Jay Reatard has signed to Matador Records.
The Memphis native will release six limited 7″ singles over the course of next year which will then be compiled for a subsequent CD release. Dates for these releases will follow shortly, but until then, head over to MySpace to get your fix.
The Breeders are hitting the UK to tour their new album Mountain Battles.
April
8th – ABC, Glasgow
9th – Metropolitan Uni, Leeds
10th – Trent Uni, Nottingham
12th – Leadmill, Sheffield
13th – Academy 2, Birmingham
14th – Academy 2, Manchester
16th – Koko, London
A preview for Avenged Sevenfold‘s animated film A Little Piece Of Heaven has appeared online:
Marilyn Manson is well known for being a little bit odd.
This year, for example, he’s built a robot girlfriend, is getting ready to tackle the world snake bath record and is due in court for allegedly spending his band members’ royalties on skeletons of Chinese children and men in wheelchairs. However, if the shock rocker’s latest claims are to be believed, Manson’s innate weirdness is perhaps genetic.
Mr Manson claims his mother, Barb Warner, keeps his foreskin (which the singer parted company with in 1969) in a jar and likes to “wave it around” at family gatherings.
“We’re hoping to sell it at Sotheby’s one day,” says Manson.
Rancid have finished their new album.
The band’s new drummer, Branden, posted a MySpace blog confirming that the seventh studio album was completed, the first record from the group since Indestructible in 2003. The album will be recorded in California and will hit the shops in 2008.
Daft Punk have been interviewed by VBS.
The mysterious French producers give a definitive insight to live behind the mask, so click right here to check it out. And watch the video below because it’s great:
A Minor Threat Sauce is now available to spice up your dinner.
Wheelhouse Pickles, who make the sauce, said:
“Like the Loch Ness Monster or gravity, the existence of a gentle-finishing habanero pepper sauce has scientists baffled. Made from a rare, mild breed of habaneros grown specifically for us, Minor Threat draws its inspiration from the legendary West Indies’ mustard- and mango-based habanero sauces, only it mysteriously priviledges the pepper’s fruitiness over its notoriously overwhelming heat.
We may never fully understand Minor Threat’s ability to take sandwiches, grilled meats, corn chips or eggs to the next level without annihilating your esophagous in the process, but don’t let science’s shortcomings get in the way of your slathering habits.”
The only request MacKaye had of the spread was for the packaging not parody the band’s famous “Bottled Violence” image.
36 Crazy Fists have pushed their album release back.
The Tide And Its Takers will now come out at the end of April and is being produced by the band’s guitarist Steve Holt and being mixed in England by Andy Sneap. Because of this, the band are no longer supporting Bullet For My Valentine on their upcoming UK dates.
Darkest Hour will be headed to the UK for the “Kerrang! Most Wanted Tour”.
You can check the band out, along with Glamour Of The Kill and Malefice on the following dates in January:
18th – Aberdeen – Moshulu
19th – Glasgow – Barfly
20th – York – Barfly
21st – Birmingham – Barfly
23rd – Cambridge – Barfly
24th – Brighton – Barfly
25th – London – Barfly
The Hold Steady are ready to release a new album next year.
The band, who released Boys And Girls In America in 2006, have been rehearsing and finishing pre-production with John Agnello. An announcement on their website said:
“Since the band’s beginning, this is the longest we’ve gone without being in the studio. I’ve never looked forward to being placed in a giant aquarium with headphones like I have been lately…We’ll be recording for most of January and February and I’ll post updates and photos for those interested. No release date yet but you all will be the first to know.”