Sheryl Crow has announced she will be giving away free music to encourage young people to register to vote. A tactic she is calling the Tupperware party approach, the singer will be giving away her album ‘Detours’ to the first 50,000 people who register three friends to vote according to The Associated Press. Read more >>

Metallica and Rage Against The Machine were the big winners at the Kerrang awards in London last night. Metallica collected the inspiration accolade, while Rage Against The Machine were inducted into the music magazine's Hall of Fame. Read more >>

Raconteurs frontman Jack White says James Bond was influential in finally brining his forthcoming collaboration with Alicia Keys to fruition. Keys has long made her desire to work with White public but other recording commitments have prevented the musicians from working together. Read more >>

Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood is torn between a 20-year-old Russian waitress and his wife, Jo, it's been claimed. The guitarist, who is currently in rehab, is said to “adore” Ekaterina Ivanova but “agonising” at the same time about his wife. Read more >>

Metallica frontman James Hetfield has admitted that the band's notoriously volatile relationship has helped keep them together. Since forming in 1981, Metallica survived line up changes and fall-outs to sell 100million albums worldwide - which is a figure second only to the Beatles. Read more >>

Former No Doubt frontwoman Gwen Stefani has given birth to her second child in Los Angeles. Zuma Nesta Rock Rossdale was born at 12.46pm (local time) at Cedars Sinai hospital weighing 8.5oz. Read more >>

Music Mogul Danny Goldberg has described the late John Bonham, Led Zeppelin's original drummer, as a “an angry and mean drunk”. Goldberg, who worked as a publicist for the band, makes the comment in a new book, Bumping Into Geniuses, which details his life inside the music industry. Read more >>

US rapper 50 Cent has denied delaying an investigation into a suspected arson attack on a property he owned in New York. “50 and his attorneys met yesterday with Suffolk County authorities regarding the fire that destroyed 50's house," a lawyer for the rapper said yesterday (August 21st). Read more >>

Kurt Cobain and Axl Rose hated each other so much they couldn't even bare to be in the same room together, a new book claims. Music business impresario Danny Goldberg, who was previously vice-president of Led Zeppelin's Swan Song Records, speaks about the pair in his new book 'Bumping Into Geniuses' which hits the shelves this September. Read more >>

Lead singer Corey Taylor of Slipknot has spoken out about the slaying of a South African boy and two gardeners in Krugersdorp, South Africa. Read more >>