OnВ February 1 Jack Daniel’s starts its competition Battle of the Bands -В Bulgaria 2008. The word goes about a “battle” meant for young unsigned Bulgarian bands, rezulting in prizes, studio time, music equippment and plenty of live shows… All sorts of information shall be announced very, very soon at www.jackmusic-bg.com.

“Digital Versatile Doom: Live at the Orpheum Theatre” – a live CD and DVD by Finland’s goth metaller H.I.M., shall be released on March 11 via Warner. The set was recorded at the band’s November 14-15, 2007 concerts at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. Below you can see footage off the shows, as included […]

Sam Riley has won the Rising Star Award at this year’s Richard Attenborough Film Awards for his portrayal of Joy Division singer Ian Curtis. The former 10,000 Things singer starred in the biopic “Control”, directed by Anton Corbijn. “Control” – movie trailer

Original Warrant singer John Kennedy Oswald a.k.a. Jani Lane is back in the band after he quin in 2004. The Californian glam metal veterans are likely to announce touring plans soon, however no word of a new album has been spread yet… Warrant – “Cherry Pie” (live)

If you’ve never seen how a bunch of nearly 70-year-old rock musicians play brilliantly for 90 minutes and make 3,000 fans get up and sing along as one, you’ve probably missed your only chanceВ on January 30, 2008, when the T.C.B. BandВ and The Sweet Inspirations – the band and backing vocalists who’ve played withВ Elvis PresleyВ from 1969 […]

A Simon & Garfunkel concert recordings compilation, simply entitled “Live 1969“, shall surface as a Starbucks exclusive on March 11. The effort features previously unreleased cuts from Simon & Garfunkel’s November 1969 U.S. tour. To be more precise, here’s the CD’s complete tracklist: “Homeward Bound” (Long Beach, CA) “At the Zoo” (New York) “The 59th […]

Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed, Kirk Windstein (Down, Crowbar), Steve Gibb (Crowbar, ex-Black Label Society), Derek Kerswill (Unearth) and Matthew Brunson, collectively known as Kingdom of Sorrow, shall release their self-titled debut album (view cover in the left) on February 25 via Relapse Records. You may check out the U.S. metal bulldozers’ music at myspace.com/kingdomofsorrow, and […]

Tarja Turunen has released the video for her new solo single, “Die Alive”, which can be watched below. The footage was shot in December 2007 in Berlin, Germany, while the song itself comes off the former Nightwish singer’s solo album “My Winter Storm”. Tarja Turunen – “Die Alive“

Two of the 11 tracks from the upcoming debut album by Cavalera Conspiracy – “Sanctuary” and “Inflikted” – can be downloaded for free, respective ly HERE and HERE. As for the eagerly awaited full-length CD by the reunited Cavalera brothers, it shall be entitled “Inflikted” and is scheduled for release on March 24 via Roadrunner […]

John Paul Jones (on the photo) has done a special orcehstral arrangement of the Foo Fighters song “The Pretender“… and there’s more: The Led Zeppelin man shall conduct the orchestra himself during Dave Grohl & Co’s performance of the above-mentioned hit single at the Grammy Awards ceremony on February 10. Foo Fighters – “The Pretender” […]