Following the brilliant PEEP EP, the spectral Pinkunoizu are set to release their debut album, Free Time!, on Full Time Hobby. Named after the Japanese word for “pink noise” and based in Copenhagen and Berlin, multiculturalism is at the forefront of this band’s world – they play an exotic mixture of lo-fi, high-life, nu-folklore, ’60s…
Electronic pop singer/songwriter Howard Jones has today announced that he will host a new 4-part radio series entitled Electronic 80s with Howard Jones for the UK’s premiere 80s music radio station Absolute 80s. The hour-long show starts Sunday 4th March at 8pm, with subsequent shows airing on 11th March, 18th March and 25th March. Electronic…
Provogue Records are pleased to announce the UK Blu-ray & DVD release of “Joe Bonamassa: Beacon Theatre – Live From New York “on Monday 26th March 2012. The follow-up DVD to 2009’s hugely successful Live from the Royal Albert Hall, Bonamassa kicks off proceedings with Slow Train, from his 2011 album Dust Bowl, followed by…
Eric Johnson, the celebrated American electric guitarist, hailed by Joe Bonamassa as “one of the greatest guitar players of all time”, will embark on his first ever UK tour at the Holmfirth Picturedrome on Friday 5th July. The 5-date tour will showcase material from his current album “Up Close”, and from his rich back catalogue….
earMUSIC, rock leg of the Hamburg, Germany, based full entertainment company Edel, is thrilled to announce the new album of THE Swedish rock supergroup, EUROPE. The long player, set for UK release on Monday 30th April 2012, is entitled Bag of Bones. The new record was produced by one of the world’s most prestigious producers,…
SCUM, the classic 1987 album from grindcore pioneers NAPALM DEATH, has been remastered with Full Dynamic Range and is out now on CD. The album will also be available on limited edition coloured vinyl LP in the coming weeks. SCUM was originally released 25 years ago to little fanfare but, unknowingly at the time, would…
Heavy rock quintet The Sun Explodes create a genre-defying mix of crushing riffs, sweeping melody and pulsating electronica in this – their debut album ‘Emergence’. It is a record that classes them as a truly original and burgeoning force on the UK rock scene. Their first year as a band saw them travel the length…
The new SONATA ARCTICA record will be called ”Stones Grow Her Name”, and will be released on May, 18th. It was recorded in several studios all over Finland, mixed at „Sonic Pump Studios“ by Mikko Karmila and mastered at „Chartmakers“ by Svante Forsbäck. The album will be released as limited edition digipak, standard jewel case,…
Roadrunner recording group Halestorm has announced the release of their hugely anticipated new album. “THE STRANGE CASE OF…” arrives in stores and at all DSPs on April 11th. The album is heralded by the electrifying new single, “Love Bites (So Do I),” impacting now at Rock radio outlets nationwide. The track – as well as…
Soulfly incite a musical uprising on Enslaved, their eighth album for Roadrunner Records. This time around, the heavy metal tribe treads extreme territory by incorporating blast beats, violent riffs and wheezing whammy squeals into its patented groove-driven war cry. All of those elements converge within a concept record about slavery—a first for legendary frontman Max…
Texan electronic metallers THE BROWNING have confirmed a US tour with industrial metal titans FEAR FACTORY. The tour is scheduled to kick off on May 1st in San Antonio, Texas, and also includes SHADOWS FALL, THE DEVASTATED and LEGACY OF DISORDER. THE BROWNING drummer NOAH ”SHARK” ROBERTSON comments: ”We are extremely excited to be touring…
Canadian heavy metal trio CAULDRON will kick off their headlining European tour tonight – Friday, 25th February – in Bielefeld, Germany. The band will be headbanging around Europe for 3 weeks on the ”Burning Europe” tour in support of their latest album, BURNING FORTUNE. Joining them on the road are fellow Canadian metallers STRIKER. CAULDRON…