MONY PANCHEV’s very special ROCKENROLL radio show today is dedicated to the ….greatest rockenroll band in the world – THE ROLLING STONES – episode 2.  ROCKENROLL kicks off at  4:00 pm BG time (3 pm CET) on radio Tangra Mega Rock. For the several reruns of the show – CHECK in our SCHEDULES.  

THE DARKNESS have premiered their studio cover of Radiohead’s ‘Street Spirit (Fade Out)’ online. ‘Street Spirit (Fade Out)’ first appeared on Radiohead’s classic 1995 album ‘The Bends’. It was released as single in January 1996 and became the band’s first Top Five hit. THE DARKNESS have been performing the song live for several years, but […]

Franz Ferdinand and Red Hot Chili Peppers have voiced support for the jailed members of feminist punk collective Pussy Riot. Three members of the band – Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alekhina and Yekaterina Samutsevich – have been in pre-trial detention since March of this year, after they staged a protest against Russian President Vladmir Putin. On […]

JACKYL will release their brand new album, Best In Show on July 31st. The band has now released the video for the track ‘Screwdriver’. Check it out below. Best In Show features the following 12 songs: 01. Best In Show 02. Encore 03. Screwdriver 04. Horns Up 05. Golden Spookytooth 06. Cover Of The Rolling […]

The second issue of  ‘Metal Hammer Bulgaria’ will be out on 27 July. KORN are the cover story as they will close this year’s Spirit Of Burgas 2012 festival on 5 August. Inside you will find 80 pages of news, interviews, album reviews, live reports and more. The price is 4,95 BGN.

IRON MAIDEN frontman BRUCE DICKINSON called a fan that he spotted texting in the crowd during one of the band’s recent gigs a ‘wanker’. The incident happened during an Iron Maiden show last week (July 19) in Indiana, Indianapolis. The Quietus reports that as the band started playing ‘Wasted Years’, DICKINSON shouted: “Ah, for fucks sake, […]

PEARL JAM guitarist Mike McCready recently revealed that there is roughly an album’s worth of songs that the mid-90′s side project, MAD SEASON, never got to record with vocalist Layne Staley before his return to Alice in Chains and eventual death. Now it appears that SCREAMING TREES singer Mark Lanegan will lend his voice to […]

Author Joel McIver will release the first biography of San Francisco Bay Area metallers MACHINE HEAD, entitled Inside The Machine, on October 15th via Omnibus Press. A book description states: Over 17 years and eight albums, heavy metal band Machine Head have sold millions of units, earned a Grammy nomination and won personal awards from […]

ELTON JOHN has scored his first number one album in 22 years, an electronic reworking of his hit songs, while Florence and the Machine clung to top spot in the singles chart for a second week running, the Official UK Charts Company said on Sunday. JOHN teamed up with Australian electronic duo PNAU for ‘Good […]

TRAVIS BARKER was forced to give up drugs after doctors found six ulcers in his stomach. The Blink 182 drummer reveals the news ended his enjoyment of smoking weed – something he’d hoped he could carry on doing for the rest of his life. He’d been using cannabis to help with anxiety issues, which he’s been […]