Category: Music News

Newcastle indie-rockers Kubichek will shortly begin a UK tour, to coincide with the release of new single Method Acting on the 3rd September (taken from their acclaimed debut album Not Enough Night). The dates are as follows:

August:

24th – Leeds Festival (Carling Tent)
26th – Reading Festival (Carling Tent)
27th – Bristol Louisiana
28th – Nottingham Social
29th – Southampton Joiners
30th – London Proud Galleries

September:

1st – Durham Studio – Betamax
2nd – Newcastle Academy 2
3rd – Sheffield Leadmill
4th – Manchester Night & Day
5th – Glasgow King Tut’s
7th – Stockton Shine Like Stars

Check www.kubichek.co.uk for more info.

Calvin Harris has thrown two fingers up at the Daily Telegraph in showing everyone just how we should be partying. If you don’t throw a house party on August 18th like he wants you to, the Crossfire crew will come to your house, point at your face and call you names. You big pussy.

Don’t forget to pick up his single Merrymaking At My House on August 20th.

Take it away Calvin:

www.calvinharris.tv

A new hip hop team are bringing out a record this year.

Y Society comprises Damu The Fudgemunk from Panacea on beatmaking and DJ’ing duty with Insight on the vocals. Their upcoming album, Travel At Your Own Pace will be released on Tres Records, home of People Under The Stairs, Giant Panda and Lightheaded.

Whilst on the subject of new signings to Tres, DJ Alibi will also be bringing out an album, One Day, which features guest spots from Giant Panda and Insight. Check the link below for clips of their stuff.

Fresh.

www.myspace.com/ysociety / www.myspace.com/djalibirecordings

The Eastpak Antidote Tour is back for 2007 with a line up of pure straight shooting metal.

Soilwork, Chimaira, Caliban and Sonic Syndicate will take to the road which will see them head all across Europe, making stops in the UK. The dates are:

September:

30th – Brighton – Concorde 2

October

1st – Wolverhampton – Wulfrun Hall
2nd – Leeds – Cockpit
3rd – London – Islington Academy
4th – Nottingham – Rock City
5th – Newcastle – Academy
6th – Glasgow – Garage
7th – Norwich – Waterfront

www.antidotetour.com

Mark Ronson has come under-fire from Portishead’s Geoff Barrow.

The producer dissed Ronson in his MySpace blog, saying that Mr Ronson turned “decent songs into shit funky supermarket muzak”.

He also went on to have a dig at Ronson remixing Dylan but finally finished on a positive note saying that Portishead plan to mix their new album in the next week.

Yowzer.

www.myspace.com/portisheadalbum3

Household Name Records will have a number of bands playing festivals in the coming month, check it out:

Rebellion Festival – Blackpool

Saturday 11th

EMPRESS BALLROOM
LEFTOVER CRACK (10.40pm)
THE FILAMENTS (3.50pm)
THE KING BLUES (2.50pm)

THE PAVILLION
HARD-ONS (11.10pm)
HOWARDS ALIAS (9.20pm)

THE ARENA
HARD SKIN (9.55pm)

Sunday 12th

EMPRESS BALLROOM
SUICIDE BID (2.40pm)

THE PAVILLION
THE PEACOCKS (10pm)

Out Of Spite – Josephs Well, Leeds

Saturday 11th

MILLOY

Sunday 12th

HARD SKIN

City Invasion – Plug, Sheffield & Astoria, London

LEFTOVER CRACK
CONFLICT
THE FILAMENTS
THE BUSINESS
SONIC BOOM SIX
THE PEACOCKS
SUICIDE BID (london only)
SS KALIERT
RANDOM HAND
DRAGSTER

Reading & Leeds Festival

LOCK UP STAGE

CAPDOWN
BIG D AND THE KIDS TABLE
THE KING BLUES.

Wowzer, get your teeth round that lot!

www.householdnamerecords.co.uk

A new DVD of Iggy Pop and The Stooges is to be released next month.

Escaped Maniacs – Live At Lokerse will come out on September 17th and features the band’s performance from the Lokerse festival in Belgium from earlier this year. The double DVD will also include a CD and will feature interviews and retrospectives.

www.iggypop.com

After we broke the news that they were almost ready to sign for a new label, Thrice have now signed to Vagrant.

The band have announced they will release their 4 EPs as 2 separate releases this year and next. This means that The Alchemy Index: Volumes 1 & 2: Fire and Water will hit shops this October with The Alchemy Index: Volumes 3 & 4: Earth and Air will follow in 2008.

www.myspace.com/thrice

Against Me! have just released their new video, taken from their major label debut album New Wave.

www.againstme.net

St Albans disco metallers Enter Shikari have been nominated for a massive 4 Kerrang Awards this year for Best British Band, Best Live Band, Best Album and Best Single – Sorry You’re Not A Winner.

Gallows and The Ghost Of A Thousand are just 2 of 5 nominations for Best New Band, Madina Lake and 30 Seconds To Mars are amongst Job For A Cowboy, The Sleeping and HelloGoodbye for Best International newcomer and the award for the Best Live band include Angels And Airwaves, Muse, Enter Shikari, Aiden and the cheesy Lostprophets.

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