Peaceville Records are releasing a 3-CD set, entitled “Frostland Tapes” on May 26. The effort (view cover in the left) is going to contain all four of Darkthrone’s first demos from the late 80’s in one place, plus a rare live recording from Denmark in 1990, as well as the previously unreleased version of the […]

This weekend, May 10-11, the Southern Park in Sofia, Bulgaria shall host an open-air two-day concert in tribute to the late Georgi Minchev. Bands scheduled to perform include Kaskadiori, Sprint, Milena,В Epizod, Djendema, Atlantic, Sunrise, Konkurent, Wickeda, and more.

The reunited The Police will perform their final concert ever in New York in August. The date is to be announced soon.

Tomorrow, May 8, the long-awaited 3-CD alternative rock compilation “Credit to the Nation” shall be finnally released. The event shall be celebrated with a release party at the Stroeja Club in Sofia, starting at 8:30 p.m. Here’s the complete tracklist of the effort:

Pro-PainВ shall play live at theВ Blue Box ClubВ in Sofia, Bulgaria onВ June 3. Tickets for the show, scheduled to start at 7 p.m., cost 13 Euro and are on sale now via Eventim.bg.

Check out some photos of last Sunday’s show of Zucchero in Sofia in our GALLERY, as well as HERE, andВ then read a report of the concert HERE…

The Swedish metal bandВ Pain,В fronted by Hypocrisy’s leaderВ Peter TГ¤gtgren, decided to sign again with Nuclear Blast Records. Nuclear BlastВ released the group’s 1997 self-titled debut album. Peter andВ Pain areВ  currently working on the band’s new CD, planned to be released in October.

The band revealed that they have been working on new material – with Mark Ronson and Eliot JamesВ on production duties. In a message to fans on the band’s mailing list, they also explained: “We’ve been hard at work writing, rehearsing and recording songs,” they wrote. “It all started with the two new songs you may […]

Albert Hofmann, the pioneering Swiss chemist and advocate of psychedelics who discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD, died yesterday at his home in Basel, Switzerland.. He was 102. Hofmann’s most famous discovery LSD happened onВ April 16, 1943.В В  Three days later, on April 19, he ingested 250 milligrams of LSD, embarking on the first full-fledged acid […]

“I think it was a one-off response to a particular situation,” YorkeВ explained the band’s decision last year to letВ fans pay if andВ what they wanted for digital downloads of their album “In Rainbows.” “Yes. It was a one-off in terms of a story. It was one of those things where we were in the position of […]