Born out of the upcoming Adrian Belew solo-album a new project has come about featuring Danny Carey of Tool and Les Claypool and of course Adrian. Besides the 3 songs for Belew's album, the trio started recording at Claypool's Rancho Relaxo studios for a full album. Claypool's also working on the first album of Bucket Of Bernie Brains.
Ulver's soundtrack to the film Lyckantropen has been nominated to Spellemannsprisen 2003, the Norwegian Grammy Awards, genre Open Class. Other nominees are Mari Boine, Jaga Jazzist, Nils Petter Molvær and Sidsel Endresen with Bugge Wesseltoft.
In the second year of the 13th Anniversary of Bucketheadland (Buckethead can only count to 13) this summer will see the release of the earlier announced Super Diorama Theater and a DVD called Secret Recipe. Also the snacks in the park will contain 20% less spider eggs.
Full track mp3 samples of the Stateart releases are now uploaded on the Stateart <a href="http://www.stateart.de">website</a>.
Institut have a new website: institut.coldmeat.se.
Arditi is a new side-project by Henry Moller of Puissance fame, playing revolutionary military industrial. The new website can be found at www.arditi.tk.
G.Nox is the name of the new signing of M-Tronic, G-Nox is the project of the founding member of the old and cult industrial French band Nox (which was often compared to Einsturzende Neubauten in the 80's). A full-time album called "Ventre" will be released around May, you can expect the darkest M-tronic release so far, the music was composed for several dance contemporary shows.
Believe it or not, the new year brings a fully updated website of Origami Republika...
My Dying Bride's new album is in the works and scheduled for a August 2003 release. In the mean time Aaron will selling some old rare gems related to the band on Ebay. The money raised will be donated to charity.
www.maetrixsolution.com is an artistpool for electronic music, a platform to create and arrange music and share visions. The website has just been re-launched, so go check it out.
In January, FatCat Records will release Mani, the debut album of the French artist Dorine Muraille, as part of the splinter series. More interesting releases are planned for February: Black Dice's Beaches & Canyons and a new CD-single of Giddy Motors. You can check out FatCat's weekly radio show on totallyradio.com.
"Storm", a new Devin Townsend song is available at mp3.com.
Happy holidays and a great new year!
Happy holidays to everybody. Whatever you do, have fun but don't drink & drive!
Danny Cavanagh (Anathema) will appear at a solo gig the 28th of December in Apeldoorn, Holland. It's a free show and a lot of Anathema songs will played on piano and one of the brothers might join in.
Strapping Young Lad have finalized the track listing for their new album, SYL, due out on February 11, 2003 through Century Media. A full-length MP3 of the album's projected first single, Devour, can be downloaded here from Blabbermouth.net.
Satyricon's European tourdates, to support the latest album "Volcano", are finally announced. For more info follow this link.
Nick Cave's next LP should be released february 3rd. It will be called Nocturama.
Autechre will release their 7th album entitled "Draft 7.30" on April 7th 2003. Before that, Aphex Twin will release a 2-CD remix album called "26 Mixes For Cash" in March. For the full tracklist look here.
Erebus Odora has been updated once again. Check it out here.
Apoptygma Berzerk is currently working on the new single "Unicorn", while Stephan has just finished recording a new album with his side project Fairlight Children, set for a early 2003 release.
Here is the pathetic non-music related story of the day.
From the rumour-mill: by combining news from sites from Guns n' Roses, Les Claypool and Buckethead and various messageboards one can conclude the US tour of Guns n' Roses is cancelled. Claypool's Bucket Of Bernie Brains, featuring (assumed) GnR members Buckethead and Brain, is presenting tourdates on scheduled GnR-dates.
Mary Hansen, member of Stereolab, died in a car-accident last monday.