Hopefully, we'll be celebrating a Caps win tonight. In the meantime, happy birthday to Welsh guitarist Phil Campbell! Campbell has been playing lead guitar in the iconic group Motörhead since 1984.
Junior's November 27 through November 30, 2010 'Reading And Viewing List' includes title links with snippets from items that were published with November 2010 winding down.
Formula One racing's governing body, the FIA, published the first draft of the 2011 championship entry list on Tuesday. Six teams have yet to finalise their driver line-ups, with Sauber's Sergio Perez the...
...TSN's Bob McKenzie is reporting that the Capitals have made a trade with the Colorado Avalanche for veteran defenseman Scott Hannan. The Denver Post's Adrian Dater reports that the Caps player is Tomas Fleischmann...
When trawling youtube on a bit of a research jaunt I came across this BBC News footage from one of our open days at New Art Gallery Walsall, where we were collecting fans memorabilia, think Antiques Roadshow for Metal fans. All those artefacts have been included on this website and will help to inform a major exhibition next year at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery - more news coming soon.
The sound of champagne corks may still be ringing in the ears after 2010's title celebrations, but F1 waits for no man. And if one was needed, the recent Pirelli tyre test served as a stark reminder...
Lotus's Heikki Kovalainen is resting in bed on doctors' advice after suffering a heavy concussion during his crash in Sunday's Race of Champions (ROC) event in Germany. He will undergo further tests in the...
For if this were the 1970's, in the heyday of such titans of the keyboards such as Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman and Jon Jord, he would be among that elite circle of players whom were superstars - back in a time when such talent was not only appreciated, but celebrated in popular music...
Following three consecutive mistakes on the WRC rallies in France, Spain and Great Britain, Sebastien Ogier believes his driving is back on track after claiming a trouble-free fifth overall on Rallye du Var in France at the weekend, at the wheel of the new Citroen DS3 R3...
Force India's reserve driver Paul di Resta became 2010 DTM champion on Sunday after finishing second in the season finale of the prestigious German touring car series. The Scot now hopes his success will be...
The Caps and Hurricanes treated us to their usual nerve-wracking conclusion today. Whenever these two teams get together all the makings are there for a dramatic photo-finish and this contest did not disappoint...
...Allied Forces was the fifth album from the trio of Rik Emmett (guitar/vocals), Mike Levine (bass/vocals) and Gil Moore (drums/vocals). Released in 1981, it got to Number 23 on the US charts (the band’s highest position) and 64 in the UK, where Triumph appeared at the first – and only – Heavy Metal Holocaust festival at Port Vale FC. Now you can download the song Fool For Your Lovefor free right here...
Gibson.com is reporting that visitors to this week’s London guitar show Guitar Nation Live voted Eric Clapton as their #1 Guitar Hero. The poll was taken at the booth of instrument insurance company Allianz Musical Insurance...
Junior's October 18 through October 24, 2010 'Reading And Viewing List' includes title links with snippets from items that were published as we were getting into the second half of October 2010.
A brand new feeder series to the World Rally Championship will start in 2011, run in partnership by motorsport's governing body, the FIA and WRC promoter, North One Sport.
The ‘WRC Academy’ will be the first step on the WRC ladder for young drivers and will give the stars of tomorrow an unrivalled opportunity to develop their talent on the world stage in an extremely cost effective way...
Hats Off To Semin – Having lost two straight games, having a visiting team in town that played and lost at home last night, and having a rugged road trip (three games, four nights, three time zones) looming ahead this week, there was some urgency for the Capitals to win Saturday night’s home game against the Atlanta Thrashers...
With a brand-new track to get to grips with, the drivers enjoyed a challenging and largely productive first day in Korea, as the 'green' surface began to rapidly rubber in. As well as learning the ins and outs of the Yeongam circuit, they were tasked with maximising the set-up and balance of their cars ahead of Saturday's qualifying session and the majority were pleased with their progress. We take a team-by-team look...
John Lydon is putting out a coffee table book called Mr Rotten’s Scrapbook...
...There will also be a 12” record included, with tracks recorded on the recent Public Image Ltd’s recent reunion tour, plus spoken word content such as Mr Rotten’s Nursery Rhymes...
Lemmy, the documentary on the life of the legendary Motorhead leader, is be screened at cinemas across the UK on December 7.
Here’s a list of all the cinemas where you can see the film, which was shot over a three-year period and includes interviews with Slash, Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, Dave Grohl, Jarvis Cocker and Mick Jones (the one was in The Clash):...
