They may have been on hiatus for the past ten years, but now one of Bulgaria’s foremost underground bands of the 90s are reuniting to play the Jack Daniel’s Rock Stage at Spirit of Burgas 2010! KARTZER will hit the stage on Saturday, July 14, right after the Everlast set on the festival’s Main Stage. […]

Tuli Kupferberg was a counter-culture icon who is best remembered as a poet, cartoonist, activist and co-founding singer of THE FUGS, a folk rock band formed in 1965.В  Kupferberg first gained notice during the late ’50s when he published his own Birth magazine which featured such Beat writers as Allen Ginsberg and LeRoi Jones.В He wrote […]

Zakk Wylde is to Рґplay a gig at HM Prison Stocken, Leicestershire in the UK – next Thursday – July 22, as part of their anti-violence/anti-bullying campaign. He’ll do a solo set and then get involved in a Q&A session with the inmates.

Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry was involved in a motorcycle accidentВ on ThursdayВ afternoon in Middleborough, Massachusetts, according to The Boston Globe. The police have said Perry was the driver of a motorcycle that was struck by a sedan. It has not been reported if Perry’s vehicle was stopped or in motion at the time, although he was […]

With one single under their collective belt, SODOM frontman Tom Angelripper’s side project DIE KNAPPEN are currently working on an official debut album. The band is in the studio in Essen, Germany with producer / drummer Corny, who is also a member of Angelripper’s solo band ONKEL TOM. Audio samples can be found here here.

We started itВ on MondayВ and now it’s time again for the BIG Kavarna Rock Fest competition! Every day this week we’ll be asking some questions about the bands on the Kavarna bill. Then on Friday, July 16, we’ll announce FIVE LUCKY SODS, who will win three-day passes for the festival. AND THE WINNERS ARE: -В Dimiter Koritovski […]

We talked to the frontman of theВ German metallers on the occasion of their forthcoming new studio record –‘At The Edge Of Time’ – to be released on 30В JulyВ through Nuclear Blast/Wizard.В В  BLIND GUARDIAN were one of the main acts at the Kaliakra Rock Festival last yearВ so it was only natural to ask Hansi the following: WE […]

O’CASAN have within months have stirred huge industry interest with their debut album ‘Ricochet.’В “This Northamptonshire based three piece create such a massive sound its impossible to ignore. – Explosive live show!” Martin Bowen (The Automatic) In early 2010 they were approached by award wining producer Romesh Dodangoda (Kids in Glass Houses, Funeral for a Friend) […]

Bryan Ferry will release a new solo album called Olympia on 25th October 2010 which features Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour. The recording also features Ferry’s old band mates Phil Manzanera, Andy Mackay and Brian Eno from Roxy Music and is the first time the band has worked together since 1973. Other people involved with […]

Hollywood actors Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem have tied the knot at a friend’s house in the Bahamas, Cruz’s spokeswoman has confirmed. Amanda Silverman told news agency The Associated Press, that Cruz, 36, wore a John Galliano dress at the ceremony, which only family members attended. The couple, both from Spain, appeared together in Woody […]