Christmas edition of “Rock and Roll” on RE:TV will be aired 5 min. after midnight on Jan. 1st 2009.

After Joe Elliot said that bands like Poison and Winger are “not worth listening” some months ago, Kip Winger, the leader of Winger, decided to reply: “Yeah, I just want to say that I read what Joe Elliott said, slagging off bands like Poison and Winger. I’ve gotten used to being the punching bag, I […]

Willie Nelson, who has sold more than 50 million albums in his lifetime, has been busy with many projects this year as a cameo in Snoop Dogg’s song “My Medicine” and sangВ a song with Mariah Carey. In February, he is releasing an albumВ with western swing songs.В In March, “Naked Willie”, an album of Willie’s recordings on […]

“Wizard” is to distribute “Cyclone Empire” productionВ in Bulgaria. “Cyclone Empire” is a young German label, specified in doom, oldschool thrash and black metal. Among the titles in stock are albums from Evocation, Solstice, Before The Dawn and many others.

One-time manager of The Almighty, Tommy Tee, passed away very suddenly on the evening of December 23. Ricky Warwick, The Almighty frontman first got to know Tommy when he joinedВ New Model ArmyВ back in 1987. Tommy was their tour manager at that time and would later would go on to becomeВ The Almighty’sВ manager from 1988 up to […]

The inventor of the Fender guitar is to receive a lifetime achievement awards at the 2009 Grammys. Clarence “Leo” Fender will beВ honored with a technical award at the ceremony in Los Angeles on February 7.

With a brand new Megadeth record set to arrive in 2009, Dave Mustaine and his army are to recruit two of the biggest names to join the next year’s “Gigantour”. Next year’s edition of the US mega-tour is to feature supportВ  from Avenged Sevenfold andВ Bullet For My Valentine.

Today, at 15 CET sharp, representatives of the Iron Maiden fan club in Bulgaria will be our guests. We’ ll be talking about the forthcoming (one and only European) Maiden gig in Belgrade, Serbia, on Feb. 10, 2009 and the events, organized by the Bulgarian Maiden Fan Club during its first year of existence.

God Forbid have posted new track “War Of Attrition” at their official web site. God Forbid’s new album “Earthsblood” will be out in Feb. 24.

Karl Buechner (ex-Earth Crisis)’s new band Freya is to release still untitled new album in the first half of the next year through Victory Records. As previously reported, Earth CrisisВ has set “To The Death” as the title of its new album, due March 2009.