Stone Temple Pilots/Velvet RevolverВ frontman Scott Weiland is goingВ to serve 192 hours in jail, after being found guilty of Driving Under the Influence. This follows his arrest last November. He must serveВ the sentence by May 28.

The Wildhearts have released a cover versionВ of Helmet’s ‘Unsung’ . TheВ track will be includedВ in aВ covers album entitled ‘Stop us If you’ve Heard This One Before Vol. 1 planned to be released onВ May 19th. Meanwhile rumors insist that The Wildhearts will take part in this year Dowload festival.

The reunited The Jesus & Mary Chain have recorded their first new song in more than a decade. The track is called “All Things Must Pass” and shall be included in the soundtrack to the “Heroes” TV series, due out on May 5 and also featuring music by Panic at the Disco, Nada Surf, Bob […]

Izzy Stradlin is currently working on a new solo album. What’s known so far is that some of the songs shall feature a guest appearance the guitarist’s former Guns N’ Roses bandmate Duff McKagan, who’s currently active with Velvet Revolver. Izzy Stradlin – “Hammerhead“

Current Stone Temple Pilots and former Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland is currently working on a new solo album with producer Steve Albini. The as yet untitled CD is due out in November. We’ll learn more about it on May 12 from Mr. Albini himself, as that’s when he’ll play live in Sofia, Bulgaria with […]

The German metal bulldozers The Ocean shall play live inВ Sofia, BulgariaВ onВ May 2. The venue is The Club, the starting hour -В 10 p.m., and tickets shall cost 12 leva / 6 Euro. More info soon… The Ocean – “One with the Ocean“

The Goo Goo Dolls are hard at work on their next full-length studio album. According to the band, the follow-up to 2006’s “Let Love In” should be out “in the fourth quarter of this year”. Meanwhile, fans will be sated with the group’s “Greatest Hits, Volume Two” – a rarities-filled CD and DVD set due […]

Swedish metal masters Tiamat are streaming their entire new album “Amanethes“В at myspace.com/tiamat. TheВ CD (view cover in the left) is going to surface in Europe onВ May 5В via Nuclear Blast. Tiamat – “In a Dream” (live)

As we informed you a while ago, veteran British rockers Uriah Heep shall release a brand-new studio album in almost ten years, entitled “Wake the Sleeper” (view cover in the left), in June via Universal Music. The CD is going to contain 11 songs recorded in a line-up featuring Mick Box (guitar), Trevor Bolder (bass), […]

A year ago, when W.A.S.P.‘s “Dominator” came out, we had a quite intriguing conversation with the Californian metal band’s leader – Mr. Blackie Lawless. Now, just a few days before W.A.S.P.’s headlining show at the Lovech Party Fest 2008 in Bulgaria on May 11, we caught the talkative American musician on the phone again… and […]