Sharon Osbourne has criticised Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme.
Homme recently commented in a magazine that he his decision to never take part in Ozzfest again because “they treat the bands like shit”.
Osbourne responded by saying that she hopes “he gets syphilis and dies. I hope his dick fuckin’ falls off so his mother can eat it.”.
Nice.
Conor Oberst’s Bright Eyes have announced they will play some UK headline shows.
The band, who have recently released Cassadaga, will be playing festival dates but have decided that some shows in London and Birmingham before them would be good. As such, they will be playing the following dates:
July:
3rd & 4th – London Shepherd’s Bush Empire
6th – Birmingham Academy
7th – T In The Park Festival
8th – Oxegen Festival
21st – Eden Sessions
Former Clash member Mick Jones and Generation X’s Tony James have teamed up to form Carbon Silicon.
The band will release a four song EP called The News on May 28th. The release has been made more newsworthy since the duo have frequently come out in support of file sharing and before this release have distributed music entirely over the internet.
The tracklisting will be:
1. The News
2. I Loved You
3. Why Do Men Fight?
4. Ignore Alien Orders
Jim Lindberg of Pennywise is set to release his memoir on parenting, entitled Punk Rock Dad.
The book was originally announced in 2005 and follows the singer as he raises his three daughters. The book will be published by Harper Collins on May 1st and carries the following summary:
” While other dads dye their hair to cover the gray, Jim occasionally dyes his blue or green. He makes his daughters’ lunches, kisses their boo-boos, and tucks them in at night–and then goes into the garage and plays Black Flag and Minor Threat songs at criminal volume.
He pays his taxes, votes in all the presidential and gubernatorial elections, serves on jury duty, and reserves the right to believe that there is a vast Right Wing Conspiracy–and that the head of the P.T.A is possibly in on it.”
From Autumn To Ashes recently launched a tirade against their former frontman in an interview for Altitude TV.
Ben Perri left the band last year suddently, having promised to appear for recording sessions but left the band waiting on him without giving them an explanation.
His former bandmates had been giving both angry and calm responses to the incident, but this most recent interview, with guitarist Brian Deneeve is far from calm. He said:
“I wanted to kill him straight up til the day I die…if I ever run into him I’ll end him one way or another.”
Comeback Kid have launched the video from their new album.
The video is for the title track, Broadcasting… which was released not too long ago. The band will be playing with Rise Against on a tour to showcase their new material live. To check out the video, click here
Fink has announced a show at The Luminaire for May 10th.
He has also finished work on his new album, the follow up to last year’s Biscuits For Breakfast and will be showcasing his new material such as Under The Same Stars and This Is The Thing alongside his older classics like Pretty Little Thing and You Gotta Choose.
The tickets are due to be snapped up very quickly so make sure you get in there before they’re all gone.
New York hardcore group Madball have signed a European deal with I Scream Records.
The owner of the label, Laurens Kusters, said of the deal that they’d worked closely with the band on the recent Resistance Tour DVD volume 2 and the Worldwide Tribute To The Real Oi compilation, and to work on their new album, which is due out in September this year, is the “icing on the cake in this 13th years of business for the label.”
Murder By Death will be releasing a special edition vinyl.
The band will release In Bocca al Lupo on red double 10″ vinyl which have been dipped in gold ink with a quadruple gatefold cover. It ends up being seven [!!] feet long when extended and there will be only 1,000 on the planet.
Head on over to www.murderbydeath.com for the tunes.
Mark Ronson has confirmed he will be playing the O2 Wireless Festival this year.
The producer, who’s amazing album Version is out now [go and buy it!], will play the London date on June 15th and then move up to Leeds on June 17th. The London date will now feature Ronson playing alongside Just Jack, Kelis, Badly Drawn Boy and Faithless.
His Leeds date featuring Daft Punk, Klaxons, CSS, Calvin Harris and Simian Mobile Disco.