Category: Music

Stretch Arm Strong will be heading back to the UK this month with last year’s tour mates, Story Of The Year in April. They have also announced two headline dates:

The dates are:

Tue 11 Birmingham Academy
Wed 12 Manchester Academy
Thu 13 London Astoria
Fri 14 Brighton Corn Exchange
Sat 15 Cardiff Univ
Sun 16 Trowbridge Terrys Club HEADLINE SHOW!
Mon 17 Leeds Met Univ
Tue 18 Glasgow ABC
Weds 19 Bacchus nightclub in Kingston HEADLINE SHOW!

Stretch Arm Strong are continuing to tour in support of the latest album, Free At Last. Check out their new singleThe Sound of Names Dropping on MTV, Scuzz and the video on Myspace.com

www.stretcharmstrong.net and www.myspace.com/stretcharmstrong

Radiohead are back in the studio with Mark Stent working on the follow up to the Hail To The Thief album, saying that, contrary to rumours, the album won’t be politically based. Thom Yorke claims it is about anonymous fear, and compared it to writing OK Computer, though he said it is “much more terrifying”.

New tracks such as Arpeggi, House Of Cards, 15 Step and Nude are among the favourites to make the new album and Yorke also said he is optimistic that the band are getting the songs right and ready for the upcoming tour.

www.radiohead.com has all the trimmings.

The Foo Fighters are gearing up for an acoustic tour, which will include a violinist, a pianist and a percussionist and will start rehearsing as soon as drummer Taylor Hawkins returns from his tour with side project The Coattail Riders.

The plan is to tour the In Your Honour album and dates will be announced in the future. This comes after the group announced they are to play Hyde Park and Cricket’s Old Trafford, as well as the Isle Of Wight festival.

Check out www.foofighters.com for all news.

Well, they did it. Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo’s Gnarls Barkley have made music history by becoming the first single to go to number one in the charts through download sales only. Crazy knocked Ne-Yo off the top spot and kept Morrissey away from the challenge by selling over 30,000 downloads.

Big ups to the duo, making history AND keeping shitty pop away from the top. Can’t say much fairer than that.

Meanwhile, Danger Mouse is going to keep himself busy by helping produce the new album for The Rapture, following their well receieved debut album Echoes.

www.gnarlsbarkley.com

White Rose Movement have hot footed it from SxSW in order to join up with Placebo as the support for the latter’s upcoming UK Tour. White Rose Movement have recently supported The Strokes, played on tour with The Rakes and been on their headline tour and have been earning a reputation for being a hard working and exciting new act.

Their new album Kick is due for release on the 17th of April with the band’s new single Girls In The Back released on Monday.

The April tour dates are:

3rd – Leicester : Princess Charlotte : Headline show
4th – Liverpool : Korova
5th – Blackpool : Empress Ball Room : With Placebo
6th – Glasgow : Academy : With Placebo
8th – Newcastle : Carling Academy : With Placebo
9th – Birmingham : The Academy : With Placebo
10th – Leeds : The Cockpit : Headline Show
11th – London : Alexandra Palace : With Placebo
13th – London : Insomniacs Ball: SeOne
15th – Dublin : Temple Bar Music Centre : Headline Show

Check out www.whiterosemovement.co.uk for more

Kids In Tracksuits, who have been championed by Kris Drew over in The Mix, are set to hit the road to bring their unique brand of hip hop madness to the whole country, culminating with a massive spot supporting Big Daddy Kane. Make sure you check them out if you can, as they are one of the mostly original and exciting groups in the UK.

The tour dates are:

Bristol – E-Shed – 14th April
London – Cargo w/ Lazy Habits – 20th April
Nottingham – Rescue Rooms – 21st April
Glasgow – 13th Note Cafe – 26th April
Dundee – Felt @ The Reading Rooms – 27th April
Birmingham – Drop Beats Not Bombs @ the Factory – 29th April
Nottingham – Detonate @ Rock City w/ Big Daddy Kane – 30th April

Check them out at: www.myspace.com/kidsintracksuits2

Courtney Love, former wife of the late Kurt Cobain, has sold 25% of Nirvana’s publishing catalogue to Larry Mestel, who is involved with Primary Wave Music Publishing.

She claimed that she couldn’t have all of the publishing catalogue because it was getting too much and so she sold the share to Mestel to help take the songs “into the future and into the next generation”.

Early meetings with Bono came to nothing, and not Love and her new partner must decide how they take the catalogue to “places its never been before”.

www.courtneylove.com

Snoop Dogg has had to cancel a show in Las Vegas thanks to the local police clamping down on rap acts in the city.

He was due to rap at a part held by Coors at a hotel but the hotel’s management asks Coors to take Snoop off the bill after pressure from the police and the Gaming Control Board of Nevada.

The concerns arose from the death of four Vegas hip hop artists last year with another death, this time of a policeman happening at the hands of a rapper.

www.snoopdogg.com

They’ve already won over the entire Crossfire crew and they are doing the same the country over as Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo’s Gnarls Barkley project is expected to make history by becoming the first ever number 1 achieved through download only.

The hit single Crazy which has gotten everyone from punks to grannies singing along is the first single to be taken from the upcoming album St Elsewhere. Make sure you grab a copy when it’s out and, if possible, check Gnarls out when they hit the Wireless festival.

www.gnarlsbarkley.com – you know the score.

Amusement Parks On Fire make a welcome return this summer with the release of their second album on June 5th titled Entitled Out Of The Angeles. This ambitious record is guaranteed to build the band’s dedicated fanbase (which includes the likes of Bob Mould, Elbow’s Guy Garvey, Snow Patrol’s Gary Lightbody and Bloc Party’s Gordon Moakes) who have been won over by APoF’s unique brand of psychedelic, emotional rock.

Amusement Parks On Fire head out on a UK tour this May, co-headlining with hotly tipped US band Scarling. Kicking off in Brighton on May 2nd, the tour concludes with an Amusement Parks On Fire headline show at London’s ULU on 16 May – full details below. In addition the band will be supporting Snow Patrol at London’s Forum on 6 May.

Out Of The Angeles is released on Pavilion Of The Dead / V2 on 5 June 2006. Album promos are available now.

TOUR

2 May Brighton, Concorde 2
3 May Birmingham, Barfly
4 May Sheffield, Fuzz Club
6 May London, Forum (with Snow Patrol)
7 May Norwich, Waterfront
8 May Manchester, Academy 3
9 May Newcastle, Academy 2
10 May Glasgow, King Tuts
12 May Leeds, Cockpit
14 May Bristol, Fleece
15 May Portsmouth, Wedgwood Rooms
16 May London, ULU