Glass Casket are to release their new album through Abacus in mid-June. It’s to be called ‘A Desperate Man’s Diaries’.

Open Hand have posted a new track on their myspace page: www.myspace.com/openhand

Former Faith No More/Bad Brains frontman Chuck Mosley has a new band: Vandals Against Illiteracy. They’re currently working on a debut album, which will be called ‘Will Rap Over Hard Rock For Food’.

Slayer are to release an EP on June 6. This will feature new song ‘Cult’. The band’s still untitled new album is due out at the end of July.

Rhino Records recently bought the rights to Queensryche‘s Q2K album from Atlantic Records for re-release. According to the band’s official website the track list is as follows: ‘Falling Down’, ‘Sacred Ground’, ‘One Life’, ‘When The Rain Comes…’, ‘How Could I?’, ‘Beside You’, ‘Liquid Sky’, ‘Breakdown’, ‘Burning Man’, ‘Wot Kinda Man’, ‘The Right Side Of My […]

Sick Of It All and Reel Big Fish have been announced as headliners at the Radio One Lock-Up stage at this year’s Carling Weekend: Reading and Leeds Festivals.Hundred Reasons and Bouncing Souls also join the line up for the three-day event which takes place over the weekend of August 25-27.

Due Aug. 22 via Merge, “Post-War” is Рњ. Ward‘s first “full band” record. The artist recruited percussionists Rachel Blumberg (formerly of the Decemberists) and Jordan Hudson (formerly of the Thermals), who toured with him over the past year and a half, to fill out the record. Multi-instrumentalist Mike Coykendall, singer Neko Case and My Morning […]

After spending its entire career on Epic, folk/rock duo the Indigo Girls has signed a new deal with Hollywood Records. The first release under the agreement will be a new, as-yet-untitled studio album, due Sept. 19.Principal members Amy Ray and Emily Saliers are recording with producer Mitchell Froom in his Los Angeles studio. The album […]

Phish‘s June 17, 2004, show at Brooklyn’s Keyspan Park is headed to CD and DVD this summer. “Live in Brooklyn” will arrive July 11 via the now-defunct band’s JEMP Records label in association with Rhino both as a three-CD set and a two-DVD package.Here is the track list for “Live in Brooklyn”: Set 1:“A Song […]

Roadstar are the final act added to the bill for the Monsters Of Rock Festival, which happens at the Milton Keynes Bowl on June 3. They join headliners Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, Journey, Thunder, Queensryche and Рўed Nugent.