Caught in the Crossfire

Metal kings Sepultura will be slaying it on tour with In Flames throughout March and to celebrate the tour, an e-card for Dante XXI has been released. There’s a game and a massive prize for winning it. So check it out at:

http://www.spv.de/eng/sepultura/ecard

And the tour dates are:

March 22nd – London Forum
March 23rd – Manchester Academy
March 24th – Glasgow Barrowlands
March 25th – Sheffield Corporation
March 26th – Birmingham Academy
March 28th – Dublin Ambassador Theatre
March 29th – Liverpool Academy
March 30th – Cardiff Coal Exchange

Hit up www.sepultura.com.br for the official words.

Music TV giant VH1 has officially begun production of an upcoming “Behind The Music” feature on legendary metal titans Pantera. An exact air date for the show is yet to be announced by television sources.

Pantera’s “Greatest Hits” collection was recently certified Platinum for sales of over 1,000,000 units in the United States alone. The band’s “3 Vulgar Videos from Hell” home video collection is expected to see a store date of April 3 through Rhino. The set will reportedly contain all new Dolby 5.1 surround sound – the first ever Pantera release to obtain such a feature.

In other Pantera related news; front man Phil Anselmo and bassist Rex Brown will make their return to the stage this coming Summer as part of a first ever European tour from heavy metal super group Down. The trek will run throughout both May and June – taking in a number of festivals as well as select headline shows.

Hit up www.pantera.com for the official business.

Manic Street Preachers guitarist and vocalist James Dean Bradfield and bass player Nicky Wire have each been working on solo albums since the last Manics output in 2004. Wire has recorded a punk album and said that the Manics were writing as a group as well, meaning that fans of the Welsh group have a lot to look forward to in the coming year.

James Dean Bradfield will be performing at the V Festival this year on August 19th and 20th.

Check their news at www.manicstreetpreachers.com

Gun-toting Republican Ted Nugent turned into Axl Rose this week after slamming pop-punk superstars Green Day’s decision to refuse a collaboration.

It’s reported that the outspoken left-wing group declined an opportunity to work with the guitar legend as part of an undisclosed creative venture, sparking outrage with the self-proclaimed “Hunky Ted”.

Nugent reportedly commented: “Their social ignorance, historical vacuity and knee-jerk condemnation of America and the Bush administration is nothing short of embarrassing”.

It is however believed that Nugent in fact owns all of Green Day’s albums. Twice.

Swing on over to www.greenday.com for the official stuff.

All you lucky Mogwai fans can check out the new e-flyer for the band’s upcoming Mr Beast. All you need to do is click on the address below and you can listen to tracks from the brand new album, watch 2 live videos, filmed at Mogwai’s 5 night “sold-out” residency at London’s ICA in January and see exclusive clips from the documentary “The Making Of Mr Beast” (available on the Ltd CD/DVD release).

You can also win tickets and hotel accommodation to their special Royal Albert Hall show on September 22nd.

So get a wriggle on and visit www.mrbeast.info

For the website, go and have a look at www.mogwai.co.uk

Music legend and general God-like being Bob Dylan has announced he will play 2 dates in the UK in June. The shows are part of his European Tour and will take place at the end of June. The tickets go on sale today so make sure you get in quickly.

The dates are: Bob Dylan will play:

June 27th – Cardiff International Arena
June 28th – Bournemouth International Centre

And don’t forget to check out www.bobdylan.com

Morrissey has revealed at the South By South West festival in Texas, that he and the other former members of The Smiths were offered $5 million to reform and play at the Coachella festival in California last year.

However, he refused claiming that money was never an issue, but he did throw in some Smiths’ numbers into his set at the SXSW show.

www.morrisseymusic.com has all the official info.

Strokes Guitarist Nick Valensi is to appear on Regina Spektor’s new album, which will be out in June, titled Begin To Hope.

Specktor had opened for The Strokes on their Room Of Fire tour and says she has around 700 songs to whittle down for the upcoming album, which has her using electric guitars and drum machines.

She is set to showcase the new material on her forthcoming US tour.

Click over to www.reginaspektor.com for the gossip.

Damian J Kulash, singer with current video kings Ok Go, was arrested in Orlando this past weekend for resisting arrest.

He was standing outside the venue and, according to reports, was alerted to the police by having an “intent to take pictures and talk to fans”. This is, apparently, enough to warrant a stern telling off and after he refused to move, he was handcuffed and taken to a jail cell.

Reports are that he got the police to watch the superb video for A Million Ways, which makes him an absolute legend. He was released the next day following his eventful 9 hours.

Check out the band’s website [and make sure you watch the videos] at www.okgo.net

Mike Relm, the turntable wizard and Abjekt favourite, has announced some dates in the UK as part of a tour which sees him travel across various countries in Europe. The diminutive DJ will start his tour with a London date in Brixton before taking himself off to Swindon, Brighton, Bristol, Leeds and Nottingham as well as playing in Germany, France, Holland and Greece.

The tour dates are:

12-May Brixton Fidgil @ Plan B
13-May Swindon Furnace
14-May Cologne Gerbaude 9
15-May Munich Atomic Café
16-May Berlin Maria
17-May Paris Point Ephemere
18-May Poitiers Air Borne
19-May Rotterdam Rotown
20-May Utrecht Ekko
23-May Brighton Ocean Rooms
24-May Athens Soul Stereo
25-May Bristol Academy
26-May Leeds Leeds Metropolitan University SU
27-May Nottingham Rescue Rooms

To check out the review of his DVD, click here and for all your other Mike Relm needs, visit his website at www.mikerelm.com