Category: Music News

Lightspeed Champion have announced a massive tour for the New Year around the release of their debut album, ‘Falling Off The Lavender Bridge‘.

Dev Hynes, a former member of influential group Test Icicles, will kick off the 17-date tour in Cambridge, before ending the jaunt three weeks later in Canterbury.

The singer will also play a smaller number of club dates while on the road.

Lightspeed Champion releases new single ‘Tell Me What It’s Worth‘ on January 7, followed by his debut album on January 21.

The headline tour is as follows:

Cambridge Graduate (February 1)
Bedford Esquires (2)
Oxford Academy 2 (3)
Exeter Cavern (5)
Bristol Fleece (6)
Cardiff Barfly (7)
Southampton Joiners (8)
Nottingham Rescue Rooms (10)
Birmingham Bar Academy (11)
Newcastle Cluny (12)
Aberdeen Tunnels (13)
Glasgow King Tuts (15)
Hull Adelphi (16)
Manchester Roadhouse (17)
Leeds Faversham (18)
London Dingwalls (20)
Canterbury Studia 41 (21)

Lightspeed Champion will also play the following club dates:

London Underworld – Subverse All Ages Club (December 2)
Sheffield Plug – Club NME (6)
Liverpool – Liverpool Music Week – venue TBC (7)
London SE One Club (8)
Bournemouth Consortium (January 26)

www.lightspeedchampion.com

New signings to 1965, Holy Ghost Revival are hitting the road on the following dates:

November:

25th – Clash @ Lock Tavern
26th – London, The Black Gardenia, Dean ST
28th – Exeter Cavern
29th – Liverpool – Bar Academy
30th – York Fibbers

December:

1st – Skegness Butlins
2nd – Dundee – The Doghouse
3rd – Birmingham – Bar Academy
4th – Manchester Roadhouse
6th – Bolton The Dog and Partridge
7th – Tunbridge Wells – Forum
8th – 65 All dayer @ ULU
9th – Southampton, The Joiners

www.myspace.com/holyghostrevival

The Mars Volta have rolled out the following European/UK shows:

March:

11th – Glasgow, Academy
13th – Manchester, Apollo
14th – London, Brixton Academy

www.themarsvolta.com

Snoop has set a release date for his new album.

Ego Trippin’ will be out in March next year with the first single set to be Sensual Seduction which Snoop co-produced himself. The rapper said the single will be a “throwback feelgood song” with a video that is reported to see Snoop in a 1980s setting. And booty, obviously.

www.snoopdogg.com

Hawthorne Heights guitarist Casey Calvert has died aged 26.

The band put out the following statement:

“Today is probably the worst day ever. Its with our deepest regrets that we have to write this. Casey Calvert passed away in his sleep last night. We found out this afternoon before sound-check. We’ve spent the entire day trying to come to grips with this and figure out as much as possible. At this time we’re not sure what exactly happened. Just last night he was joking around with everyone before he went to bed.

We can say with absolute certainty that he was not doing anything illegal. Please, out of respect to Casey and his family, don’t contribute or succumb to any gossip you may hear. We don’t want his memory to be tainted in the least. Casey was our best friend. He was quirky and awesome and there will truly be no others like him! His loss is unexplainable. As soon as we know more we will let you know.”

R.I.P.

www.myspace.com/hawthorneheights

Hundred Reasons are set to tour early next year.The rockers will play a series of dates around the UK, kicking off in January.

Hundred Reasons will play:

January:

11th – Exeter Lemon Grove
12th – Cardiff The Point
13th – Plymouth Hub
14th – Southampton University
15th – Brighton Concorde II
17th – Wolverhampton Wulfren Hall
18th – Manchester M.D.H.
19th – Glasgow Q.M.U.
20th – Leeds Cockpit
21st – Newcastle Academy II
23rd – London Astoria
24th – Norwich Waterfront

www.hundredreasons.com

When not being a suave, debonair motherfucker on the Crossfire site, Moose is busy shaking his tail feather by filming Hadouken‘s “Making Of…” videos. Check this slice of video heaven with Moose’s handiwork on Leap Of Faith:

www.hadouken.co.uk

Former Marilyn Manson Keyboard player, Stephen Bier is still in an on-going legal batter with Manson after accusing him of “squandering his royalties”

Bier has claimed that Manson “devised a campaign to drive him out of the band and rob him of his entitlement.”

Manson has supposedly spent the money on african masks made of human skin, the full skeleton of a 4 year old chinese girl (which he has apparently made into a chandelier) and another skeleton of a man in a wheelchair.

Bier also claims Manson has purchased swastika wall tiles and matching rugs, a mounted grizzly bear and two mounted baboons aswell as alleging that Manson arranged for his girlfriend to star in the video for Heart Shaped Glasses for the “highest salary ever paid to any actress in music video history”

Manson hit back with the following:

“The fact that he’s claiming that I have treated him unfairly, financially, is really ridiculous. Also, I would never spend my money on a chinese girl skeleton. That would be crossing the line. It’s a chinese boy for the record.”

www.marilynmanson.com

Due to popular demand Mos Def has added another London date to his itinerary.

The rapper will be hitting the Islington Academy on Sunday November 25th and is set to feature some special guests and a brass band. If you want to grab the chance to see him, then snap your tickets up quickly or you’ll be disappointed when they sell out!

www.mosdefmusic.com

Eels have just announced they’ll be returning to the UK early next year.

February:

25th – London, Royal Festival Hall
26th – Birmingham, Town Hall
27th – Manchester, Bridgewater Hall
28th – Glasgow, Royal Concert Hall

March:

1st – Gateshead, Sage
2nd – Brighton, Dome

www.eelstheband.com