Neo-gothic Punks American Eyes are hitting these shores for the first time as they support Thursday and Taking Back Sunday. The quintent from LA will also play their own headline show at Camden’s Barfly, where the first 50 people through the doors will get a free copy of their EP and the Warped Tour’s 2006 compilation that features one of their tracks.
Check out an unedited version of their new video on their site here.
Their dates are:
May
26th – Oxford Zodiac w/ Thursday
27th – Liverpool Uni w/ Taking Back Sunday
28th – Manchester Academy w/ Thursday
29th – Glasgow Garage w/ Thursday
30th – Birmingham Academy w/ Thursday
31st – Portsmouth Wedgwood Rooms w/ Thursday
June
1st – London Electric Ballroom w/ Thursday
6th – London Barfly
The Briggs are coming to play some UK dates as part of their European tour, and are currently finishing the recording of their new album. Check them out at any of these shows:
Hunter S. Thompson was a journalist ahead of his time, and before the fame that was Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter caught people’s attention with Hells Angels- a hell ride with one of America’s most feared gangs. Hunter infiltrated the biker crew and actually became good friends with a few of the burly men and women, partying together and rolling of course.
Humanzi are back in the UK playing alongside Battle before they continue touring through June with the White Rose Movement in preparation for their upcoming debut album Tremors, due out in July. A single, Diet Pills And Magazines, will come out on July 3rd.
Scottish legends, The Jesus And Mary Chain are to re-release some of their classic albums on July 11th. The albums in question will be: Psychocandy, Darklands, Automatic, Honey’s Dead and Stoned & Dethroned and will be re-issued by Rhino Records. The re-issues will also feature DVDs with videos from that specific album. They are:
There’s only so much you can say about a pair of Jeans, so I’ve racked up as much information as possible for the “dedicated followers of fashion”.
Upstarts The Paddingtons, who rocked the Crossfire/Relentless boat party off its moorings, are back with new material, which can be found on their upcoming Back To The Bus compilation. The series is to show fans what groups listen to when they’re on their tour bus and the Paddingtons’ version is due out on June 26th, with a new track from the sessions for their 2nd album put on it.
PJ Harvey and Nicky Wire have announced they are to be part of the Guardian Hay Festival, which is held at Hay-On-Wye between May 26th and June 4th.
Icelandic pixie Bjork is going to release a box set of her albums, which will span 1993’s Debut to 2005’s Drawing Restraint 9. This box set will be out on June 27th. Of these 7 albums, 5 will contain promo videos:
Crossfire favourites and underground kingpins Atmosphere are returning to the UK to play 2 shows in July, following their packed out shows last February.