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Tarentel make their debut jaunt over to the UK
San Francisco's Tarentel bring their "predominantly instrumental compositions read like chapters in an epic novel, with each song stretching up to 20 minutes in length" to the UK
June
19th - Birmingham, Flapper & Firki»
A very Dreamy evening...
Dreamy Records have announced an evening of dreaminess on the 22nd June at the 12 Bar Club, off Denmark St., London WC2.
The lineup for the night is as follows:
Graham
James Hindle
Sliver Springs
Tanakh & Six Organs of Admittanc»
After years of waiting Membranaphonics is finally here!
The Baltimore-based label Monitor Records, best known as the Oxes' label, have announced the completion of the Membranaphonics compliation album. The compilation is a collection of songs performed by some of the most creativ»
Sunny Day Real Estate has confirmed their split.
A statement on the band's official website says: "The band was met with a string of bad luck, including troubles with management companies. Another major blow came to the band when Arista dropped Time Bomb Recordings, making the European tour and adv»
The lineup for Safe Between The Ears, the "all-day festival of avant-insanity culling acts from across the uk", has been changed.
The event that takes place on Saturday 30th June at The Maltings, Farnham. Will feature the following bands:
Billy Mahonie
Hirameka Hi-Fi
Reynolds
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US rockers The Icarus Line announce a tour of the UK
The tour is to help promote the release of their debut long player 'Mono' on
Krank! Records, which is out now. The band will rock the following
stages:
July
2nd - Bristol, Fleece
3rd - Manchester, Hop & Grape
4th »
Kings of the British Emo scene announce tour.
The dates, with Gameface unless specified, are as follows:
June
20th - Leeds, Josephs Well (w/ Appleseed Cast)
August
4th - Kingston, The Peel
5th - Winchester, Railway Inn
6th - Stockton on »
Ash frontman Tim Wheeler has further fuelled the feud between Ash and
Westlife by suggesting that the boyband's manager Louis Walsh should be
shot.
Wheeler is annoyed that recent album 'Free All Angels' was kept off
the top spot in Ireland by Billy Joel. He sees the recent
Westlif»
Members of Mogwai, Arab Strap and Belle and Sebastian are among the Scots
contributing to an album lead by Snow Patrol's Gary Lightbody.
The collective know as The Reindeer Section have recorded a 15-song
album under Lightbody's direction. The album, 'Y'All Get Scared Now Ya
Hear!', i»
Koala make another return visit to the Bull & Gate but this time they're on top of the bill.
The future pinups of Bliss magazine, I shit you not! play at the B&G next Thursday, 14th June. Its £4 to get in with a flyer and £4.50 on the door.
For those who can't make it you can watch the live»
SL artists and John Peel fav's ballboy have a announced a few
gigs.
The dates are as follows:
June
23rd - London, The Garage (w/ Trembling Blue Stars)
24th - London, The Betsey Trotwood (FREE)
July
25th - Birmingham, Flapper & Firkin
26th - Lon»
Appliance go on a massive tour to support their forthcoming new record
'Imperial Metric' released on 11th June through Mute records.
The dates are as follows:
June
11th - Borders, Oxford Street (free gig)
15th - ICA London *
17th - Edinburgh - Liquid Rooms #
18»
Mclusky who's ambition is to be the loudest three-piece in the world,
announce a one off gig.
The band who have recently signed to Too Pure Records, the band count
legendary US producer Don Fleming among their fans, and are currently
in Chicago recording the follow-up their debut albu»
Due to "circumstances beyond the band's control"... someone forgot to book the cinema!... the premiere of the Rings Around The World DVD album has been rescheduled.
Two showings will happen on the 11th June at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. A private showing will take place at 7.00pm and a public showi»
Darren 'Hefner' Hayman's electronic side project split up.
Darren 'Hefner' Hayman's electronic side project, Stereo Morphofonium have decided to split!
