MCR`s guitarist has designed a guitar

My Chemical Romance`s Frank Iero has designed a guitar for charity. It is for company Epiphone. The guitar is called Phant-o-matic and consists of parts taken from different types of guitars.

Iero told Rolling Stone:

"I took the body from the Wilshire, I took the Anico Humbuckers out of the Les Paul, I put the Les Paul neck on it and headstock, changed the tuners around, and fucked a little bit with the electronics – and we made the Phant-o-matic."

MCR guitarist also revealed that the band should release new album by next summer.

He added:

"I definitely see new music coming out or at least being worked on throughout the rest of this year and hopefully maybe something coming out by summer."

Slipknot and System of a Down to headline Soundwave festival

Soundwave festival has announced line-up for 2012. Slipknot and SOAD will headline this touring festival.

That`s not all. There will also be bunch of other bands such as Limp Bizkit, Marilyn Manson, A Day To Remember, Machine Head, Trivium, Angels & Airwaves, letlive., Thursday, Dillinger Escape Plan, Mastodon, Black Veil Brides, Lostprophets, You Me At Six, Enter Shikari, Lamb Of God and many more to be announced.

Paramore will release 3 new songs

 American pop-punkers will release three new songs over the next three months. The offer is called "Paramore Singles Club" and it will include songs "Renegade", "Hello Cold World" and "In the Mourning" + box set and T-shirt, depending on version.

There are going to be these four versions:

DIGITAL SONGS + 7" BOX SET + T-SHIRT - $54.99
-Renegade MP3
-Hello Cold World MP3
-In The Mourning MP3
-limited-edition 7" box set
-'bars' t-shirt
-access to Singles Club-only merchandise

DIGITAL SONGS + 7" BOX SET - $39.99
-Renegade MP3
-Hello Cold World MP3
-In The Mourning MP3
-limited-edition 7" box set
-access to Singles Club-only merchandise

DIGITAL SONGS + T-SHIRT - $18.99
-Renegade MP3
-Hello Cold World MP3
-In The Mourning MP3
-'bars' t-shirt
-access to Singles Club-only merchandise

DIGITAL SONGS ONLY - $2.99
-Renegade MP3
-Hello Cold World MP3
-In The Mourning MP3
-access to Singles Club-only merchandise

Vaccines to release single produced by Alber Hammond Jr.

The Vaccines have announced that they will release double single "Wetsuit"/"Tiger Blood" on December 4. It will be released as vinyl or digital download.

Song "Tiger Blood" was recorded at Hammond Jr.`s studio in NY during summer. Below you can watch music video for "Wetsuit" which was made up of photos submitted by fans during the summer. And it is actually pretty good. It`s got some really nice pictures that capture atmosphere of summer festivals.

Listen to Jack White - "Love is Blindless" (U2 cover)

Below you can hear Jack White`s cover of U2`s "Love is Blindness". The song will be on Achtung Baby tribute album which will be out on October 26.
I have to say that this cover is awesome and I hope other covers will be good as well.

Song of the day

Alkaline Trio - Radio live at Warped Tour

Black Keys posted trailer for their new album

Black Keys will release their new album called El Camino. The album will be out on December 6. You can watch trailer for this album here via YouTube.

Frank Turner announces that he will play at Wembley in 2012

The British singer has announced that he will play at London`s Wembley Stadium in April 2012. It will be his biggest headline show.

The show will be held on April 13 and tickets go on sale on October 14 at 9 am (BST).

Turner released his fourth album England Keep My Bones earlier this year and is currently on UK tour.

Drug overdose caused death of Mikey Welsh

Yesterday former bass player of Weezer died unexpectedly. However, no cause of death was revealed.

Today, authorities revealed that Mikey Welsh died of drug overdose. Police also revealed that prescription drugs and heroin was found in ex-weezer`s hotel room...

Details for Achtung Baby tribute album revealed

 U2 legendary album Achtung Baby will celebrate its 20th anniversary this month. There will be tribute album released and it will be called Akh-toong Bay-bi.


Jack White, Nine Inch Nails, The Killers, Depeche Mode, Patti Smith, Damian Rice, Garbage, Snow Patrol, Glasvegas will all cover U2 songs on this album. As you can see, many interesting artists contribute to this album.

It will be out on October 26. It will come with new issue of Q Magazine.

U2 will also release documentary movie called From the Sky Down which will be premiered on Showtime on October 29.

Akh-toong Bay-bi tracklisting:

1. Nine Inch Nails – Zoo Station
2. U2 (Jacques Lu Cont Mix) – Even Better Than The Real Thing
3. Damien Rice – One
4. Patti Smith – Until The End Of The World
5. Garbage – Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses
6. Depeche Mode – So Cruel
7. Snow Patrol – Mysterious Ways
8. The Fray – Trying To Throw Your Arms Around The World
8. Gavin Friday – The Fly
10. The Killers – Ultraviolet (Light My Way)
11. Glasvegas – Acrobat
12. Jack White – Love Is Blindness