SMALLMAN will start recording its long-awated third album next week. The Bulgarian ethno-metal band will enter Studio 42 in Plovdiv to work once again with Luchezar Georgiev who did their first two albums. The songs were written in the highest village in Bulgaria – Manastir, where the boys found a fantastic secluded sourrounding back in December. The new album […]

On today’s edition of his ZOO radio show, ANDREY VLADOV will present some great sounds from:  – Fat White Family (pictured); – The Monks Kitchen; – The Warlocks; – The Magic Band. The ‘ZOO SHOW’ kicks off on Monday at 4 pm BG time (3 pm CET) on radio Tangra Mega Rock. It has several reruns during the week – for details check HERE… 

The past and present stars of UB40 are locked in a battle over the band’s name after three former members reunited to begin recording again. The reggae group’s former frontman Ali Campbell, who quit in 2008, has re-teamed with Mickey Virtue and Astro, who exited last year, to record a new album and play a […]

“We spent quite some time with the idea that there would never be a new BABYFACE CLAN album, especially after Nasso and Charlie started their Imbeciles side project and took off for the misty Albion so many years ago. Truth be told, even this turn of events wouldn’t be a bad one, since the band’s […]

Every year, the Grammy Awards pay tribute to the musicians and industry folks who passed away during the previous year. Last night the “In Memoriam” segment featured a ton of deserving artists, but notably excluded was late SLAYER guitarist JEFF HANNEMAN. It’s rather pathetic that he wasn’t honored; but his exclusion is particularly egregious considering HANNEMAN and his SLAYER […]

The Boss has unveiled the video for Just Like Fire Would, taken from his new album High Hopes. The track is a cover of Aussie combo The Saints’ 1986 nugget. The clip sees Springsteen playing along with the E Street Band and Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello, whose guitar features on eight tracks of […]

THE HOLD STEADY announced their new album Teeth Dreams a couple of weeks ago, and now we  get our first glimpse of the record.  Here ‘I Hope This Whole Thing Doesn’t Frighten You’ below: You could call it a return to form if their style ever wavered much, but it might be the sharpest song […]

Expressing their “great regret”, MOTORHEAD have been forced to announce the cancellation of their European tour, scheduled to start in February. This is the latest in a series of cancellations. Lemmy has been struggling with health issues since he suffered a haematoma in July 2013, leading to a three-week spell in hospital. The band called […]

SHINEDOWN frontman Brent Smith and guitarist Zach Myers will now release their fan-powered covers 10-track album as a six-track EP, after they failed to secure release permission from every artist they’d originally included. Fans had chosen the list of songs to be recorded acoustically, but Myers last month confirmed that Bon Jovi were among those […]

Before the rise of the Internet, it was damn near impossible to stumble upon the true faces of the masked nine known as SLIPKNOT. However, as STONE SOUR reunited in 2002, the identities of vocalist Corey Taylor and guitarist Jim Root became public for all to see. Finally, with the release of ‘Voliminal: Inside the […]