Category: Music News

A Badge Of Friendship have announced their new club night date.

April 4th will see them team up again with Southern Records DJs as well as bringing Rip This Joing DJs, Rock A Rolla DJs and Vice Magazine’s Goodbye! Mother. The tickets are £6 in advance, £7 on the door and £5 after 10.30pm. Bands are on at 8pm and once the music is done, its DJs until 2am. Here are the details:

April 4th 2008 @ The Fly 36-38 New Oxford Street London WC1

Doors at 7.30pm until 2am

Playing live, will be:
Instruments
Nitkowski
Fighting Kites (featuring Southern Records’ very own Neil!)

www.southern.net / www.myspace.com/abadgeoffriendship

Against Me have released the video for their new single Stop, which is released on April 14th.

Windows High
Windows Low
Quicktime High
Quicktime Low
Real High
Real Low

www.againstme.net

Black Lips have announced a UK tour for May.

The band will be hitting the road to support their new double A-Side single Bad Kids/Leroy Faster on May 12th. The tour dates are:

1st – The Point, Cardiff
2nd – Club NME, Swansea
3rd – Crawdaddy, Dublin
4th – Barrowlands 2, Glasgow
6th – The Plug, Sheffield
7th – The Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
8th – Club NME, Birmingham
11th – The Junction, Cambridge
12th – The Zodiac, Oxford
13th – Thekla, Bristol
14th – 100 Club, London
15th – King’s College, London
16th – Great Escape, Brighton

www.myspace.com/theblacklips

Fightstar have announced a new UK tour for this May.

The band, who recently released Floods, are also confirmed for the Second Stage at Download this year. The tour dates are:

May

19th – Derby University SUB
20th – Mansfield Intake Club
22nd – Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
23rd – Liverpool Academy 2
24th – Glasgow Garage
25th – Leeds Slam Dunk Festival, Leeds University
27th – Stoke Sugarmill
28th – Manchester Academy 3
29th – London Islington Academy
30th – Birmingham Academy 2

www.fightstarmusic.com

The Black Keys have a new video from their Dangermouse produced album Attack & Release.

Check this video out, for the track Strange Times:

www.theblackkeys.com

Minneapolis duo Atmosphere have revealed the video for their upcoming single Shoulda Known.

The single is out on April 14th and is taken from the forthcoming album When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold which is out on April 21st. The album is incredible and this video is just a small taste of what’s to come, pimp it:

www.myspace.com/atmosphere

Sigur Ros guitarist/singer Jon Thor Birgisson will be displaying his artwork at a London Gallery.

Birgisson has teamed up with artist Alex Somers to form Riceboy Sleeps and their work, made from drawing on old books, photographing them and placing the results into worn picture frames, will be displayed at the Agency Gallery in London from April 10th to May 17th.

Check out the link below to find out more.

www.theagencygallery.co.uk

Minneapolis based band The Plastic Constellations have announced they are going on “indefinite hiatus”.

The band, which includes Doomtree’s Lazerbeak, have been together since the age of 14 and will release their new album We Appreciate You on Frenchkiss Records on April 15th.

The band have two tracks from the album on their MySpace, Stay That Way and Black Market Pandas, both of which should be enough to make you sad they’re splitting.

www.myspace.com/theplasticconstellations.

Hadouken have announced an intimate show.

The day-glo band will perform an underage show [fourteen and over] at the Barfly in London. The band have promised to “shake Camden Town to its very foundations” on April 4th and will be preview material from their much hyped debut album for everyone at the gig.

Whilst we’re on a Hadouken tip, peep this making of from their Leap Of Faith video. If you haven’t already seen it, you should do so now. Why? Because our very own Moose shot it. Winner!

www.hadouken.co.uk

CSS have remixed a track for the B52’s.

The Brazilian nutjobs have put their own unique spin on the track Funplex, taken from the Funplex Remix EP. Peaches has also remixed the band’s new single and it can be bought from iTunes.

The original track comes from the band’s Funplex album, their first release in 16 years.

http://www.myspace.com/canseidesersexy