Rancid’s Tim Armstrong is to release a solo album on May 22, 2007 on his own label, Hellcat Records. The CD is to be called “A Poet’s Life”, and will come packaged with a bonus DVD featuring a video for each of the 11 songs on the record.

Wickeda’s frontman Erol Ibrahimov has startedВ his own one-manВ side-project called Guava Jelly. The first song recorded under that moniker is called “A Recipe for…” and can already be downloaded HERE.

Wolfmother, Snow Patrol, The Flaming Lips, The Killers, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Jet are among the acts contributing tracks to the “Spider-Man 3” soundtrack, due on May 1. Snow Patrol’s “Signal Fire” is the set’s first single and can be already streamed from the soundtrack’s website. Here is the compelete tracklist for the “Spider-Man […]

The winners of the BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music 2007 shall be announced tomorrow, March 31. Among the nominees are Balkan Beat Box (on the photo), Gotan Project, Natacha Atlas, Mariza, Ojos de Brujo, Gogol Bordello, Ben Harper, Anoushka Shankar, Toumani Diabate and many more. A full list of the nominees can be […]

Paul David Hewson a.k.a. Bono became a knight of the British empire yesterday, March 29, in a ceremony at the Dublin home of British Ambassador David Reddaway. U2‘s frontman was named a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his humanitarian work and services to the music industry. However, the […]

Leaves’ Eyes shall film their performance at the Metal Female Voices Fest on October 20, 2007 in Wieze, Belgium, for a future live DVD release. The Norwegian/German/Austrian band’s current line-up features singer Liv Kristine Espenaes Krull (ex-Theatre of Tragedy), her husband Alexander Krull (programming and vocals) and his fellow Atrocity bandmates Thorsten Bauer (guitar), Mathias […]

The Beach Boys have announced the release of a new career-spanning best-of-album featuring 28 tracks selected and remixed by the musicians themselves. The CD shall be entitled “The Warmth of the Sun” and is due out on May 22 via Capitol Records/EMI.

Gamma Ray‘s guitarist and vocalist Kai Hansen has revealed that the German metallers are nearing completion of their upcoming live DVD, recorded during the band’s May 6, 2006 show at in Montreal, Canada. The effort’s working title is “Hell Yeah! The Awesome Foursome (And the Finnish Keyboarder Who Didn’t Want to Wear His Donald Duck […]

Swedish rockers Hardcore Superstar will enter studio in April to record a new single, “Bastards (Fade Away)”. The song shall be later included in the band’s upcoming studio album, which will also feature tracks like “Lesson in Violence”, “Sensitive to the Light”, “Dreamin’ in a Casket” and “Sophisticated Ladies”. A demo version of the last […]

Tony Lovato, former frontman of the US pop-punk band Mest which disbanded a year ago, was arrested and charged with murder last Sunday. This followed the death of 25-year-old Wayne Hughes in an underground parking lot in Los Angeles. Lovato is said to have stabbed Hughes, who was dating the singer’s ex-girlfriend. Two days ago […]