Nick Cave is going to publish a new book on July 8. Entitled “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!“, it chronicles the development of the idea that became the song that helped name his most recent record. The issue comes with a three-inch CD with the title track. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!“

Slipknot’s new single “All Hope Is Gone” will be made available for free download on RoadrunneRrecords.com and Slipknot1.com exclusively for 24 hours only, starting this Friday, June 20, at 6 a.m. CET! In order to download the track, you will need to sign up for the newsletter… but you’ll get the new Slipknot shit, after […]

According to myspace, Los Angeles-based industrial metal masters Fear Factory will release a new album and embark on a world tour in 2009. Unfortunately, there’s no further information about the follow-up to “Transgression” (2005). At present Fear Factory are “on hiatus”. Frontman Burton C. Bell focuses his attention on Ascension of the Watchers, while drummer […]

Bulgarian hardcore leaders Last Hope shall devastate the Backstage Club in Sofia tonight, June 17. The show, also featuring Rise Up, starts at 8 p.m. sharp, with tickets costing just 3 Euro.

The Daily Star quoted Gene Simmons explained that Kiss are refusing to record new material until illegal downloading ceases. “The record industry is dead,” the bass player has said. “It’s six feet underground and unfortunately the fans have done this. They’ve decided to download and file-share. There is no record industry around, so we’re going […]

The top Bulgarian indie rock bands D_2В andВ Ostava shall play at this year’s edition of the Exit Fest in Novi Sad, Serbia. Both acts shall perform at the Future Shock Stage onВ July 13В (with Sex PistolsВ and Ministry headlining the Main Stage). A month later, on August 16, Ostava shall take part in the Sziget FestivalВ in Hungary.

The new, 48th issue of Bulgaria’s Pro-Rock Magazine, due to be published this Saturday, shall be dedicated to Judas Priest and their new concept album “Nostradamus”. The issue (view front cover below) shall also include features about Opeth, Pestilence, Disturbed, Moonspell, King’s X, Circle II Circle, Bloodbath, Bonded By Blood, Ihsahn, Merciless Death, Gwen Stacy, […]

The phenomenal jazz bass trio Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten a.k.a. SMV is the first headliner conformed for this year’s edition of the Sofia Music JamВ festival in Bulgaria.В The show is scheduled to take place on October 20,В 2008 at the 4,000-capacity National Palace of Culture. Tickets cost 30-60 leva / 15-30 EuroВ and can be […]

Norway’s avantgarde leaders Ulver have recorded a cover version of Prince‘s 1990 track “Thieves in the Temple“. You may listen to it at myspace.com/ulver1. The song features a collaboration with female soul singer and Wyclef Jean protГ©gГ©e Siri Stranger, and is part of a massive 81-track, five-CD tribute titled “Shockadelica: 50th Anniversary Tribute to The […]

As you already know, former Korn guitarist Brian “Head” Welch will release his debut solo album “Save Me From Myself” on September 9 via H2C Records. The CD shall be preceded by an iTunes single on July 8. Its title shall be “Flush“, and a 3-minute audio sample of it is already available for streaming […]