Category: Music

Blur bassist Alex James has hinted that Graham Coxon might be about to do a U-turn and rejoin Blur, the band he left in 2002. James said, in the Sunday Times:

“I’ve been talking to Graham and there might be some good news,” he said. “It’s by no means in the bag, but it looks quite promising. Maybe the time is right. We’ve always left the door open for him, so that’s what I’m hoping for.”

It has also been suggested that as soon as Albarn has finished live dates with his new band, The Good The Bad And The Queen, Blur would be back in the studio to work on the new album, which might well be their last [let’s hope it isn’t! – Abjekt].

www.blur.co.uk

Texas’ …Trail Of Dead have announced their will be playing a 12 dates tour to support their fifth album So Divided. The dates are:

February:

12th – Birmingham Academy
13th – Dublin TBMC
14th – Glasgow Oran Mor
15th – Manchester Academy
17th – Leeds Cockpit
18th – Bristol Thekla Social
19th – Oxford Zodiac
20th – London Koko
22nd – Brighton Concorde
23rd – Northampton Roadmender
24th – Liverpool Carling Academy
25th – Nottingham Rescue Rooms

www.trailofdead.com

More news incoming on Bad Religion’s forthcoming album sessions. Jay Bentley of the band has said:

“Brooks is heading down to Australia with Tenacious D this month, and Brian, Hetson and myself are heading to Vegas for the punk rock bowling tournament. Greg and Brett are busily putting on the final touches to their songs and as soon as Brooks gets back we’re heading to Cleveland, Ohio to play with Paramore, Pennywise and the Bouncing Souls at the Warped Tours’ induction into the rock and roll hall of fame…

After that we’re going to start working on the new record in February, recording in Hollywood. Graffin will be teaching this semester at UCLA, so he’ll be bouncing back and forth between the studio and the classroom. We’ll kidnap him for the summer when we go out on the Warped Tour and yes, we are doing the entire tour”

Watch this space!

www.badreligion.com

Lagwagon have announced that they will be touring Europe in April for 3 weeks to support their last album Resolve. The jaunt will see them play some UK dates, which are:

April:

10th – Birmingham Barfly
11th – Nottingham Rock City
12th – Manchester Hope n Grape
14th – London Mean Fiddler

www.lagwagon.com

Minnesotan band Low will be playing a date in London in February before going on tour throughout April onwards. They will also be palying 3 dates at All Tomorrow’s Parties in Somerset in April. They also plan to release their new album Drums And Guns on March 20th.

February:

15th – London The Spitz

April:

27th-29th – All Tomorrow’s Parties Somerset Butlins Holiday Resort Minehead

www.chairkickers.com

Art of the Underground has announced it will be releasing its Year Two boxed set for its Single Series.

The set contains all the singles which were released on the label’s limited edition run and includes tracks by The Ergs, Bayonettes, Off With Their Heads, Monikers, Ringers and Lemuria. Only 250 of the are being made, but can be preordered from the website.

www.artoftheunderground.com

The newest supergroup to emerge in hip hop is that of Talib Kweli and Madlib, who have put out their collaboration on the internet for free. That’s right, you heard me, free. You can download the Zip file of the album, Liberation, from the link below.

www.rappcats.com

After the discounted advance tickets sold out in record time, the full price 2 day and 1 day tickets for 2007’s Camden Crawl are now available. The event will take place in the 19th and 20th of April starting at midday each day, seeing extra events being brought in, like acoustic sessions and fan forums.

www.gigsandtours.com / www.thecamdencrawl.com

Modest Mouse have released their first single from their new album, which was due out in December last year but got pushed back into early 2007.

The group, who have recently added Smiths’ guitarist Johnny Marr to the line up, have named the record We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank. Check their myspace on the link below to hear the single, Dashboard.

www.myspace.com/modestmouse

Yellowcard have been posting updates on their myspace blog as they record their new album. The album, the follow up to last year’s Lights And Sounds, the album which the band talked about on the blog:

“We were so proud of how artistic we were, And I think we showed too much. I think maybe we were a little too jaded and a little too dark, and I think that the lack of hope and faith that we put on this record made us a little less sparkly and light to people”

www.myspace.com/yellowcard