It doesn’t look as if Portishead is going to make fans wait years and years between albums this time around. The act plans to start recording a new album this summer, multi-instrumentalist Geoff Barrow told BBC 6 Music News. While he provided few details about the follow-up to 2008’s ‘Third’, Barrow revealed the act inked […]

Director David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Fight Club) sent a Facebook friend request to Trent Reznor — and the Nine Inch Nails mastermind accepted! Reznor posted on his website that he’s writing and recording the score for The Social Network, Fincher’s new film about the founding of the social networking website. The […]

Pearl Jam’s new video for ‘Amongst the Waves’ is a gorgeous look at our oceans, a welcome respite from the oil-slicked visions we’ve had for months – but also a call to action to save the big blue. In true Pearl Jam fashion, this rare music video from the band features a live performance of […]

BON JOVI guitarist Richie Sambora has started a label but it is not a record label, it is a fashion label. Sambora has teamed up with 27-year old L.A. designer Nikki Lund (pictured below)В for White Trash Beautiful. The collection will go on sale this month in the UK. The pair launched the label in March […]

Seminal rock band Helmet will release a new full-length album, ‘Seeing Eye Dog’, on September 7. The band’s first Lp since 2006’s critically acclaimed ‘Monochrome’ and its seventh album overall will be made available on the indie Work Song label (with physical distribution by Redeye and direct-to-fan digital delivery by Topspin). The CD was produced […]

After a painfull period of two weeks with no Mony Panchev on the radio, the cult DJ is now back on air. A test show of 90 minutes on Monday afternoon proved that the two weeks Mony spent recovering from a misteriou sdisease didn’t affect his good radio shape. So, expect Mr. Panchev to burst […]

23 July – the first day of this year’s Kavarna Rock Fest 2010 will be a blast. With Tarja, Doro and Epica on the bill plusВ German metal veteransВ ATROCITYВ and charmingВ LEAVES’ EYES.В  The leaders of both bands – Alex Krull and Liv KristineВ have beenВ married for years and tonightm the happy couple will call us to talk about […]

Mr. Big guitarist Paul Gilbert releases an instrumental album next month.Called Fuzz Universe, this will be put out by Mascot on August 3. Here’s is what Gilbert says about the album: “While I was writing the songs for ‘Fuzz Universe’, I was immersing myself in Bulgarian female choir music, baroque lute and violin pieces, Johnny […]

Paramount Pictures and MTV Films have revealed that actor Colin Farrell will portray the role of BLACK SABBATH’s Ozzy Osbourne in a biography film about the Prince of Darkness. During casting for the film, Ozzy and his wife Sharon both had different takes on who should play the role. Ozzy really wanted someone from his […]

Prince will be releasing his new album ’20Ten’ for free in Europe through a promotion with newspapers and magazines. This isn’t an unusual form of distribution for the singer who released his July 2007 album ‘Planet Earth’ with the U.K.’s Sunday Daily Mail. The giveaway coincided with his London O2 concerts at the time. No […]