This Saturday, July 19, 2008, a new show starts on Tangra Mega Rock – Tangra Mega Live! Listen to the two-hour-long weekly show Saturdays at 10 p.m.! The first edition of Tangra Mega Live starts this Saturday with live shows by Radiohead, Foo FightersВ and Smashing Pumpkins!

Former Megaherz members Alexx Wesselsky (vocals) and Noel Pix (guitar and programming) will release the third album with their current electro-metal project Eisbrecher on August 22 via AFM Records. The follow-up to last year’s “AntikГ¶rper” will be entitled “SГјnde” (“Sin” in German) and will be “the darkest and hardest album so far”. Eisbrecher – “Phosphor” […]

Destruction mastermind Schmier has revealed that “Gary Holt of Exodus and Jeff Waters of Annihilator play as guest musicians on the song “Urge (The Greed of Gain),” which will be part of the German thrash metal veterans’ new album, “D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.“, due out on August 29. “The first solo is Gary’s, the second is Mike Sifringer’s […]

There’s just about a week left until the groundbreaking show by Metallica, Down and The Sword at the 50,000-seat Vassil Levski National Stadium in Sofia, Bulgaria… and it’s almost sold-out…

The Performing Rights Society has published a Top Ten of the most played songs in the UK of the last five years. Plays on TV, radio, websites and in venues were used to collate the chart, and the winner is… Daniel Powter‘s 2004 hit “Bad Day“. Here’s the Top Ten of the most played songs: […]

Rage Against the Machine vocalist Zack de la Rocha and former The Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore have unveiled a new song by their project One Day As a Lion on myspace.com/onedayasalion. The track, entitled “Wild International“, precedes the duo’s debut self-titled EP, which set for release next Monday, July 21.

The last surviving Ludwig drumkit that belonged to late Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham will be auctioned at the Idea Generation Gallery near London’s Liverpool Street on September 4, 2008. The five-piece kit is the only Bonham-owned intstrument to exist outside the family estate, and is estimated at ВЈ20,000. Jim Morrison‘s final 20-page notebook of […]

Simian Mobile Disco’s James Ford has been signed up to work on Arctic Monkeys‘ forthcoming third album. The producer explained that the LP was only in its very early stages of conception, but said that the results may sound more “psychedelic” than previous efforts “Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not” (2006) and […]

“Stand“, the new video from Candlebox, can be viewed at this location. The clip was directed by Michael Sarna, who has previously worked with Megadeth and Obituary, among others, and the song comes off the band’s long-awaited comeback album, “Into the Sun“, which will be released on July 22 via Silent Majority Group.

The so-called “electro-grind/hardcore” act I Set My Friends on Fire have signed a deal with Epitaph Records. The Miami-based duo’s full-length debut for the label shall be entitled “You Can’t Spell Slaughter Without Laughter“, and is due out on October 7. Additional info on the weird project can be found at myspace.com/isetmyfriendsonfire, as well as […]