Sinead O’Connor has revealed the details of her forthcoming album. It shall be a double CD entitled “Theology”, due out on June 26. It shall feature 8 original songs, as well as several cover versions, a.o. Curtis Mayfield’s “We People Who Are Darker Than Blue”, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s “I Don’t Know How […]

Placebo are recruiting fans to star in the forthcoming video for their new single “Running Up That Hill”. The trio announced they are inviting everybody to submit single-camera video clips of themselves singing the Kate Bush cover. Fans can download the song’s instrumental and lyrics and upload their videos to http://Motionbox.com/placebo using the personal video […]

British gothic metal godfathers Paradise Lost have announced they’ll release their new full-length album, “In Requiem”, on May 21 in most European countries via Century Media. The CD was produced by Rhys Fulber (who has also worked with Fear Factory, Front Line Assembly, etc.) and mixed by Mike Fraser (a.o. AC/DC, Aerosmith, Metallica). Quite some […]

Tomahawk, one of the many bands of Mike Patton (a.o. Peeping Tom, Fantomas, ex-Faith No More, Mr. Bungle), are planning to release their new album in late June. It shall be entitled “Anonymous”. No further information is available yet.

Rancid’s Tim Armstrong is to release a solo album on May 22, 2007 on his own label, Hellcat Records. The CD is to be called “A Poet’s Life”, and will come packaged with a bonus DVD featuring a video for each of the 11 songs on the record.

Wickeda’s frontman Erol Ibrahimov has startedВ his own one-manВ side-project called Guava Jelly. The first song recorded under that moniker is called “A Recipe for…” and can already be downloaded HERE.

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 […]

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 […]

Paul David Hewson a.k.a. Bono became a knight of the British empire yesterday, March 29, in a ceremony at the Dublin home of British Ambassador David Reddaway. U2‘s frontman was named a Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his humanitarian work and services to the music industry. However, the […]

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 […]