(FUCKING HELL!)В It’s summertime! People go on holidays to drink, sing and have fun.В So our crew has been reduced in numbers due to vacation reasons and it took us some time to transcribe these two (great) interviews. But you have them now as a text and audio file. Dez Fafara and his band DРµvilDriverВ have released theirВ 4-th […]

В It seems celebrity skin is just as susceptible to swine flu as everyone else’s. Former Hole and Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur says she’s recovering from a bout with the H1N1 influenza strain.“It turns out that, somewhere between a video shoot in Vermont, a heavy metal concert in London, and my own musical […]

Slash has issued the following update (15 July) on his solo projects via his official Myspace page. The spelling and punctuation is all Slash’s own: “Hey all, what’s happening? Everything’s good on this end. It has been a pretty productive summer so far. My record should be done next month & the recording has gone […]

Yesterday, we told you about the strange-but-true tale of Jim Bartek, an Ohio Judas Priest superfan who has listened to the band’s mega-opus Nostradamus every day since its release. Bartek’s incredible feat paid off handsomely Tuesday night when he sat in the third row (gratis) for the band’s concert in Cleveland. But Bartek got much […]

Radiohead mastermind Thom Yorke has released a cover of alt-rock band Miracle Legion’s ‘All For The Best.’ Listen here. The song is part of a new tribute album — Ciao My Shining Star: The Songs of Mark Mulcahy — which helps to raise money for the Miracle Legion singer-songwriter, who has left music to care […]

ALICE IN CHAINS has tapped Alex Courtes (U2, KAISER CHIEFS, SNOW PATROL) to direct the video for the band’s new single, ‘Check My Brain’. Courtes studied graphic art at one of the best European schools, Penninghen. Very soon, he started to become noticed by the various bands within the “French touch” scene in Paris and […]

This will be the specialВ radio Tangra Mega Rock night at theВ ARENA MUZIKA 2009 festival. The show is set for October 1st at Universiada Hall in Sofia – Bulgaria. Tickets priced 40 BGN (20 Euro) will go on sale this Monday – July 20th,В throught ticketpro.bg.В They will be sold 50 BGN at the door.

Gustav Schaefer was reportedly injured in a fight at a nightclub in Germany on Sunday. According to the band’s manager, Schaefer, 20, was injured at The Club in Magdeburg, his hometown. Police also confirmed the incident to German news site Bild.de. “In one of Magdeburg’s night clubs, a stranger smashed two beer bottles on the […]

A Los Angeles blogger who leaked new Guns N’ Roses songs on the Internet before their official release on the band’s first new album in 17 years, was sentenced to two months of home confinement on Tuesday. Kevin Cogill also received one year’s probation and must appear in an anti-piracy commercial under the terms of […]

This will be the inaugural show of the new company – MASK MUSIC, founded by people of Art Bg agencyВ (Lordi, Crematory, Vital Remains, Haggard, Sodom & Grave Digger, Exciter).В  CrematoryВ and Evergrey will headlineВ the ‘Pill Against Depression Festival’ at ‘Hristo Botev’ hall in Sofia on September 19th with local support bands to be announced soon. Tickets […]