The Romanian town Buzau shall host the 23rd edition of the Top Рў 2007 rock festival in the ned of this week – May 17-19. During the event’s first day, May 17, the stage shall be invaded by the local bands Protest Urban, Staccato, L.O.S.T., NexusВ and Dirty Shirt, Inactive Messiah from Greece, Tripod from France […]

The bands featured in the cult Bulgarian punk/oi/ska CD “Sofia Streets – 3 Way Split” – C4, T.V.U.В and Switchstance -В shall do a joint show onВ May 31В (Thursday) at Sofia’s Black Box Club. The start shall be given at 8 p.m.,В tickets costВ 6 leva / 3 Euro, and the poster for the concert can be seen in our […]

Singer Ian Brown (ex-The Stone Roses) announced that his fifth solo album will be ready for release this autumn. The effort, bearing the working title “The World Is Yours”, is being recorded with the help of Ian’s fellow Mancunian musicians, a.o. bass players Andy Rourke (Freebass, ex-The Smiths) and Paul Ryder (ex-Happy Mondays). Regarding the […]

Norway’s black metal masters Satyricon shall perform at this year’s edition of the Exit Festival, set to take place for four days, from July 12 to July 15, at the Petrovaradin Fortress in Novi Sad, Serbia. The event shall happen on three stages, and the current line-up shapes up as follows: MAIN STAGE:В Beastie BoysBasement JaxxCSSLauryn […]

A Live Earth concert in Istanbul, Turkey’s biggest city, has been just announced. It will take place on July 7 and join the other Live Earth gigs around the world, namely in London, New York, Sydney, Shanghai, Tokyo, Johannesburg, Rio de Janeiro and Hamburg. The line-up for the Turkish show has not been announced yet. […]

The US death metal egyptologists Nile have revealed the cover artwork (view it in the left) and final tracklist for their upcoming studio album, “Ithyphallic”, due in Germany on July 20 and in the rest of Europe on July 23 via Nuclear Blast. The follow-up to “Annihilation of the Wicked” (2005) wasВ recorded at Sound Lab […]

SvetlyoВ & The LegendsВ is the name of the new project byВ Svetlyo Vitkov of Bulgaria’s fun-punk-grind-ska-rock-metal godfathersВ Hypodil. The band features alsoВ Ventzi Mitzoff (keys, programming),В Chavo (guitar),В Bobby (bass),В Vlado (trumpet),В Sasho (trombone) andВ Venkov (drums). SvetlyoВ & The LegendsВ have just finished the recordings for their debut album, entitled “Bulgar”. It contains 9 songs and shall be released in the near future… A sample […]

Sofia Music Enterprises confirmed the hopes of the thousands of Iron Maiden fans in Bulgaria – yes, the British heavy metal godfathers’ notorious talisam Eddie shall storm the stage at the end of the band’s concert in Sofia on June 4 accompanied by a real tank! The other news regardingВ Iron Maiden’sВ show at the Locomotive Stadium […]

On Saturday,В May 19, theВ Library ClubВ inВ Assenovgrad, Bulgaria shall host The All Access Concert – a show featuring five local avantgarde rock bands, namelyВ Smallman, Headshot, Collapso, alexUnderВ and Soundbleed. The event’s start shall be given at 6 p.m. local time (CET+1),В and theВ tickets shall costВ 3 leva / 1.5 Euro. The poster for the concert can be viewed in the […]

System of a Down bass player Shavo Odadjian will direct the first video off the forthcoming Bad Brains album, “Build a Nation”, due out on June 26 via Megaforce Records. This is going to be the the American rasta-hardcore veterans’ first full-length studio offering in more than a decade. As we informed you in the […]