Every Time I Die have put a new song on their myspace site.
Imitation Is The Sincerest Form Of Battery is taken from their upcoming album called The Big Dirty which is scheduled for a September release through Ferret Records.
Click here to check out the new track.
Noise merchants The Locust have posted up a new video.
The video is for the track AOTKPTA and comes from their recently released album New Erections. And that’s basically that. Click here to view the video.
Fantastic acoustic singer-songwriter Newton Faulkner is touring the UK in July, and if you’ve never heard of him, he is definitely worth checking out. Amazing voice, ridiculous guitar skills and with every performance being mesmerizing, you’d be an idiot to miss these dates:
8th July Newcastle Academy
10th July Sheffield The Boardwalk
16th July Norwich Arts Centre
20th July Cardiff Club Ifw Bach
24th July London Union Chapel
26th July Glasgow
27th July Leicester Y Theatre
I know he looks a bit like Mick Hucknall but don’t let that put you off. Newton is actually good.
For loads of info, go to www.newtonfaulkner.com
The brilliantly named Guff will be blowing off… er… in, with their new album.
The band have released Symphony Of Voices today and will be supporting the release with a two week stint on the Warped Tour with plans to come to Europe later this year.
If you can’t get to see them at Warped, you can check out the stream of five tracks from the album at the link below.
Band Of Horses have just finished the final touches of their new album.
The album, which will follow up last year’s Everything All The Time, has yet to be titled but is being planned as an October release. Frontman Ben Bridwell said that the new album has some country leanings and though most of the tracks haven’t been named either, the few that have are called Ode To The LRC, No One’s Gonna Love You and Window Blues.
The band’s line up has changed with Bridwell the only remaining member, though Robin Peringer of Modest Mouse will play on their upcoming summer tour dates.
Matt Wong has left Reel Big Fish to spend time with his family.
The band posted the news on their myspace saying that after 16 years, Wong wanted to concentrate on being a father and settle down with his family.
They went on to say Wong was never fond of the touring lifestyle and as “soon as the baby came, he said, “I knew I could never leave again”.
The band have brought in their friend Derek Gibbs to take over on bass and will be release their new album Monkeys For Nothin’ And Chimps For Free in July.
Good Shoes have a free download of their single Sophia on i-Tunes.
After their performance at Glastonbury and a secret gig at The Guardian Lounge, the band have seen their new single made Single Of The Week on i-Tunes and can be downloaded for nothing here.
The album, Think Before You Speak, is available to download for a limited time for only the low price of £4.74, so get in there fast!
www.goodshoes.co.uk
Well it’s true that most real heavy metal fans have pretty bad hearing from standing next to huge stacks of speakers for years on end, but you couldn’t class that as a disability. And most metal fans will usually have quite dodgy necks from thrashing out most of their lives. Well that’s nothing.
Life-long heavy metaller Roger Tullgren, 42, from Hässleholm in southern Sweden has had his musical preferences classed as a disability, allowing him to claim benefits to supplement his pay as a dishwasher. His boss has also allowed him to listen to metal at work as well.
Tullgren’s disability has meant he has skipped work countless times to go to gigs and has found it hard to keep a job. His newly classed disability means he has to be given special dispensation and allowed to listen to Sabbath constantly. Amazing! I can’t wait to pick up my repeat prescription for Bathory’s back catalogue.
http://www.thelocal.se/7650/20070619/
UNKLE will be playing the first ever live show in London next week.
The duo, James Lavelle and Richard File, will be taking their music to the Islington Academy on July 5th, with tickets going fast before they go on tour around the world. You can get tickets from all the usual ticket websites, but hurry!
Skint Records have released a 10-track digital compilation for free.
Let The Beats Roll features a selection of tracks from the label’s summer releases, giving fans a taste of what is to come over the new few months. The tracks come from the likes of Fatboy Slim, Goose, Lo-Fi All-Stars, Stanton Warriors and Alloy Mental among others. Once signed up for the compilation, fans will also be able to enter a competition to win a night at the Hotel Pelirocco in Brighton.
