Swedish Viking metalheads Amon Amarth are currently recording a new, as yet unttitled album. Due out through Metal Blade in September, it’s being produced by Jens Bogren.

White Stripes singer Jack White and his wife Karen Elson are celebrating the birth of their first child, a baby girl.The Detroit Free Press reports that Scarlett Teresa was born on Tuesday in Tennessee, where the couple live.The singer-guitarist’s side project, The Raconteurs, release their debut album next week.

Every Time I Die are to re-release their album ‘Gutter Phenomenon’ next month. As a bonus, it will include a DVD featuring a 30-minute extract from their upcoming full DVD release, ‘Shit Happens’.

Italian goth metalheads Theatres Des Vampires play the Camden Underworld in London on May 27. Also on the bill are D.U.S.T., All Living Fear and The Faces Of Sarah.

Bullet For My Valentine are to release a new single on June 12. It’s the song ‘Tears Are Falling’. This comes from their debut album, ‘The Poison’.

Along with a whole host of actsThe Long Blondes are amongst a host of bands confirmed for this year’s Secret Garden Party.Other acts set to appear at the festival are Graham Coxon, Howling Bells, Larrikin Love, Ok Go and Robots In Disguise.Lily Allen, The Real Tuesday Weld, Utah Saints, The Infadels and The Chalets have […]

REM are set to resume work on a new album before the end of 2006.The rock legends have been lying low since their ‘Around The Sun’ world tour ended in London last July. Now drummer Bill Rieflin has disclosed that they want to get back in the studio.The three founding members of REM still in […]

Society 1 are to release a new album in July. It’s to be called ‘The Year Of Spiritual Dissent’, and will be on the Crash Music Inc. label. This is a combination of early songs, plus two new recordings.

Bloc Party will follow its weekend performance at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival by hitting an Irish studio to record the follow up to its 2004 debut, “Silent Alarm.” The set is expected late in the year via Vice/Atlantic.The band has spent the last several weeks demoing cuts in London with producer Jacknife […]

Primus bassist/vocalist Les Claypool has put the finishing touches on a new solo album, “Of Whales and Woe,” due May 30 via his own Prawn Song label. The follow-up to 2002’s “Purple Onion” was recorded in Claypool‘s home studio and features contributions from percussionist Mike Dillon, saxophonist Skerik and Gabby La La on sitar.