Bangkok-based rock band Billy The Mountain have released the MP3 edition of their new album ‘Drifting To Valhalla’ which goes on sale at NOISEHEAD.COM following the success of the band’s original demo tracks first showcased on NOISEHEAD to a warm international reception.

Keith Richards says he’s rarely in touch with the other members of the Rolling Stones when they’re not working. Richards says the band barely talk to each other.

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Joe Cocker will be teaming up with the Steve Miller Band for a 34-city joint tour which kicks off on May 24th in West Palm Beach. Cocker will be opening the concerts with Miller closing the show.

Jazz Kamikaze proved just last week here in Bangkok that without a doubt, a new generation of jazz musicians has arrived. And they have a CD to prove it too on local label Hitman Records.

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Nils Lofgren says that Bruce Springsteen’s constantly changing setlists surprise audiences — but also brings the band closer together. Lofgren, who joined the E Street Band in 1984 after Steve Van Zandt left to pursue a solo career, had to learn dozens of songs before his first gig and knows what it’s like to be the new guy on stage.

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Who in U2 is not sponsored by an eyewear company?

Legendary tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins performs in Seoul for the first time in May. The 77-year-old jazz artist is expected to dazzle audiences with two exciting concerts at the LG Arts Center on May 23 and 25.

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Guns N’ Roses and frontman Axl Rose have signed with new management, according to a statement posted online by Rose himself. The singer wrote, “I am very pleased to announce that Guns N’ Roses and I are now represented by the management team of Irving Azoff and Andy Gould. We are very excited and look forward to working with them and hope our relationship proves beneficial for everyone, especially the fans.” See more… »

By Benny White

For those of you who caught a glimpse of Nils Landgren’s Funk Unit (the hottest funk band in Europe according to German press), headlining the Sunday slot at the Heiniken Jazz Festival a while back, and wondering who the slapping and rapping frontline bass player was, there’s good news. He might very well be back to Thailand before long if everything goes according to plan.

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Record labels want us to buy music right? So why are they giving it away? The Guardian’s Chris Salmon goes on the scrounge

In February, Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of respected US technology magazine Wired, declared: “Every industry that becomes digital eventually becomes free”. Clearly, the embattled record labels will hope they can prove Anderson wrong by persuading consumers that music remains something worth paying for. The irony is, even as they struggle to do that, the labels are becoming increasingly likely to give it away themselves.

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Billboard has reported that Steely Dan principal Walter Becker plans to release his first solo album in 14 years by early June, and says he may hit the road to promote it later in the year.

“Circus Money,” the follow-up to 1994’s “11 Tracks of Whack,” exhibits the jazzy studio perfectionism that Steely Dan has been long known for. But, as evidenced by such tracks as “Bob is Not Your Uncle Anymore” and “Do You Remember the Name,” it also embraces another musical style.

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