "Un Certain Regard" prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
CANNES, France (AP) ? After two weeks, 20 films and parade after parade down the red carpet, the Cannes Film Festival has not produced a clear-cut frontrunner for the Palme d'Or.
Internal Affairs officers on Saturday were looking into allegations made by actress Amanda Bynes that New York Police Department officers sexually assaulted her when she was arrested for heaving a marijuana bong out the window of her 36th-floor Manhattan apartment Thursday night.
A list of previous Palme d'Or winners at Cannes
CANNES, France (AP) ? For 66 years, the Cannes Film Festival's highest prize, the Palme d'Or, has been one of the most prestigious in movies. Winners have ranged from classic American films (Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver," Francis Ford Coppola's "The Conversation") to European classics (Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita").
CANNES, France (AP) ? Tilda Swinton injects her own brand of otherworldly-cool into Jim Jarmusch's latest movie "Only Lovers Left Alive," an unusual comedy that puts a spin on the age-old vampire genre.
LAS VEGAS (AP) ? The junked signs that attracted throngs to old Las Vegas have for years gathered dust in a neon boneyard just a few miles from the sleek mega-casinos on the Strip.
Correction: France-Cannes Notebook story
CANNES, France (AP) ? In a May 24 Cannes Notebook item about jewelry at the Cannes Film Festival, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the Swavorski earrings Milla Jovovich wore cost $321,000. They cost $321.
CANNES, France (AP) ? "Manuscripts Don't Burn" tells the story of an Iranian author secretly writing his memoirs and authorities' attempts to destroy the manuscript ? a topic the director, Mohammad Rasoulof, knows quite a bit about.
