If you are a fan of bands like Aiden, 18 Visions, Avenged Sevenfold, Atreyu, Lost Prophets (puke), Soulfly, Caliban, The Used, Papa Roach and Walls of Jericho , you may want to check out Sam Scott Hunters’ tattoo feature on his photography site today and see where all the worlds’ ink is ending up in the underground…
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Bad Religion are one of the most influential punk rock bands out there, even though they did have a whacky moment where they thought they were gonna try and be a prog band on album 2!
You will find out more about that in this months None More Punk Show once it goes live this week. Other than that blip, have had shed loads of great moments that have been captured on this DVD so Vans decided to run a premiere at the Vans Shop in Soho’s Carnaby Street and throw in loads of beer for the crack.
Peeps turned up, beer was drunk and evidence was filmed for your enjoyment.
Bad Religion’s new DVD is out this Spring called Live at the Palladium through Epitaph Records. This DVD will be fully reviewed on here this week for your mince pies to have a look at. Vans also have a shoe out with Bad Religion (as if you have not noticed!), they kick ass, go check them out here with the full story.
Despite the Test Icicles playing their final shows later on this year, Dev Hynez hasn’t taken a chance to rest, and has hooked up with Tom Vek to bring about a new act, Naked Babes, who are due to play live sets in the near future.
www.tomvek.tv for the Vek’s news.
The Sheffield foursome are to release a new EP titled Who The Fuck Are The Arctic Monkeys? on April the 24th. They will also be releasing a short film called Scummy Man on April the 10th with a screening a the Sheffield Showrooms 3 days earlier.
Additionally they are doing a UK tour in April, the dates are:
13 Apr: Nottingham Rock City
14 Apr: Glasgow Carling Academy
15 Apr: Newcastle Carling Academy
17 Apr: Bournemouth BIC
18 Apr: Plymouth Pavillions
19 Apr: Wolverhampton Civic
21 Apr: Newport Centre
22 Apr: Rotherham Magna Centre
23 Apr: Blackpool Empress Ballroom
25 Apr: Hull Ice Rink
26 Apr: Cambridge Corn Exchange
27 Apr: London Brixton Carling Academy
Suge Knight, the owner of Deathrow Records, is as always, involved in controversy. His former associate Lydia Harris is currently in court claiming she helped start the rap label and wants a cut of the profits, which the courts ordered to happen last year.
Suge, however, hasn’t paid her the money and her former husband, the now imprisoned Michael Harris is claiming he is to get half of whatever she gains.
Knight’s whose assets were frozen last year, the same time that Michael Harris started divorce proceedings against his wife, has repeatedly fail to appear for his hearings and according to reports, the courts could start the bankruptcy proceedings that were threatened.
Stretch Arm Strong will be heading back to the UK this month with last year’s tour mates, Story Of The Year in April. They have also announced two headline dates:
The dates are:
Tue 11 Birmingham Academy
Wed 12 Manchester Academy
Thu 13 London Astoria
Fri 14 Brighton Corn Exchange
Sat 15 Cardiff Univ
Sun 16 Trowbridge Terrys Club HEADLINE SHOW!
Mon 17 Leeds Met Univ
Tue 18 Glasgow ABC
Weds 19 Bacchus nightclub in Kingston HEADLINE SHOW!
Stretch Arm Strong are continuing to tour in support of the latest album, Free At Last. Check out their new singleThe Sound of Names Dropping on MTV, Scuzz and the video on Myspace.com
www.stretcharmstrong.net and www.myspace.com/stretcharmstrong
Radiohead are back in the studio with Mark Stent working on the follow up to the Hail To The Thief album, saying that, contrary to rumours, the album won’t be politically based. Thom Yorke claims it is about anonymous fear, and compared it to writing OK Computer, though he said it is “much more terrifying”.
New tracks such as Arpeggi, House Of Cards, 15 Step and Nude are among the favourites to make the new album and Yorke also said he is optimistic that the band are getting the songs right and ready for the upcoming tour.
www.radiohead.com has all the trimmings.
The Foo Fighters are gearing up for an acoustic tour, which will include a violinist, a pianist and a percussionist and will start rehearsing as soon as drummer Taylor Hawkins returns from his tour with side project The Coattail Riders.
The plan is to tour the In Your Honour album and dates will be announced in the future. This comes after the group announced they are to play Hyde Park and Cricket’s Old Trafford, as well as the Isle Of Wight festival.
Check out www.foofighters.com for all news.
Well, they did it. Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo’s Gnarls Barkley have made music history by becoming the first single to go to number one in the charts through download sales only. Crazy knocked Ne-Yo off the top spot and kept Morrissey away from the challenge by selling over 30,000 downloads.
Big ups to the duo, making history AND keeping shitty pop away from the top. Can’t say much fairer than that.
Meanwhile, Danger Mouse is going to keep himself busy by helping produce the new album for The Rapture, following their well receieved debut album Echoes.
White Rose Movement have hot footed it from SxSW in order to join up with Placebo as the support for the latter’s upcoming UK Tour. White Rose Movement have recently supported The Strokes, played on tour with The Rakes and been on their headline tour and have been earning a reputation for being a hard working and exciting new act.
Their new album Kick is due for release on the 17th of April with the band’s new single Girls In The Back released on Monday.
The April tour dates are:
3rd – Leicester : Princess Charlotte : Headline show
4th – Liverpool : Korova
5th – Blackpool : Empress Ball Room : With Placebo
6th – Glasgow : Academy : With Placebo
8th – Newcastle : Carling Academy : With Placebo
9th – Birmingham : The Academy : With Placebo
10th – Leeds : The Cockpit : Headline Show
11th – London : Alexandra Palace : With Placebo
13th – London : Insomniacs Ball: SeOne
15th – Dublin : Temple Bar Music Centre : Headline Show
Check out www.whiterosemovement.co.uk for more