Portishead, the reunited The Verve, My Morning Jacket, Jack Johnson, The Breeders and Rilo Kiley have been confirmed for this year’s Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, which will be held April 25-27 at Empire Polo Field in Indio, California. This will be Portishead’s first show on American soil in nearly a decade. At the […]

Mike Skinner of The Streets has declared new film “Sweeney Todd” an “absolute inspiration” after being bowled over by the new musical at the cinema. The movie, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham-Carter, Alan Rickman and Sacha Baron Cohen, is an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s musical about the mythical murderous barber […]

The reunited New York Dolls shall release a concert album in March. Entitled “Live at the Fillmore East“, the CD will contain audio footage recorded during the band’s two-night stand at the New York venue in December 2007. New York Dolls – “Personality Crisis” (live 2006)

Muse shall release a live DVDВ on February 18, recorded during the band’sВ June 16-17,В 2007 performances at the legendary London Stadium. Entitled “The Haarp Tour: Live from Wembley”, the effort shall come out both as a singe DVD and a CD/DVD box set, containing following tracklist: Knights of Cydonia Hysteria Supermassive Black Hole Map of the Problematique […]

Albania’s Top Gold Radio asked its website visitors to vote for their favorite songs as part of the 100 Golden Hits contest. Metallica’s 1991 hit “Nothing Else Matters” received the largest number of votes and was named the all-time best song by the Albanian audience, followed by Scorpions’ “Wind of Change“, Guns N’ Roses’ “Don’t […]

The “Greek Blink 182” Athens-based punk rockers Suave Gap and their Bulgarian colleagues Catalyst shall do two shows in Bulgaria, respectively at Sofia’s Backstage ClubВ on January 25 and Plovdiv’s Puzzle Club on January 26. Additional info about both events can be found in our GIG GUIDE. Suave Gap – “Want You Back“

Kaiser Chiefs are set to release a series of brand-new EPs and downloads in 2008, as they strive to break free of the conventional album release cycle. “We want to break the routine of having to make an album every two years. It’s totally boring,” drummer Nick Hodgson explained. Kaiser Chiefs – “Ruby“

Former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Saul Hudson a.k.a. Slash has revealed that his current band Velvet Revolver shall start working on its third full-length album in April. The musician has also stated, “I have a solo record that I’m looking forward to doing. But I’m not going to do it until the Velvet Revolver record […]

Saul Williams has released the video for his cover version of U2’s “Sunday Bloody Sunday“. You may check it out below. The song comes off the experimental hip-hop artist’s new album, “The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggytardust“, produced by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails and released as a download version only. Read more […]

Bulgaria’s rockersВ Saltriver have self-released their full-length debut album. Entitled “Tombstone Without a Name” (view cover in the left), the CD can be ordered for 6 leva / 3 Euro directly from the band – just drop them a line at satriver@saltriverbg.comВ and find out more. Saltriver – “Hey” (live at Tangra Mega Live II)