Category: Music

Metric are set to release their first-ever live DVD in February.

The DVD will be titled Live At Metropolis and will feature the band’s sold out performance in Montreal whilst touring their album Live It Out. There will also be 3 music videos included on the disc. The tracklist is:

‘Live it Out’
‘Glass Ceiling’
‘Wet Blanket’
‘Too Little Too Late’
‘Poster of a Girl’
‘Patriarch on a Vespa’
‘Monster Hospital’
‘Handshakes’
‘The Police and the Private’
‘Hustle Rose’
‘Combat Baby’
‘Dead Disco’
‘Love is a Place’

Music Videos:

‘Monster Hospital’
‘Poster of a Girl’
‘Empty’

www.ilovemetric.com

Nice and simple news: Jeffrey Lewis is playing Cargo on December 18th.

Crossfire love him and so should you. See you there!

www.thejeffreylewissite.com

Comeback Kid are planning a live DVD.

The Canadian band have started recording live footage and backstage antics for the DVD whilst touring Europe with Cancer Bats, Parkway Drive, This Is Hell and The Warriors. Discussing the DVD, the band said:

“When we get to Leipzig on November 23 we will be shooting the live show with a full camera crew. So basically what we’re asking is get out to the shows get as crazy as you can stagediving, singing along or getting interviewed while waiting in line outside before the show and you may find yourself on our DVD.”

www.comeback-kid.com

The NME Shockwaves Awards Tour 2008 line up has been announced.

The Cribs will headline the tour, which kicks off in Belfast in January, with Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong, Does It Offend You Yeah? and The Ting Tings completing the bill. The opening slot, taken by The Ting Tings has previously been filled by Kaiser Chiefs, Coldplay and Franz Ferdinand. The dates are:

January:

29th – Belfast Mandela Hall (January 29)
30th – Dublin Ambassador Theatre (30)

February:

1st – Glasgow Barrowland (February 1)
2nd – Manchester Academy (2)
3rd – Newcastle Carling Academy (3)
4th – Lincoln Engine Shed (4)
6th – Birmingham Carling Academy (6)
7th – Liverpool University (7)
8th – Leeds University (8)
11th – Sheffield Octagon (11)
12th – Nottingham Rock City (12)
13th – Norwich UEA (13)
15th – Cambridge Corn Exchange (15)
16th – Leicester University (16)
17th – Oxford Carling Academy (17)
19th – Bristol Carling Academy (19)
20th – Cardiff University (20)
21st – Portsmouth Pyramid (21)
22nd – London Brixton Academy (22)

www.nme.com

Smashing Pumpkins have announced a new string of UK dates for next year.

Billy Corgan’s band will return to support this year’s album Zeitgeist by playing the following four shows in February 2008:

12th – Glasgow SECC
14th – Nottingham Arena
15th – Manchester MEN Arena
16th – London 02 Arena

www.smashingpumpkins.com

Plans for an $800 million rock and roll theme park in Arizona have been announced.

The park is to be called Decades, and will be divided into separate regions that represent decades from the 1960s to the present. The 1960s section, for example, will emphasise the British Invasion and Motown, while the 1980s would focus on the rise of the music video.

Park attractions may include The Beach Boys wave pool, the Grand Funk Railroad and the Hotel California. Developers hope to complete the park by 2012 and expect approximately six million visitors a year, according to the Arizona Star.

Coachella organisers have announced the dates for next year’s event.

The festival will run for 3 days instead of 2 and will take place from April 25th to 27th at the Empire Polo Field in Indio, California. The line up won’t be announced until 2008 but rumours are My Blood Valentine will reform to headline.

www.coachella.com

Sufjan Stevens has launched a Christmas song exchange.

According to reports, the singer-songwriter’s Great Sufjan Xmas Xchange will see fans writing an original Christmas song, recording it and emailing the song to the label.

Asthmatic Kitty will then pick a winner and “that person will trade rights to their song for rights to Sufjan song…Sufjan Sufjan’s song becomes your song. You can hoard it for yourself, sell it to a major soft drink corporation, use it in your daughter’s first Christmas video, or share it for free on your website. No one except Sufjan and you will hear his song, unless you decide otherwise. You get the song and all legal rights to it. We get the same rights to your song.”

Legal details can be seen here.

Illness has blighted what is rumoured to be the last ever Hell Is For Heroes tour.

Citing “recurring illness” the London post hardcore quintet have cancelled the last 3 dates of their tour. Last night’s Cardiff dates, tonight’s show at Islington Academy and the November 14th show in Tilburg are casualties in what the band have described as their last tour until their “reunion tour of 2037”. The band explained in an email to fans that they’d be working on other projects and potentially a fourth Hell Is For Heroes album.

If you had tickets for any of the cancelled dates you can request a refund from the ticket agent, or hold tight and wait for the shows to be rescheduled in the new year.

Get better soon guys!

www.hellisforheroes.net

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