The Charlatans have announced 3 special dates in November.
Tickets for the events go on sale on September 21st at 9.30am, so make sure you get them quickly before they’re snapped up.
November:
3rd – Glasgow ABC
4th – Manchester Ritz
5th – London Shepherds Bush Empire
Queens Of The Stone Age have announced some new UK dates:
November:
23rd – Brighton Dome
24th – Liverpool Carling Academy
25th – Nottingham Rock City
26th – London Brixton Academy
28th – Glasgow Carling Academy
29th – Newcastle Carling Academy
December:
1st – Bristol Carling Academy
2nd – Manchester Apollo
3rd – Birmingham Carling Academy
4th – Reading Rivermead
Perry Farrell has launched a new label.
The Jane’s Addiction frontman will release Satellite Party’s Ultra Payloaded album on the Bells Are Ringing label. Farrell formed the label to gain more financial control and artistic freedom and went on to say:
“I’m very excited to become part of this new independent trend where artists will have more creative freedom, make higher profits on the sales of their music and most of all it allows me, the artist, to own my art, my masters.”
Pennie has left The Automatic.
The keyboard player and backing singer announced his departure earlier this week citing his growing apart from the rest of the band and the last year being “increasingly unenjoyable” as reasons for leaving.
The rest of the band will continue on and plan to fly to the States for the recording of the 2nd album soon.
Exploding onto the scene with last year’s ‘Romantic Type‘ Leeds indie-maestros The Pigeon Detectives build on the success of ‘I’m Not Sorry’ with a punchy, up beat night out anthem ‘Take Her Back’.
Debating age gaps and whether 22 years old guy can take a 31 year old or a teenager home, the 5 piece have successfully recreated the successful formula of their previous singles, with choppy guitars, shouty vocals and tongue in cheek lyrics.
Whilst it slides easily into the realms of predictability, there’s no denying the lads from Leeds have hit on the right blueprint for another indie/pop hit, and this’ll only help raise their profile even more. With a UK tour including 3 night stand at The Kentish Town Forum heading towards selling out, it seems there’s no stopping them. Resistance is futile…
Dee Massey
A new Ween album is on the horizon.
La Cucaracha contains 13 tracks and is the first full length album from the group in 4 years. Speaking on the album, Dean Ween said:
“The album kicks ass, I’m not really sure what else to say about it other than I really can’t wait for it’s release. There’s not a wasted minute of music on there. We wrote and recorded a ton of material before we whittled it down to it’s present state. I really, I mean really can’t wait for you guys to hear it. I think you’re gonna be floored.”
There are also rumours that Ween will be playing live in Europe in 2008, so keep those fingers crossed.
Atreyu and Still Remains will be teaming up for a UK tour.
Both bands have been touring all summer, with Still Remains on the Warped Tour and Atreyu on Family Values but they are happy to be coming to the UK. TJ Miller of Still Remains said:
“The UK is like a second home to us! We think of our fans as extended family so are looking forward to seeing as many as possible. Not to mention getting to play a few more new songs for them!”
The dates of the tour are:
November:
14th – Glasgow QMU
15th – Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
16th – Sheffield Corporation
17th – Manchester Academy 2
19th – London Astoria
Gorillaz will be putting out a new b-sides record.
D-Sides will be released on November 5th and will feature early demos and unreleased tracks as well as b-sides from the Demon Days album. There will also be a bonus CD of remixed tracks:
CD1:
’68 State’ (Feel Good Inc. B-Side)
‘People’ (Dare Demo)
‘Hongkongaton’ (Dirty Harry B-Side)
‘We Are Happy Landfill’ (Website Only Download)
‘Hong Kong’ (Warchild Track)
‘Highway (Under Construction)’ (Dare B-Side)
‘Rockit’ (Demo – Demon Days Session)
‘Bill Murray’ (Feel Good Inc. B-Side)
‘The Swagga’ (Demon Days Ltd. Edition)
‘Murdoc Is God’ (Dirty Harry B-Side)
‘Spitting Out The Demons’ (Feel Good Inc. B-Side)
‘Don’t Get Lost In Heaven’ (Demo Version)
‘Stop The Dams’ (Kids With Guns/El Manana B-side)
CD2:
‘DARE’ (DFA Remix)
‘Feel Good Inc’ (Stanton Warriors Remix)
‘Kids With Guns’ (Jamie T’s Turns To Monsters Mix)
‘DARE’ (Soulwax Remix)
‘Kids With Guns’ (Hot Chip Remix)
‘El Manana’ (Metronomy Remix)
‘DARE’ (Junior Sanchez Remix)
‘Dirty Harry’ (Chinese New Years Version)
‘Kids With Guns’ (Quiet Village Remix)
Pulling Teeth have posted two new songs online.
Martyr Immortal and Dead Is Dead, which can both be found on their upcoming Martyr Immortal album, can be heard by clicking right here.
And don’t forget that Pulling Teeth were featured on one of our None More Punk radio shows which you can hear by going here!
Brendan Canty of Fugazi has spoken out about the band’s hiatus.
In an interview with Billboard, the drummer said that Fugazi was always supposed to function at full speed, and when they got to the point of functioning at quarter speed, it stopped feeling like Fugazi. He went on to say that if the time ever came around when it felt right to do another Fugazi record, they would, adding:
“We’ve turned down a lot of money in the past to do things we weren’t comfortable with. Fugazi would get together to play Maxwell’s. We wouldn’t get together to play Coachella. No amount of money would get us out of our houses.”