Following 2 performances at the Reading / Leeds Festival, Hope Of The States have confirmed they have split up. The band recently released their second album, Left, the follow up to their debut The Lost Riots. In a statement, the group said:
“We can walk away at this point as friends and be increasingly proud of what we have done. Thank you to everyone for all your support and the incredible times we have shared with our fans and supporters”
Cave In’s Stephen Brodsky will be releasing an album through his side project The Octave Museum. The album will be called, originally enough, Stephen Brodsky’s Octave Museum, and the tracklist is:
“Voice Electric”
“Sentimental Case”
“Kid Defender”
“Prove Myself”
“Bluebell”
“Red Headed Butterflies”
“Kill The Queen”
“Swingin’ In The Sky”
“Spirals In Her Eyes”
“Ploo”
The line up is completed by members of The Electric Bastards and Scissorfight and the record will be released sometime this year through Hydra Head.
Those who love punk and hardcore would already know all about Gordon Defresne’s Deranged Records label in Canada but for those that have somehow missed this label, prepare for a treat.
New releases include the The new FUCKED UP ‘Dangerous Fumes’ 7″, and CAREER SUICIDE – ‘Their Attempted Suicide LP’, BRUTAL KNIGHTS ‘The Pleasure is all Thine’ LP, the new LEFT FOR DEAD 12″ are just 4 excuses to have a gander at what is ready for you to order through Deranged.
Check their site at www.derangedrecords.com
Dry Kill Logic are back with a new album called Of Vengeance & Violence, due out on October 26th. The 13 track album will be, in the words of singer Cliff Rigano:
”…in your face, aggressive music – we’ve never compromised our integrity for a quick glimpse of success, never wrote a record with the pipe dream of crossover radio accessibility & never turned our backs on the style of music we write or the people that appreciate it. This record is no exception. Expect nothing less than the heaviest DKL record yet!”
Also, the group will be playing some UK shows on the following dates:
November:
7th – Southampton Joiners
9th – Plymouth, The Hub
11th – Bradford, Rio’s
14th – Liverpool, Carling Academy 2
16th – Birmingham, Carling Academy 2
18th – London, Underworld
Kasabian have moved two of their dates due to scheduling complications. Their show at Newcastle’s Metro Radio Arena, originally slated for December 8th, will now take place on December 21st and the Sheffield Hallam FM Arena show has been move from the 10th to the 22nd of December. Tickets will remain valid for the rescheduled dates.
December
5th Leicester De Montford Hall
6th Leicester De Montford Hall
7th Glasgow SECC
11th Manchester M.E.N Arena
12th Cardiff C.I.A
14th Birmingham N.E.C
15th Nottingham Arena
16th Brighton Centre
18th Bournemouth B.I.C
19th London Earl’s Court
21st Newcastle Metro Radio Arena
22nd Sheffield Hallam FM Arena
Carl Barat’s Dirty Pretty Things are releasing Wondering, from their Gold selling album Waterloo To Anywhere, on September 25th. In addition to this, they will be putting out a DVD called Puffing On A Coffin Nail, Live At The Forum on October 16th.
The DVD includes a 12 song set from the Forum shows this past May, 17 other live recordings from all over the world and some DVD extras and runs for longer than 2 hours. The band are also playing the following shows in the coming months:
August:
26th – Reading Festival
27th – Leeds Festival
28th – T On The Frings – Edinburgh Corn Exchange.
September:
13th – London Coronet [ Make Roads Safe ]
21st – Belfast Mandela Hall
22nd – Cork Savoy Theatre
23rd – Dublin Ambassador Theatre
Brooklyn’s Mos Def will bring out his new album, Tru3 Magic, on September 25th. The album will feature production from Kanye West, Pharrell and Rich Harrison and will be preceeded by a digitally available EP.
After having proved himself as an actor in The Italian Job and Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy and receiving an Emmy nomination for his role in Something The Lord Made, Mos is back behind the mic for his eagerly awaited comeback as a rapper.
Chicago’s Lupe Fiasco, who broke into the charts with Kick Push, is back with a new single. Daydreamin‘ will feature Jill Scott and is due out on September 4th and will be followed by the album Food And Liquor on September 18th. The album will feature Jill Scott, Kanye West and Mike Shinoda and has Jay Z as an executive producer.
You can check out the video for Daydreamin‘ by clicking one of the links below:
Windows Media:
Real Player:
Metric are offering a free mp3 of a track, Glass Ceiling, from their album Live It Out.
Head on over to Drowned In Sound by following this link and grab your free mp3 and check out a video of the group performing live. The group are playing Reading and Leeds after having sold out King’s College earlier this week.
In case you don’t know, The Mean Fiddler have applied for planning permission to demolish The London Astoria (and The LA2, aka The Mean Fiddler etc) to re-develop as shops and offices.
Now I’m sure you all appreciate just exactly how much we all need even more shops and offices at the junction of Oxford Street, Tottenham Court road and Charing Cross Road (right opposite the empty Centrepoint building) and it’s not like there’s an abundance of decent sized live music venues in Central London (in fact there isn’t one other decent one for miles) so here’s your chance to do something about it:
Sign the petition…Save The Astoria!