Category: Music

Chokehold will make their national television debut as part of Harvey Goldsmith’s ‘Get Your Act Together – The Showdown’.

Catch the hard rocking quintet performing their track ‘Post Work Syndrome’, plus a cover of the Saxon classic ‘20,000 Feet’ on E4 at 10pm on Tuesday April 10th.

The band will also be joining heavy metal legends Saxon for their UK/Ireland tour this coming May. Full dates are as follows:

14th – Academy 2 – Manchester
15th – Astoria – London
16th – Rock City – Nottingham
17th – Temple Bar Music Centre – Dublin
18th – The Garage – Glasgow
20th – Civic Hall – Wolverhampton
21st – Coal Exchange – Cardiff
23rd – Spring & Airbrake – Belfast

www.chokehold-metal.com

Patti Smith has confirmed that her new album Twelve will be a covers album.

The record will feature covers of Stevie Wonder’s Pastime Paradise, Neil Young’s Helpless, Everybody Wants To Rule The World by Tears For Fears and other tracks by the likes of Paul Simon, Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana and Bob Dylan.

The album, due to be released on April 16th, will feature Flea, Television’s Tom Verlaine and Rich Robinson from The Black Crowes as well as her son Jackson and daughter Jesse. The tracklisting is:

‘Are You Experienced?’
‘Everybody Wants To Rule The World’
‘Helpless’
‘Gimme Shelter’
‘Within You Without You’
‘White Rabbit’
‘Changing Of The Guards’
‘The Boy In The Bubble’
‘Soul Kitchen’
‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’
‘Midnight Rider’
‘Pastime Paradise’

She will also tour the UK and Ireland in May:

10th – Kendal Arts Centre
11th – Ulverston Coronation Hall
13th – Dublin Vicar Street
17th – London Roundhouse
19th – Minehead – All Tomorrow’s Parties
20th – Liverpool Carling Academy
22nd – Glasgow ABC
23rd – Gateshead Sage
24th – Sheffield The Plug

www.pattismith.net

New signings to Earache and Crossfire favourites SSS tore it up whilst playing a gig on the Daffodil Ferry on the Mersey for a show for Channel 4.

After the band’s performance, its believed that the ship’s hull was cracked and the ship went down one mile from the shore. Foxy, SSS’ frontman said:

“The fact that we never soundchecked and we were sandwiched between two indie bands was great. No-one realy knew what to expect. Especially Channel 4 who I thought were going to go flying as they were in the pit with expensive cameras filming!”

The show is due to air a week on Friday [6th] and promises some thrashingly good noise. Make sure you check them out on tour as they support the June release of Short Sharp Shock:

March:

30th – The Snooty Fox, Wakefield
30th – The Pilgrim, Liverpool

April:

14th – The Engine Room, Brighton
15th – The Old Blue Last, London

June:

4th – Music Box, Manchester
14th – The Barfly, Liverpool

www.myspace.com/shortsharpshock

The new Bad Brains album just dropped into here at HQ via courier in the US and on first listen fans will be relieved to know that it has more in common with ‘Rock for Light‘ than any other BB record.

The anticipation as it hit the stereo was pretty immense but now it’s debut has graced our ears, we are stoked as it is a great blend of straight up raging hardcore as only Bad Brains know how to do accompanied by a wonderful helping of dub tunes.

Before you flood us with requests for copies, hold that thought. Our sister company Division will be handling all UK press for the band and there’s no way it will leave the safe!

To remind yourself of how they used to rip it up, click here.

Minneapolis’ independent hip hop’s heavyweights, Rhymesayers Entertainment, have signed a distribution deal with Warner Music Group’s Independent Label Group.

The home of Atmosphere, I Self Divine, Brother Ali, Psalm One, Soul Position, MF Doom et al will see the ILG control their catalogue and distribute their albums via Alternative Distribution Alliance.

The first release to come under this deal is Brother Ali’s upcoming album The Undisputed Truth, which is due for release on April 10th.

RSE co-founder Brent “Siddiq” Sayers said of the deal:

“If we have someone who wants to be on a major label, we can, in fact, do that. But if we have someone, like Atmosphere, who does not want to do that, we can keep doing what we’re doing and bring in some select [promotional/marketing] services”.

Brother Ali will be hitting Notting Hill’s YoYo club on April 5th. Be there!

www.rhymesayers.com

Adam Pfahler of Jawbreaker has posted a comment about the documentary being made on the band.

He said that interviews are being lined up and shooting is continuing despite certain distributers not willing to pick up the finishing cost finishing by saying “the boys are still shooting and hoping to finish by December. We’ll see…”.

Jawbreaker have also submitted a demo of “I Love You So Much…(from Dear You)” for the For Callum compilation, a song which has never been available and has been described as “the ace up our sleeve”.

www.blackballrecords.com

Marilyn Manson has spoken out regarding his new album and a forthcoming tour.

Speaking online, Manson said that he would debut live versions of his new songs at this summer’s European festivals. Of the album Eat Me, Drink Me, he said it represents exactly who he is and what he felt at the time of writing the tracks.

Song titles include If I Was Your Vampire [a six minute epic], Just A Car Crash Away, The Red Carpet Grave and the first single Putting Holes In Happiness, a song which he describes as “A romantic-misogynistic-cannibal-gothic-vampire-ballad”.

There is no set date for release but it is thought that the album will drop sometime in June.

www.marilynmanson.com

Canadian duo Tegan and Sara have brought in some guests for their next album.

The Con is due out in July and was co-produced by Death Cab For Cutie’s Christopher Walla at his own Alberta Court studio. The Death Cab connection continues in the form of Jason McGerr playing drums on the album with bass duties being handled by Hunter Burgan of AFI and The Rentals’ Matt Sharp. The tracklisting is:

I Was Married
Relief Next To Me
The Con
Knife Going In
Are You Ten Years Ago
Back In Your Head
Hop A Plane
Soil, Soil
Burn Your Life Down
Nineteen
Floorplan
Like O, Like H
Dark Come Soon
Call It Off

www.teganandsara.com

A video for a song that Tim Armstrong wrote has been put up on YouTube and features both Skye Sweetnam and the Aggrolites.

Into Action was written for Sweetnam’s new album Sound Soldier and was apparently re-recorded for the version which is playing in the video. It is thought that the song might also appear on the Rancid frontman’s digital solo album, A Poet’s Life.

To check out the video click here.

Mest’s singer will not be facing murder charges.

Anthony Lovato has been freed after prosecutors turned down the option of filing charges against him according to reports.

A spokesperson for the district attorney’s office said there wasn’t enough evidence to prove that the killing “was not a justified use of force in self-defence.”