Kiss will play a full concert right after the opening of the 2008 FIA Formula One World Championship, which happens to be the Australian Grand Prix. The legendary quartet will provide a spectacular conclusion to the race, set to take place in Melbourne on March 16.

After some serious line-up changes, the Bulgarian alternative rock quintet Awake returns on stage. To begin with, the guys shall take part in the 11th edition of the Seattle Night Fest, set to take place on November 26В at theВ Alcohol Club in Sofia. Three days later the band shall play at the Swingin’ Hall in the […]

Iron Maiden’s Somewhere Back in Time World Tour 08 is continuing to sell amazingly well. The latest countries to go Maiden-mad are Sweden and Finland, where the band sold 123,500 tickets on Monday alone! The tour kicks off in India on February 1 and shall circle the entire globe throughout 2008. It will see Iron […]

Besides joining Ministry for the C U LaTour in 2008, Swedish experimental audio-extremists Meshuggah shall celebrate the beginning of the year with the release of their long-awaited new studio album. The follow-up to 2005’s “Catch 33” will contain nine songs, and is going to surface via Nuclear Blast under the title “obZen”.

Current Down and former Pantera and Superjoint Ritual frontman Phil Anselmo‘s next reincarnation shall be the guitar player for a project called Arson Empire. Originally going by the name of Arson Anthem, the quartet’s line-up is rounded by Hank Williams III on drums (ex-Superjoint Ritual; son of country music legend Hank Williams Jr.), Collin Yeo […]

Sir Paul McCartney has revealed that he asked Thom Yorke to record a duet with him, but the Radiohead frontman turned him down. “My daughter was putting an album together and she put us in touch,” the Beatle explained. “I asked Thom to do a duet, but he said he couldn’t because he only felt […]

Linkin Park vocalist Chester Bennington plans to focus on his side-project Dead By Sunrise in 2008. The band’s debut album should be released by spring 2008. Dead By Sunrise’s line-up is rounded up by Orgy‘s Amir Derakh and Ryan Shuck, and Anthony “Fu” Valcic.

A few days ago the Bulgarian avantgarde scene witnessed the birth of a new electro-experimental project. The founders are two well-known Sofia-based musicians – Emil Vulev (ex-Violet General)В andВ Pavel StoitchevВ (ex-Band of Mad Women). The still unnamed band is looking two experienced additions, namely aВ bass playerВ and aВ female singer willing to work both in the studio and live. […]

Mark “E” Everett’s ever-changing project Eels shall release two massive compilations on January 21, 2008. The first one, “Meet the Eels: Essential Eels, Vol. 1, 1996-2006”, features 24 of the American alternative formation’s most famous tracks, as well as a DVD with 12 of the band’s promo videos. Meanwhile, “Eels Useless Trinkets: B-Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities […]

Motley Crue intend to start recording a brand-new studio early next year. The effort, tentatively due in the summer of 2008, has the working title of “The Dirt” and, at least according to vocalist Vince Neil, the drummer will be… the recently departed for the N-th time Tommy Lee…