If you want to catch their second and last gig go to the ROTA club at the Notting Hill Arts Centre, Noting Hill at around 6:30pm on»
Andmoresounds artists Camera Obscura and Tacoma Radar announce gigs to promote singles.
Camera Obscura release their Stuart Murdoch produced single 'Eighties Fan' on 25th June. With their debut album 'Biggest Bluest Hi Fi' following later in the year.
Whilst T»
The Gloria Record spent most of February recording tracks for an as yet untitled album. The band intends to head to Lincoln, Nebraska this month to finish recording, and the album should be available this autumn.
The Gloria Record features members of the now-defunct Austin, Texas emo band <»
The 4th release in the FukdID series is from the British Meat
Scene.
Wondering who the hell they are? Here's their press release:
"British Meat Scene are Duncan Mackay and Rupert Lyddon.
Duncan Mackay has been around the underbelly of the music industry for a while now. His p»
Arab Strap, Bright Eyes, Electrelane, Hefner, The Pattern, Lift to Experience and Hopewell are amongst the new additions to the Carling Stage at this year's Reading and Leeds weekend festivals.
The stage is set to premiere the best in upcoming musical talent. The full line-up is as follows:
»
Dreamy. Experimental. Schizophrenic. Bizarre. Could all be used to describe this, the fifth studio album from the Super Furries, but the one word that really sums this record up is Essential!
Gruff, Huw, Guto, Dafydd and Cian return with the follow up to their Welsh album ‘Mwng’. As much as I love ‘Mw»
The lineup for the US All Tomorrow's Parties have been announced.
Following the success of the All Tomorrow's Parties here in the UK, Barry Hogan (who recently left Foundation) decided to try it out in the States. It takes place on the 19th and 20th October at the the campus of UCLA in Los Angeles, Ca»
Air have announced full details of their UK tour for October.
The confirmed date are as follows:
October
18th - Southampton Guildhall
19th - London Royal Albert Hall
20th - Sheffield Octagon
22nd - Cambridge Corn Exchange
23rd - Nottingham Rock City
2»
Mr Adams will release the follow up to 'Heartbreaker' later this year.
Adams won hearts last year with his solo debut 'Heartbreaker', and has decided to release a double album entitled 'Gold' this summer. The tracklisting will be:
1. New York, New York
2. Cannonball Day
Self proclaimed "worst nightmare" of the music industry Courtney Love made a surprise appearance onstage with Evan Dando last week.
Love joined her former lover onstage at a club in Vancouver, Canada, and took the opportunity to "rap about her life" according to posts on the official Hole website. Sh»
Sparklehorse release a single and album, and tour UK.
'Gold Day' is the first single to be released from the new album 'It's a Wonderful Life'. The single features guest vocals from the wonderful Nina Persson (Cardigans). The single will be available on CD only and features 3 new »
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Six By Seven and The Delgados are among the bands helping to celebrate the fifth birthday of Mantra Recording's.
The label will be hosting gigs, parties and special DJ sets by new and established Mantra artists in a four-night stand at London Scala from the 6th to 9th August.
Weezer have already begun on their next album, the follow up to 'The Green Album' which was released earlier this month.
In a statement posted on the official Weezer website, it is revealed that the band visited a studio in Washington DC to work on the new material.
The website says:»
The Big Scary Monsters split single is finally released.
The split 7" with Caretaker is finally available after being stuck in the Czech Republic for gawd knows how long. The 7" which features new tracks from both bands:
Caretaker - Red Mist
Econoline - Ounces and ounces of solid goodn»
Fed up with the endless amount of shite bands that the NME and the Evening Session have been praising recently? I bought my first copy of the NME for the year 2001, a couple of weeks back, and it said that The Music are… hang on let me get this right, “are going to change everything”, what the fuck? The B»
Luke Haines, member of The Auteurs and Black Box Recorder, has laid into a host of pop starts as part of his manifesto to close the music industry down for a week.
Haines, who releases a new album The Oliver Twist Manifesto on 2nd July, issued a two page statement demanding pop stars to down to»
