Warp Records will release double-disc packages. The first is a 5" CDEP from Autechre titled Gantz Graf, which features three new tracks and an additional 5" DVD video. The bonus disc includes all three Autechre videos. The EP will hit stores on August 6th. The second release won't come out until October 1st, it's a brand new Squarepusher album titled Do You Know Squarepusher. The disc is said to be quite a departure from the drill-n-bass. Included is an additional disc titled Alive in Japan July 2001, a ten-track, 60+ minute live recording of the final show of his last tour.

The Web of Mimicry site is updated, home of Secret Chiefs 3 and Estradasphere. The release of the new album from new signing Danubius is on August 20.

Ipecac Records will release the new Isis album Oceanic on the 17th of september. You can still expect Phantomsmasher with their self-titled album to be released on 20 august and Dälek's From Filthy Tongue of Gods and Griots on 6 august.

Paradise Lost have set Deus as the tentative title for their forthcoming album, through new label G.U.N./BMG Records. A European release is expected before the end of the year.

Epic Records recently announced the signing of Tori Amos. Her upcoming album Scarlet's Walk was self-produced and recorded in Cornwall, England. It features performances by her long-time collaborators Jon Evans on bass and Matt Chamberlain on drums. The record's first single A Sorta Fairytale will out in mid-September. The album will be available in stores on October 29th.

Zorn

At Bombsite you can read a very interesting interview with John Zorn.

The Mr. Bungle yellowpages, a great site for all you fanatics who can't get enough from Mike Patton and co.

Go to this site for all the Cynic demo's, sweet!

According to the people at Muscle Muse, the third Muse studio album will be released in spring 2003.

spoofs

Fake or "spoofed" tracks, such as loops of song parts have been flooding the internet in an effort to dupe online pirates. And they're not coming from prankish geeks; they're coming from the record labels. It's the industry's brashest ploy in its fight against copyright infringement. Article.

Tribute Of The Year, a 2 volume compilation set, released by Legion Productions and Invisible Records paying tribute to Faith No More is out now.

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Not a week goes by without Ipecac news. Tomahawk has added 2 headline shows to their calender. August 2th in Orlando, Florida at the Social and August 13th at the Irving Plaza in New York. The NYC show will include VERY special guests Skeleton Key and Dillinger Escape Plan.

The new Düreforsög album Engine Machine is now available. Released on Kool Arrow Records, and also available in their online shop.

Gåte has now ended their recordings for the upcoming album. It will be in the Norwegian shops on 16th September. The band has also done some Festival gigs inbetween the recordings, and will continue at three more Festivals in July/August. Then it's time to start preparing for the autumn tour in october.

Released today is the new album of Corvus Corax, called Inter Deum Et Diabolum Semper Musica Est. It contains diverse compositions and songs from renowned musical collections selected from the 9th through the 15th centuries like Carmina Burana and from well known singers including Vogelweide and Reuental.

Lacrimosa are busy recording their new album, the follow-up to Fassade. A single will be released this fall on their own Hall Of Sermon label and not on a major as expected.

Sephiroth aka Ulf Soderberg has a new webpage. You can find it at http://sephiroth.coldmeat.se.

Coil now have a track available for preview at Beta-Lactam Rings Records as part of their 10" series. The Restitution of Decayed Intelligence can be heard in the mp3 section of the website.

SOTL

Kranky are reissuing Avec Laudenum from Stars of the Lid on October 21st. Surprisingly poor distribution made this disc hard to find during its first run on Sub Rosa. The disc will now be readily available in North America. A tour is shaping up for SOTL with tentative dates now listed on the website.

Windy & Carl have joined up with a drummer named Paik and have some upcoming shows. The trio plays together in Detroit on Friday, while the group join Landing's tour already in progress during August.

Aghora's Mainman Santiago Dobles is recording right now the new album titled Formless with the new line-up, including new drummer Richard Komatz and new bass player Alan Goldstein (replacing Sean Reinert and Sean Malone), plus sister-vocalist Danishta Rivero. New songs are more alive and organic and the new album is expected this autumn on Code666.

The current incarnation of Voivod are in the process of recording demos for their new studio album, according to a posting on the website of Newsted's label Chophouse Records. "The quartet and producer Brian Joseph Dobbs plan to record a new album later this year," continues the brief message. Although no official word has come down on the matter, it is believed that the CD will surface through Century Media in early 2003.

Nate Dogg's tourbus as been pulled over by the police on the Interstate 40 in Arizona. Out of 7 people in the bus only Nate was formally charged with possession of marijuana (surprise!), 'drug paraphernalia', an unloaded Tech-9 and a loaded Beretta .380 that had been reported stolen at the LAPD. The gangsta-crooner got out on a $3500 bail.

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Mats Öberg and Morgan Ågren will release their new Mats/Morgan album called On Air With Guests in august, recorded live at a Swedish TV-show. Guests are Fredrik Thordendal, Jimmy Ågren and Spoonman among others.