Category: Music News

The Go! Team will play Brighton’s Dome on October the 28th, which will be their last gig of 2006 and they will be previewing material from their upcoming album.

Check out the group at www.thegoteam.co.uk

Great news for all your Pippettes fans out there, the group have announced some tour dates in September and October. The dates are:

September:

20th – Birmingham, Academy
21st – Cambridge, Corn Exchange
22nd – Brighton, Corn Exchange
23rd – Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
25th – Manchester, Academy 3
26th – Glasgow, The Garage
28th – Newcastle University
29th – London, Koko
30th – Sheffield, Leadmill

October:

2nd – Belfast, Spring And Airbrake
3rd – Dublin, TMBC

www.thepipettes.co.uk

It’s been a while, but The Slits are back and have announced they will be releasing an EP later on this year.

Ari Up and Tessa Pollitt have reformed the band and have said that the release, The Revenge Of The Killer Slits EP, is due out in mid-October.

www.theslits.co.uk

The man who claimed Eminem assaulted him has decided not to press charges against the blonde rapper. The man had a confrontation with Eminem’s entourage after trying to talk to the star in the toilets of a strip club in Detroit, and it is alleged that Em threw some punches himself.

But the police have said that there will be no charges pressed, though they do not know the reasons why this is the case.

www.eminem.com

Primal Scream frontman Bobby Gillespie was been beaten up in Madrid last week though it is unsure why it happened. The band’s manager told reporters that the extent of Gillespie’s injuries aren’t yet known, but that the group performed the night after the incident. Thankfully, Gillespie seems ok but was advised by the Doctors not to travel over the weekend and to wear an American football helmet at the next show!

www.primalscream.org

New York’s Non Phixion have called it a day, according to a bulletin on their website. Their ten year tenure together is over, allowing individual members to do their own thing. Ill Bill, Sabac Red and DJ Eclipse have all said they will work with each other in the future, under a different name, but the split comes because of “Goretex’s general unreliability and total lack of interest in touring, writing and recording music with Non Phixion”.

Ill Bill is working with La Coka Nostra at the moment, but plans to release a Live At CBGB’s DVD later this year and is also working on his new solo album, The Hour Of Reprisal, due in 2007. Sabac is also working on a new album, The Ritual and DJ Eclipse is looking to put out a Halftime Show DVD in 2007, with freestyles and interviews from his radio show.

Check out www.nonphixion.com for the full press release and also www.unclehowie.com for news from the individual members.

Three years have passed since the Juggaknots released the awesome Clear Blue Skies [Re:Release] and we’ve all been waiting for the new material to come…finally it is happening! Their new album, Use Your Confusion, is due to drop in October and features guest spots from Nine and Slick Rick.

If you want to check out some hype and see the promo video for the new album, then click here.

www.amalgamdigital.com

Eighteen Visions are back with a new album, entitled Eighteen Visions, which will be their seventh studio release. The album is due out in September and a single, Victim, is due to be release at the end of August to give everyone a taster of the new album.

To support the new album, the group will be touring the UK, with the following dates:

September:

5th – Manchester Academy3
6th – Glasgow King Tuts
7th – Leeds Cockpit
8th – Newport TJ’s
10th – Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
11th – London Mean Fiddler
12th – Nottingham Rock City
13th – Birmingham Barfly

Check out a snippet of the new single at the group’s website – www.eighteenvisions.com

It is expected that OfCom will legalise the transmitter devices which enable people to play digital music from their iPod via a radio tuner. The iTrip is a device which you plug into your iPod and then transmits the tunes to any nearby radio.

This is technically illegal in this country because the Wireless Telegraphy Act [1949] forbids people from transmitting radio signals without a license, which is why iTrips are bought from websites abroad. However, OfCom look set to change the law regarding this, perhaps even as soon as next year.

Julliette And The Licks have just announced a UK tour with more dates and upgraded venues due to popular demand. In other news, their second album, Four To The Floor, will be out in October. If you want to see them on tour, the dates are:

September:

26th: Brighton Concorde 2
27th: London Astoria
28th: Manchester Academy 2
29th: Sheffield Leadmill
30th: Edinburgh Rock Festival

October:

2nd: Nottingham Rescue Rooms
3rd: Dublin The Village
4th: Glasgow ABC
5th: Leeds Metropolitan University ** UPGRADED

November:

14th: Cardiff Solus Bar
15th: Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
16th: Newcastle University

www.julietteandthelicks.com