Misanthropic Agenda records annouce the lineup for the Merzbow "Frog" remix release. Contributing artists will be Merzbow, Sunn, Boris, Pita, Hrvatski, House of Low Culture, Hecker, Russell Haswell, Fennesz, Never Presence Forever, Gerritt, Bastard Noise, When, Ulver, and Terror Organ. More details will soon be made available here.
Dark Tranquillity have finished recording their sixth full length album, "Damage Done," at Studio Fredman.
Belgian trip-pop act Hooverphonic is currently recording their upcoming album in London with an orchestra. Check their official site for more news and studio photos.
Finally it's official: The Prodigy will release the new single "Baby's Got A Temper" in July, hopefully followed soon by the band's follow-up to "Fat Of The Land" (1997), called "Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned".
Clean out of the studio from recording Oysterhead's debut with Trey Anastasio (Phish) and Stewart Copeland (The Police), Les Claypool returned to the studio for the recording of his Fearless Frog Brigade. This band consists of drummer Jay Lane (Sausage, Rat Dog) and guitarist Todd Huth (Primus), augmented by keyboardist Jeff Chimenti (Rat Dog and Pharoah Sanders). Other cohorts are saxophonist Skerik (Critters Buggin, Galactic, Ponga and Tuatara) and guitarist Eenor. Colonel Les Claypool And His Fearless Frog Brigade previously released a 2-part live album including a full rendition of Pink Floyd's Animals.
Norwegian Rune Grammofon records will release a couple of new albums soon. The label is dedicated to releasing work by the most adventurous and creative Norwegian artists and composers. More about their releases here.
Coil will be appearing live at the New Forms 2002 Festival, presented by Paard Op Hol at Theater aan het Spui in Den Haag, The Netherlands on June 7th and 8th. Other artists on the bill include Von Magnet, Biosphere, Christian Fennesz, Hazard, Little Axe, John Wozencroft, Hector Alveilos and more.
Arcana and Sophia will perform live at The Vampyria in Reggio Emilia, Italy on the 30th of April. It will be the first gig for Arcana since 1999. More info will soon be available at www.erbadellastrega.it.
Ant-Zen have again announced an assault of releases coming to destroy our weak ears. Also new releases on sub-label Hymen are planned.
April 29th is the release date for My Dying Bride's "For Darkest Eyes" video on DVD, including extra material. Also on that date, a brandnew live album will be releases called "Voice Of The Wretched", recorded in Tilburg, Holland at the Peacefest last year. In the mean time, keyboardist Yasmin Ahmed has left the band due lack of time. She will be replaced by Sarah Stanton and planned live gigs will be continued.
New releases from Tigerbeat6 records: The mp3cdrom from Lesser (12 hours of music), Kid606 -"the action packed mentallist brings you the fucking jams...". April also sees the debut of a new 3" cd series from Aelters, Erase Errata, Black Dice, plus unreleased material from kid606, and more... Read about the May releases here.
Trouble, monday april 15th: Kid606, Numbers, Sutekh Crack, Uprock. Resident DJ's: Kit Clayton, Philip Sherburne & Televazquez. Trouble is the leading provider of boredom-abatement solutions for San Francisco's experimental music sector. If I had the money, I would be in SF by now. :) www.musork.com/trouble
A 'hiphop musical' is how Dr. Dre describes his new album Detox. To keep it real and hardcore with is gangsta-life far behind him he figured to come up with a fictional story about a hitman and his family. The album is planned for mid-2003. Rumour is that it'll be his last.
Guitarist Daniel Cavanagh has changed his mind and decided to rejoin Anathema. More about this here.
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Bill Laswell is currently working on various projects, among them are: a Tabla Beat Science live CD (on Axiom), The Ethiopian Project with Gigi and many others (ION) and he contributes, along with longtime companion Robert Musso to Russell Mills' 3rd album. He's also doing productions of the new Sly & Robbie album called Devil's Pick, Russian saxophone-player Igor Buttman and his band and Admas, an Ethiopian group. Also remixes of Tony Williams' Lifetime (a treatment like Panthalassa) and DJ Logic material are being in the works. His label Innerhythmic will release a compilation called Excavation: "radical codes for brainwave interference" with contributions by Jah Wobble, PhonosykographDISK, Material and himself.
Finnish Amorphis got their old drummer Jan Rechberger back who previously played on 'Privilege of Evil', 'The Karelian Isthmus' and 'Tales from the Thousand Lakes'. The band is currently working on new material.
The Avalanches have signed to Elektra Records. Their debut, 'Since I Left You' was originally made available on the now-defunct London/Sire records. Elektra is giving the album and single 'Frontier Psychiatrist' a second chance, including free remixes.
Erstwhile Records has announced new releases. Check the website for more information.
For those supporting the joys of free noise (and for some great live video footage) visit this website.
News from Moonfog: Satyricon has finished the new album "Vulcano" and will be released September 2nd. And Khold, Thorns, Darkthrone and Monumentum have all new websites.
Depeche Mode will release "One Night In Paris, The Exciter Tour" DVD on May 27. The DVD was directed by Anton Corbijn at the Palais Omnisports de Paris Bercy in front of 16,000 fans. Read more about this release.
The band Sonic Youth finished recording their new album titled "Murray Street". The tentative release dates are: June 5 (Japan), June 11 (Europe) and July 2 (USA). For more details and a tracklist go here.
The Gathering will release a new record in June (on Psychonaut records) to celebrate their 12,5 years of existence. There are no details yet but it will be limited and something special.