Happy Chinese New Year, everybody. May your Year of the Ox be Fucked Up. But first, the raucous Canadians in Fucked Up are sending off the old year with a 12" and digital EP featuring 11-minute A-side "Year of the Rat". Yes, this thing has been in the works for a while. Recorded at the end of 2008, the track is a guitar-stacked epic apparently i...

NIGHTWISH, APOCALYPTICA and OOMPH! have been confirmed for the M'era Luna Festival, set to take place August 8-9, 2009 in Hildesheim, Germany.The festival blling is shaping up as follows:ALEXANDER VELJANOVAPOCALYPTICAASHBURY HEIGHTSDIE APOKALYPTISCHE...

Cult Of Luna are gearing up for their first ever DVD release, titled Fire Was Born.

So it turns out U2 aren't the first musicians to use Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto's calming "Boden Sea" for their album cover. Sound artists Richard Chartier and Taylor Deupree also featured the photo on the front of their 2006 LP Specification.Fifteen, an album inspired by Sugimoto's Seascapes series. And Deupree isn't too happy about...

-- They haven't released any music since their 2006 art installation soundtrack and they still don't have any planned, but the electro-acoustic duo the Books will play a few shows in the coming months. -- Denver gypsy-punk journeymen DeVotchKa are also hitting the road, touring the U.S. throughout winter.-- On January 27, electro producer Eliot ...