Isn’t It Supposed To Be Fun!? by pop-punkers Farewell pushes all the regulation MySpace pop-punk buttons - but what’re they doing signed to Epitaph Records?

Emo-popsters The Higher will be making their first visit to UK shores in April as main support for Elliot Minor.

Plastic Toys‘ début disc For Tonight Only is a sleazy orgy of crunchy guitars and evil synth tones; electro-rock just lost its virginity, and about time too.

Massachusetts metallers Unearth announce the forthcoming release of a three-disc DVD set entitled Alive From The Apocalypse.

Dirty Sweet’s début album … Of Monarchs And Beggars is a triumph of retro-rock Americana; get your fix of bluesy licks and gritty country harmonies right here.

Cheery fun-loving retro-rockers Stone Gods talk to The Dreaded Press about such rock and roll subjects as drum solos, pan-pipe buskers and the Waitrose deli counter …

It’s good-time hard-rock fun all the way as Stone Gods command worship and praise from a small Sunday crowd in Portsmouth’s Wedgewood Rooms.

London alt-rock outfit Intervurt release the Translucent EP - does the UK finally have a decent answer to The Killers?

Still undecided about the new Bullet For My Valentine album, Scream Aim Fire? Try watching the video of the title track. And then choose between the normal CD or priced-up gimmick USB stick version!

Welsh thrash-metal poster-boys Bullet For My Valentine return to the fray with their long-awaited second album, Scream Aim Fire. But will it live up to the hype?