DIMITER VASSILEV, aka NUFRI, leader of seminal Bulgarian alternative band PANICAN WHYASKER, but also member PYROMANIA, R.O.B.T.F., BASTARDOLOMEY and more, has started a brand new band called SKITNICKS. A brand new song called ‘SHIZO DOLL’ is entering our TUBORG TOP 40 Mega Rock chart his week. SKITNICKS consists of NUFRI (vocals and guiar), drummer MILEN IVANCHEV (Bastardolomey), guitarist IVO PESHEV (Pistamashina) and bass player RADO YOVHEV (Тremor). You can listen to some more songs […]

OPETH will be playing for teh first time in Sofia on 1 March for radio Tangra Mega Rock’s SIXTH Anniversary bash. According to Swedenabroad.com, in celebration of OPETH’s nomination to the Swedish Music Export Prize and the Swedish Grammy Award, the Ambassador of Sweden hosted a reception at the Swedish residence where the band members had the opportunity to […]

Drummer Tonmi Lillman, known as ‘Otus’ in the Finnish heavy metal group LORDI, passed away yesterday (Feb. 14) at the age of 38. No cause of death has been revealed as of yet. The full identity of Otus, in keeping with Lordi’s policy, remained a secret until now. The band wears masks and all the […]

All five members of the classic Guns N’ Roses line-up are now expected to turn up for the band’s induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in Cleveland on April 14. Vocalist Axl Rose will be joined on stage by guitarists Slash and Izzy Stradlin, bassist Duff McKagan and drummer Steven Adler – […]

JOHN LYDON is back in the news. It’s been more than four years since the former Johnny Rotten last reunited legendary first-wave U.K. punk band the Sex Pistols, whose best-known bassist Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose so long ago Iran wasn’t quite yet a fundamentalist theocracy. In 2009, though, Lydon reunited his other […]

Australian thrashers MORTAL SIN are currently without singer, since Mat Maurer has left the band. Here´s the official statement: “This is an official announcement from Mat Maurer. I have decided to leave the band for personal reasons, & irreconcilable differences. Last year was an incredibly difficult year for me personally & I have decided to […]

THE CRIBS have announced full details of their forthcoming fifth studio album. The Wakefield band, a trio once more after the departure of Johnny Marr last April, will release ‘In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull’ on May 7. The album was largely recorded in New York with MGMT and Flaming Lips producer David Fridmann […]

JACK WHITE has released the video for ‘Love Interruption’, the lead single from his upcoming solo debut, Blunderbuss.   Directed by White himself, the clip also features back-up vocalist Ruby Amanfu, clarinet/bass clarinet player Emily Bowland, and Brooke Waggoner on wurlitzer electric piano. Watch it below. Blunderbuss is out April 24th via Third Man/Columbia.  

HELLYEAH, the southern-fried metal band featuring drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott (ex-PANTERA, DAMAGEPLAN), singer Chad Gray and guitarist Greg Tribbett (MUDVAYNE), guitarist Tom Maxwell (NOTHINGFACE) and bassist Bob “Zilla” Kakaha (ex-Damageplan), will release their third album, Band Of Brothers, worldwide via their new label home, Eleven Seven Music, in early June. The album was recorded at […]

Rock legends JOURNEY have checked in with the following message: “Sweet vibrations! Our new video for ‘Resonate’ from our latest album Eclipse is here as a special Valentine’s Day gift to you. Filmed in San Francisco and Los Angeles, the video captures some of our favorite live moments during the Eclipse Tour. Enjoy:”