Placebo are to release a download only single with a difference on September 6. It’s titled ‘Trigger Happy Hands’, and will come with a limited edition T-shirt, specially designed by the band in collaboration with Atticus Clothing. PLACEBO are set to play at theВ Winter Spots palace in Sofia, Bulgaria on September 13. Tickets are available […]

The Liverpool Echo is reporting that Beatle John Lennon could be immortalized forever on a commemorative coin if he takes the lead in a groundbreaking poll. For the first time in its 1,100-year history, the Royal Mint is asking the public to decide who should be commemorated on the next coin in its Great Britons […]

Oh my god! A documentary about gay porn actors scored by a punk rocker isn’t getting distributed by Amazon! Somehow this less than surprising turn of events is getting all kinds of controversial. Amazon isn’t going to stock director John Roecker’s Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Gay Porn Stars But Were Afraid To […]

Thursday night, the last gig of the Arena Muzkia 2010… Tangra Mega Rock’s Nasso RuskovВ  is hypnotizedВ by MASSIVE ATTACK, totally hypnotized: “…Having seen Massive Attack in the UK, on their home soil, I can safely say that the Sofia crowd wins hands down. Perhaps that’s why we got two encores, instead of one. Massive Attack, […]

They may have been on hiatus for the past ten years, but now one of Bulgaria’s foremost underground bands of the 90s are reuniting to play the Jack Daniel’s Rock Stage at Spirit of Burgas 2010! KARTZER will hit the stage on Saturday, July 14, right after the Everlast set on the festival’s Main Stage. […]

Tuli Kupferberg was a counter-culture icon who is best remembered as a poet, cartoonist, activist and co-founding singer of THE FUGS, a folk rock band formed in 1965.В  Kupferberg first gained notice during the late ’50s when he published his own Birth magazine which featured such Beat writers as Allen Ginsberg and LeRoi Jones.В He wrote […]

Zakk Wylde is to Рґplay a gig at HM Prison Stocken, Leicestershire in the UK – next Thursday – July 22, as part of their anti-violence/anti-bullying campaign. He’ll do a solo set and then get involved in a Q&A session with the inmates.

Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry was involved in a motorcycle accidentВ on ThursdayВ afternoon in Middleborough, Massachusetts, according to The Boston Globe. The police have said Perry was the driver of a motorcycle that was struck by a sedan. It has not been reported if Perry’s vehicle was stopped or in motion at the time, although he was […]

With one single under their collective belt, SODOM frontman Tom Angelripper’s side project DIE KNAPPEN are currently working on an official debut album. The band is in the studio in Essen, Germany with producer / drummer Corny, who is also a member of Angelripper’s solo band ONKEL TOM. Audio samples can be found here here.

We started itВ on MondayВ and now it’s time again for the BIG Kavarna Rock Fest competition! Every day this week we’ll be asking some questions about the bands on the Kavarna bill. Then on Friday, July 16, we’ll announce FIVE LUCKY SODS, who will win three-day passes for the festival. AND THE WINNERS ARE: -В Dimiter Koritovski […]