You Me At Six will support Angels & Airwaves on their upcoming UK tour.
The band will play the following dates in April:
11th – Academy, Manchester
12th – Academy, Glasgow
13th – Academy, Birmingham
15th – Guildhall, Southampton
16th – Academy, Bristol
17th & 18th – Astoria, London
Radiohead will release Nude on XL Recordings on March 31st.
The single, taken from their In Rainbows album, will be released on CD, download and 7″ with the latter featuring 4 Minute Warning as the b-side. The CD single will feature Down Is The New Up which was previously only available on the In Rainbows box set. The band are also going to give fans the chance to remix the single, the details of which will be revealed soon.
April 1st will see the group play a free concert for BBC Radio 2 at the BBC Radio Theatre. Fans can apply for tickets until Thursday March 13th by calling 08700 100 200.
Finally, the band’s UK and Ireland dates are in June:
6th & 7th – Malahide, Dublin
24th & 25th – Victoria Park, London
27th – Glasgow Green, Glasgow
29th – LCCC, Manchester
Gnarls Barkley have brought forward the release of their second album The Odd Couple.
Cee-Lo Green of the band said recently in an interview that the album is “really fucking good” and the sound on the record is “bigger, badder, bolder and more arena-friendly”.
The band have also re-shot the video for new single Run so that it can now be screened on MTV UK who had banned it due to excessive strobe lighting.
Be Your Own Pet have released a new video.
The Kelly Affair is taken from their new album Get Awkward which is out next week [March 17th] and follows up their self-titled debut from 2006. Check out the video by clicking right here.
Good Riddance have made a track from their new live record available online.
The 31 song set is brought together on Remain In Memory – The Final Show and is out next week on Fat Wreck Records. You can check out One For The Braves as well as Without Anger and Mother Superior by clicking here.
36 Crazyfists have posted a new song.
Absent Are The Saints is taken from their upcoming album The Tide And Its Takers which is being released on May 27th on Ferret.
Check out the track by clicking here.
What do you get when you cross rump shaking and Kate Moss? Well, once you’ve taken your minds out of the gutter, I’ll tell you. Kate Moss’ current squeeze and his band mate make up The Kills, and they’ve teamed up with Spank Rock’s XXXChange on production for their new album Midnight Boom.
The album is a catchy little record, with sing-a-long choruses and finger strumming melodies and these are in full effect for the track you can here above, Cheap And Cheerful. With the chorus telling us “I want you to be crazy, coz you’re boring baby when you’re straight / I want you to be crazy, coz you’re stupid baby when you’re sane” you can’t help but jump out of your seat and spaz out to the beat… right? RIGHT?
The rest of the album continues in the same vein and prove that even if the band aren’t making groundbreaking music, the underlying groove is there and you don’t even need to be dating some skinny oik from Croydon to appreciate it. Winner!
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The Ghost Of A Thousand
The Plight
Blackhole
Hexes
The Barfly, Camden
21.02.08
Words: Abjekt
Photos: Marianne Harris
I spend most of my time listening to hip hop and other beats-related music, but when a line up as good as this comes around, I couldn’t say no. We got to the venue towards the very end of the Hexes set and even in the short space of time we were there, it is clear to hear their love of Refused.
Blackhole were up next as the confident youngest Carter stepped to the front to tell the crowd “We’re from a place called Hemel and we fucking love playing London”. The cheers subsided and Not That This Is A Bad Thing threw the floor-punching kids into a frenzy, leaving me feeling like the old man I now am. Blazing through Witches and Forever, the Southern Rock tinged band proved they have just what it takes to go places, and justified their addition to the upcoming Every Time I Die tour.
Leeds’ The Plight stormed the stage with the barrelling drum intro to Clarendon, whipping the already pumped crowd up even further, heads thrashing, arms flailing and feet kicking their way around the full Barfly. Pull The Trigger and It Only Gets Worse pounded out before some new tracks were showcased. On the strength of tonight’s performance, The Plight are one of those must-see live bands, they were fucking belting.
Then it was time for headliners The Ghost Of A Thousand. The crowd were baying for the Brighton hardcore five piece and they didn’t disappoint, charging headfirst into the brilliant tracks Left For Dead, Bored Of Math and Black Art Number 1, shouting out their dads and screaming their way so far into people’s eardrums that it was a surprise anyone was left with hearing at the finish.
A truly brilliant night with the 3 main bands giving their all and sucking as much energy from the crowd as they were giving out on stage.
With Santogold being touted as the next thing to blow up and the world salivating over the likes of electro kings Justice and MSTRKRFT, it’s to be expected that a host of similar artists are going to be popping up all over the place.
Whilst you may have to sift through a lot of crap, the odd gem pops its head up and twinkles at you, beckoning you to have a listen, play the next song, throw on a reload and check it out again. He Say She Say are just that type of gem.
Unsigned, they only have two songs on their MySpace but what belters both of those songs are. Modesty Is Key starts off with a little bit of fuzz, then some handclaps, a triangle and then the drums which bounce around as Drea twirls her voice around the beat.
“You wanna slide your fingers down my sweater vest” – That’s the sort of lyrics you can expect, so what are you waiting for? Get clicking!
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Future of the Left have just released their video for new single Manchasm on YouTube this morning.
The choon is released via Too Pure Records as a 7″ and as a download single and includes ‘Suddenly It’s A Folk Song‘ and a previously unreleased track ‘Sum Of All Parts.’
See the band that includes ex members of Jarcrew and McCluskey at the following dates:
Apr 02 Oxford – Jericho Tavern
Apr 03 Brighton – Audio
Apr 04 Cardiff – Clwb Ifor Bach
Apr 06 Leeds – Cockpit
Apr 07 Nottingham – Bodega
Apr 08 Bristol – Louisiana
Apr 09 Glasgow – Stereo
Apr 10 Sheffield – Fuzz Club (Sheffield University Union)
Apr 13 Dublin – Whelans (Bud Rising)
Apr 14 Manchester – Roadhouse
Apr 21 London – Garage