More than 45 000 people gathered at the Rowing Canal in Plovdiv last weekend to celebrate the eighth wonder of the world - music.

The twelve months since last year’s edition of Rockharz have passed by in the proverbial blink of an eye. Once more we meet up with friends and our kin under the watchful gaze of the omni-present Teufelsmauer, the ever-stoic unique guardian and associated landmark of this festival.

Fans of indie icons Razorlight were treated to renditions of classic tunes as they've never heard them before as Johnny Borrell and Andy Burrows played a surprise intimate show in central London.

I saw God last night, standing outside a small venue in Glasgow with a T-shirt that read if you want to witness heaven in person step inside and he was not wrong.

Review by Phil Rozier for MPM Did you ever hear of that scientist fella called Einstein?  He was before my time but apparently, he was pretty clever at calculations and assumptions.  He even came up the theory of relativity.  Thinking that the laws of physics were true if applied to the same entity, if in the same space and time, …

The scorching heatwave continues in Norn Ireland as we make our way to the big smoke to see the immense Garbage. I was 19 (showing my age) when the band first burst onto the scene with singles from their debut self-titled album.

Growing up in the NYC area, I’ve been a Bon Jovi fan before there was a band called Bon Jovi. In 1983 my local radio station used to play the song “Runaway” from this unsigned artist and I instantly became a fan. Over the decades I’d see the band a dozen times in concert.

It's been a long time since Sammy Hagar toured the UK and even longer since it could have been classed as a 'solo' jaunt, his last one in support of the 'Standing Hampton' album in 1982.

This is a big one, its been 9 years since System of a Down has played the UK or Europe, but it's been 24 years since System of a Down played in Ireland at Ozzfest in 2002, so it's been 24 years since i was lucky enough to see them so this gig has been a long time coming. 

If you're going to have a fiftieth birthday, why not make it the biggest celebration possible and invite several thousand of your nearest and dearest to join the party.

London is suffering from its second heatwave in as many weeks, so of course - of course! – rock titans My Chemical Romance are in town to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their much beloved The Black Parade album.

Whilst they may have held the crown during the New Romantic era, it's doubtless that Duran Duran have surfed that wave in the decades intervening and remain one of the biggest bands on the planet.

Approaching any Stadium always makes me think about the wonder of music.  Just think, tonight, in a sold-out stadium in London, for a second time after Friday’s sell out show, are ‘just’ 4 guys from San Fransico.

The last day of Download Festival on a glorious Sunday morning. Waking up to the smell of breakfasts and people still snoozing off Saturday's after party shenanigans - but it was time to get down to the Dogtooth Stage, I wasn't about to miss what was about to wake up Download's Sunday morning.

It was a perfect day in central London. The sun beat down but the slight breeze in the air brought a little, very welcome relief from the heat as the largest crowd that the series had ever seen gathered to see one of the biggest artists in the world.

So, it’s Belsonic time of year again, but before I get properly stuck into this review, I feel a history lesson coming on… so buckle up.