Next year’s edition of the Sweden Rock Festival, set to take place on June 4-7, 2008 in SГ¶lvesborg, is obviously going to turn into one of Europe’s most significant summer live events. So far, the festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): Astral Doors (Sweden)At the Gates (Sweden)Avatar (Sweden)Axewitch (Sweden)Blue Oyster Cult […]

Al Jourgensen’s label 13th Planet Records has announced its next release – the debut album by Ascension of the Watchers. We’re talking about the side-project of Fear Factory’s frontman Burton C. Bell (now on vocals and guitar), rounded up by John Bechdel (keyboards and programming; a.o. Killing Joke, Ministry, False Icons) and Edu Mussi (guitar […]

On Sunday, December 9, Bulgaria’s ska/punk masters Wickeda and Mlyk!shall play live at the Backstage Club in Sofia, Bulgaria. The show starts at 8 p.m., and tickets shall cost 3 Euro.

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers will play during the halftime at the Super Bowl in Arizona on February 3, 2008. The National Football League’s annual championship game will be held at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, and will be televised by Fox. This year, nearly 140 million Americans watched Prince play at the […]

The tickets for the upcoming concert by Chris Rea on March 5, 2008 at the National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Bulgaria are on sale now. The price varies from 35 to 120 leva (18 to 60 Euro), and the way to puchase them is via Ticketstream.bgВ and Eventim.bg.

Video footage recorded at the Hardcore Massacre FestivalВ in Sofia, Bulgaria a month ago shall be released on DVD and CD. The event featured sets by O.H., Death Squad, Cut Off, Bring It Back, Missing the Point, DelateВ and Underdogs.

Bulgaria’s capital Sofia hosted the third edition of the local punk/hardcore festival East Noise Attack on Saturday night. A full report plus photos of the event shall be available quite soon HERE…

Black Sabbath drummer Bill Ward has recorded the classic Christmas poem “Twas the Night Before Christmas” as a greeting You may download the recital HERE. Bill’s latest recording appeared back in 2002, when he released the single “Straws”, which Ward wrote and recorded to express his concerns regarding the war with Iraq and the escalation […]

Seattle’s electro-industrial project Assemblage 23 shall perform live on December 15 at the 3В Ushi ClubВ in Sofia, Bulgaria. The event strats at 10:30 p.m., vith local support coming from VoyvodaВ and DJ Psychoma. Check out some music at myspace.com/officialassemblage23В and myspace.com/voyvoda.

After last night it was announced that Manowar shall headline the Kaliakra Rock Fest 2008 in Kavarna, Bulgaria in the beginning of July 2008, today at noonВ Joey DeMaio spoke exclusively to Tangra TVВ and revealedВ that he’s going to finish the production of the upcoming Holyhell album in his own New York recording studio, and afterward he’ll […]