Category: Music News

Pendulum‘s upbeat remix of Plan B’s ‘Stay Too Long‘ track has a video and hit the web this week. Check out the energy on this little beauty here.

Rage Against The Machine have beaten the X Factor clowns to the Christmas number 1 spot here in the UK today. Over half a million downloads of the classic 90’s rock tune beat Joe Schmo and Simon Cowell’s multi million pound TV machine by thousands to take the UK’s biggest pop accolade. The band have promised to play a FREE show to celebrate this achievement and have also donated thousands of pounds from MP3 sales to the charity Shelter. Watch the band below playing live on the BBC’s Five Live radio show last week playing the Xmas Number 1 – Killing In the Name Of.

Audio Bullys have dropped another new tune from their forthcoming album called London Dreamer as part of a Christmas video message with Slade. Press play for the sweets.

Broken Bells have announced details of their debut album.

The band, made up of James Mercer of The Shins and Brian Burton [aka Danger Mouse] will release the self-titled record on March 8th 2010. The 10 track album features Mercer on vocals, guitars and bass while Burton plays organ, drums, piano, synths and bass.

The first single, The High Road, which be premiered on the band’s website on December 21st.

Volcom have announced they will present Mastodon‘s tour in February 2010.

A “Royale Edition” of their album Crack The Skye will be made available through their website and will begin shipping on December 15th. The UK dates of the tour are below and support will come from Totimoshi.

16 – Wolverhampton, Wulfrun
17 – Bristol, Academy
19 – Glasgow, Barrowland
20 – Manchester, Academy
21 – Newcastle, Academy
23 – Nottingham, Rock City
24 – London, Roundhouse

RJD2 has posted up a full length track from his upcoming album The Colossus.

In addition to the track with Kenna, he has also posted snippets of other tracks from the record, which is out on January 19th. It’s big, check it out below:

For those of you out there who love your music laid back and doused in folk you will be enchanted by the incredible sounds of Musee Mecanique. Usually a 5 piece, the band consisting only of singer/songwriters Micah Rabwin (vocals/guitar/musical saw/keyboard) and Sean Ogilvie (vocals/keyboard/guitar/accordion/melodica) recently graced Europe with wonderful live shows alongside Laura Gibson that left a lot of people blown away. The Portland Oregon duo have an album out early in 2010 titled Hold This Ghost, have a slice of what’s on that here live from Paris this weekend and look out for them.

HibOO d’Scène : Musee Mecanique “Under Glass” (Live @ La Flèche d’Or, Paris – 10.12.2009) from Le-HibOO.com on Vimeo.

Dessa has leaked a track of her upcoming full length debut.

The Doomtree MC will release A Badly Broken Code on January 19th and has taken Dixon’s Girl from it to give fans a taste of what’s to come. The track, produced by fellow crew member MK Larada, can be grabbed for free here. Get on it!

The Brian Jonestown Massacre have announced a UK tour for 2010.

The band, who release their new album Who Killed Sgt. Pepper? on January 22nd will play the following dates in May:

14th – London Shepherds Bush Empire
16th – Birmingham Academy 2
17th – Manchester Academy 2 & 3
18th – Glasgow ABC
19th – Belfast Spring & Airbrake
20th – Dublin Academy

Jay Reatard was attacked by two members of the crowd in Austin.

The singer was performing at Emo’s when he was attacked during the final song of the set. The two men, 20 and 23, were arrested and charged with public intoxication. The singer said the attack was “totally unprovoked” but he is unhurt, so all is well in the world.