DUO DE TWANG, featuring PRIMUS‘ LES CLAYPOOL, release an album titled ‘Four Foot Shack’. through ATO on February 3. The duo also feature Bryan Kehoe. PRIMUS will join Pearl jam, Arcade Fire and Tame Impala on 2014’s Big Day Out Festival in New Zealand in Australia starting this week.  

MEGADETH‘s DAVE ELLEFSON has teamed up with ANTHRAX‘s FRANK BELLO to form ALTITUDES & ATTITUDE. Supported by drummer JEFF FRIEDL of A PERFECT CIRCLE, the band is getting ready to release their self-titled debut EP, preceded by ‘Booze and Cigarettes.’ Despite the band’s thrash pedigree, ‘Booze and Cigarettes’ is firmly rooted in hard rock. A riffing guitar leads […]

This is the BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN WEEK on radio TANGRA MEGA ROCK. ‘High Hopes’ – his eighteenth studio album is out now – on January 14, 2014. The album features the E Street Band along with guitarist Tom Morello and former E Street Band members Clarence Clemons and Danny Federici, who have both died SPRINGSTEEN is a phenomenon. One can hardly […]

The folks at NPR are currently streaming Transgender Dysphoria Blues, the new album from AGAINST ME! and the first since vocalist Laura Jane Grace (formerly Tom Gabel) came out as transgender. It’s also the follow-up to 2011′s Black Crosses. According to a press release, the album sees Grace explore themes of “gender dysphoria, the loss […]

As time goes by, we’re starting to have more and more sonic testimony as to why John Frusciante left the Chili Peppers. The guy is a geeky weirdo, he likes his music shaken, not stirred. He can’t (please don’t) do anything about it. In his latest adventure, our hero has teamed up once again with […]

We are proud to premiere a track from THE CRIMSON PROJEKCT’s upcoming release Live In Tokyo (courtesy of progrockmag.com) – hear Frame By Frame below. The King Crimson offshoot has the approval of mainman Robert Fripp and features former member Adrian Belew plus Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto, who have been confirmed as part of […]

UK grinders CARCASS spent time this past week at Maida Vale Studios – located in London’s BBC studios – recording four songs including three from their latest triumphant Surgical Steel (‘Unfit For Human Consumption’, ‘The Cadaver Pouch Conveyor System’, ‘Captive Bolt Pistol’) and a song from their legendary 1991 album, Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious (‘Carneous […]

On today’s edition of his ZOO radio show, ANDREY VLADOV will present some of the most orogonals sounds of 2013 from:  – GOAT, THE BAPTIST GENERALS (pictured) and POND… – BRANDT BRAUER FRICK and LA FEMME… – RACHID TAHA and PSAPP. The ‘ZOO SHOW’ kicks off on Monday at 4 pm BG time (3 pm CET) on radio Tangra Mega Rock. It has several reruns during the […]

CRASHBRAKE will be celebratiing the release of their long-awated debut album ‘Hail To The Anonymous’ with a special gig at Sofia Live Club on Thursday, 16 January. ‘Hail To The Anonymous’ features ten bone crushing songs and is now available via iTunes, Amazon MP3, Spotify, Deezer, Rhapsody, Juke, Rdio, Xbox Music, Sony Music Unlimited. CRASHBRAKE has uploaded a […]

Rappers INSANE CLOWN POSSE have filed a lawsuit against officials at the U.S. Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation over a report which labelled their fans gang members. Violent J, real name Joseph Bruce, and Shaggy 2 Dope, real name Joey Utsler, and four fans filed the legal paperwork on Wednesday in the […]