3 Inches Of Blood have just been added to Opeth’s upcoming UK tour.
The line up is completed by Arch Enemy and Devildriver and will kick off in April for the following dates:
23rd – Birmingham Academy
24th – Glasgow, Barrowlands
25th – Manchester, Academy
26th – London, Academy
Death Cab For Cutie have promised to throw a “curve ball” on their new album.
The band, who hit the mainstream with their Plans album, have said there will be some surprises on the new record which is expected to be released this year.
Speaking on the album, the band said it will be “a really polarizing record…The landscape of the thing is way, way more lunar than the urban meadow sort of thing that has been happening for the last couple of records”.
Brian Bell of Weezer posted a small update on the band’s new album.
Despite rumours of the band splitting after their 2005 album Make Believe, they are still very much together and have finished recording the new record. Bell said:
“I think it’s our best yet. Never have the four of us worked so hard and passionately on an album and we all look forward to performing this culmination of our talents and combined knowledge in 2008 in a city near you!”
Kid Down are to release an acoustic EP called Red Lights on January 28th.
The digital EP will featured 4 tracks from their Burning Heart debut And The Noble Art Of Irony in acoustic form plus one exclusive new song: Good Shituations which the band describe as “a killer pop song doing 200 miles per hour”.
Red Lights track listing:
1. Red Lights
2. Good Shituations
3. On A Line
4. Who’s Your Villain
5. Cut/Paste
A night of live music and film presented by Henry Rollins will be held to pay tribute to Paul Fox of The Ruts.
The Alabama 3, TV Smith, Captain Sensible & Friends, Max Splodge, The Glass Heroes and members of The Members will be playing their own songs as well as their favourite Ruts tracks over the evening before the screening of The Gig takes place.
The film highlights the show that was put on for Paul Fox which turned out to be the last gig he ever played, you can read the review of it here. Tickets for the show at Shepherds Bush Empire cost £10 and can be bought from www.theruts.bigcartel.com.
Morrissey is in talks to play in Iran.
The former Smiths frontman, who releases a new single on January 28th, is negotiating a gig in Tehran in June with the aim of performing with the Arab singer Kazem al-Sahir. In the meantime Morrissey will play the following dates:
21st-27th January – London Roundhouse
30th January – Doncaster Dome
1st February – Sunderland Empire
2nd February – Edinburgh Playhouse
A tour that’s bound to get fists pumping will see The Plight touring with The Ghost Of A Thousand, Blackhole and Hexes.
The dates are in February on:
15th – Cardiff, Ifor Bach
16th – Yeovil, Orange Box
17th – Leeds, Cockpit
18th – Glasgow, King Tuts
19th – Manchester, Music Box
20th – Stoke, Sugarmill
21st – London, Barfly
22nd – Birmingham, Barfly
23rd – Brighton, Freebutt
Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh has got a full and in-depth interview on the Fecal Face site.
Here what Mark has to say about bands, creating music for adverts, and his thoughts on setting up his latest art exhibition by clicking here.
There’s lots of photos of his artwork and plenty of Mark and the Devo boys from back in the day, worth a read.
Word on the street is that the following artists are to play this years Give It A Name festival.
Rumours are saying that Fall Out Boy, Killswitch Engage, The Color Fred, Angels & Airwaves, Team Sleep and New Found Glory will appear as well as Soulja Boy and Kanye West. It has been confirmed that the full line up will be offcially announced on the 9th January.
If Soulja Boy plays, Abjekt expects every single person in the arena to do the Crank That dance or he’ll kick every single one of you.
Alexisonfire’s Dallas Green’s acoustic project City And Colour has re-emerged with a track ‘Waiting‘ now playing on his Myspace page.
The track is taken from the album ‘Bring Me Your Love‘ (also the title of a book by Charles Bukowski) which sees a release in late February through Vagrant Records.
To listen to the song click here