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 […]

Bright Eyes is eyeing a spring 2007 release for its next Saddle Creek studio album. The three-person crew, whose current incarnation includes leader Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott, has tapped artists like Gillian Welch, Sleater-Kinney drummer Janet Weiss and M. Ward to contribute to the as-yet-untitled set.

Former Helloween and current Masterplan drummer Uli Kusch has teamed up with Ronny Milianowicz (Dionysus) and Joacim Cans (Hammerfall) to write a song for the upcoming soccer world championship. Entitled “Glorious“, the song will feature Swedish singer Mikeyla as the main vocalist, with special guest appearances by Ralf Scheepers (Primal Fear), Tobias Sammet (Edguy), Roland […]

The Raconteurs have been forced to change their name in Australia. Jack White‘s new band will be known as The Saboteurs down under to avoid conflict with a jazz band of the same name. A statement to the Australian press reads: “The Raconteurs name was already taken by a jazz band, to make things easier, […]

Birds of Prey – who include members of Alabama Thunderpussy, Burnt By The Sun, Municipal Waste and Baroness – have signed to Relapse. Expect an album, ‘Weight Of The Wound’, to be issued in July.

Morrissey’s new album Ringleader Of The Tormentors has entered the UK albums chart at number one, making it he’s first number one since 1994’s Vauxhall and I. The former Smiths singer held off new releases from Pink with I’m Not Dead (3), Flaming Lips – At War With The Mystics (6) and Stereophonics – Live […]

Laugardalshollin, a one day festival which is held in Reykjavik, Iceland on May 6th, have turned to the North West of England for their line up. Badly Drawn Boy, who is in the process of recording a new album, will headline the event with support coming from Elbow, Andy Rourke (The Smiths) and Echo and […]