Jarboe (ex-Swans) and Justin K. Broadrick (Jesu, ex-Godflesh) shall release their debut joint album, entitled “J2” (view cover in the left), on March 18 via The End Records. The track “8mmsweetbitter” can already be heard on the label’s official MySpace page at myspace.com/theendrecords. Jesu – “We All Faulter” (live)

Deftones have set “Eros” as the title of their sixth studio album, tentatively due later in the year. According to frontman Chino Moreno, the songs in the follow-up to “Saturday Night Wrist” (2006) are “definitely weird… There’s a lot of atmosphere and a lot of soundscaping.” Deftones – “Minerva“

Filter are close to finishing their long-awaited new studio album. Entitled “Anthems for the Damned“, the CD is going to surface in April or May via Pulse Recording – a joint venture of the band’s frontman Richard Patrick and producer Josh Abraham. Filter – “Can’t You Trip Like I Do“

Peter “Peavy” Wagner – the 43-year-old founder, vocalist, bass player and only original member of the German heavy metal masters Rage – presented to Tangra Mega Rock the trio’s brand-new full-length studio album “Carved in Stone” (view cover in the left), due out on February 22, 2008 via Nuclear Blast. It’s the first effort recorded […]

Goldfrapp have released the video for the song “A&E“, which can already be watched in the end of this news. The track is the lead single from the British elecro-avantgardists’ forthcoming album “Seventh Tree“, due out in Europe on February 25 via Mute Records. Goldfrapp – “A&E“

The first live recording ever made by the classic Beatles line-up was rescued out of a private collector’s vaults and is coming to fans later this year via Fuego Entertainment. The tape, which was made in 1962 at the Star Club in Hamburg, Germany months before the band inked with EMI, collects a 15-song set […]

shemale Zero, Voyvoda, Proletarii, Animassacre, Mytrip and Fault shall perform at the industrial/ambientВ Dystopic Future Fest, scheduled to take place on January 27В at theВ Swingin’ HallВ in Sofia. The show starts at 9:30 p.m., with tickets costing 3.5 Euro. The poster for the event can be seen in our GIG GUIDE,В as well as onВ myspace.com/IndustrialMusicBulgaria, while links to the […]

The gypsy punk masters Gogol Bordello have announced the release of a brand-new single on March 24. The effort shall be enetitled “American Wedding” and shall be promoted with a series of live shows in Europe in March and April. Gogol Bordello – “I Would Never Wanna Be Young Again” (live)

California’s punk gods Rancid finally entered studio to begin work on their seventh studio album. The follow-up to 2003’s “Indestructible” shall be produced by Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion and is promised to surfaceВ this year… Rancid – “Salvation“

Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs, Mika, Take That, Leona Lewis, Kate Nash and Mark Ronson lead the 2008 BRIT Award nominees, it was announced yesterday, January 14. The BRIT Awards ceremony is set to be held on February 20 at Earls Court, with Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne hosting, and the list of nominees looks like this: […]