Leeds indie rock band Forward, Russia! have gone to Seattle to begin work on their new album. The follow-up to the quartet’s 2006 debut “Give Me a Wall” is being recorded with producer Matt Bayles, known for hiw work with Mastodon, The Fall of Troy, Isis, Blood Brothers, a.o. Additional information and music by Forward, […]

The American “industrial jungle pussy punk” quartet Mindless Self Indulgence shall release a DVD in September. It’s going to be entitled “Our Pain, Your Gain”. Meanwhile you can listen to the music created by vocalist and electronics-wizard Jimmy Urine, guitarist Steve, Righ?, bass player Lyn Z and drummer Kitty at myspace.com/MindlessSelfIndulgence.

DevilDriver have failed to set a world record for… the most number of people involved in a moshpit. The band fronted by former Coal Chamber vocalist Dez Fafara made the attempt last weekend at this year’s Download Festival, but the Guinness Book of Records rejected the application on the grounds that there’s no way to […]

Smashing Pumpkins, Disturbed, H.I.M., Good Goo Dolls, Linkin Park (on the photo) and many more contemporary rock bands are to be featured on the soundtrack to the movie “Transformers”, set to hit cinemas in the USA on July 3. The film itself is based on a popular 1980’s cartoon, while the complete tracklist for the […]

New York’s garage rock rising stars Yeah Yeah Yeahs shall release a new EP, entitled “Is Is”, on July 23. It shall contain 5 tracks written in 2004, during the trio’s tour in support of their full-length studio debut, “Fever to Tell” (2003) – “Rockers to Swollow”, “Down Boy”, “Kiss Kiss”, “Isis” and “10 x […]

Finnish sympho-metal superstars Nightwish have set “Dark Passion Play” as the title of their new full-length studio album, due to be released on September 28 via Nuclear Blast. Its front cover artwork can be viewed below. The CD, which is going to be the first one to feature the group’s new, 35-year-old Swedish vocalist Anette […]

After their smashing performance at the first Tangra Mega Live concert on June 5, 2006 in Sofia, the US/Mexican gang La Plebe shall invade Bulgaria again, this time invited by Re-Act Music. The show shall take place on July 12 (Thursday) at the Backstage Club, featuring also sets by the local youngsters Empty Face and […]

The Bulgarian bands She Was Asking for It (featuring members of Doom Day, Brothers in Blood, MelekhВ and Rise Up) and Propaganda shall support America’s nu-metal stars Ill Nino on their show in Sofia on June 23 (Saturday). The concert shall take place at the Hristo Botev Sports Hall, and the poster for it can be […]

Good Charlotte, who are presenting their fourth studio album, “Good Morning Revival”, have announced they will join Justin Timberlake on his North American arena tour this summer. It will kick off in Memphis on August 6, go on through Boston, Portland, Las Vegas, Sacramento, etc., and end in Los Angeles on September 17.

Today at noon Tangra Mega Rock’s studioВ was invaded by BustyВ and Babbata (on the photo) – the two leading halfs of Bulgaria’s avantgarde stoner new-school thrash softcore metal creature Ebanizm. The conversation between these two titans and Vassil Varbanov was concentrated on Ebanizm’s participation at the Tangra Mega Rock Night on June 20 in Sofia.