Head Automatica, the brainchild of Daryl Palumbo, have a new song up on their myspace site for fans to check out.
The song, Scandalous, is a track taken from their upcoming Popaganda which will be produced by Howard Benson instead of Dan The Automator who was on the producto for their first album.
Check out the new track by clicking right here.
Mike Patton’s new project, Peeping Tom, has just finished filming a video for Mojo. The video will include appearances from Dan The Automator, Rahzel, Danny DeVito, Rachel Hunter and Blink 182’s Mark Hoppus.
They have also confirmed the live line up for the performance on Conan O’Brien in the States – Patton will be alongside a supergroup of Dan The Automator, Rahzel, Miho Hatori [Cibo Matto], Dub Trio and Rob Swift – Sounds like it’s going to be an absolutely banging performance. The album, entitled, originally enough, Peeping Tom, is due out on May 30th.
www.ipecac.com for more.
DJ Shadow has announced his set of UK dates in support of his upcoming album The Outsider. The album, which comes four years after The Private Press, is due out on August 25th. Shadow will play festival dates too, with 2 Wireless shows and an appearance at Creamfields, where he will be performing with Turf Talk and Keak Da Sneak.
The dates are:
June
8th – Bristol Blue Mountain
9th – London Fabric
10th – Liverpool Chibuku
11th – Nottingham Stealth
23rd – London O2 Wireless Festival
24th – Leeds O2 Wireless Festival
August
26th – Liverpool Creamfields
Korn are giving their fans in Europe the chance to remix their upcoming single Coming Undone, released on June 12th. The group have struck a deal with MTV and www.ACIDplanet.com for this remix and fans can access the competition via the following MTV websites:
UK: www.mtv.co.uk/korn
Central: www.mtv.de/korn
Spain: www.mtv.es/korn
Portugal: www.mtv.pt/korn
France: www.mtv.fr/korn
Holland: www.mtv.nl/korn
Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway: www.mtve.com/korn
The winners [one from each region] will be given a full version of Acid Pro 6.0 and their remix will be posted on the band’s official site with comments from the band themselves. Of these seven finalists, one will be chosen as the Grand Prize winner, who will get a customised Korn PC with audio editing hardware and the remix tracks will be played at the Korn show in the winner’s home country.
The group’s European dates are:
May
25 Lisbon, Portugal Superrock Festival
26 Madrid, Spain La Cubierta
27 Bilbao, Spain Plaza De Toros (Bullring)
29 Clermont, France Ferrand Zenith
30 Toulouse, France Zenith
31 Geneva, Switzerland Arena
June
2 Germany Rock AM Ring
3 Germany Rock IM Park
4 Italy Gods Of Metal
6 Lille, France Zenith
7 Essen , Germany Grugahalle
8 Hamburg, Germany Stadtpark
10 UK Download Festival
11 Dublin, Ireland RDS Stadium
13 Amsterdam, Netherlands HMH
15 Sweden Hultsfred Festival
16 Oslo, Norway Norwegian Wood Festival
18 Finland Provinsii Rock Festival
20 Denmark, Aarhus SK Centre
21 Berlin, Germany Columbiahalle
23 France Nantes Festival
24 Belgium Graspop Metal
25 Paris, France Bercy
27 Budapest, Hungary Arena
28 Vienna, Austria Stadthalle
30 Slovakia Topvar Festival
July
1 Switzerland St. Gallen Festival
2 Leipzig, Germany Full Force Festival
Girl punk-rockers The Hedrons will play shows on consecutive nights in London next week in support of their upcoming album. If you wanna check the girls out, then the dates are:
Wednesday, 31st May
93 Feet East. 150 Brick Lane, E1 6QL
Tel: 0207 247 3293
Stage time: 20.30
Thursday, 1st June
Metro. 19-23 Oxford Street, W1R 2DN
Tel: 0207 437 0964
Stage time: 20.45
For more information, check out their website at: www.thehedrons.com
Manchester indie legends New Order will be hitting the UK on a major tour later this year, following up the release of the a singles compilation and to support the band’s upcoming DVD release. The band, responsible for such dancefloor-filling classics as ‘Blue Monday’ and ‘True Faith’, will play:
October:
11th – Newcastle Academy
16th – Blackpool Empress Ballroom
18th – Glasgow Academy
27th – London Wembley Arena
29th – Wolverhampton Civic Hall
Tickets for these shows will go on sale at 9am on May 26th.
Californian ska-punk nutcases the Mad Caddies will hit the UK for three dates next month before the release of their upcoming fifth studio album, which hasn’t been titled yet, on Fat Wreck Chords. The dates they’re due to play are:
June
27th – Newport TJs
28th – Manchester Uni
29th – London Mean Fiddler
Dangermouse is the man of the minute right now, blazing the charts with Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy, but he’s not about to stop now. He was the beatsmith behind one of the best albums of 2005, Dangerdoom’s The Mouse And The Mask and he’s back with MF Doom for the Dangerdoom EP. What’s more, this EP is going to be put up online and will be absolutely free.
The EP is going to be put up track by track and the first of these tracks, Korn Dogs, is up now and can be downloaded from here. The rest of the EP, all nine tracks of it, will be thrown out over the next 2 weeks and the whole thing will be available on May 30th, with Madlib springing up on it.
Isis are a busy band at the moment, they have just confirmed they are playing some European dates, four of which are in the UK. On top of this, they will be releasing a new DVD called Clearing The Eye on August the 22nd [the image can be seen to the right]. Also, the group are planning a more extensive tour once their new album, which will begin recording soon, is released.
The tour dates are as follows:
July:
17th – Amsterdam, Melkweg
18th – Paris, La Maroquinerie
19th – Cardiff, The Point
20th – Bournemouth, The Opera House
21st – Sheffield, The Corporation
23rd – London, Koko’s (“All Tomorrow’s Parties”)
Former Queens Of The Stone Age and Kyuss bassist Nick Olivieri is bringing his new group Mondo Generator, over to the UK, in support of their debut album which is due out towards the end of 2006. The new Mondo Generator line up will be Olivieri, Ben Perrier on guitars and Ben Thomas on drums, from Winnebago Deal.
Now being called Nick Olivieri and his Mondo Generator, the band’s debut album will be called Sonic Slow Motion Trails, was recorded mostly in Dave Grohl’s LA studio and is slated for a September release. The live dates are:
June:
8th – London Enterprise [Acoustic]
10th – Download Festival [Myspace/Gibson stage]
13th – Glasgow Barfly
14th – Cardiff Barfly
15th – Birmingham Barfly
16th – London Barfly
18th – London “JD Set Lounge” @ Barfly [Afternoon show]