Category: Music News

Dinosaur Jr’s J Mascis will play a solo show in London next week.

The acoustic set will be held at London’s Metro and he will be playing some older Dinosaur Jr tracks as well as some new material from the upcoming Beyond album.

The gig will mainly be for competition winners but there will be a few tickets on the door, the night of the show.

The new album has been heard by some of Crossfire’s friends who are heavily into their music and they tell us that its brilliant and fans of the band will definitely not be disappointed.

www.dinosaurjr.com

The first set of bands have been confirmed for this year’s Don’t Look Back gigs in London.

Sonic Youth, The House Of Love and Slint will be performing a classic album in its entirety. Slint will be the first up, on August 22nd at Koko where they’ll play Spiderland.

Sonic Youth will be play the Roundhouse on August 31st to perform Daydream Nation in full.

The House Of Love will be at Koko on September 13th to play their self titled debut.

www.sonicyouth.com / www.slint.us

Ian MacKaye did an in depth interview with The Onion recently and spoke, amongst other things, about Fugazi being used in the World Series:

“It is reassuring to know that, despite all the attempts of the major labels and ad industry to control all of music, that something so totally independent can still pop up to the surface. I kind of get a kick out of it.”

He also spoke on how frustrating it was for Fugazi to play in bigger venues, claiming he felt bigger PA systems gave him a “voice of God” problem. He went on to say:

“Also, when you have a room that big and so many people in it, the people in the back of the room are having a completely different experience than the people in the front of the room.”

If you want to check out the entire interview, then click here.

www.dischord.com

The Rapture will be playiung a UK tour starting at the end of this week to support their new single W.A.Y.U.H (People Don’t Dance No More). Tickets are now on sale and the dates are:

February:

28th – London, Astoria

March:

2nd – Manchester, Academy
3rd – Dublin, Tripod
4th – Glasgow, ABC
5th – Leeds Met University
7th – Bristol, Academy
8th – Portsmouth, Pyramid
9th – Coventry, Coliseum
10th – Middlesbrough, Empire

www.therapturemusic.com

Ash have revealed their new album will be more poppy than Meltdown.

The new record, You Can’t Have It All, will be out in July and drummer Rick McMurray has said that whilst the sound will be lighter, lyrically the album will be heavier, inspired by Tim Wheeler’s relationship problems of the last couple of years. McMurray added that going back to having three members led to apprehension:

“It’s almost ten years since we were a three-piece, so we were all a wee bit worried how it would work out, but we wanted to go back and simplify. There were a lot of nerves, but after a few days we realised it was working so well we would keep going at it.”

www.ash-official.com

Those brain-munching zombies Send More Paramedics have just released a new video online.

The video is for the song Blood Fever which is taken from their last album The Awakening, out on In At The Deep End Records. You know nothing from this lot can ever be ignored, so head on over to www.adam-powell.com and check it out.

www.sendmoreparamedics.com

The Maccabees will be heading out on their biggest tour yet, with the dates spanning almost a month.

If you want to get out and see them, the check one of these gigs below. Their new single, About Your Dress, is released on February 26th.

April:

18th – Old Market, Brighton
19th – Old Market, Brighton
20th – Point, Cardiff
21st – Charlotte, Leicester
23rd – Academy 2, Liverpool
24th – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
26th – Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
27th – Anson Rooms, Bristol
29th – Junction, Cambridge
30th – Brookes Uni, Oxford

May:

1st – Lemongrove, Exeter
2nd – Waterfront, Norwich
4th – Roadmender, Northampton
5th – Welly, Hull
6th – Acad 3/2, Manchester
8th – Moshulu, Aberdeen
9th – Garage, Glasgow
10th – Stage 2, Newcastle
12th – Cockpit, Leeds
13th – Leadmill, Sheffield
14th – Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton
16th – Old Firestation, Bournemouth
17th – Astoria, London

www.themaccabees.co.uk

Tiger Army will be playing some UK dates as part of their April European tour to support the forthcoming release III: Ghost Tigers Rise out on June 5th.

April:

30th – Brighton Concorde 2

May:

1st – Leeds Cockpit
2nd – Glasgow Cathouse
3rd – Manchester Academy 3
4th – London Carling Academy
5th – Nottingham Rock City

www.tigerarmy.com

Jimmy Eat World have posted an update regarding the work on their new album.

Frontman Jim Adkins said of the sixth studio album:

“During the Christmas break we wrote some new tunes and got ideas for a bunch more. We are working on those and giving them the chance to develop. We are still very excited about what we have competed thus far and we hope to wrap it up as soon as possible. But this is the way rock is. Sorry. Shit takes forever.

We don’t consider ourselves on island time by any stretch. We want to make sure every song feels like it is as complete as it needs to be. To put songs out there and call it an album is an important thing for us. We have yet to compromise a recording session for the sake of a final product. We aren’t about to start 12 years into the band. Thank you for your patience and we hope to get more up, more often.”

www.jimmyeatworld.com

The Horrors will be releasing their debut album Strange House on March 5th.

The band, currently on the Shockwaves NME Awards Indie Rock Tour, will begin their own headline tour in March, playing 18 dates through to April:

March:

23rd – Liverpool Academy 2
24th – Manchester Club Academt
25th – Hull Welly Club
26th – Leeds Cockpit
27th – Birmingham Barfly
29th – Nottingham Rescue Room
30th – Cardiff Barfly

April:

1st – Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
2nd – Bristol Thekla
3rd – Norwich Waterfront
5th – Newcastle Academy 2
6th – Glasgow ABC 2
7th – Aberdeen Kef
8th – Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire
10th – Stoke Sugarmill
11th – Brighton Concorde 2
12th – Southend Chinnerys
13th – London Coronet

www.thehorrors.co.uk