Bullet For My Valentine have announced some UK dates.
You can check them out at the following venues:
January
31st – Newport Centre
February
1st – Wolverhampton Civic Hall
3rd – Glasgow Academy
4th – Manchester Academy
7th – Brixton Academy
!!! have lost a member.
Vocalist and percussionist John Pugh has left the band, after having been absent from the group’s summer performances. He recently told Alternative Press magazine that he has left !!! to spend more time with his band Free Blood. Free Blood released their new single Quick & Painful this week.
Pugh has been absent from the group during their summer appearances.
Thursday have posted a new track online.
The track Ladies And Gentleman: My Brother, The Failure is taken from their upcoming album Kill The House Lights – Live And Unreleased and can be see on their myspace page which you can visit by clicking below.
Devendra Banhart is to play two UK shows next month.
The singer will play the gigs in support of his recently released album Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon. You can check him out on these dates:
November 5th – Brighton St George’s Church
November 6th – London Forum
A new superground called The Innocent have formed.
Comprising drummer Brooks Wackerman from Bad Religion, Bleeding Through’s Brandon Schieppatti, Dave Nassie from No Use For A Name and Love Equals Death’s Ryan Sinn, the band have brought out a statement saying they are:
“united by their shared love of the power of heavy metal, under the banner of The Innocent and are preparing to lay waste to any preconceived notions about the unlikely combination of heroes from the divergent Ozzfest, Warped Tour and rock n’ roll worlds.
You can check out some demos here.
Nas has courted controversy once more.
His last album’s title Hip Hop Is Dead made sure he was in the press for a long time but he’s gone one step further claiming on the final stop of the Sneaker Pimps Tour that his new album would be called Nigga. This hasn’t been confirmed by his label, but it is sure to get him even more inches in the press.
The tracklisting for the new Jay-Z album has surfaced.
The album, which is a “concept album” called American Gangster will feature Beanie Sigel and, unfortunately, Lil Wayne. Maybe Jay just put them on his album to make himself look even better? Who knows, but luckily the last guest star saves his bacon as he will team up with Nas on the track Success.
1. Intro
2. Pray
3. American Dreamin
4. Hello Brooklyn 2.0 f. Lil Wayne
5. No Hook
6. Roc Boys (And The Winner Is…)
7. Sweet
8. I Know
9. Party Life
10. Ignorant Shit f. Beanie Sigel
11. Say Hello
12. Success f. Nas
13. Fallin
14. Blue Magic (Bonus Track)
15. American Gangster (Bonus Track)
A bipoic about Blondie is set to start filming.
The Michael Gondry directed film will see Kirsten Dunst take on the role of Deborah Harry and though some internet sites have criticised the choice, Harry has supported the casting saying:
“She’s probably capable of a lot of things she hasn’t been asked to do yet, and doing something that’s sort of left of center would be great for her.”
Rivers Cuomo is preparing a new compilation of demos.
Alone – The Home Recordings Of Rivers Cuomo is due out in December and will feature demos spanning the years 1992-2007. On rumours that he is writing a book of memoirs, he said that he is currently writing and researching, leading to thoughts that it won’t be his memoirs, as he wouldn’t need to research them. Finally, he mentioned Weezer’s sixth album saying:
“Not to mention the Weezer developments, which are also extremely great.”
Newton Faulkner and his dreadlocked talent have come up with a video for new track ‘All I Got‘ out on October 22nd and taken from his debut album Handbuilt By Robots.
Click below for the media player of the video.