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"You CANNOT make friends with the rock stars. That's what's important. If you're a rock journalist - first, you will never get paid much. But you will get free records from the record company. And they'll buy you drinks, you'll meet girls, they'll try to fly you places for free, offer you drugs... I know. It sounds great. But they are not your friends. These are people who want you to write sanctimonious stories about the genius of the rock stars, and they will ruin rock and roll and strangle everything we love about it."

Video amatir nan fantastik dari konser Iron Maiden di Texas belum lama ini. Bagian dari Somewhere Back In Time World Tour 2008. Well, coba lihat siapa yang berada di dalam cockpit "Ed Force One" ini. Anjing, bangsat, dimana lagi bisa nyegat tur kayak gini ya? Walau Sam Dunn bilang kalo dia bakal jadi sutradara tour documentary DVD ini tapi tetep aja sekarang ini..... wish I was there! So badly.... Fuck Iron Maidennnnnnn! ;-) UP THE IRONS!

Start:      Aug 7, '08 5:00p End:      Aug 11, '08 08:00a Location:      Ibis Malioboro to Soundrenaline Prambanan Camping Ground Saya dan Rick Witz akan kembali berpetualang dalam serial Rolling Stone's Rock Trip episode Yogyakarta mulai hari Kamis sampai Senin mendatang. Dimulai dari Ibis Malioboro dan rencananya bakal berakhir di Soundrenaline Prambanan festival bersama camping groundnya. Sepertinya perjalanan kali ini akan sangat menarik secara kota ini adalah salah satu kota dengan scene musik paling aktif di tanahair dengan sejuta band-band bagus bertumbuh setiap harinya. Kalo ada teman-teman yang kebetulan berada di sana juga nanti atau tahu spot-spot menarik di Yogya jangan lupa gimme a call or drop your sms at 08161437608. Segala undangan menuju keriaan sangatlah dinantikan! :-) Yogya, we're coming your way....

Good News From HELSINKI TIMES: HEAVY WITH RELIGIOUS TIES Indonesian band Noxa play grind core heavy metal which is very fast and technically demanding. EVER HEARD OF Indonesian heavy metal? Being a heavy metal freak in a Muslim country is not necessarily the easiest lifestyle you can choose. The musicians of Noxa have chosen that life, however. Maybe a more peculiar fact about this band is that it consists of four different religions. Oxen, the drummer, is an active church goer. Ade, the guitarist is a Muslim, actively practising his religion. Bass player Dipa is a Hindu, and singer Tony follows the ideas of Buddha. What brings these guys together? They have all studied business at the Sahid University in Jakarta, they all hate corruption, greed and poverty, and they all want to express their feelings. And they want to show the rest of the world that people from different religions can put their strength together and fight the wrongs of the world. Now they will be at the Tuska Open Air

http://nurannuran.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/wawancara-dengan-wendi-putranto/ Beberapa bulan lalu teman-teman dari Pers Mahasiswa Universitas Jember, Majalah Tegalboto datang ke kantor Rolling Stone dan mewawancara gue tentang berbagai topik di industri musik Indonesia dan tentang eksistensi majalah ini di scene musik lokal. Kalo tertarik untuk membacanya silakan klik langsung link blog penulisnya.

In GLOBAL METAL, directors Scot McFadyen and Sam Dunn set out to discover how the West’s most maligned musical genre – heavy metal – has impacted the world’s cultures beyond Europe and North America. The film follows metal fan and anthropologist Sam Dunn on a whirlwind journey through Asia, South America and the Middle East as he explores the underbelly of the world’s emerging extreme music scenes — from Indonesian death metal to Chinese black metal to Iranian thrash metal. GLOBAL METAL reveals a worldwide community of metalheads creating a new form of cultural expression in societies dominated by conflict, corruption and mass-consumerism. Appearing in the film... Lars Ulrich (Metallica), Max Cavalera (Sepultura, Soul Fly, Cavalera Conspiracy), Wenz Rawk, Arian13, Andre Siksakubur, Ombat Tengkorak, Yoshiki (X Japan) Iron Maiden Slayer Orphaned Land Marty Friedman Lamb of God Kaiser Kuo In Flames Ritual Day Demonic Ressurection Angra Salem Sigh and many more!

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