NEWS

30 March 2007

Wolfmother, Snow Patrol, The Flaming Lips, The Killers, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Jet are among the acts contributing tracks to the “Spider-Man 3” soundtrack, due on May 1. Snow Patrol’s “Signal Fire” is the set’s first single and can be already streamed from the soundtrack’s website. Here is the compelete tracklist for the “Spider-Man […]

30 March 2007

The winners of the BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music 2007 shall be announced tomorrow, March 31. Among the nominees are Balkan Beat Box (on the photo), Gotan Project, Natacha Atlas, Mariza, Ojos de Brujo, Gogol Bordello, Ben Harper, Anoushka Shankar, Toumani Diabate and many more. A full list of the nominees can be […]

29 March 2007

Former Led Zeppelin frontmanВ Robert PlantВ shall do a concert in Kavarna, Bulgaria, on July 6 (Friday). The show shall take place at the Kaliakra Stadium, starting at 8 p.m..

29 March 2007

Radiohead‘s management has revealed that Thom Yorke and his bandmates are currently in the studio working on their next record. No further information has been made available yet, excluding the fact that the group officially denied the rumours they’re going to work with Hear Music – the label which signed Paul McCartney last week. “They […]

29 March 2007

The former vocalist of the Brazilian metallers Angra and Shaaman, Andre Matos, is putting the finishing touches on his debut solo album, due later in the year. The CD was produced by Roy Z (Bruce Dickinson, Halford) and Sascha Paeth (Kamelot, Freedom Call, Edguy, Rhapsody) between November 2006 and February 2007 at Ultra Sonica and […]

29 March 2007

Leaves’ Eyes shall film their performance at the Metal Female Voices Fest on October 20, 2007 in Wieze, Belgium, for a future live DVD release. The Norwegian/German/Austrian band’s current line-up features singer Liv Kristine Espenaes Krull (ex-Theatre of Tragedy), her husband Alexander Krull (programming and vocals) and his fellow Atrocity bandmates Thorsten Bauer (guitar), Mathias […]

29 March 2007

The Beach Boys have announced the release of a new career-spanning best-of-album featuring 28 tracks selected and remixed by the musicians themselves. The CD shall be entitled “The Warmth of the Sun” and is due out on May 22 via Capitol Records/EMI.

29 March 2007

Gamma Ray‘s guitarist and vocalist Kai Hansen has revealed that the German metallers are nearing completion of their upcoming live DVD, recorded during the band’s May 6, 2006 show at in Montreal, Canada. The effort’s working title is “Hell Yeah! The Awesome Foursome (And the Finnish Keyboarder Who Didn’t Want to Wear His Donald Duck […]

29 March 2007

Swedish rockers Hardcore Superstar will enter studio in April to record a new single, “Bastards (Fade Away)”. The song shall be later included in the band’s upcoming studio album, which will also feature tracks like “Lesson in Violence”, “Sensitive to the Light”, “Dreamin’ in a Casket” and “Sophisticated Ladies”. A demo version of the last […]

29 March 2007

Tony Lovato, former frontman of the US pop-punk band Mest which disbanded a year ago, was arrested and charged with murder last Sunday. This followed the death of 25-year-old Wayne Hughes in an underground parking lot in Los Angeles. Lovato is said to have stabbed Hughes, who was dating the singer’s ex-girlfriend. Two days ago […]