Brooklyn based Indie rock group The National are set to release a brand new album this coming May. No other concrete details have emerged as of yet, but the record will be released through the band’s regular label 4AD.
A brief European tour will accompany the release, which will find the band playing the Royal Albert Hall on 6th May.
Download Festival has announced AC/DC as one of this year’s headliners as well as a string of other acts. Joining the Classic Rock giants will be the likes of supergroup Them Crooked Vultures, Deftones, Stone Temple Pilots and Megadeth.
Download Festival takes place at Donington Park between June 11th and 13th. See website for full details.
In an exclusive interview with Absolute Punk, Jeremiah Edmond has revealed that he’ll be leaving Manchester Orchestra in order to concentrate on his record label responsibilities with Favorite Gentlemen.
He remains firm friends with all members but felt that it was time to concentrate on the label to bring it to the next level.
Manchester Orchestra – Shake It Out
Irish thrash metal band Gama Bomb have released last year’s Tales from the Grave in Space on physical formats for the first time. While the record was initially offered as a free download in 2009, fans of the band can now pick up the record on limited edition vinyl (100 copies) or alternatively on CD for just £4.99.
The CD version also comes with a bonus EP consisting of five brand news songs. The Full tracklist reads;
01. Slam Anthem
02. New Eliminators of Atlantis B.C.
03. Three Witches
04. Last Ninjas Unite
05. Escape from Scarecrow Mountain
06. Mussolini Mosh
07. We Respect You
08. Apocalypse 1997
09. Return to Blood Castle
10. Polterghost
11. Skeletron
12. Mummy Invasion
HALF CUT EP (limited edition bonus disc)
01. Cellar Dweller
02. Deep Red
03. Curry Chip
04. Welcome Back to Life
05. Exhumed Maniac
Having nearly completed work on their forthcoming second album, south Wales’ Attack! Attack! Have announced their first string of dates of 2010.
As well as now seasoned material from their 2008 debut, this will be the first chance to sample the band’s new album which looks likely to see a Summer release.
Attack Attack Will Play;
April
30 – Borderline
May
01 – Birmingham 02 Academy 3
02 – Newcastle 02 Academy 2
03 – Glasgow King Tut’s
04 – Aberdeen Warehouse
06 – Sheffield Corporation
07 – Oxford 02 Academy 2
08 – Southampton Joiners
09 – Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach
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Riding the wave of the recent surf pop revival are West Palm Beach, Florida’s Surfer Blood. Bad puns and genre tags aside, though, Surfer Blood have crafted one of the year’s first great rock records and marked themselves out as one to watch for 2010.
The band’s vision is never more brilliantly realised as on Swim; a near perfect three minute slice of anthemic power pop. This is one of those occasions where a band catches a moment’s inspiration and gets a song so right that it would be difficult to argue against it. Like anything from Weezer’s Blue album, or The Get Up Kids Something to Write Home About, Swim is as instant as they come and doesn’t look likely to get old anytime soon.
With debut album Astro Coast now officially released, Surfer Blood have caught the Zeitgeist at a good tim,e and look likely to be an early critics favourite for the year. Check out the band performing on their run of late night American talkshows, before they arrive in the UK next month.
Sleekly Lion.
Kyle Leeper is cruising, are you?
Pixies’ frontman Black Francis is set to release a new solo record this April, after playing a series of shows with the band this Spring. The album, entitled NonStopErotik, will be released on April 5th.
The tracklist reads as follows;
‘Lake Of Sin’
‘O My Tidy Sum’
‘Rabbits’
‘Wheels’
‘Dead Man’s Curve’
‘Corrina’
‘Six Legged Man’
‘Wild Son’
‘When I Go Down On You’
‘Nonstoperotik’
‘Cinema Star’
Sam Eastgate, frontman of indie electro outfit Late of the Pier, has outlined his intention to launch a new band this year. Teaming up with an as yet unnamed drummer, Eastgate will form a duo set to road test material in Japan, before eventually coming to the UK.
Speaking in an interview with NME.com, the singer also revealed that a new Late of the Pier album is “unlikely” in 2010.
Good morning Britain, wake up and smell the kickflip on this…Chris Pfanner flies the flag for AH once again. If you want more we suggest you get yourself a copy of the Beauty and the Beast 2 DVD that just came out, watched it last night and it’s full of hammers from both Girl and Anti Hero teams on the road.