Reading Festival will be bigger and louder than last year.
Reading Borough Council approved the expansion of the festival, with 3,500 extra tickets available to those who live in Reading. The festival will grow by 3,500 again next year and 3,000 more in 2011.
The sound will also incerase from 65db to 68db during the day, with the last two acts of the evening allowed to his 70db.
Pop-punk aficionados Broadway Calls will be returning to UK shores and releasing their SideOneDummy album ‘Good Views, Bad News‘ in August.
The album is out 17th August with single ‘Be All That You Can’t Be‘ preceding on 10th. Live dates, including a support slot with The Offspring and Reading and Leeds festival performances, are as follows –
25 August 2009 London, Brixton Academy w/ THE OFFSPRING, RIVAL SCHOOLS
26 August 2009 Manchester, Manchester Academy w/ THE OFFSPRING, RIVAL SCHOOLS
29 August 2009 Leeds, Leeds Festival – NME/Radio 1 Stage
30 August 2009 Reading, Reading Festival – NME/Radio 1 Stage
04 September 2009 Southampton, Joiners w/ POLAR BEAR CLUB
05 September 2009 London, The Fighting Cocks – RECORD RELEASE PARTY
Young Guns are currently on tour with None The Less in support and they’ve been documenting their antics in the following tour blogs. Watch out for an interview on the site soon!
Dizzee Rascal found himself in the middle of some German swingers recently.
The rapper, who has had huge success with singles Bonkers and Dance Wiv Me, was shooting a video in Ibiza and had hired some scantily clad girls for the video. However, the villa they were using is said to be infamous for its swingers parties and when the German group saw the TV equipment, they thought they would get in on the act.
Reckon Dizzee said I Luv U to any of them?!
Slaughterhouse have revealed the tracklisting for their upcoming album.
The self titled record will feature the following songs:
1. Sound Off 5:51
2. Lyrical Murderers (feat. K. Young) 4:04
3. Microphone 4:42
4. Not Tonight 3:39
5. The One (feat. The New Royales) 3:37
6. In The Mind Of Madness (skit) 1:23
7. Cuckoo 4:30
8. The Phone Call (skit) 0:58
9. Onslaught 2 (feat. Fatman Scoop) 4:27
10. The Phone Call 2 (skit) 0:56
11. Salute (feat. Pharoahe Monch) 4:31
12. Pray (it’s A Shame) 3:53
13. Cut You Loose 4:43
14. Rain Drops (feat. Novel) 5:00
15. Killaz (feat. Melanie Rutherford & C. Brown) 4:09
Check out the video for The One below:
Arctic Monkeys have announced plans to stream a special online gig.
The web-only show will go out on their official site this Thursday [30th July] and will feature tracks from their upcoming album Humbug.
The album comes out on August 24th and was produced in part by Josh Homme. You can check out the video to their current single Crying Lightning below:
Outcry Collective‘s debut album ‘a r t I c l e s‘ is out next week and they’ve uploaded a video of what they got into in the studio as a sneak preview. Check it out below.
The amazing Manchester Orchestra have teamed up with MySpace to provide a free download of a recent session they did.
Just head on over to www.myspace.com/transmissions to check it out and you can also watch video footage of the session and the band in conversation.
The Silent Years have had a lot of love in the US and now they’ve set their sights on UK shores. Take a look at the intriguing video to ‘Climb On My Back‘ below. The single is out 10th August.
Also, check out their MySpace for a free download of the whole of their first self-titled album! Forthcoming album ‘The Globe‘ will be released in the UK later this year.
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster put their new video live this week.
The Alabama band, who recently released their new album III, were featured as this week’s “Breaking Artist” on Rolling Stone’s website and the exclusive of their video can be seen by clicking here.
Watch out for an interview with the band hitting Crossfire soon!
And if you need more of a fix, check out a track from their album II below!