No Doubting Thomas – For the second straight game, the Capitals poured more than 35 shots on Boston netminder Tim Thomas. And for the second straight game, the veteran goaltender stopped all but one of them. Thomas backstopped the Bruins to a 4-1 win over the Capitals in Boston’s home opener at TD Garden on Thursday night...
The Korean Grand Prix is all about breaking new ground figuratively and literally, so it as fitting that they took an historic photograph here yesterday of the world championship contenders...
On December 7th, 2010, British rock guitar legend Robin Trower is set to release a brand new studio album 'The Playful Heart' via his own V-12 Records. Distribution in North America will be handled through MVD Entertainment Group.
Recorded with his touring band, with includes vocalist Davey Pattison, and produced by long time musical cohort Livingston Brown, reportedly the eleven new songs show a more introspective Robin Trower. Three tracks are available for sampling at this location...
...Boyd Gordon is never going to be an offensive dynamo in the NHL (although he certainly has his moments). He's rarely going to crack fifteen minutes of ice time a night, and will probably only get a shot in the shootout if the coach has exhausted all his other options. And yet when he's healthy, he's often as invaluable to this team as the guys making the big bucks and earning the big minutes...
Drivers: Fernando Alonso (Ferrari), Jenson Button (McLaren), Lewis Hamilton (McLaren), Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull) and Mark Webber (Red Bull).
Q: Gentlemen, you have just been doing the recreation of the 1986 photograph of the World Championship contenders. There were four of them then. There are five of you now going into the third last round of the championship. What are your feelings about the championship going into this race, particularly on an unknown circuit? Jenson Button: For me it has been a very interesting season. Arriving at a new team and working with a new team-mate and finding my feet pretty early on I felt...
The inaugural Korean Grand Prix - the race which some thought would never happen - is set to play a key role in the outcome of an increasingly tense world championship battle.
Red Bull drivers Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel prepare to go head-to-head with Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and McLaren's Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button. And to spice things up even more, all of them must aim for victory...
...In recent years the rally has been a pure asphalt encounter. However, to celebrate its 20th year in the WRC, organisers have reverted to the event's original format of mixed surface competition...
...The Caps outplayed and outchanced the Bruins but came up on the short end of a 3-1 score, bringing Washington’s four-game winning streak to a halt...
Nineteen years ago Michael Schumacher made his Formula One debut. Nineteen years of interviews - and seven world titles - later, there's very little we don't know about Schumacher. But after he agreed to partake in our Secret Life series, we managed to wrangle a few surprises out of the German legend. Samuel Beckett, skydiving and Italian culinary exploits are just some of his unexpected answers...
A host of star drivers from the World Rally Championship will lend their support to a charity auction and forum in Spain this week to raise funds for the Richard Burns Foundation and Michael Park Fund...
The Citroen privateer says the combination of his start position on the road for the penultimate round of the World Rally Championship allied to his increased confidence aboard his Citroen C4 WRC ensure he starts the event with what he feels is his best chance yet of ending his five-year drought of wins...
...One thing that fans can count on soon is the first teaser trailer for "Green Lantern", set to accompany "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" next month.
"Technically it's a teaser, but it's pretty big", Johns said of the teaser. "I don't know the exact time length, but it's got more stuff in there than I would have thought for a teaser, that's for sure."...
The cars competing from Rally Sweden onwards next year will run with 1.6-litre instead of two-litre turbocharged engines and they’ll have less technology in the transmission than the likes of the Citroen C4 WRC and Ford Focus RS WRC we’ll see in Spain this week. But, to you and me, they’re going to be just as quick, according to Lapworth...
The addition of a brand new circuit to the F1 calendar is always an exciting prospect and this weekend's inaugural Korean Grand Prix in Yeongam certainly has all the ingredients for an entertaining race...
Mikko Hirvonen and Jari-Matti Latvala drove the new Fiesta RS World Rally Car for the first time during testing last week on gravel roads in Spain and France...
The NHL season is 54% complete. The Eastern Conference Standings look like this:...The Western Conference Standings look like this:...Based on those current standings and recent trends it looks like it will take at least 89 points to make the playoffs in...
Now this is the way to end a special week for the Washington Capitals and their prospects — party pics of a celebrating John Carlson and his gold medal-winning American teammates up in Saskatoon. The party was...
It was a Saturday for shinny under a bright but beautifully cold sun — a week’s worth of freezing temps delivered postcard conditions for free-form hockey on the C&O Canal today, and I had the pleasure of sharing the experience with Off Wing Opinion’s Eric McErlain — his first-ever outdoor skate. If you take a quick peek at a video...
