There’s a new Tommy Bolin album on the way. Yes, we know the great one time Deep Purple and James Gang guitarist died in 1976, but Great Gypsy Soul, out on March 26, features outtakes and alternate versions of his solo material, with current musicians playing and singing along to Bolin’s own guitar and vocal […]

The unlikely pairing was not only a surprise for fans, but for the RnB band themselves. “I was kind of surprised,” co-founder Robert “Kool” Bell tells Billboard.com, “because Van Halen is more on the rock side and we do what we do. I said, ‘That’s an interesting combination…’ It really caught us by surprise. But […]

As previously reported, SOFIA ROCKS 2012 festival is set to happen on June 7 & 8 at Vassil Levski National stadium. GUNS N’ ROSES will be headlining the second night with IGGY AND THE STOOGES and UGLY KID JOE as special guests. TICKETS are going on sale at 9 am BG time, tomorrow, Friday 10 February via www.Eventim.bg. First  1000 tickets of each […]

Original YES vocalist/songwriter Jon Anderson has denied recent rumors about being asked to re-join Yes. He has release the following response to recent quotes in the news by Chris Squire that he is in regular communication with Anderson: “I haven’t spoken with Chris in four years, and the only e-mail I have received from him […]

Nick Cave, Blondie’s Debbie Harry, Mark Lanegan and Isobel Campbell, Warren Ellis, Lydia Lunch and more are all set to appear on ‘The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project – The Journey is Long’ album, a tribute to the frontman of cult 1980s alt.rock band The Gun Club, who died from a brain haemorrhage in 1996. […]

Bjorn “Speed” Strid from SOILWORK and Sharlee D’Angelo from ARCH ENEMY (pictured at Tangra studios in Kavarna last summer) have formed a new classic rock group called THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA. The band is currently recording the album which will be released in June 2012 by Coroner Records. It seems that THE NIGHT FLIGHT ORCHESTRA […]

Sharon Osbourne has rubbished reports that she has fired Bill Ward from Black Sabbath. Following Ward’s statement last week that he is still waiting for a fair and reasonable contract to sign, there have been internet stories that she had dismissed the drummer from the Sabbath reunion, But writing on Twitter, SHARON had this to […]

Former KORN guitarist Brian ‘Head’ Welch has been making his mark in music with his own band since 2009 and now the group will now go by the name LIVE & DEATH. Welch says, “We’ve experienced some very intense highs and lows. Michael Valentine, Dan Johnson, J.R. Bareis and myself have toured around the world playing […]

On February 17th, Hungarian neo thrash masters EKTOMORF will release a very special album via AFM Records. The Acoustic includes cover versions (LYNYRD SKYNYRD’s ‘Simple Man’ and ‘Folsom Prison Blues’ by JOHNNY CASH), re-recorded EKTOMORF classics (‘I Know Them’, ‘Redemption’, ‘Who Can I Trust’, ‘Stigmatized’ and ‘I’m In Hate’), plus five brand new tracks, written […]

THE BLACK KEYS have issued the video for their latest single, ‘Gold On The Ceiling.’ The track is from the band’s seventh album, ‘El Camino,’ which was released in December. The group are currently on the road playing shows in the UK this month before starting US dates on March 2 in Cincinnati. THE BLACK […]