SLASH spoke to Jim Gellatly from In:Demand Uncut recently and that chat is being broadcast this Sunday (25th) 7-10pm on Clyde 1, Forth One, Northsound 1, Radio Borders, Tay FM, West FM & West Sound FM. You can also tune in online – click here for more info.

In May of last year comedian DOUG STANHOPE stopped by The Howard Stern show with girlfriend Bingo and luckily for us UK folk, the session was filmed. We spotted this video on YouTube the other day and we thought we’d share it as it made us giggle a fair few times. Warning: the clip is 35 minutes long and probably isn’t suitable for work. Just sayin’…

Doug has been involved in a public feud on Twitter with journalist Allison Pearson recently after he disagreed with an article that she wrote on assisted suicide. You can read more about that by clicking here.

Point your mouse in this direction to pick up a copy of DOUG STANHOPE’s latest DVD ‘Before Turning The Gun On Himself’.

Click here to find dates and tickets for Doug’s current UK tour.

KO퐌¿N will be streaming their FULL set online from the Paradiso in Amsterdam tonight! We’ve embeded the player HERE where you can watch JDevil, Downlink and KO퐌¿N perform their sets from 6pm UK time. Check it out!

KO퐌¿N are touring the UK at the end of this month and you can check out the dates below:

25 March – O2 Academy Brixton, London
26 March – O2 Academy Birmingham
28 March – Academy Manchester
29 March – O2 Academy Glasgow
31 March – Olympia Theatre, Dublin
01 April – Mandela Hall, Belfast
03 April – O2 Academy Bristol

Buy tickets here: http://bit.ly/xRQjAn

You can pick up a copy of KO퐌¿N’s latest album ‘The Path Of Totality’ by pointing your mouse in this direction.

The awesome SHINEDOWN are about to conquer the world with their hugely anticipated brand new studio album, ‘Amaryllis‘ and Planet Rock listeners in the UK can currently get an exclusive sneak peak at the new album before it’s released next week! Click here to head over to Planet Rock and hear the album in FULL.

‘Amaryllis‘ is out on the 26th of March – watch this space for a killer competition to meet the band at Download Festival!

Click here to pre-order SHINEDOWN’s ‘Amaryllis’ from Play.com.

Total Guitar managed to pin down the mighty MASTODON on their recent UK tour to talk through Bill and Brent’s live rigs. Head on over to Total Guitar‘s website to check out a gallery of Bill Kelliher’s custom-made guitars, Brent Hinds’ hair dryer and which pedal they use to call Hulk Hogan.

About his 2007 Gibson Les Paul Custom, Bill says:

“This is a Les Paul Custom 2007. It’s kind of a reissue. I don’t know if they started making these because Brent and I play a Silverburst so much, or why they came back, but I usually play old 79s and 82s, but this one is a really good guitar as well.

“It needs a little playing-in, but it sounds good, it’s got the original pickups in it. It’s just a big, heavy lump of wood. It’s in D-standard – standard tuning, but tuned down to D.

“Silverburst is just a cool colour. I don’t know what it is about it. When I was a kid I liked going to the motor races and there was a Corvette that was the pace car and it was this colour. I use this for the first half of the set, ‘Dry Bone Valley’, ‘Black Tongue’, ‘Crystal Skull’, ‘Capillarian Crest’, ‘Colony Of Birchmen’.”

About his Custom Electrical Guitar Company Plexi-V, Brent says:

“This is a custom-made Plexi-V with an aluminium neck. Kevin Burkett from the Electrical Guitar Company in Florida built it.

“He custom-made me these because he was the only guy I could find that would work with Plexi [acrylic]. They both use Lace pickups. By the way, Lace are making me my own pickups called Dirty Behinds!

“I have one that’s just to warm up with. I used to use it live, but it’s too old and it’s seen too much sweat, so it’s being retired. It’s on it’s way out!”

Click here to check out the full gallery and read more about Bill and Brent’s live rigs on the Total Guitar website.

You can learn how to play ‘Curl Of Teh Burl’ in this month’s magazine too – click here for more info.

Point your mouse in this direction to pick up a copy of MASTODON’s latest album ‘The Hunter’.

HALESTORM siblings Lzzy and Arejay Hale sat down with our friends at MusicRadar recently to talk about their new EP that’s currently out, ‘Hello, It’s Mz Hyde‘. They talked through all four tracks and how each came about. Click here to watch the video on MusicRadar’s website.

Click here to pick up a copy of Halestorm’s EP ‘Hello, It’s Mz Hyde‘.

Point your mouse in this direction to pre-order the band’s upcoming album ‘The Strange Case Of…’.

LENNY KRAVITZ –

DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL has revealed another ‘dirty dozen’ acts for this year’s festival, which takes place 8-10 June at Donington Park! This year’s Download celebrates 10 years of rockin’, and is headlined by The Prodigy, Metallica and Black Sabbath.

Ahead of their second album release, Pennsylvanian quartet HALESTORM, led by the enigmatic Lzzy Hale, will make their second appearance at Download alongside platinum selling Roadrunner signings THEORY OF A DEADMAN.

A limited number of Day and Weekend tickets for Download 2012 are on sale now and available from www.downloadfestival.co.uk.

Download RIP ticket packages are on sale now and can be purchased via www.livenationexperience.co.uk or by phoning 0207 009 3484.

Controversial comedian DOUG STANHOPE released his new DVD/CD ‘Before Turning The Gun On Himself’ on the 12th of March and since it’s release, it has been getting rave reviews. NUTS Magazine has reviewed the DVD and given it a whopping 9 out of 10! Click here to read the full review on NUTS.

The DVD has also been reviewed by On Magazine, with them awarding the show a 7 out of 10: “…if you’re a fan of comics like Bill Hicks, Louis CK and Mitch Hedberg (the latter two are both name-checked within the DVD) you’ll find a lot here to enjoy even while you’re being baited and provoked.”

Click here to read the review on On Magazine.

Point your mouse in this direction to pick up a copy of DOUG STANHOPE’s latest DVD ‘Before Turning The Gun On Himself’.

DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL has revealed another ‘dirty dozen’ acts for this year’s festival, which takes place 8-10 June at Donington Park! This year’s Download celebrates 10 years of rockin’, and is headlined by The Prodigy, Metallica and Black Sabbath.

Ahead of their second album release, Pennsylvanian quartet HALESTORM, led by the enigmatic Lzzy Hale, will make their second appearance at Download alongside platinum selling Roadrunner signings THEORY OF A DEADMAN.

A limited number of Day and Weekend tickets for Download 2012 are on sale now and available from www.downloadfestival.co.uk.

Download RIP ticket packages are on sale now and can be purchased via www.livenationexperience.co.uk or by phoning 0207 009 3484.