SHELLAC frontman, NIRVANA/PIXIES/PAGE & PLANT engineer and US underground rock legend Steve Albini pocketed $196,089 on Friday night (June 17) after triumphing in a field of 773 card sharps to win his second World Series of Poker bracelet.   Having previously won one of the prestigious, coveted bracelets in 2018, winning the Seven-Card Stud competition, […]

THE MARS VOLTA have released their first new material in 10 years. The new song, Blacklight Shine, is the first music from Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez under THE MARS VOLTA banner since the Noctourniquet album in 2012.    Last year the band’s albums were reissued on coloured vinyl and as a career-spanning, 18-disc MARS VOLTA box set featuring the individual albums alongside early EP Tremulant and Landscape Tantrums, a […]

Ex-IRON MAIDEN singer Paul Di’Anno, who is currently in Croatia awaiting three major surgeries on his knees, will have the remaining costs of his operations and treatment funded by his former bandmates. Yesterday (Monday, June 20), Kastro Pergjoni, operations director of the Cart & Horses pub in Stratford, London, England where IRON MAIDEN made its […]

Devin Townsend has announced that he will release his latest album, Lightwork, through InsideOut Music on October 28. At the same time Townsend has announced rescheduled Lightwork tour dates for 2023. You can view a short trailer below, that features snippets of music from the new album.   Townsend has produced Lightwork along with Gggarth […]

ALEX BOYADJIEV’s PANIC ATTACK hardcore radio SHOW kicks off today at 4 pm BG time. He will play some fantastic new sounds of the likes of TERROR (pictured), THE SLACKERS, SUEDE RAZORS, SUPERBLOOM, SEED OF PAIN and more. Stay tuned and play it loud!   

Kevin Balke is a YouTuber who specialises in providing guitar tablature and posting cover versions until he finds a “real job”. Among his videos, he’s curated and performed Metallica’s 10 most iconic riffs, Rammstein covers and the painfully accurate ‘How It Feels Like To Watch Guitar Shredding Tutorials On Youtube’.   One of his latest […]

В очакване на официалното начало на лятото, новата седмица започва с чудесното ново издание на ‘BRAZZ JAMBOREE’ на ВИЛИ СТОЯНОВ – тук в ПОДКАСТ. При него в студиото е барабанистът СТЕФАН ГОРАНОВ и разговорът е за това, какво е да си независим музикант в България, лесно ли се прави жанровия преход от прогресив метък до джаз. BRAZZ JAMBOREE’ се излъчва на живо всеки петък […]

A massive new statue of iconic MÖTÖRHEAD leader Ian Fraser “Lemmy” Kilmister has just been unveiled at this year’s edition of Hellfest, which is taking place over two weekends in June. Hellfest is an annual open-air festival held in Clisson, France and one of the biggest metal festivals in all of Europe.   The all-new […]

Grammy Award-nominated British rock band PORCUPINE TREE has shared “Rats Return”, the latest track from its new album, “Closure/Continuation”, due on June 24 via Music For Nations/Megaforce Records. An official music video directed by Ricky Allen can be seen below. “Closure/Continuation” — which follows 2009’s best-selling “The Incident” — includes such recently released singles as […]

Like it or not, Johnny Depp and Jeff Beck have a collaborative album on the way, and now, they’ve dropped the latest preview, a cover of “Venus in Furs” by THE VELVET UNDERGROUND. Whereas the original is notable for John Cale’s electric viola and Moe Tucker’s bass drum and tambourine shake backbeat, Depp and Beck’s take […]