Californian extreme metalheads Wicked Wisdom and French metallers Gojira will both play at this year’s Download Festival on June 9.

Finnish goth metalheads To/Die/For are to call their new album ‘Wounds Wide Open‘. Expect a release in October.

Stone Sour have posted the song ’30/30-150′ online. This comes from new album ‘Come What(ever) May’, due out in late August.

On May 28, at the Kokaracha club, Stand Up Comedians will present their new single. Also to take part in the event will be Djamesbong and DJ Dontworrior. The vision will be taken care of by OPNN and Kemura. Start: 21:00h.

Audioslave have explaiend the reasons behind the decision to pull out of the Carling Weekend Festival in Reading and Leeds. This is because new album, ‘Revelations’, won’t be ready in time.

Twin Method‘s video for the track ‘The Abrasive‘ has been posted online at this location. The video was shot and directed by Danny Roew and Matt Zane (Society 1) in Los Angeles. ‘The Abrasive’ is the first single from Twin Method‘s debut album, The Volume Of Self, to be released June 13th on Crash Music.

Rock outfit Cursive will on Aug. 22 deliver its sixth album “Happy Hollow” via Saddle Creek. Producer Mike Mogis, who has manned a number of Cursive titles, helmed the new offering.“Happy Hollow” is Cursive‘s first album since 2003’s “The Ugly Organ.” In between projects, frontman Tim Kasher has been touring and recording with his side-project […]

Archers Of Loaf founding member Eric Bachmann, better known as Crooked Fingers, will on Aug. 22 issue his solo debut “To The Races” via Saddle Creek. The self-produced effort features violinist Tom Hagerman (Devotchka) and vocalist Miranda Brown. The album was recorded over a week’s time in rural North Carolina.

Pearl Jam has unveiled its first music video since the 1998 clip for “Do the Evolution” in the form of “Life Wasted,” the first video directed by visual artist Fernando Apodaca. The clip is available from various sites through Wednesday (May 24) as a free download under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Drivers license. It premiered […]

Kaiser Chiefs and Snow Patrol are to headline a two-day festival in Belfast this summer.The bands play the Tennent’s Vital 06 bash, which takes place at the city’s Botanic Gardens.Kaiser Chiefs will headline on August 22, while local heroes Snow Patrol close proceedings the following day.