Katatonia‘s live performance from last year’s Summer Breeze Festival in Germany shall be released as a live double-disc featuring the audio on CD and the show on DVD. Entitled “Live Consternation” and scheduled for release on May 28, the package’s artwork was once again designed by Travis Smith, following the visual concept of the Swedes’ […]

R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck, Screaming Trees drummer Barrett Martin plus 7 more musicians, including Mike Stone, Scott McCaughey and Steve Berlin, plan to release a new album with their side-project called Tuatara. Initially formed in Seattle a decade ago to write and record music for film soundtracks, Tuatara have ended up recording four full-length albums […]

Freebass – a new band made up of three bass players, namely New Order‘s Peter Hook (on the photo), The Smiths‘ Andy Rourke and Primal Scream‘s Gary “Mani” Mounfield – are working on their debut album with a number of high-profile frontmen. So far the band has got 12 songs, and among the singers chosen […]

Last year’s Eurovision winners – the masked Finnish “monster metallers” Lordi – won every category they were nominated for at the 21st Emma Awards ceremony. Finland’s equivalent of the Grammys was held on Saturday, March 10, in the capital Helsinki, where GWAR’s followers won following prizes: Band of the Year – Lordi Album of the […]

Brad Delp, lead singer of American arena rock band Boston, was found dead in his home in southern New Hampshire yesterday, March 9, at the age of 55. According to the local police, Brad was alone at the time of his death. The cause of the tragedy has not yet been determined and is currently […]

Def Leppard‘s guitar player Phil Collen has revealed that the band is currently recording its upcoming studio album with producer Ronan McHugh. The new CD sounds “a lot more rock and less pop than albums of late”, and its working title is “Sparkle Lounge”. The lead guitars shall be recorded in April. No further information […]

Hellyeah have finalized the tracklist for their self-titled debut album, due on April 10 via Epic Records. The record shall feature 12 songs, including the first single “You Wouldn’t Know”, and its front cover artwork can be viewed in the left. For those who still don’t know, Hellyeah is the new band of former Pantera […]

Polish death metal veterans Vader shall play a concert in Sofia, Bulgaria, on May 19. The venue and the local supporting acts are still to be announced. Tickets for the show shall cost 10 Euro (presale) and 11 Euro (at the door). The event is promoted by Most of Evil Music.

Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine, ex-Audioslave) shall release his debut solo-album with his project The Nightwatchman on April 24 via Epic Records. Entitled “One Man Revolution” (view cover above), the CD contains 13 songs of “bitterness and revenge” and reveals Morello’s point of view about comparing war zones in the USA and Iraq, Jesus […]

The Gossip have signed to the Columbia Records subsidiary, Music with a Twist, in the USA. This unique label is designed to “identify and develop lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and trans-gendered artists”. The Arkansas trio’s hit single “Standing in the Way of Control” will appear on the label’s forthcoming compilation, “Twist Revolutions”, due out on April […]