You're invited to a sneak peak on Wibutee's new website. Read about the band, the making of Eight Domestic Challenges, download unreleased live material and best of all - make your own remix of First There Was Jazz in the interactive section.

Nightingale, featuring ex-Edge of Sanity frontman Dan Swano, have finally finished recording their fourth studio album, Alive Again, at The Room for The End Records in North America.

Upcoming Tzadik Records releases for October: Frank Denyer - Fired City, Daniel Zamir - Children of Israel, Cyro Baptista - Beat the Donkey. November: Painkiller / Live in Nagoya - Talisman, Wadada Leo Smith - Luminous Axis (The Caravans Of Winter And Summer), Rob Burger - Lost Photograph, Shelley Hirsch - The Far In, Far Out Worlds of Shelley Hirsch.

The Gathering have added a rockumentary from their past to the site. "When we recorded Always... in the beginning of 1992, our producer Han S. recorded some footage with his video recorder. You can see the band and the session musicians working on the album." Download it at the official site. Also Black Light District is released in France too. The band is working on a release in Germany around october.

There is a new official Ulver site, check it out: www.jester-records.com/ulver

Steve Vai Archives Vol. 3 and Steve Vai Archives Vol. 4 are in the final stages of production now, and they expect to announce a release date shortly. The 2 new volumes for the Secret Jewel Box (of which are a few left, so better hurry if you want one). Artwork and tracklists will be posted at Steve Vai's's site soon. The first run will be available through his site exclusively.

Dutch prog act Cirrha Niva will perform in the week leading to October the 31st (Halloween) a special edition of their rock-opera Liaison De La Morte. On October 31st national TV station Veronica will make a live report of the Cirrha Niva show. More news and tourdates at www.cirrhaniva.nl.

The release of a 3xCD collection of singles from Windy & Carl is available this week. More details will be posted on their site as soon as they are available.

There is a big Chris Cunningham interview up on the Res website. Chris, usually known from his Aphex Twin videoclips, talks about the new Warp Records projects he is working on with Squarepusher and Aphex Twin.

Gorillaz have decided to release a DVD and CD-ROM package on November 11th. The tracklist is not yet available for Phase One: Celebrity Take Down, but the content has been described as animated versions of the songs from the debut album. There will be two versions of the DVD, a standard edition and a limited-edition. The latter will feature a 48-page booklet with artwork and new stories about the cartoon characters.

The release-date for Buckethead's Electric Tears album has been bumped until next week.

Yanqui u.x.o. the new album by Godspeed You Black Emperor will be released on 4 november 2002 in europe and 11 november 2002 in north america. Read more about it at Constellation Records.

Solefald finished recording and mixing their upcoming album In Harmonia Universali. The band is in the process of mastering it in Oslo this week. Sadly you will have to wait until January / February to get your hands on this CD. According to Lars Nedland the album will consist of ten songs, and the vocal arrangements are larger and more complex this time around. They brought along a male choir and a saxophone player in the studio. You will also hear a lot of real Hammond organs and a Steinway grand piano.

We know some of our readers also visit the Jester Records forum. The forum is temporarily down at the moment, but will be back within a week or two. Why not check out our forum? :)

The people at the CMJ music marathon convention have invited Tomahawk to headline their opening night party on Oct 30th at the Roxy in New York. Tickets will go on sale Thursday for $20. Ipecac Records will also release the new Ruins album Tzomborgha on 29 october.

Lot's of Devin Townsend news. Accelerated Evolution is the title of his new solo album. Everything is finished on the new Strapping Young Lad album, except the vocals. Read the whole article at digitalmetal.com.

We reported this some time ago, but it's official now. Múm has announced that one of the band's founding members, Gyða Valtýsdóttir, officially left the band after a final performance last week in London due to time constraints. Valtýsdóttir revealed in a statement on the band's site that she has recently begun her second year at the Academy of the Arts in Iceland where she's presently studying cello, and that she has become unable to divide her time between the band and her schoolwork. Múm's final radio appearance with Valtýsdóttir in tow will air this Thursday on BBC Radio 1's Peel Sessions.

Portishead is apparently ready for another go, as their forthcoming album, tentatively titled Alien, is due to be released sometime this winter on Mercury Records. According to Euro Beat Magazine, the record will run just over an hour in length and will be enhanced with multimedia. Tracklist: Open Box, Love of Life, Broquette, Broken Wall, Beatless Day, Of Liberty for All and None (ft. JD Smack), Alien, Signature, Minor Pain, Traveling Fast to There, Tomorrow's Death, Broquette (multi mix in F#- slowdown). But before that happens, vocalist Beth Gibbons will be releasing her solo debut, Out Of Season, on october 28th. The record is said to consist largely of "semi-acoustic" and "deeply moving" songs, and will feature ex-Talk Talk bassist and O.Rang frontman Paul Webb backing her up.