CANNIBAL CORPSE, SONATA ARCTICA, DEMONICAL, SUICIDAL ANGELS, OMEGA LITHIUM, ACELDAMA, LUJURIA and ENOCHIAN THEORY have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Metalcamp festival, set to take place July 5-11, 2010 in Tomin, Slovenia. The fes...

Bradford Cox opens Virtual 7" no. 8 with a rousing cover of the vintage 'late 50s/early '60s pre-Now Sound Brooklyn doo-wop group the Five Discs' "Doctor." The B-Side's a somber harmonica-lined campfire-side track called "The Screens" that'd work well with what Cox has been doing lately in the more stripped down moments of his Atlas Sound live s...

"Walkabout" isn't the best track on Atlas Sound's second proper full-length Logos, but it is the song that features a member of Animal Collective, which is likely why it got out there first. Truth is, it's kind of album's curve ball moment. Even though its more skeletal than some of Logos (see, for instance, the show-stopping "Quick Canal"), the...

Last night's Chris Isaak Hour featured Billy Corgan and his now departed bandmate Jimmy Chamberlin in a predictably petulant Q&A intercut with sweet acoustic performances to remind us why we still care about the Smashing Pumpkins. Along with their touring musicians, Chamberlin and a harmonica-playing Corgan were joined by horns and violin on...

Just before the new year we pointed you over to the new Elvis Perkins In Dearland site, where the fuss-worthy folkie and Class of '06 BTW threw up a few streaming tunes from the forthcoming self-titled long-player. One of those cuts was the heavy-hitting, swinging/stomping "Shampoo," which I'd put next to "While You Were Sleeping" as a trademark...