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Al Jourgensen’s own label 13th Planet Records will release a remix album by Ministry entitled “Rio Grande Dub” in June. All the remixes on the CD were done by Clayton Worbeck and John Bechdel, while the artwork (view cover in the left) was created by Lawton Outlaw. Here’s the complete tracklisting for “Rio Grande Dub”: […]

Arctic Monkeys are premiering the video for their forthcoming single “Brianstorm” on NME.com.В The MCD itself isn’t out until April 16. As previously reported,В the hottest British rock band at the moment shall release their second album, “Favourite Worst Nightmare”, on April 23.

Hardcore Spirit offers you the chance to listen to the song “Tears of Blood” off the new demo CD by the Bulgarian metalcore band Envy. The guys shall present the recordings live tomorrow,В March 14, at Sofia’s Swingin’ Hall. The show – also featuring genre-mates B.F.D.M. – starts at 10 p.m.

Emil Vulev (ex-Violet General, Oholen Jivot) and the American jazz singer Phred Mileski shall make an audio-performanceВ at theВ Sofia Art Gallery on March 26. The show starts at 7 p.m., and the entrance shall be free.

Last night the 22nd annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony took place in New York. Eddie Vedder, Jay-Z, Keith Richards were among the presenters who inducted Van Halen, R.E.M., The Ronettes, Grandmaster Flash and Patti Smith. The biggest surprise of the evening was that Van Halen were presented only by their former […]

Linkin Park finished mixing their third studio album, entitled “Minutes to Midnight”, which will be released worldwide on May 14. The CD was produced by vocalist Mike Shinoda and Rick Rubin during the last 14 months. The first single off the follow-up to “Meteora” (2003) shall be “What I’ve Done”, due out on April 2.

On Sunday, March 18, the Fracture Metal Show on Bulgaria’s MM TV shall be visited by Tangra Mega Rock‘s crew in order to discuss the upcoming March 23 concertВ for the radio’s first birthday with the TV show’s moderator Vasko Katincharov (on the photo). We’ll talk a lot about the forthcoming Sofia gig featuring The Toy […]

Right now Max Cavalera is at his home in Arizona writing stuff for the next Soulfly album. No release plans have been announced yet, but it’s clear that at the end of March the band shall fly to Los Angeles to record a cover of Marilyn Manson’s smash hit “The Beautiful People” for an upcoming […]

German electro-metal superstars Rammstein have been nominated for an Echo award for their latest live DVD release, “VoРµlkerball”. The Berlin sextet is up against Depeche Mode’s “Touring the Angel”, Pink Floyd’s “Pulse”, Robbie Williams’ “And Through It All”, and Tokio Hotel’s “Schrei”. The ceremony will take place in Berlin on March 25. The German Echo […]

R.E.M. are to record their 14th studio album with Grammy-winning producer Jacknife Lee – the man behind the recent CDsВ of Bloc Party and Snow Patrol. Singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck and bassist Mike Mills hope to release the follow-up to 2004’s “Around the Sun” before the end of the year. As for now, the […]