Author Joel McIver, whose previous books include Sabbath Bloody Sabbath and Holy Rock & Rollers: The Story of Kings of Leon, will deliver two new hard rock bios for the coming year. On his website, McIver announced the 2011 release of Crazy Train: The High Life and Tragic Death of Randy Rhoads and Overkill: The […]

INXS will release a new single on Monday, with Australian vocalist/actor Dan Sultan at the mic. The song is a new version of their 1980 hit ‘Just Keep Walking’. Sultan – who appeared in the 2009 film Bran Nue Dae with Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush – isn’t the only guest vocalist appearing on INXS’s forthcoming […]

Roger Waters has responded to accusations that his stage show of ‘The Wall’ is anti-Semitic. Last week the Anti-Defamation League claimed the stage show uses imagery associated with stereotypes about Jews and money. In particular, the claims pointed out that during the performance of the song ‘Goodbye Blue Sky’, an animated projection shows aeroplanes dropping […]

A two day festival will be held at the R.B.F. Club in Sofia on the occasion ofВ the sixth anniversary of Bulgaria’s rock musicians’ society website – muzikant.org. Friday, 15 October will be headlined by Bulgarian Idol winner Toma, supported by fice more acts -В LockMaruhu, Overgame, Juvigy, Da Madafuckin’ Madafaka’s and Angel Dimitrov. Saturday, 16 October […]

The long-awaited secondВ effort by Bulgaria’s hottest metal band ODD CREW will be officially released on 22 October. Entitled ‘A Bottle of Friends’, the album conists ofВ 12 tracks with the artwork of the CD being unveiled today.В  The track listing will be announced soon. Meanwhile Tangra Mega Rock has produced a 60 seconds radio spotВ of audio […]

ALICE IN CHAINS’ October 8 concert at the Key Arena in Seattle, Washington as part of the BlackDiamondSkye tour will be filmed in 3D with current 3D camera technology, according to a posting on the band’s Facebook page. The BlackDiamondSkye tour also features DEFTONES and MASTODON. The trek is named after each of the three […]

Lordi drummer Kita has been fired – for unmasking himself. The band have issued the following statement: “Kita has made a decision to pursue his own career publicly as himself, without his alter ego Kita. This is in direct conflict with one of the cornerstones of Lordi’s image. Therefore it is not possible for him […]

Ex-DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy, who is currently performing with AVENGED SEVENFOLD filling in James “The Rev” Sullivan, met up with Sullivan’s family for the first time on on September 17th in Irvine, CA. Sullivan died on December 28th, 2009 from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs and alcohol. Chris Epting at Beliefnet.com documented the […]

The allegations come from the Anti-Defamation League, who claim the stage show uses imagery associated with stereotypes about Jews and money. In particular the claims point out that during the performance of the song ‘Goodbye Blue Sky’, an animated projection shows airplanes dropping bombs in the shapes of Jewish Stars of David followed by dollar […]

Skarhead will tour Europe in November. The group’s line-up will include Lord Ezec, Myke, Riggs Ross, Mike Cools, AK Rey, and Matty BK. The Sofia show is on Friday, 19 NovemberВ with some impressive local hardcore heroes joining the bill – Last Hope, Vendetta, Death SquadВ andВ Redound. Here’s the latest schedule: 11/5 Versus Theatre in Wroclaw (PL) […]