The Happy Mondays just can’t seem to catch a break lately. First, dancer Bez was sentenced to prison time for choking his ex-girlfriend. Then earlier this month he got in trouble for violating a restraining order filed against him by said ex, which stipulated he wasn’t to have any contact with her and was a […]

Iron Maiden guitarist Adrian Smith has cancelled the first-ever show booked by his supergroup – because it was advertised. Smith plays guitar in side-project Primal Rock Rebellion, which also includes singer Mikee Goodman, bassist James Leach and drummer Dan Foord from Sikth, guitarist Dan Marshall from Murder One and keyboardist James Manning from Vacant Stare. […]

Pregnant pop star Pink has decided to name her baby after her favourite whiskey. The singer and her husband Carey Hart are expecting their first child in the spring and although they don’t yet know the gender of the baby, Pink admits they’ve already decided what they are going to call a boy. Pink reveals […]

But don’t hold your breath – it’s not until September 2011. Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson will embark upon a 13-date acoustic tour of the UK in September 2011. Anderson says: “I have always wanted to go out in the UK with a small line-up, to play and to restructure the songs and music for a […]

System of a Down will headline next year’s Download festival at Donington as part of a much-anticipated reunion tour. But the band say they have no big plans for new material or a long-term continuation – they’re just playing some shows because they want to. Rumours had been rife after it was said SOAD had […]

After entering the official german charts at # 64 with their new album ‘In War And Pieces’, the German thrash metal legend have to make the following announcement: “After personal and private problems between Tom and Bobby, it was decided, by mutual agreement, to end the cooperation between Sodom and the drummer Bobby Schottkowski. Tom […]

Oscar-nominated director and screenwriter Mario Monicelli, considered one of the fathers of the Italian comedy of the 1940s-1960s, died Monday after jumping from a fifth-story hospital window, the hospital said. He was 95. Monicelli was being treated at Rome’s San Giovanni hospital for pancreatic problems and leaped to his death Monday night, said Anna Scoltore, […]

The best Bulgarian indipendent rock bands will share theВ bill on the first INDIE MUSIC FEST 2010. It will happen at Sofia’sВ ‘4 km’ Party center withВ New Generation, Review,В Babyface Clan, Рћstava andВ Leepra Deluxe storming the stage. The festival is promoted byВ RPL records (a subdivision ofВ Re_Act). Tickets priced 20 BGN (10 Euro) are on sale through Eventim.bg.В 

Show will be at theВ Hristo Botev hall with tickets already on sale via Eventim.bg. FirstВ 200 will be atВ 35 BGN (18 Euro), to go up to 45 BGN regular price andВ 50 BGN at the door. This will beВ BLIND GUARDIAN‘s thirdВ concert in Bulgaria after the KavarnaВ festival in 2009В and their firstВ gig in 2007 (HERE).В  Promoter Most of Evil […]

ANDREY BATASHOVВ passed awayВ this morning, at 9:45 a.m. The famous actor He had been in hospital since November 22, suffering from poly-organic insufficiency, which caused his death. 45 year old Batashov was a teacher at Sofia’s Acting Academy. He was best known for his mono-play ‘Sex, drugs and rock’n’roll’, which he performed over 500 times at […]