Dillinger Escape Plan have posted a new song on myspace.
Fix Your Face is taken from their forthcoming album Ire Works which will hit the shops on November 13th on Relapse Records. The band recently cancelled a tour with Meshuggah but plan to headline a replacement tour soon.
Jesu have posted a new song from their rarities album Pale Sketches.
The 8 song record features unreleased material from 2000 to 2007, which were omitted from the band’s previous releases.
Only 2,000 copies of the album are available through frontman Justin Broadrick’s Avalanche label and you can hear The Playgrounds Are Empty on their myspace page.
Kanye and 50 Cent are to perform on the same show.
The rappers, who are racing to get a higher spot in the charts when they release their new albums on the same day, will perform on BET’s 106 & Park show. The channel are even employing a famous sports announcer to deliver reports and stats on the rappers.
Abjekt predicts turning the TV off will ensure you ears win by knockout.
Mark Ronson has blogged that he isn’t angry with Amy Winehouse.
Reports had surfaced that the super-producer was angry with the singer for not turning up to the video shoot for upcoming single Valerie. However, Ronson shot this down by claiming he knew she’d booked a holiday and the plan was always to shoot the video. He finished by saying:
“There wasn’t one thing on the entire page that was true, except for the part about my sordid romp in the bathroom of a soho nightclub with a tranny, midget hooker named Perry.”
Sanctuary Records has closed down.
The label which previously housed the likes of The Charlatans, Morrissey and Spiritualized was bought by Universal Music last month and had lost over £56 million in the last financial year.
It is expected that artists still signed to the defunct label will continue on one of Universal’s labels.
A musical based on Morrissey songs is being planned.
Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant, who star in Reno 911 and wrote Night At The Museum has outlined plans to bring the former Smiths’ man to Broadway saying:
“I have an outline in my head, like ‘Mamma Mia’- type musical but with them music of Morrissey called ‘I’ve Changed My Plea To Guilty’. It’s for a very diehard set of fans.”
Barrell of laughs…
Does It Offend You Yeah? have announced a number of tour dates. And here they are in all their glory:
September
13th – Brighton Audio
14th – London Egg
15th – Bedford Hungry Bears
17th – Glasgow King Tuts
18th – Manchester Academy
19th – Leeds Champion
20th – Sheffield The Small Plug
22nd – Birmingham Academy
23rd – Oxford Academy
24th – Northampton Soundhauz
25th – Stoke The Underground
26th – Mansfield The Mill
27th – Wrexham Central Station
29th – Nottingham [2 shows]
30th – Southampton The Joiners
October
1st – Exeter The Cavern
3rd – Hertford Marquee
4th – October The Fez
8th – London Barfly
From Autumn To Ashes have announced the return of a former member.
Mike Pilato, who filled the bass slot from 2000 to 2004 and was part of Too Bad You’re Beautiful and The Fiction We Live has returned to the band. FATA are about to go on tour with Strike Anywhere and Silverstein to support Hold A Wold By The Ears.
Agnostic Front are releasing a new 7″ called For My Family on September 25th.
The release will feature two songs from their new album Warriors – For My Family and Dead To Me with the track Break The Chains being recorded exclusively for the release.
Led Zeppelin have confirmed they will reunite this year.
Robert Plant confirmed the rumours by saying he was going to meet Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones. It is thought that the reunion will only be a one off gig which will possibly take place at London’s O2 at the end of this year.