The co-founder of Atlantic Records Ahmet Ertegun has died, aged 83. Ertegun helped make Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin stars and signed the Rolling Stones in the early 70s. Over the time, Atlantic Records helped popularise the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Dire Straits, Stevie Wonder and Neil Young. Ertegun suffered a head injury when he […]

EVERGREY will play in Sofia and Plovdiv in January next year. The concerts are a part of the band’s first East European tour. The concert of the Swedish progressive metal band in Plovdiv will be on January 15 and the one in Sofia – on January 17. Both concerts will start in 6.45 p.m., gates […]

STUCK MOJO released their long-awaited eighth album “Southern Born Killers” for free download. It can be found at the band’s site. With regards to the reasons why the full album is available for free download, guitarist and founder member Rich Ward said: “Well, we’ve been recording records for free for almost twelve years now anyway! […]

The new album of SAXON, “The Inner Sanctum”, comes out in March. SPV/Steamhammer has set a March 5, 2007 European release date for the new album from SAXON, entitled “The Inner Sanctum”. The label will also release SAXON’s new double live DVD, entitled “To Hell and Back Again”. No further details are currently available. In […]

Pink Floyd are set to auction the giant eyeball featured on the cover of their DVD ‘Pulse’. All profits from the sale of the signed, six foot tall eyeball will go towards homeless charity Crisis. The auction will take place on eBay between December 14 – 20. In a statement, guitarist Dave Gilmour said: “The […]

The avantgarde formation SLAV DE HREN present their debut album “Tavata” with a concert on December 14. The event will take place at 6.30 p.m. in the Triaditsa hall, 15 Vitosha blvd, Sofia. The entrance is free of charge. The authors of “Tavata” describe (not without irony) the 29 tracks in the disk as “cold, […]

Nine Inch Nails will chronicle their 2005 tour with the DVD “Beside You in Time,” due Feb. 27 via Interscope. Bonus features include five songs “Somewhat Damaged,” “Closer,” “Help Me I Am in Hell,” “Non-Entity” and “Only” recorded during NIN’s summer 2006 outing, music videos, rehearsal footageВ  and an image gallery. Trailers from “Beside You […]

Former NIGHTWISH vocalist Tarja Turunen’s Christmas album, “Henkays Ikuisuudesta” (Breath from Heaven), has been certified platinum in Finland for sales in excess of 30 000 copies. As previously reported, Turunen entered the Finnish single chart at position No. 5 with her latest solo release, “You Would Have Loved This”. Commented Tarja: “I found the song […]

The Slovenian industrial band LAIBACH will play a concert in Sofia on February 14 next year. This will be the band’s second concert in Bulgaria. It is a part of their current tour Volk Tour 2007 and will take place in Hristo Botev hall in Studentski grad at 8 p.m. Ticket sales start at December […]

STONE SOUR’s second album, “Come What(ever) May”, has sold more than 500 000 units and was certified gold. The album, which debuted number four on the Top 200 with over 80 000 units sold in its first week, has been on the Hard Rock Album Chart’s Top 10 since release 18 weeks ago, and features […]