Swedish metalheads Wolf are to start recording their new, as yet untitled album in June. It’s to be produced by Fredrik Nordstrom, and released towards the end of the year.

The Southport lads Gomez release their new long-player ‘How To Operate’ on May 29, which will be preceded by the single ‘Girlhshapedlovedrug’ a week earlier. The band then play a nine date jaunt around the UK in June.

Paul Weller is to release a double live album with songs spanning his entire career. ‘Catch – Flame!’, out on June 12, was recorded at London Alexandra Palace on the star’s UK tour last December. The set features a host of Weller solo tracks, as well as classics from his former bands The Style Council […]

The Who have revealed they intend to release a mini-album this June. The release, titled ‘The Glass Household’, based on Pete Townshend‘s ‘The Boy Who Heard Music’, will last just eleven minutes, and precedes a full-length album planned for the Autumn.

Wilco has been road-testing material intended for its next Nonesuch album and will return to the studio next month for more recording. The group has no firm timetable for the release of the as-yet-untitled set, which will be the follow-up to 2004‘s “A Ghost Is Born.”

The Lostprophets are to call their new album ‘Liberation Transmission’. It’s to be released in late June.

Earache Records have teamed up with Metro 3D for develop a new computer game called ‘Earache: Extreme Metal Racing’, which is to be launched in various formats on July 7. Featured on the soundtrack are such bands as Napalm Death, At The Gates, Cathedral, The Haunted, Hate Eternal, Cult Of Luna, Beecher, Urkraft, Anata, Mistress […]

As I Lay Dying are to release an album of early recordings next month. It’s to be called ‘A Long March: The First Recordings’. This is also to feature new versions of old songs.

Robert Plant is to be the main attraction at the Cornbury Oxford Music Festival 2006, which happens on July 8/9.

The Doors will celebrate their 40th anniversary by releasing a 12-disc box set in the Autumn through Rhino. As yet untitled, this will include their first six studio albums – all remastered, with bonus tracks – plus six DVDs featuring 5.1 remixes of the studio albums and bonus material.