Crossfire favourites The Milk Teeth have a new video!
The group, who are loved here at HQ, have put their video for the track Go Faster Stripes up on youtube and it is a belter.
To check out the crazy video, which was shot in what the band describe as a “cold and crazy” hospital, click here.
The Big Brother rebel’s band are planning a UK tour.
Donny Tourette and his band, Towers Of London, will be heading out on the road in March. Check them out at one of the following venues:
March:
2nd – Cardiff Barfly
3rd – Bristol Academy
5th – Cambridge Junction
6th – Nottingham Rock City
7th – Stoke Sugarmill
8th – Liverpool Barfly
9th – Newcastle Academy 2
11th – Glasgow Cathouse
12th – Manchester Academy 3
13th – Hull Welly Club
14th – Sheffield Plug
16th – Birmingham Academy 2
17th – Northampton Soundhaus
18th – Oxford Zodiac
19th – Brighton Concorde 2
20th – London Islington Academy
Ozzfest has been dubbed FreeFest after an announcement yesterday.
Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne yesterday announced that the Ozzfest tour in the States would be free of charge. Sponsors will be underwriting the cost of the festival which takes place this summer. Sharon said of the move:
“We’re reaching the same point we did years ago when kids no longer wanted to pay for overpriced CDs. As a result, they found alternative ways of getting music. That’s what’s happening with summer touring in this country, it’s out-pricing itself.”
Willy Mason will be touring the UK in support of his new album.
The American singer will release his new album When The Ocean Gets Rough on March 5th, with the single Save Myself out on February 19th.
To support this he will be playing 18 shows in the UK, starting in Leicester on May 4th. You can check him out at:
May:
4th – Leicester Charlotte
5th – Liverpool Academy
7th – Cardiff The Point
8th – Oxford Zodiac
9th – Sheffield Leadmill
10th – Norwich Waterfront
11th – Bristol Trinity
12th – Nottingham Rescue Rooms
14th – Leeds Cockpit
15th – Manchester Academy
16th – London Shepherds Bush Empire
18th – Brighton Pavillion Theatre
19th – Birmingham Academy 2
21st – Edinburgh Liquid Rooms
22nd – Northumbria University
23rd – Glasgow QMU
24th – Aberdeen Moshulu
25th – Belfast Speakeasy
Alkaline Trio have put up their first video from their recent record.
The band, who put out a rarities compilation entitled Remains, have streamed their video for Warbrain. The track originally appeared on Rock Against Bush Vol 1.
Click here to check out the video.
The tracklisting for the new Bright Eyes album has been officially announced.
Cassadaga, which is released in April, will feature 13 tracks and is Conor Obert’s sixth full-length record. As previously reported, the album will feature guest spots from M. Ward, Janet Weiss and Gillian Welch.
In other news, Bright Eyes will be playing some European dates, including two UK stop – March 16th London’s Koko and 18th Oxford Brookes University. The tracklisting for the album is:
Clairaudients (Kill or Be Killed)
Four Winds
If the Brakeman Turns My Way
Hot Knives
Make a Plan to Love Me
Soul Singer in a Session Band
Classic Cars
Middleman
Cleanse Song
No One Would Riot for Less
Coat Check Dream Song
I Must Belong Somewhere
Lime Tree
Fopp’s New Music Award winners to release EP.
Fopp recently announced the winners of the Fopp Award For New Music 2006 with Conrad Vingoe, Olympus Mons, Morton Valence and The Dials scooping the prizes.
The bands will be putting out their own respective EPs and a showcase of the material is going to be held at Dingwalls in Camden on the 22nd of February.
www.conradvingoe.co.uk / www.theolympusmons.com / www.mortonvalence.co.uk / www.thedials.co.uk
Dinosaur Jr will be releasing a live DVD in May.
The DVD will feature footage from their set at the Middle East club in Boston, with small sections from other venues on their December 2005 reunion tour.
The DVD, Dinosaur Jr: Live From The Middle East, features 18 live songs, behind-the-scenes footage and a documentary. The new album, their first with the original line up since 1988, will be called Beyond and is set for a May 1st release.
The DVD’s tracklisting is:
Gargoyle
Kracked
Bulbs of Passion
Little Fury Things
Lose
Forget the Swan
The Post
Budge
The Lung
The Wagon
Raisans
SludgeFeast
Mountain Man
Chunks
Freak Scene
In a Jar
Repulsion
Just Like Heaven
The Ruff And Ready Tour is hitting the UK this month and will feature four great punk bands.
The King Blues, Sonic Boom Six, Failsafe and Mouthwash will all be showcasing their talent as they kick their way through the country on a musical assault.
You’ll be able to hear punk with dub, folky protest songs, rock and dirty old grime on this tour, so check the flyer and head out to one of the shows!
You Me And The Atom Bomb are out on a UK tour.
The band will be playing a number of shows up and down the country with pop-punkers From Plan To Progress in the next week or so. The tour dates are below, and the boys will be off to Europe and North America after this little UK run.
In other news, the boys have put a re-cap of their year [2006] on their myspace, detailing things like touring, recording, writing, going to the States to play Fest V and much more. Right, these tour dates then:
February:
7th – Peterborough : The Met Lounge
8th – Leamington Spa : Jug and Jester
9th – Harlow : The Square
10th – Kingston-upon-Thames : Fighting Cox
11th – Brighton : Belushis