A competition for Bulgaria’s best school rock/pop band started officially yesterday. For details, check out cokemusic.bg.

One of the world’s best known saxophone players, Jan Garbarek, and his quartet shall perfom live in Sofia, Bulgaria at this year’s edition of the Jazz + Festival. The show is scheduled to take place on May 15, 2008В at the 4,000-capacity Hall 1 of the National Palace of Culture, starting at 7 p.m. Jan Garbarek […]

The compositions “O.K.”, “Zaydi” and “Prayer” by the Bulgarian string quartet StrringS were included in the soundtrack to the new movie “The Hamlet Adventure”, due to be aired for the very first time at this year’s Sofia Film Fest 2008. Meawnhile, StrringS are putting the finishing touches to their debut album.

Ohio-based metalcore masters Integrity will finally release a new full-length studio album. Entitled “The Blackest Curse“, the CD shall surface by the end of the year via the label Deathwish Inc. It shall feature about 13 tracks and, according to frontman Dwid Hellion, “it is a concept album based on a book I have written…” […]

Bulgaria’s ska leadersВ Wickeda shall start a three-month European club tour at the end of this week. All dates and venues confirmed so far can be seen in our GIG GUIDE.

Former Pop Will Eat Itself members Graham Crabb (vocals) and Adam Mole (guitar) shall release the debut effort with their new project Vileevils on March 25. The word goes about a maxi-single entitled “Fucking and Fighting“, which can already be checked out at myspace.com/vileevils. No details on a full-length album were revealed, nor on a […]

American rockers My Morning Jacket shall release their new studio album on June 10 via ATO Records. Entitled “Evil Urges“, the CD by the Kentucky-bred rock act was recorded in New York late last year with co-producer Joe Chiccarelli, and is going to feature 14 tracks. My Morning Jacket – “The Way That He Sings” […]

Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails are rumoured to be headlining this year’s Lollapalooza Festival. Nothing’s been confirmed yet, except for the fact that the upcoming edition of the event, which was founded by Perry Farrell, is set to take place at Chicago’s Grant Park on August 1-3, with more than 100 artists expected to perform.

After The Sex Pistols, Nightwish and Ministry, half a dozen more acts have been added to the bill for this year’s EXIT Festival, set to take place on July 10-13 at the Petrovaradin Fortress in Novi Sad, Serbia. The word goes about Gogol Bordello (on the photo), Paul Weller, The Hives, Sven Vath, Franscois K, […]

Britain’s rock veterans Uriah Heep shall finally release a brand-new full-length studio album. The follow-up to 1998’s “Sonic Origami” shall be suitably entitled “Wake the Sleeper” (view cover in the left) and is going to surface on June 2 via Universal Music Group. Uriah Heep – “July Morning” (live)