Italy’s experimental post-punk/jazz/metal/electro/bossa nova psychopaths Thee Maldoror Kollective are working on two new studio albums – an instrumental one, entitled “Need the Needle”, and a more pop oriented effort named “Knownothingism”. Both should appear by the end of the year. Additional info and some compositions by TMK can be found on their MySpace profile at […]

Icelandic post-punk minimalists Sigur Ros will release a double CD and a DVD on November 6. The audio effort is entitled “Hvarf/Heim” (meaning “Disappeared/Home”) and consists of unreleased (disappeared) songs plus live acoustic versions of tracks from all four Sigur Ros studio albums recorded in Iceland (home). As for the DVD, its title is going […]

Pink Floyd’s frontman David Gilmour is to release a new concert solo DVD in September. Entitled “Remember the Night: Live from The Royal Albert Hall”, the issue shall consist of two discs with over five hours of footage.

Hilly Kristal, founder of the legendary New York punk rock venue CBGB, died on Tuesday from complications from lung cancer at the age of 75. Kristal, who opened the now-defunct venue in December 1973 in the then-gritty Bowery neighborhood in Manhattan under the name CBGB & OMFUG (“Country, Bluegrass, Blues and Other Music for Uplifting […]

After the masive success of “Tarantula”, the revived Smashing Pumpkins have shot and uploaded on the Internet a seond video for a song off their comeback album, “Zeitgeist”, which debuted at No. 2 on The Billboard 200 chart. The track chosen is “That’s the Way (My Love Is)”, and it can already be watched here:

Canadian rock lady Melissa auf der Maur (ex-Hole, Smashing Pumpkins) has just finished recording her second solo album. Entitled “Out of Our Minds”, the CD shall be accompanied by a comic and short film. There’s still no information who and when is going to release the follow-up to Melissa’s 2004 solo debut “Auf der Maur”.

The Goo Goo Dolls are to release a compilation CD, clearly entitled “Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 – The Singles”, in mid-November. The rockers’ best-of-effort shall be followed by a second volume in the beginning of 2008, featuring rarities, cover version, remixes and B-sides, as well as a couple of new songs.

A brand-new composition by Norway’s sound magicians Ulver, entitled “Vigil”, has been made available for streaming on the band’s official MySpace profile atВ myspace.com/ulver1. The song is the fourth out of the nine ones to be included on Ulver’s seventh full-length studio album, “Shadows of the Sun”, due in Europe on October 1 via Jester Records. […]

Black Label Society guitarist Nick Catanese (on the photo), Queensryche six-stringer Mike Stone (now playing bass and singing) and drummer Mike Froedge (ex-Doubledrive) have joined forces in a new side-project. According to Nick, “we’re just writing away… There’s heavier stuff, but there’s stuff like, we wrote a song that sounds like if you put The […]

Germany’s metal maestros Masterplan have announced they’ll start recording their next full-length album in January. The follow-up to this year’s “MK II” shall be created at guitarist Roland Grapow‘s (ex-Helloween) studio in Slovakia with producer Roy Z., known for his work with Rob halford and Bruce Dickinson. Masterplan’s current line-up features Roland, bass player Jan […]