Category: Music News

Joe Strummer, Joey Ramone, Sid Vicious and Kurt Cobain are all to be in a new advert for Dr Martens.

The late musicians will appear as angels wearing the DM boots and their images have been cleared for use by Corbis who supplied the original photographs. They were then enhanced and retouched for the ad campaign.

Of the campaign, the company said:

“We wanted to communicate that Dr Martens boots are ‘made to last’ and we discovered that these idolised musicians wore them. Showing them still wearing their Docs in heaven dramatised the boots’ durability perfectly. And, as images, they feel very iconic.”

www.drmartens.com

Queens Of The Stone Age have got four exclusive tracks from their upcoming album up on a microsite.

The tracks, taken from Era Vulgaris which is due out on June 11th, are on www.eravulgaris.co.uk and all you need to do is crack a simple code to get a hold of them. You’ll also be able to download a QOTSA desktop.

www.qotsa.com

Portishead have been confirmed as the latest band to curate All Tomorrow’s Parties when they will be playing their first full set with new material in almost 10 years.

The Nightmare Before Christmas event will take place on December 7th-9th at Butlins in Minehead. Tickets are on sale now with the first bands confirmed for the event being announced very soon.

The tickets cost £130 for room only accomodation and £150 for self catering accomodation, both coming with free electricity.

www.atpfestival.com

The Street Dogs are back for some live dates which promise to get you partying, drinking and dancing to some good old Irish-American punk.

The dates are:

May:

25th – Newcastle Academy 2
26th – Birmingham Academy
27th – Bristol Academy 2
28th – London Academy
29th – Sheffield Corporation
30th – Leeds Josephs Well
31st – Glasgow King Tuts

You can check out the bands latest e-card here:

www.drt-entertainment.com/streetdogs

MIA has had to cancel her appearance at the Sasquatch festival in the States this weekend.

The singer, whose real name is Mathangi Arulpragasam, had problems last year with her visa when she was refused entry to the US when she was going over to record material with Timbaland.

The visa problems have cropped up again and now she’s having to miss out on sharing the stage with Interpol, Bjork, Arcade Fire and the Beastie Boys.

www.miauk.com

Interpol have posted their new single online, their first on a major label.

The album, Our Love To Admire, is due out on July 10th and follows up Antics, which was released in 2004. To check out the track, The Heinrich Maneuver, click here and enjoy.

www.interpolnyc.com

Big D And The Kids Table are back in the UK for the first time in 3 years to support their new album Strictly Rude as well as Big D’s split with China’s Brain Failure.

The band will hit the Warped Tour in the States once this set of UK dates has been completed before coming back here to play on the festival circuit. The remaining dates of the tour are:

May:

23rd – Derby, The Vic Inn
24th – Southampton, The Joiners
25th – London, The Underworld
26th – Kingston-upon-Thames, The Peel

www.bigdandthekidstable.com

The Smashing Pumpkins played their highly anticipated live return last night [May 22nd] at the Paris Grand Rex.

It was the first time the band have played live since their “farewell” show in Chicago in December 2000. They played new material United States, Starz, Doomsday Clock, That’s The Way (My Love Is), Neverlost and the upcoming single Tarantula.

Older favourites such as Bullet With Butterfly Wings, Today, Disarm and 1979 were also played.

The show saw three new members unveiled, though they were not named by Billy Corgan. They were a female bass player and keyboard player and a male guitarist. The new album, Zeitgeist, is due for release on July 7th and will no doubt be showcased at the Reading and Leeds festivals.

www.smashingpumpkins.com

Chali 2na will be releasing a solo album following the split of Jurassic 5.

When the group split earlier this year, Soup of the group said “Some people here want their own shrine, their own thing. If that’s what you want, I say more power to you. I hope it works out for you – just don’t come up with lame excuses” and it now seems as though he could have aimed that at Chali 2na.

The album, Fish Outta Water, has been started with Commin Thru up on his myspace already. In related news, Cut Chemist has also been working a new album.

www.myspace.com/mrchali2na

Method Man was arrested on Thursday in New York after police found 30 grams of marijuana in his vehicle.

The Wu Tang rapper was originally pulled over because his license plates had expired but it is reported that the smell of marijuana was apparently immediately as he rolled down his window with a bag of it visible.

He admitted he had more bags under his seat and was then charged with unlawful possession of marijuana, criminal possession of marijuana, operating a motor vehicle under the influence and driving an uninspected motor vehicle. He was released on Friday pending a court hearing.

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