Dutch prog-metal talents Sun Caged will play at Prog Power Europe in october 2002.

Check out the monthly European Try Tone Jazz Festival at Zaal 100 (De Wittenkade 100, Amsterdam, the Netherlands). Try Tone records has established a performance space for experiments around new projects and concepts.

Zimmers Hole are embarking on their first-ever tour of Canada with Gene Hoglan and the Almighty Punchdrunk, and Origami Galaktika from Norway. A weird combination, but interesting...

Check out the preview track from the forthcoming new Melvins studio CD Hostile Ambient Takeover in the Ipecac archives section.

The Trolleyroute in Bergen, Norway is in danger. The municipal politicians are discussing the trolleyfuture as we speak. Pilota.fm will therefore invite electronica-artists from all over the world to participate in the Trollofon. Read more about this here.

Klangstabil will be touring the U.S. in May. More info? Check www.aex.org/tour

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Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio has announced the release of another Victoria 7" single and the "4 Life 4 Love 4 Lust And Roses" release on both vinyl and CD. More livedates have also been confirmed.

Motor Music in Germany will announce a special edition of Pain's album "Rebirth" for the summer. Go to www.paininfo.de for more info

Made by a fellow Dutchie, check out the best Radiohead site: http://www.ateaseweb.com :)

On May 17 the Primavera Sound festival will take place in Barcelona, Spain. Be entertained by Adult, Aphex Twin, Andy Weatherall, Bis, Chicks on Speed, Dave Clark, Pulp, Stereo Total and many more...

Dan the Automator will be joining Medeski, Martin & Wood for their show at the Warfield in San Francisco on April 20. He will perform a 30 minute set in between MMW's sets and will then work his magic with the band during theirsecond set.

Beatallica: Beatles covers done Metallica style with a singer that sounds exactly like James Hetfield. Very funny and worth checking out.

Buckethead is going to give away the guitar given to him by Henry Kaiser. Under the theme 'Wish upon a saw' kids under 13 are encouraged to send in the reason they want to play the guitar.

Maudlin of the Well are busy in the studio recording a follow up to last year's "Bath" and "Leaving Your Body Map". Also some changes in the band with Maria (vocals) and Sam (drums) leaving. Read more here.

It's not a late april fools joke. Because Dave Mustaine suffers serious injury Megadeth disbands after nearly 20 years.

Maybe a little bit late, but these are the Motorpsycho final European tourdates for april. Hurry up, go get those tickets, it might not be sold-out yet.

Jester Records put up a sample from their latest release Kåre João - Sideman. I can recommend this album to everyone, a review will follow soon.

Norwegian tricksters Ulver are featured on the BBC site in the top 10's section this week.

Estradasphere-bassplayer and arranger Tim Smolens will release the CD by his 'boyband' ISS through Trey Spruance's Web Of Mimicry records April 26th. Also coming up on the same lable: Danubius, a Balkan-orchestra from the San Francisco Bay Area.

Bumblefoot thanks MTV Europe for broadcasting their T-Jonez video. You can download it here if you missed it.

Check out other music zine: www.pitchforkmedia.com. They privately inked a deal with a larger corporation which promises them, for once, a steady income... yeah right :)

There's a rumour that Daddy G has left Massive Attack, which would mean the end of the band. However, the new 12-track album, featuring Sinead O' Connor and Jhelisa Anderson, will be mixed in June and released just after summer.

We were too lazy to plan something good to do for April's Fool. Sorry.

Doomsters Unholy split up because "everything went wrong!!!".