This year’s edition of the Rock Predel open-air festival in Razlog, Bulgaria shall take place on August 8-9,В 2008. So far following acts have been confirmed to perform: Epizod, Obraten Effect, Lavina, Granulom,В Eridan. The entrance shall be free, and the poster looks like this:

Iggy & The Stooges shall headline the first night (September 5) of the upcoming two-dayВ Jelen Pivo Live Festival, set to take place at the Tasmajdan Stadium in Belgrade, Serbia. More info shall be announced soon… Iggy & The Stooges – “1969” / “Down on the Streets” (live 2007)

The headliner of the upcoming Gorgon Fest 2008 has been revealed. The honour goes to the German electro-gothic masters Diary of Dreams. Check them out at diaryofdreams.de Рё myspace.com/diaryofdreams. Gorgon Fest 2008 is scheduled to take place onВ October 25, 2008В in Sofia, Bulgaria. Diary of Dreams – “TraumtГ¤nzer” (live)

Video footage with decent quality of Swedish progressive metallers Opeth performing the song “Heir Apparent” off their current album “Watershed” live can be viewed below. The track was shot last Saturday, July 12, at the Evolution Festival in Milan, Italy. Opeth – “Heir Apparent” (live 2008)

According to a posting on the unofficial AC/DC website ac-dc.net, the Australina rock legends’ new album, which will most likely be called “Black Ice“, will be released by Columbia Records on October 27 in Europe. The first single, “Runaway Train“, which was also a contender for the album’s title, will be released in late August. […]

Journey‘s new full-length studio albumВ “Revelation” (view cover in the left) is now being officially distributed in Bulgaria via Riva Sound. The effort surfaces as a double CD edition, featuring the actual album (CD1), and Journey’s greatest hits re-recorded with new vocalist Arnel Pineda (CD 2): CD 1:01. Never Walk Away02. Like a Sunshower03. Change for […]

Jazz Wannabes, the new jazz guitar duo featuring Page Hamilton (on the photo) of Helmet and Anthony Truglio (a.o. Liege Lord, Helmet, Gandhi), will make its live debut on July 30 at MacDuff’s Pub in Greenwich, Connecticut. The project promises to perform “everything – from jazz classics, blues, Helmet songs and other material in jazz […]

The final line-up of the upcoming Spirit of Burgas open-air festival, set to take place on August 15-17, 2008 on the beach in Burgas, Bulgaria, has finally been revealed. The schedule looks like this: August 15В – The Sisters of Mercy, PendulumВ DJ set,В Gravity Co., HMSU DJ set. August 16 – Asian Dub Foundation, Pharoahe Monch, Metropolis […]

Pete Doherty has announced that he will complete the recording of his debut solo album by the end of July and release it later this year, most probably in the autumn. Songs set to feature on the effort by Babyshambles‘ notorious frontman include “Darksome Sea”, “Salome”, “Broken Love Song” and “Withdrawn and Shaken”.

U.S. prog metal leaders Dream Theater are going to release “Chaos In Motion 2007/2008” on September 23 via Roadrunner Records. The word goes about a double DVD documenting their Chaos in Motion World Tour, which kicked off June 3, 2007 at the Monsters of Rock festival in Milan, Italy and concluded almost a year to […]