Fopp’s New Music Award winners to release EP.
Fopp recently announced the winners of the Fopp Award For New Music 2006 with Conrad Vingoe, Olympus Mons, Morton Valence and The Dials scooping the prizes.
The bands will be putting out their own respective EPs and a showcase of the material is going to be held at Dingwalls in Camden on the 22nd of February.
www.conradvingoe.co.uk / www.theolympusmons.com / www.mortonvalence.co.uk / www.thedials.co.uk
Dinosaur Jr will be releasing a live DVD in May.
The DVD will feature footage from their set at the Middle East club in Boston, with small sections from other venues on their December 2005 reunion tour.
The DVD, Dinosaur Jr: Live From The Middle East, features 18 live songs, behind-the-scenes footage and a documentary. The new album, their first with the original line up since 1988, will be called Beyond and is set for a May 1st release.
The DVD’s tracklisting is:
Gargoyle
Kracked
Bulbs of Passion
Little Fury Things
Lose
Forget the Swan
The Post
Budge
The Lung
The Wagon
Raisans
SludgeFeast
Mountain Man
Chunks
Freak Scene
In a Jar
Repulsion
Just Like Heaven
The Ruff And Ready Tour is hitting the UK this month and will feature four great punk bands.
The King Blues, Sonic Boom Six, Failsafe and Mouthwash will all be showcasing their talent as they kick their way through the country on a musical assault.
You’ll be able to hear punk with dub, folky protest songs, rock and dirty old grime on this tour, so check the flyer and head out to one of the shows!
You Me And The Atom Bomb are out on a UK tour.
The band will be playing a number of shows up and down the country with pop-punkers From Plan To Progress in the next week or so. The tour dates are below, and the boys will be off to Europe and North America after this little UK run.
In other news, the boys have put a re-cap of their year [2006] on their myspace, detailing things like touring, recording, writing, going to the States to play Fest V and much more. Right, these tour dates then:
February:
7th – Peterborough : The Met Lounge
8th – Leamington Spa : Jug and Jester
9th – Harlow : The Square
10th – Kingston-upon-Thames : Fighting Cox
11th – Brighton : Belushis
Think of Jared Leto and you’ll probably think of his gritty roles in Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for A Dream, playing a messed up gun runner in Lord Of War and pummelling the crap out of Brad Pitt in Fight Club ( oh..and if you’re a girl you’ll probably remember Jordan Catalono in My So-Called Life…) – but it’s his role as frontman with his jagged edged act 30 Seconds to Mars that starting to cause waves.
Formed back in 2002, Leto has now bought onto board Shannon Leto on drums, Tom Milicevic on guitars and Matt Wachter on bass to complete a line up that’s got people talking. The band have sold over 900,000 copies of their Josh Abraham produced album ‘A Beautiful Lie’ in the US, and have now set their sights firmly on the UK market. ‘Attack‘ is our first taster of what’s coming our way, and what an introduction it is. Epic guitars and a chorus that digs under your skin ” Run away..run away and I’ll attack’ roared out by Leto. The track punches out emotive cries soaring up to aggressive threats, it’s a broad sounding single, with a power-pop slant and giant choruses that can’t hurt it in the charts.
Taken at face value, ‘Attack‘ is a impressive debut from the band, but realistically, it’s nothing we haven’t heard before really – it could be Gerard Way singing vocals, or any one of the kohl-eyed frontman you can’t escape from. In a commercial sense, 30 Seconds To Mars are a dream, and kudos to Leto for making the switch from actor to frontman with such panache, and they’re sure to be a runaway success ( their only two UK dates had to be upgraded to larger venues and still sold out). And to be honest, so what if they sound similar to other american acts – with all the same same gritty indie bands out there, 30 Seconds to Mars and their LA sheen and eye candy frontman could be just what the doctor ordered. Just turn it up and enjoy.
Dee Massey
Self Core head honcho and badass DJ Mr Dibbs will be releasing Eat Meat Vol. 2.
The DJ’s label, SelfCore Records, will team up with Pinky Ring Records on the new record. The owner of Pinky Ring, Chris Duett commented on the record by saying there would be stuff from Johnny Cash, xReignOfTerrorx, Wintch Mob, Nervous Breakdown, Swamburger, X:144 & SPS and S.K.I.P. The record is due out in Spring.
Turntablist extraordinaire streams his first ever single.
Mike Relm, who has recently toured with Mike Patton’s Peeping Tom and now the Blue Man Group, recently blogged on his myspace with a link to his new single. The track is called Body Rock and you can check it out by clicking the link below.
Propagandhi will be releasing their first ever live DVD in April.
The DVD, Live From Occupied Territory, is intended to benefit the Middle East Children’s Alliance and the Grassy Narrows Blockade. The record label said that the DVD has been meticulously planned and still holds a 100% DIY style.
It was last 62 minutes and features footage from The Zoo in Winnipeg from July 2003. The release date has been set for April 24th.
Apple computers and The Beatles have reached an agreement.
The dispute comes from the clash over the name and logo of the two companies – Apple Corps, the record company of The Beatles and Apple Inc, who make Apple Macs and iPods. The agreement sees Apple Inc taking control of the name, but will licence certainly individual trademarks back to the label.
Whilst the details are confidential, it’s thought that the deal may see The Beatles’ music made available on the iTunes Music Store.
Nine Inch Nails will be releasing their new album in April.
The band will put the record in shops in mid-April and have named it Year Zero and will feature the track The Beginning Of The End. The album, the follow up to With Teeth, was recorded in LA and will be the band’s seventh album.
In addition to the album, the band’s live DVD – Beside You In Time – will be released this month featuring live footage from their 2006 tour. Trent Reznor will also be a guest on the upcoming El-P album, I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead.