This year’s edition of the Lollapalooza Festival is going to be streamed onlive live on AT&T’s website. The three-day event is scheduled to take place on August 1-3, 2008 at Chicago‘s Grant Park, featuring dozens of artist, a.o. Rage Against the Machine, Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, Bloc Party, Gogol Bordello, Love & Rockets, Flogging Molly, […]

Franz Ferdinand have revealed they are currently finishing work on their eagerly anticipated new, third full-length studio album. The recordings are taking place in Glasgow with producer Dan Carey. The follow-up to “You Could Have It So Much Better” (2005) is due out in January 2009. Franz Ferdinand – “The Dark of the Matinee” (live)

One of Britain’s leading rock magazines, Kerrang!, will give its annual awards in London on August 21. There’s almost a month until then, bu the nominees have already been relealed. Here we go: Kerrang! Awards 2008 Nominees: Best British Newcomer:Dead SwansWe Are the OceanSlaves to GravityElliot MinorGo:Audio В  Best International Newcomer:Kill HannahA Day to RememberFour […]

Reunited progressive extreme metallers Cynic have set “Traced in Air” as the title of their new album, due on October 27 via Season of Mist Records. The follow-up to “Focus” (1993) has a playing time of 35 minutes and features 8 songs produced by Warren Riker (a.o. Down, Santana). It was recorded in a line-up […]

Veteran German hard rockers Bonfire will release a new double live DVD, entitled “The RГ¤uber” (view cover in the left), on August 1 via LZ Records. The discs showcase the group’s rock opera based on Friedrich Schiller‘s play “Die RГ¤uber” (The Robbers), and feature the entire performance (210 min.), more than an hour of videos […]

Eagles of Death Metal have another album that sounds nothing like either The Eagles or death metal. The band, which features Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, will drop its “Heart On” on October 21 via Downtown Records. Eagles of Death Metal – “I Gotta Feelin’ (Just Nineteen)” (live)

The Cure will release an EP, entitled “Hypnagogic States” (view cover in the left) and featuring remixes of four new songs – “The Only One”, “Freakshow”, “Sleep When I’m Dead” and “The Perfect Boy”. All profit generated from the CD’s sales will benefit the International Red Cross. The bad news is that the EP will […]

Addix Publishing announced its next project today at noon live on Tangra Mega Rock. The upcoming book that shall be published in Bulgaria is the official Kiss biography, due out in September.

Rush, Sting, Garbage, John Mayer, Dave Matthews, Imogen Heap, Underworld, Moby, Alanis Morissette, Suzanne Vega, Duncan Sheik and Damien Rice are among the artists contributing songs to a forthcoming CD supporting Tibet’s struggle for national sovereignty. Entitled “Songs for Tibet“, the compilation will hit stores on August 12, right after the 2008 Summer Olympics kick […]

The Pretenders have announced that they will release their forthcoming album in a unique way. The CD, entitled “Break Up the Concrete” (view cover in the left), will surface on September 23 via Shangri-La Music. Starting yesterday, July 23, the label is giving away a new free track each week, leading up to the album’s […]