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 […]

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 […]

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.