ELVIS PRESLEY’s original crypt will be put up for auction next month. It’s part of Music Icons auction which takes place on June 23. The King’s body was interred for two months at the Forrest Hill Cemetery, Tennessee, following his death in 1977, but later moved to Graceland. Sale price will include the underground crypt, […]

Congrats to THE CULT vocalist Ian Astbury and The Black Ryder singer/bassist Aimee Nash who got married in Las Vegas over the holiday weekend (May 26). The musicians exchanged vows at the Little Church of the West, where Angelina Jolie, Richard Gere and Judy Garland have also walked down the aisle. Astbury, 50, was in […]

The reactivated UGLY KID JOE have a brand new EP, Stairway To Hell, scheduled for release in July. And it’s a triumph! If you remember UKJ from their cheesy bubblegum track I Hate Everything About You, you may be surprised by these older-and-wiser offerings. The band promise they “have everything they started with, plus fatter […]

As previously reported, TANGRA MEGA ROCK will fuel the official FESTIVAL RADIO at LOUD FESTIVAL 2012. The annual gathering of the metal freaks is set to happen this week – 2 and 3 June in the park of Sofia Airport – terminal 2. Ten killer bands: Saturday 2 June 17:00 – 17:45 – TRISTANIA 18:10 – 19:10 – LACUNA COIL 19:35 […]

The twelve edition of the annual tribute to the late GEORGI MINCHEV is set to happen on June 8-10 at Sofia’s ‘Pork Pie’ open air club. Twenty bands and artists will go onstage with some of them performing hits of the great Bulgarian rockenroll musicial and poet. TICKETS priced 5 BGN will be sold at the door.  

Legendary W.A.S.P. are coming back to Bulgaria to headline the first day of LOUD FEST 2012 – 2 June in Sofia. We are talking to BLACKIE LAWLESS on the phone and here are Vassil Varbanov’s questions: – It’s been 2 years and a half since Babylon…are you cloose to your next studio album? – This line […]

On today’s edition of his PANIC ATTACK radio show, ALEX will play the brand new albums by the followiing bands: CEREMONY, CANCER BATS (pictured), BURY YOUR DEAD, BLACK BOMB A and much more…. PANIC ATTACK kicks off on Tuesday at 4 pm BG time (3 pm CET) on radio Tangra Mega Rock. It has several reruns during the week – for details […]

STEVE VAI has officially announced an August 14 release date for his new album, The Story of Light. It is his 16th solo album and will be released via his own Favored Nations label. The album will continue a narrative arc that began on Vai’s 2005 effort, Real Illusions: Reflections. “I’m always pursuing knowledge, I’m […]

Rock survivors AEROSMITH will release their long-awaited album on August 24. It’s called Music From Another Dimension and the first single is ‘Legendary Child’. Listen to it below and tell us what you think. The band has reunited with producer Jack Douglas, who worked on their chart-topping 70’s albums like Toys in the Attic (1975) […]

METALLICA bassist Robert Trujillo is financing a documentary about late jazz bass great Jaco Pastorius. It’s to be called ‘Jaco’ and directed by Stephen Kijak. Among those taking part are Flea, Sting and Carlos Santana.   Pastorius, who was a drug addict and bipolar, died in 1986 at the age of 35 after being beaten […]