15В BANDS in total from the Balkan region will reunite for the first edition ofВ  the extreme festival. It will be held at ‘THE BOX’ club in Sofia onВ 27 November, Saturday. The line-up conists of BulgariansВ COCKLUSH, D.S.O.L., HATEBOMB, GRUPA X., MIZERERE, MASS GRAVE, PATACA, FEODISTIS, VOMIT ERECTION will be joinedВ byВ Greek metallersВ BLUSTERYВ and MASS INFECTION,В Serbains INFESTВ and AWAITING FEAR […]

Another band has just been added to the bill for the second day of Kavarna Rock Fest 2010. Autumn Sun will be flying over all the way from South Africa to blow your socks off. The band first played to a Bulgarian audience back in 2008, as part of the Jack Daniel’s Rock stage, promoted […]

Darius Rucker wrote 77 songs for his new album. That’s not a misprint. Most of them ended up not making the cut for “Charleston, SC 1966,” Rucker’s follow up to his country breakthrough, “Learn to Live.” The new album will be out Oct. 12, and will include 12 new songs. “Learn to Live” has sold […]

German power metallers Grave Digger have set “The Clans Will Rise Again” as the title of their new album, due in Europe on October 1 via Napalm Records. The CD was recorded between mid-May and mid-July at the Meadow Studios, which is owned by Grave Digger’s new guitarist Axel Ritt, and Principal Studios, where all […]

Bassist Bobby Burns has revealed in a posting on his Twitter profile that he has left SOULFLY after seven years and four albums with the Max Cavalera-led band. He writes, “To all the fans… SOULFLY and I have decided to part ways. Stay tuned for my next projects already in the works. Thanks 4 ur […]

Placebo are to release a download only single with a difference on September 6. It’s titled ‘Trigger Happy Hands’, and will come with a limited edition T-shirt, specially designed by the band in collaboration with Atticus Clothing. PLACEBO are set to play at theВ Winter Spots palace in Sofia, Bulgaria on September 13. Tickets are available […]

The Liverpool Echo is reporting that Beatle John Lennon could be immortalized forever on a commemorative coin if he takes the lead in a groundbreaking poll. For the first time in its 1,100-year history, the Royal Mint is asking the public to decide who should be commemorated on the next coin in its Great Britons […]

Oh my god! A documentary about gay porn actors scored by a punk rocker isn’t getting distributed by Amazon! Somehow this less than surprising turn of events is getting all kinds of controversial. Amazon isn’t going to stock director John Roecker’s Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Gay Porn Stars But Were Afraid To […]

Thursday night, the last gig of the Arena Muzkia 2010… Tangra Mega Rock’s Nasso RuskovВ  is hypnotizedВ by MASSIVE ATTACK, totally hypnotized: “…Having seen Massive Attack in the UK, on their home soil, I can safely say that the Sofia crowd wins hands down. Perhaps that’s why we got two encores, instead of one. Massive Attack, […]

Foo Fighters guitarist Chris Shiflett admits he was enjoying the band’s two year hiatus so much that he’s caused himself a problem with side project Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants. “If I hadn’t been relaxing so much I’d have gotten our debut album (self-titled and just released) out a year ago, and given us […]