Category: Music News

The Underage Festival will tearing up Victoria Park on the 8th August, here’s the confirmed line up.

THE CONVERSE CENTURY STAGE
BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB
CARE BEARS ON FIRE
DIZZEE RASCAL
GALLOWS
MYSTERY JETS
THE MACCABEES
TIM BURGESS (DJ SET)
PLUS – BBC INTRODUCING BAND

NME STAGE
FOALS
FRYARS
GLASVEGAS
POLLY SCATTERGOOD
POPPY AND THE JEZEBELS
S.C.U.M
THOSE DANCING DAYS
XX TEENS

TOPMAN NEW MUSIC STAGE
CHEEKY CHEEKY & THE NOSEBLEEDS
FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE
IPSO FACTO
NICK HARRISON
PULL IN EMERGENCY
TEAM WATERPOLO
THE RASCALS
THE RIFLES

DOMINO 15TH ANNIVERSARY STAGE
BONDE DO ROLE
COUNT & SINDEN
DOMINO DJS
EUGENE MCGUINNESS
FOUR TET
SONS AND DAUGHTERS
WHITE WILLIAMS
WILD BEASTS

THE REDBULL BEDROOM JAM STAGE
FURTHEST DRIVE HOME
GLAMOUR FOR BETTER
KASMS
MAGISTRATES
NONE THE LESS
OX EAGLE LION MAN
SLEEPERCURVE
THE DYKEENIES

THE MUSIC SPACE STAGE
ALEX STARLING
DIRECTIVE
FIFTH ELEMENT
FLIPRON
GOLDIELOCKS
LO-FI CULTURE SCENE
RISE OF THE SCORNED
TEMPORARILY BLANK
TOY TOY
THE PURPLE SOCKS
UNDERGROUND HEROES
WHY WHISKEY WHY

HABBO DJ TENT
DJ SETS FROM –
FARIS ROTTER
FREDERICK BLOOD-ROYALE (OX.EAGLE.LION.MAN)
GOOD SHOES
KID HARPOON
MYSTERY JETS
YOUNG TURKS

Hot hot indie band from Tennessee, Be Your Own Pet, will be touring the UK during the hot hot summer this August. The group will be hitting up Reading/Leeds Festival first and then off to play two headline shows straight after.

Check out the dates below and go get some tickets!

Friday 22nd August – Reading Festival (NME/Radio 1 Stage)
Saturday 23rd August – Leeds Festival (NME/Radio 1 Stage)
Monday 25th August – Liverpool Carling Academy
Tuesday 26th August – London Dingwalls

www.beyourownpet.net

Jack’s Mannequin has set 30th September as the release date for their sophomore effort The Glass Passenger. The album, co-produced by lead vocalist Andrew McMahon and Jim Wirt (Incubus, Hoobastank), is the follow-up to the band’s 2005 debut Everything in Transit.

The band recently embarked on a tour with Paramore.

www.jacksmannequin.com

The SonnyJim mixtape will be released in September.

Released on Dented Records: the highly anticipated CD, “Trading Standards“, will feature all never-before heard material from the likes of Jehst and some of those Foreign Beggars. Recipe for groggy excellence that.

For a taste of what’s in store, have a sip from these heavenly juices below. Jehst never disappoints.

SonnyJim ft. Jehst and Cappo – The God Complex (Produced by Beat Butcha)

http://www.zshare.net/audio/16197357f731f4d6/

SonnyJim ft. Verb T and Metropolis (Foreign Beggars) – Dynamite

http://www.zshare.net/audio/16198430c972c333/

Abjekt Approved Minneapolis hip hop crew Doomtree released their debut crew album yesterday [July 29th].

The self-titled record features 21 tracks with all 9 members of the crew – Dessa, P.O.S., Cecil Otter, Sims, Mike Mictlan, Paper Tiger, Lazerbeak, MK Larada and Turbo Nemesis – featured on the album with guest appearances from I Self Devine and Crescent Moon. The video below is for Drumsticks taken from the album.

Pick up your copy immediately from www.doomtree.net/store.

Dead Meadow are heading back on the road in September, stopping off at
the following destinations:

September
12th – End Of The Road Festival, Dorset
13th – Civic Hall Bar, Wolverhampton
14th – Roadhouse, Manchester
15th – The Faversham, Leeds
16th – Speakeasy, Belfast
17th – Whelans, Dublin
18th – Roisin Dubh, Galway
20th – 229, London

www.deadmeadow.com

Dubsteppin’ badbwoy Skream will be releasing Head Banger/Percression on Tectonic on 11th August.

The track got a savage playback recently in Appleblim’s highly acclaimed ‘Dubstep Allstars‘ mix on Tempa.

Brace yourselves for the inevitable bass throb fest that will no doubt be hitting your local club soon!

www.myspace.com/skreamuk

Andrew W.K. is to give a free form lecture in London.

The singer that likes to party hard will be speaking at Madam Jo Jo’s in London on September 19th and the night is described thus:

“An unconventional lecturer, Andrew imparts his philosophy of partying hard and living without regret in a thoughtful and interactive public talk.What will he talk about? No one knows for sure, not even Andrew! But one thing is certain: the experience will be thrilling and new for those already familiar with A.W.K., and those encountering him for the first time.”

Don’t miss out.

www.andrewwk.com

Evan Dando is another artist hitting the UK trail in August.

His dates are:

1st – Norwich, Norwich Arts Centre
2nd – Colchester, Colchester Arts Centre
4th – Swansea, Sin City
6th – York, Duchess
7th – Wrexham, Central Station

www.thelemonheads.net

Fucked Up are hitting the UK in August.

The tour comes ahead of their new album, The Chemistry Of Common Life, which will released on October 13th. The tour dates are:

August:

18th – Esquires, Bedford
19tht – ULU, London (w. Mindless Self Indulgence)
20th – Limelight, Belfast
21st – Whelans, Dublin
23rd – Reading Festival (Lock Up stage)
24th – Leeds Festival (Lock Up stage)
25th – 1 In 12 Club, Bradford

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