NEW YORK (AFP) - Axl Rose is already generating excitement over a Guns N' Roses reunion, but a report says he has another project that could thrill even more fans -- fronting AC/DC.　The Australian heavy metal veterans halted a tour this month and said they would likely hire a guest vocalist as 68-year-old frontman Brian Johnson was at risk of completely losing his hearing if he kept performing.　A radio host in Atlanta, where AC/DC stopped its tour, said that he had spotted Rose in the city and t

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Metallica's album “Master of Puppets” on Wednesday became the first heavy metal recording chosen for preservation by the Library of Congress due to its historical importance.　The US government-run library’s National Recording Registry each year selects 25 pieces judged to be “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” and keeps the best-quality originals to safeguard for future generations.　“Master of Puppets,” released in 1986 as the third album by Metallica, “sho

CHICAGO (AP) -- Radiohead, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and LCD Soundsystem are among the acts that will play in Chicago for the 25th anniversary of the Lollapalooza music festival.　The lineup was released early Wednesday on Lollapalooza's website. It also includes Lana Del Rey, Ellie Goulding and Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell’s band Jane's Addiction.　The festival will start Thursday, July 28, and run through Sunday, July 31. Organizers added a fourth day this year to mark the anniversary. The

South Korean boy band GOT7 will return to the stage with a new dance-pop song "Fly," the group's management said on Thursday. The seven-member act will showcase "Fly," the title track of its latest half-length album "FLIGHT LOG: DEPARTURE," on Thursday evening on MCountdown, a signature music show of local cable television network Mnet, JYP Entertainment said. The new album was released on Monday with double title tracks, "Fly" and "Home Run." "Fly," composed and lyricized by Ear Attack and "fro

LONDON (AFP) - The demo vinyl record that persuaded late music producer George Martin to sign The Beatles -- a “unique” piece of music history -- was sold on Tuesday to an unnamed British collector.　The record sold for 77,500 pounds ($110,000), a spokeswoman for the Omega Auctions, based in Warrington in northern England, told AFP.　The price tag was well above the 10,000 pounds initial estimate, showing the object’s “historical importance,” the spokeswoman said, adding that bids had come in also

It's almost dinner time. A middle-aged Korean man ushers a racially diverse group of young people into a dimly-lit restaurant in Seoul."Before college, they were troublemakers. Today, they are Treblemakers. Please welcome them with a round of applause!" With that cheesy line delivered in somewhat broken English, the college a cappella group walks in, with the 17 members wearing a matching black T-shirt and a pair of blue jeans.The act's opener is a song that apparently starts out as Ariana Grand

The original soundtrack album of the hit television series "Descendants of the Sun" has raked in jaw-dropping preorders since being made available only three days ago, industry data showed Wednesday. The preorders of the OST album broke the 10,000 mark on March 18, thanks to the unchallenged boom of the military romantic television series, according to the data provided by local drama OST music distributor MUSIC&NEW.Preorders were launched online on March 16, a week before the album is released