It turned out that Hilly Kristal – the owner of legendary New York punk rock club CBGB, who died last month of lung cancer – has left behind a $3.7 million estate after his death. While he was apparently socking away a lot of money while he bitterly disputed an increase in his club’s rent, […]

The Daily Star and other yellow papers are reporting that England’s drug lord Pete Doherty (Babyshambles, ex-The Libertines) and Kurt Cobain’s notorious widow Courtney Love have been seen making out in British bars. According to the media, it’s too early to call it romance, but it’s hard not to get giddy with speculation about the […]

Richard Reinhardt a.k.a. Richie Ramone, known as drummer for America’s punk rock godfathers The Ramones from 1983 to 1987, has filed suit against Apple Inc. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc. for copyright infringement. According to Richie, the companies do not have permission to sell downloads of six songs that he wrote – “Smash You”, “Somebody Put […]

After playing in Bulgaria’s capital for the first time ever on March 7, America’s ska veterans The Toasters shall visit Sofia again on December 7, event promoters Re-Act Music confirmed. The venue and other details shall be announced soon.

On Sunday, September 30, exactly at midnight the seventh rock and metal night on Bulgarias РњРњTV is going to start. Compiled byВ Vasko KatincharovВ (on the photo), the six-hour-long edition shall be dedicated to women in rock. We’ll be offered more than 50 videos in 6 hours, a.o. by female-fronted bands like Nightwish, The Gathering, Theatre of […]

The side-project by Rammstein’s guitarist Ruchard Kruspe, Emigrate, shall release its first official single on October 15. Entitled “New York City”, the MCD (view cover in the left) will contain the title track in two version (the original one and a remix by Alec Empire), “My World” (in audio and video format), and “Blood”. The […]

Danish extreme metallers HateSphere have launched a vocalist search following the departure of longtime singer Jacob Bredahl last Monday. The band will play its first shows with the new singer in November, so he is really urgently needed. Besides, the musicians are “not only searching for a vocalist who can sing and scream, but also […]

Bulgarian metal veterans Ahat have revealed the name of the suporting act for their show on September 27 at the 3000-capacityВ Universiada HallВ in Sofia, Bulgaria. The honour shall be given to the young rockers Boxer. You may check them out at myspace.com/boxerbg.

Italian melancho metallers Novembre shall release their new full-length studio album, entitled “The Blue” (view cover in the left), on November 5 via the British label Peaceville Records. The follow-up to last year’s “Materia” is going to containg 12 songs recorded at Finnvox Studios in Helsinki under the guidance of producer Mikko Karmila, known for […]

Canadian extreme metal avantgardists Voivod have created videos for the last two songs off their latest album “Katorz” (2006) and uploaded them on the Internet. The word goes about “The X-Stream” and “Polaroids”, the latter featuring some of drummer Michel “Away” Langevin‘s animation work. Now sit back and give in to the stream… “The X-Stream“ […]