Sofia Music Enterprises has the pleasure to invite you to the 11th edittion of MUSIC JAM 2006. The event will take place in Sofia from the 20th to the 28th of October 2006. This year there will be two very special appearances: by Duran Duran (October, 20) and one of the greatest guitar players of […]

MONSTER MAGNET guitarist Ed Mundell has formed a new band with fellow MONSTER MAGNET bandmembers Bob Pantella and Jim Baglino, tentatively called THE ULTRA ELECTRIC MEGA GALACTIC. The group’s first show will take place on Tuesday, October 3 at the Brighton Bar in Long Branch, New Jersey.Mundell is currently in Los Angeles writing and recording […]

Australian retro-rockers WOLFMOTHER will perform a tribute to LED ZEPPELIN at the upcoming UK Music Hall of Fame ceremony, according to Undercover News. Whether they will play a ZEPPELIN tune or one of their own remains unclear.LED ZEPPELIN is set to be inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame in November, alongside BRIAN WILSON, […]

Video footage of AC/DC guitarist Angus Young being presented with the “Legend” award by Kerrang! magazine at the 13th annual Kerrang! Awards in London on August 24, 2006 has been posted online at YouTube.com. AC/DC graced the first cover of the British rock magazine back in 1981.

KISS‘ “20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection, Volume 3” CD will be released by Universal Music on October 10. “Volume 3″ is the companion piece to “The Best of KISS“, “The Millennium Collection”s volumes 1 and 2 and it is the first-ever KISS collection to focus on the band’s ’90s recordings.“20th Century Masters: Millennium Collection, Volume […]

Nick Cave has won the inaugural Gucci prize for script writing at the Venice Film Festival for ‘The Proposition‘.The criteria for the award, made on Friday (September 8), was any internationally acclaimed artist for outside cinema who has made a remarkable contribution to a film in any capacity in the previous 18 months.Cave hopes the […]

Australia’s Soundworks Touring has announced that the upcoming CANNIBAL CORPSE shows in Adelaide and Sydney have officially sold out. Sydney fans who have missed out need not worry as CANNIBAL CORPSE have agreed to schedule a second all-ages show on Sunday, October 8 at the Gaelic Club.The West Australian newspaper reported in its July 8, […]

Swedish melodic metallers NOSTRADAMEUS have posted the following message on their official web site:“We’ve just put the final hands on the new NOSTRADAMEUS album ‘Pathway‘. It’s finally mixed and mastered and now we’re looking forward too completing the album cover. At this point we’ve seen a raw sketch of the front cover and the band […]

Finnish melodic power metallers THUNDERSTONE have entered Sonic Pump studios in Helsinki to begin recording their fourth album. The band is currently working on 11 as-yet-untitled original tracks and two cover songs which will be included as bonus tracks on special-edition versions of the new album.You can read the band’s studio diary and check out […]

SUICIDE CITY, the new group featuring ex-BIOHAZARD guitarist/vocalist Billy Graziadei and former KITTIE bassist Jennifer Arroyo, has uploaded its video for the song “Give Me Your Pity” to its MySpace page.As previously reported, SUICIDE CITY were recently named “Best Indie Band of the Year” by the IMC (Independent Music Conference). Graziadei and Arroyo were invited […]