Category: Music News

The tracklisting for Lamb Of God’s new album Sacrament has been finalised and the tracks are as follows:

01 – “Walk With Me In Hell”
02 – “Again We Rise”
03 – “Redneck”
04 – “Pathetic”
05 – “Foot To The Throat”
06 – “Descending”
07 – “Blacken The Cursed Sun”
08 – “Forgotten (Lost Angels)”
09 – “Requiem”
10 – “More Time To Kill”
11 – “Beating On Deaths Door”

There will be a deluxe edition of the album with a DVD with videos for Redneck and the making of the album and is due for release in August. The band have also posted a track called Nippon on their myspace, which you can hear by clicking here.

Uxfest, which is taking place at the Islington Academy on August 6th, has just confirmed that Captain Everything are the last band to be confirmed on the bill, and the line up is now complete. With 2 stages and 21 bands taking place and money going to charity, this is well worth checking out. The bands playing will be:

Skindred, Captain Everything, Exit Ten, B*Movie Heroes, Architects, Outcryfire, PDHM, Engel, Profane, Forever, Sylosis, NWS, Fireapple Red, Biomechanical, Murder One, Head-On, Kingsize Blues, Inner Rage, Mumrah, Shellshock and Eths.

The money raised from this year’s Uxfest will go to the following charities:

Youth Music – www.youthmusic.org.uk

Natandy Fund – www.natandy.com

Yeldall – www.yeldall.org

www.uxfest.com

Basement Jaxx will return with a new album called Crazy Itch Radio, which is due to be released in September this year. A single, Hush Boy, will precede the album at the end of August.

Currently touring Europe with Robbie Williams, Basement Jaxx will hit the UK with their own headline shows before 2006 is out.

www.basementjaxx.co.uk

The Raconteurs are releasing their new single, Hands, on July 31st and will also be playing some festivals over the summer, so you can check them out at Reading, Leeds, Belfast’s Vital Festival and Scotland’s T On The Fringe. The dates are:

August:

Monday 21st – Dublin Olympia Theatre
Tuesday 22nd – Belfast Vital Festival
Wednesday 23rd – Edinburgh Corn Exchange
Saturday 26th – Reading Festival
Sunday 27th – Leeds Festival

www.theraconteurs.com

Breed 77 are back with a new single Blind from their new album, entitled In My Blood, coming out in September. The group, nominated for Best British Act at the Metal Hammer Awards, will be supporting both releases with a tour of the UK. The dates are:

July:
16th – Guilfest

August:
12th – Bull Dog Bash

September:
10th – Stamford Corn Exchange
11th – Bournemouth Opera House
12th – Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
14th – Edinburgh Studio 24
15th – Glasgow Cathouse
16th – Sheffield Corporation
17th – Stockton Georgian
18th – Nottingham Rock City
20th – Manchester Academy 3
21st – Birmingham Academy 2
23rd – Stoke Sugarmill
24th – Wrexham Central Station
25th – London Underworld
26th – Oxford The Zodiac
27th – Reading The Fez
28th – Exeter The Cavern
30th – Leeds Cockpit

October:
1st – Agincourt Camberly
2nd – Brighton Concorde

www.breed77.net

Jurassic 5 are back, this time without Cut Chemist, but ready to drop their new album Feedback.

You can check out 5 tracks from the new album but hitting up this link and hearing what Akil, Marc 7, Zaakir and Chali 2na have layed on Nu Mark’s new beats.

The album, which features Dave Matthews and Mos Def will be released on July 24th.

www.jurassic5.com

Zurich’s psychobilly influences rockers The Peacocks are coming back to the UK for a tour after their travels to the US. The dates are:

12th July: Kingston Bacchus (onstage at 10:30pm)
13th July: Chepstow Five Alls
15th July: Sheffield The Plug
16th July: London Mean Fiddler
18th July: Newcastle The Cluny
19th July: Leicester The Charlotte

In other news, Captain Everything are bringing out a limited pink vinyl 7″ of The Bomb Song with He Am Spartacus and Diary Of A Spengler on the B Side. After almost a year Captain Everything will be hitting the road in the build up to the new album Buena Vista Bingo Club, the dates are:

12th July Hastings Crypt
13th July SouthamptonThe Joiners
14th July London Camden Underworld with You Me And The Atom Bomb
19th July Birmingham Bar Academy
20th July Bristol Bier Keller with Lightyear
21st July Hitchin Club 85
22nd July SwindonFurnace with You Me And The Atom Bomb
23rd July Cardiff Barfly
24th July Bolton Number 15
25th July Stourbridge Rock Cafe 2000
26th July Newcastle Carling Academy 2 with Lightyear
27th July Manchester Satans Hollow
28th July Leicester The Charlotte
29th July Amersham Jubilee Hall
30th July Derby First Floor with Lightyear
31st July Monmouth Monmouth Festival
1st August Newquay Fosters Beach Bar (Surfmasters)
3rd August Nottingham Rock City
4th August Lincoln Bivouac
5th August Doncaster Leopard
8th August Plymouth Hub
9th August Kingston The Peel with Send More Paramedics
10th August Hull Adelphi
12th August Blackpool Winter Gardens – Wasted Festival
13th August Derby Victoria Inn
26th August Reading Carling Festival : The Lock Up Stage
27th August Leeds Carling Festival : The Lock Up Stage

www.householdnamerecords.co.uk

There’s less than a week to go til the Latitude festival and the people running it have decided to run a competition to give away 2 weekend camping tickets to the event.

All you have to do is visit their official myspace page, which can be found at www.myspace.com/latitudefestival and the tickets could be yours. Artists playing at the event this year include Giant Drag, Regina Spektor, Jose Gonzalez, Gomez and many more.

Besitval has added to its line up for 2006 and it promises to be a brilliant time! Rob Da Bank has been booking the best bands around, including no less than 14 local bands from the Isle Of Wight. The added bands are:

The Bees, Motion Pictures, Matthew Herbert, Sasha, Mark Ronson, The Hat and Love Is All.

If that doesn’t want to get you down there, then nothing will! Make sure you click over to www.bestival.net for more bestival goodness!