"Clash of the Titans" and "Incredible Hulk" director Louis Leterrier has made no secret of the fact that he'd love to be behind the camera when "The Avengers" kicks off production, so when we recently caught up with him...
In what has become a rite of passage and annual destination for fans of the Allman Brothers Band, the iconic and revered group will return to New York City in March 2010 for a lengthy residency beginning March 11, with...
On Jan. 5, Alex Ovechkin was named the 14th captain of the Washington Capitals. There was very little hoopla from the team about it, simply the “C” added to Ovechkin’s red jersey for the Caps’ home game against the Montreal Canadiens. When he was introduced by the in-game announcer, the crowd roared...
According to Ultimate Guitar, Green Day and Guns N' Roses could become eligible for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame if organizers decide to change its rules.
Currently Hall Of Fame rules state that nominees can only be put forward if...
Foreigner vocalist Kelly Hansen has refuted claims that guitarist Mick Jones tells him how to interpret the band’s classic songs such as Cold As Ice and I Want To Know What Love Is.
"I half-read an interview with [original Foreigner vocalist] Lou Gramm where he...
AntiMusic is reporting that the one-and-only Cheap Trick will perform at the 2010 SXSW Music Festival, to be held March 12-21 in Austin, Texas. Since the '70s the band has been blending elements of pop, punk and even metal...
According to RollingStone.com, "Lemmy", a documentary that follows MOTÖRHEAD's frontman Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister on the road and into his home, will premiere at the 2010 South By Southwest (SXSW) festival in Austin, Texas this March... *Dan, Jr. / Junior's Eyes has been waiting a long time for this news.
Washington and Saskatoon are about 2,000 miles apart, but both cities saw big developments for the Capitals organization Tuesday night in a double-barrel of good news for the team - both its present and future...
Most Sunday mornings, unless the weather is terrible, I walk to a supermarket and buy a newspaper. It's about a three mile round trip. Some days, I'll not see a single other pedestrian. But during last Sunday's walk on January 3rd, I noticed...
Last week we used Spector's roundup of potential Western Conference trade bait as a launching point for a more Capitals-specific discussion on what the team could use going forward, what they should be willing to give up, and which players specifically they might (or should) have their eye on. Today we thought it'd be worth taking a look at the players on Spector's Eastern Conference list...
Yesterday the Washington Capitals named Alex Ovechkin the 14th captain in team history. The honor makes Ovechkin, at 24 years of age, the third-youngest captain in the NHL, older only than...
Over the holidays, I got an email from Mike Shwedick asking for some help from OffWing Photo on a video project he was working on. He was kind enough to give me and OWP's Allen Clark an early look at the video, and we came away incredibly impressed. With that, Allen got to work digging through our photo archive...
You know how the next best thing to owning a beach house is having a friend who does? Well, we didn’t have tickets to this year’s Winter Classic, but Comcast Sportsnet’s Lisa Hillary did. Actually, she also worked the system a bit to get an invite to the league’s New Year’s Eve bash as well...
If the Noughties taught us anything, it was that what a band actually mean when they ’split up’ is that, ‘We’ll be back when nostalgia makes you miss us’. So, here are 10 of the reunions that fired– or should that be ‘failed to fire’?! – our imaginations during the last decade...
We mark and mourn the passing, after a long smoking-related illness of Jim Hutton. Jim and Freddie were close for many years, of course, and in modern parlance would have been called civil partners. Jim was a quiet and gentle soul, unimpressed and faintly amused by the machinations of Fame, Rock and Roll, and Queen...
Motorhead finished recording their new album "Motorizer" just before heading out to tour Europe at the beginning of June. That should mean they'll be playing some of the new songs and will have worked out any live performance kinks before they hit the US with the "Metal Masters Tour" this August, where they will be joined by Heaven And Hell, Judas Priest and Testament.
Photo by Robert John
There's no release date yet on "Motorizer", which was recorded at Dave Grohl's Los Angeles, CA 606 Studios. While you're waiting you could pick up the reissue of the Foo Fighters' "Hyde Park" live DVD, which was recorded June 17, 2006 and features Lemmy Kilmister singing "Shake Your Blood". Also performing on the DVD are Brian May and Roger Taylor of Queen. If you're into documentaries, there's a movie tentatively called "Lemmy" due to make it to theatres in 2009. A clip of the movie, which includes interviews with Alice Cooper, Dave Grohl, Mick Jones and others, is available at http://www.lemmymovie.com/.
