Bulgaria’s alternative rock leaders Panican Whyasker are working on their fourth full-length album. The follow-up to “Eastern European Monkeys” (2005) shall surface sometime next year. A bit earlier, namely on Friday, December 14, Panican Whyasker shall play live at The Club in Sofia. Bulgaria. The show starts at 10:30 p.m., tickets cost 5 Euro, and […]

The Bulgarian alternative rockers Sepuko 6 have recorded “4ao” – the second single off their upcoming second studio album, due sometime in 2008. The debut single “This Is Not DeNiro” can be found in our mp3 section, and a live performance of the track “Sublimation” off Sepuko 6’s 2005 debut “Opitomen” may be watched here:

Korn were confirmed to headline the first day of next year’s edition of the Dubai Desert Rock Festival. The event is scheduled to take place in the Arab emirate on March 7-8, 2008, and shall feature 10 international bands in total. The Dubai Desert Rock Festival 2007 featured a.o. Iron Maiden, Incubus, The Prodigy, Stone […]

After offering a smashing live show in Sofia last Friday, New York’s ska veterans The Toasters shall visit Bulgaria’s capital once again tomorrow, December 11, to invade Tangra Mega Rock‘s studio. Listen to the six-piece’s revelations live at 11:30 a.m.! Tomorrow!

After announcing their return to the studio to record their first real album since 1983’s “Burning from the Inside”, legendary gothic rockers Bauhaus have revealed some more details about the CD. Entitled “Go Away White”, the effort was recorded by Peter Murphy & Co. in 18 days in Ojai, California. It is going to contain […]

James LaBrie’s predecessor in Dream Theater, Charlie Dominici, announced he’s working on the follow-up to the albums “O3: A Trilogy, Part One” (2005) and “O3: A Trilogy, Part Two” (2007) with his solo band Dominici. The effort is expected next year and shall be entitled… “03: A Trilogy, Part 3“, of course.

The 60’s influenced rock’n’roll project Foxboro Hot Tubs has made its brand-new six-track EP “Stop Drop and Roll” (view cover in the left) available for free download at foxborohottubs.com. What’s quite more intriguing is that sources claim the band is a “secret” side-project of Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong…

Former Deep Purple keyboard mastermind Jon Lord will release “The Durham Concerto” on CD on January 28, 2008 via UK’s Avie Records. The lord goes about a musical piece performed by the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Mischa Darmev at the Durham Cathedral in England on October 20. Except for composing it, Jon took […]

Bulgaria’s Sofia-based Stroeja ClubВ shall release a double alternative rock compilation CD in the very end of December 2007 (working title – “Credit to the Nation”). The effort shall feature brand-new or unreleased songs by bands from the USA, Germany, Russia, as well as by some of the most popular contemporary Bulgarian indie bands, namely Wickeda, […]

The 2008 Grammy Nominations were announced yesterday, December 6. Kanye West leads the field for the 50th annual Grammy Awards with eight nominations, followed by Amy Winehouse with six and the Foo Fighters, Jay-Z, Timbaland, Justin Timberlake and T-Pain, each of whom received five nods. What’s probably more intriguing for our readers, however, are some […]