By Clarence Yu

AC/DC fans, it’s time to rock again after eight years.

Angus Young and company are back with the new album “Black Ice,” released last October in the United States. You can find a sample of one of their songs, titled “Rock ‘N Roll Train” here.

Their last release, “Stiff Upper Lip” was in 2000, and was met with their usual commercial success. In between then and now, the band was quite inactive with the exception of jamming onstage with the Rolling Stones in 2003, and releasing several box sets.

“Rock N’ Roll Train,” the lead single off the album, is typical AC/DC: it lifts the hairs off your arm and immediately hypnotizes you with that 4/4 signature rock groove they’ve perfected since their inception in 1973.

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It took 17 years, but finally classic American rock group Guns N’ Roses is launching “Chinese Democracy,” Agence France-Presse reports.

The band released Use Your Illussion I and Use Your Illusion II albums in 1991, which were the last original recordings of the band before some members including guitarist Slash left the supergroup. After that, the band has gone through a lot of changes, with frontman Axl Rose remaining as the only original member to date.

Songs like “Sweet Child o’ Mine” and “Paradise City” are now classic tunes that emerged from the hard rocking band from Los Angeles. Of course, who can forget their acoustic composition, “Patience,” which also became a hit.

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One-word album titles still sound cool no matter what and those eager to find out Up Dharma Down’s next album sound like must take heed.

The one Manila band BBC radio DJ Mark Coles thinks most likely to sell in the Western hemisphere is releasing what is by now described (us included) as one of the highly-anticipated albums by any local artist.

As described by Toti Dalmacion, the band’s manager and Terno Recordings head honcho, the songs on the new album are like yin-yang, plus-minus, Obama-McCain … well, something like that.

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By Marjorie Gorospe
INQUIRER.net

Looking for good old fashioned Christmas music but a fresher sound?

Filipino Band Bloomfields – known to cover music of the Beatles and other American Rock and Roll music – has recently unveiled ts Christmas album “Pasko natin ‘to,” which is also its carrier single composed by Jay Jay Lozano, lead singer and guitarist of the group.

Pasko Natin To is Lozano’s actual first attempt at making a Christmas song back in October 2005.

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KITCHIE NADAL talks about her new album, “Love Letter.” Some of the songs in this 17-track album were done in collaboration with other artists.

Video taken by INQUIRER.net online videographer Janie Christine Octia.