ContactMusic — Scarlett Johansson has been cast as screen icon Janet Leigh in The Making of Psycho The Avengers actress will star alongside James DArcy Anthony Hopkins and Dame Helen Mirren in the project which is being helmed by Anvil director Sacha Ger... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonComplete performances of Roméo et Juliette come along every few years, and always raise the same question – whether this dramatic symphony is one of Berlioz's greatest and most original achievements, or whether it is act... more info

Metalsucks — If you’re a fledgling metal band trying to break into the big time, allowing a movie to be made about your struggles is probably a bad idea. Remember Acrassicauda? The heavily persecuted Iraqi band pulled on the heart strings of the entire metal w... more info

Guardian Music — Graham Coxon invites you to nominate local support acts on his tour of upcoming album A+E (13-30 Apr, starts at O2 Academy Oxford, grahamcoxon.co.uk) …New Order get motoring, minus Peter Hook, for their first UK tour in six years (26 Apr-5 May, sta... more info

Guardian Music — Grand, Leeds; Hereford, St Briavels, etc; Anvil, BasingstokeShort, squat, silly, a bad actress, with a doughy, cross face and a "figure not advantageous for the stage": this was Horace Walpole's yobbish description of the star soprano who created the... more info

Guardian Music — Canada's Voivod are one of heavy metal's most unique, beloved treasures. Now their extraordinary early recordings are getting an official releaseFor Voivod's drummer Michel Langevin – known as Away, supposedly owing to a now impossible-to-perceive ... more info

Chorus.fm — *Anvil* (http://www.anvilmetal.com/)'s Worth the Weight, Strength of Steel and Pound For Pound will be re-released as remastered digipaks on February 14 via The End. The band's upcoming tour dates are in the replies. more info

Metalsucks — FEATURING MEMBERS OF ARCH ENEMY, THAT METAL SHOW, BLACK ANVIL, ABIGAIL WILLIAMS, AND LEPROUS Every year year, MetalSucks invites musicians from across the vast spectrum of the metalsphere (or, in a few cases, the almost-metalsphere) what their fav... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Stephanie Crumley, additional photos & words by BBG Black Anvil @ Saint Vitus (by BBG) With Turbonegro/Andrew WK at Santos and Judas Priest at Izod Center, Friday night in the NYC area was heavy on metal/punk outings. A... more info

Guardian Music — Led Bib, on tourTheir name came from the dentists' garment that protects customers from x-rays, but their listeners might feel they need something similar as protection from the broadsides of punk-jazz this collective unleash. Led Bib meld John Zorn ... more info