Australian rock icon Nick Cave (The Bad Seeds, ex-The Birthday Party, The Boys Next Door) was awarded an honorary PhD from his old university. Cave attended Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, in 1977 and 1978, studying for a diploma in Fine Art, but left his course to pursue his musical career. The university’s vice-chancellor, Professor […]

Tom Petty has finished recording an album with his original band Mudcrutch, which he fronted in the early 70’s before forming The Heartbreakers. The group consists of guitarists Tom Leadon and Mike Campbell, drummer Randall Marsh, and future Heartbreakers’ keyboardist Benmont Tench. Although Mudcrutch had gained a solid fanbase in their home state of Florida, […]

The next edition of the Fracture weekly metal show on MM TV shall feature interviews with Vassil Varbanov of Tangra Mega Rock and Emil Separevski of the Gorgon Gothic Shop in Sofia, as well as videos by Hocico, Suicide Silence, Linea 77, Eluveitie, Rage, Firewind, Eufobia, Hellyeah, M3, Europe, 3 Inches of Blood, Pantera and […]

Daron Malakian and John Dolmayan of System of a Down have posted online a track recorded with their current project Scars on Broadway. The song is called “They Say” and can be listened to at scarsonbroadway.com.

After conquering the Tuborg Top 40 Mega Rock Chart with their new song “Rolling Spawns”, Bulgaria’s metal masters Fyeld are ready to present the video for it. This shall happen next Friday,В April 11, with aВ free live showВ at Sofia’sВ The Club. The band’s second full-length album, entitled “Not Blond Enough to Survive the Holocaust”, shall surface in […]

The entire European tour by Onslaught and Carnal Forge has been “postponed due to bad promotion”, announced The Other Side. No further info is available yet…

Nuclear Blast has set an April 11 release date for the “Beautiful Voices Vol. 3” DVD+CD combo. The package will feature songs and promo videos by more than 20 female-fronted rock and metal bands, namely Nightwish, Lacuna Coil, Xandria, After Forever, Tristania, Sirenia, In This Moment, Autumn, Delain, Delight, Bif Naked, The Vincent Black Shadow, […]

Bad Religion frontman Greg Graffin will receive an award from a Harvard-based atheist intellectual’s community. The singer is slated to get the highest honor from Humanist Chaplaincy at Harvard University – the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism – for his one-two punch of promoting scientific humanism over religion in pop cultural arena as […]

Richard Allan Ream, better known as Poison‘s drummer Rikki Rockett, was arrested on a rape warrant issued out of Mississippi as he arrived at the Los Angeles airport on Monday. No further information is available yet… Poison – “Unskinny Bop“

Ladytron have announced details of their upcoming fourth album, “Velocifero“. The follow-up to 2005’s “Witching Hour” shall surface on June 2 and shall be preceded by a free download of the opening track, “Black Cat“, the majority of which is sung in Bulgarian. It shall be available at ladytron.com from April 1. “Velocifero” shall feature […]