The complete schedule for this year’s edition of Perry Farrell’s Lollapalooza Festival, set to take place on August 3-5 at Chicago‘s Grant Park, has been revealed: Friday, August 3, shall feature performances by Daft Punk, LCD Soundsystem, The Fratellis and Perry Farrell’s current band, Satellite Party. Saturday, August 4, shall be dominated by Muse, Interpol, […]

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.

Helloween, who are currently recording their next, 12th full-length album at singer Andi Deris’ Mi Sueno Studio in Tenerife, SpainВ  with producer Charlie Bauerfeind, shall entitled their new CD “Gambling with the Devil”. The effort shall be released on Halloween, October 31, followed by a European tour in November and December.

The video for the debut singleВ “Oh, You Black Sea”В by Svetlyo & The Legends can already be watchedВ on the legends’ official homepage, as well as here. Enjoy!

Drummer Bryan “Brain” Mantia (ex-Primus, Guns N’ Roses, Godflesh, Tom Waits, a.o) and guitarist Brian “Buckethead” Carroll (on the photo; ex-Guns N’ Roses, Praxis, Les Claypool) have teamed up with legendary American funk bass player William “Bootsy” Collins in new band, Science Faction. Their debut album is expected in early 2008.

Electric Wizard are currently laying down tracks at London’s Toe Rag Studio together with the vacility’s owner and producer Liam Watson, who, amongst other things, is known for his work on the massiveely successful The White Stripes album “Elephant”. The still untitled effort by the British doomsters shall be released by the end of the […]

ratm82407.com – the mysterious Rage Against the Machine website with two counters we informed you about last week – has revealed its secret. As you probably remember, the left counter on the homepage was ticking towards June 11, while the right one – towards August 24. Well, it’s all clear now. Yesterday, June 11, RATM […]

New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) veterans Blitzkried have completed work on their new full-length album. Entitled “Theatre of the Damned” (view cover in the left), the CD is going to contain 10 tracks of “the same authentic heavy metal of the ’80’s along with a super freshness and total attitude.” Due on August […]

Download Festival 2007 director Stuart Galbraith has announced plans to move the 3-day rock event back a week next year. In other words, Download 2008 shall take place from June 13 to June 15, 2008. Tickets for the fest are due to go on sale this Friday, June 15, at 9 a.m. GMT sharp at […]