Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich recently spoke to Revolver Magazine about the band’s much-anticipated new album, tentatively due in the spring via Warner Bros.: “This stuff is certainly a lot more dynamic and a lot more varied than the last couple of go-rounds,” Lars said. “There’s a lot of light and shade in these songs. There’s […]

As we informed you last month, America’s electro-punk psychos Mindless Self Indulgence are going to release their new full-length studio album in the spring. It was confirmed that the effort shall be entitled “IF” and is scheduled to surface via The End Records on April 29. Songs set to appear on the CD include “Mastermind”, […]

While waiting for Coldplay to leave EMI (as reported yesterday here), the label’s chairman and chief executive Tony Wadsworth did it today after 26 years with the company. He will not be replaced and his duties will be divided up. Further serious changes within EMI are expected to happen in the near future…

Reunited San Francisco noise/punk veterans Flipper are currently in the studio with former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic and producer Jack Endino working on their first new album in 15 years. Except for the follow-up to “American Grafishy” (1992), the band is also putting the finishing touches on a new DVD, “Flipper Live: Target Video 1980-81”, […]

The final details for the new, 14th studio album by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have been revealed. Entitled “Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!” (view cover in the left), the CD shall be officially released in Europe on March 3 via Mute Records and shall contain 11 songs as shown below. The title track will surface […]

Abort, New Generation, La Muchedumbre, Kozza Mostra, Bulgara, P.I.F., God-in-TroubleВ and Equivallentum are among the bands who participate with songs in the soundtrack to the scandalous new Bulgarian movie “Baklava”. Here’s the trailer for the film:

Oasis are reportedly mixing their seventh album in Los Angeles this week. The effort was recorded at London’s Abbey Road Studios late last year, and is expected to be released in the spring. Oasis – “My Generation” (live)

Opeth, Katatonia, Comus, Leaf Hound, AnekdotenВ and Plankton are among the bands confirmed to play at the Melloboat Festival, set to take place on March 8-9 on a… boat! That’s right – the Melloboat Festival 2008 shall be held on 4 stages on the deck of the Silja Symphony Boat, which shall travel fromВ Stockholm, SwedenВ to Helsinki, […]

Ignite – next to Jaya the Cat Рё Whiskey Avengers – are the third American band confirmed to participate with a song in the Credit to the Nation double CD compilation, due out in the end of January via Stroeja. Other bands that will be featured in the effort are Panican Whyasker, Awake, Cigaretta, Lovers […]

Radiohead made their expected arrival at No. 1 on the new UK album chart on Sunday, January 6, with “In Rainbows“, released internationally on December 31, 2007 via XL Recordings. This is the fifth time Thom Yorke & Co. top their native album charts.