Buzz Osborne and his experimental metal gang Melvins shall entitle their upcoming full-length studio album “Nude with Boots“. The 11-song follow-up to 2006’s “A Senile Animal” shall surface on July 8 via Mike Patton’s Ipecac Records. Melvins – “Queen“

Rapper Mos Def (on the photo) will play legendary rock’n’roller Chuck Berry in “Cadillac Records“, which is filming in New Jersey. Beyonce is starring as Etta James in the film, which chronicles the rise of legendary label Chess Records. The movie also features such characters as Chess co-founder Leonard Chess (Adrien Brody), Muddy Waters (Jeffrey […]

Swedish metal avantgardists Opeth have revealed the front cover artwork for their upcoming studio album (view it in the left). As already known, the CD shall be entitled “Watershed” and shall surface on June 2 via Roadrunner Records, featuring following tracks: 1. Coil2. Heir Apparent3. The Lotus Eater4. Burden5. Porcelain Heart6. Hessian Peel7. Hex Omega […]

Australian rock icon Nick Cave (The Bad Seeds, ex-The Birthday Party, The Boys Next Door) was awarded an honorary PhD from his old university. Cave attended Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, in 1977 and 1978, studying for a diploma in Fine Art, but left his course to pursue his musical career. The university’s vice-chancellor, Professor […]

The entire European tour by Onslaught and Carnal Forge has been “postponed due to bad promotion”, announced The Other Side. No further info is available yet…

The venue of the second edition of the Gorgon Electro Mini Fest, set to take place in Sofia, Bulgaria onВ April 12В and featuringВ Hocico from Mexico and the local acts Voyvoda, FaultВ and VJ Gorgon, shall be the Hristo Botev Cultural Hall, promoters revealed today. The start of the show shall be given at 7 p.m., with tickets […]

Radiohead are to start working on new material with producer Nigel Godrich soon. Bassist Colin Greenwood confirmed that the band had booked studio time, but didn’t elaborate on how far they are down the creative process. Besides, the group is rehearsing 70 songs for its forthcoming world tour. Radiohead – “Karma Police” (live)

Richard Allan Ream, better known as Poison‘s drummer Rikki Rockett, was arrested on a rape warrant issued out of Mississippi as he arrived at the Los Angeles airport on Monday. No further information is available yet… Poison – “Unskinny Bop“

Nuclear Blast has set an April 11 release date for the “Beautiful Voices Vol. 3” DVD+CD combo. The package will feature songs and promo videos by more than 20 female-fronted rock and metal bands, namely Nightwish, Lacuna Coil, Xandria, After Forever, Tristania, Sirenia, In This Moment, Autumn, Delain, Delight, Bif Naked, The Vincent Black Shadow, […]

Bad Religion frontman Greg Graffin will receive an award from a Harvard-based atheist intellectual’s community. The singer is slated to get the highest honor from Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard University – the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism – for his one-two punch of promoting scientific humanism over religion in pop cultural arena as […]