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| 27/02/2007 | ****************************************************************************************** DAVID R BLACK RELEASE NEW SINGLE & ANNOUNCE TOUR DATES !!!! ****************************************************************************************** Manchester based alternative art-rockers DAVID R BLACK release their 'Silence And Sound' single on March 26 on Mighty Atom Records. David R Black have gigged extensively throughout the UK, Europe and the USA and have toured with the likes of Three Colours Red, Living Colour, The Tubes, Spin Doctors, Elbow, Hanoi Rocks, Fishbone, Breed 77, Hugh Cornwell (Stranglers), The Donots, Antiproduct... The new single was produced by Joe Gibb (Leftfield, Jane's Addiction, Funeral For A Friend etc). B-side 'Dark Halo' is taken from a TOTALROCK RADIO session. The band support their new record with a UK tour then head to Europe to support The Mission, but return to the capital to finish it all off in style!!! Catch the guys at one of the following shows: March: ** DON'T OVERLOOK THEIR LONDON SHOW!!
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| 26/02/2007 | ************************************************************************************** FROM AUTUMN TO ASHES TREAT FANS TO NEW TRACK ONLINE !! ************************************************************************************** >From Autumn To Ashes release 'Holding A Wolf By The Ears' album on April 9 !! To give their fans a sneak preview of what awaits them on their new album, New York quartet FROM AUTUMN TO ASHES has put album opener 'Deth Kult Social Club' up online for everyone to sample. * From Autumn To Ashes have sold over
300'000 albums in US alone. |
| 26/02/2007 |
‘Acceptable In The 80’s’ Release Dates: Download: 5th March 2007 CD: 12th March 2007 Label – Fly Eye / Columbia www.calvinharris.tv / www.myspace.com/calvinharristv
This is music that wants to get people dancing again. Calvin Harris is making his mark on 2007 in fine style.
Acceptable In The 80s is Calvin’s first proper single release. It sparkles with highgloss, glitz and glamour like a disco ball catching the light. A masterpiece of hooks and gushing synths, Acceptable In The 80s is testament to the talent at work. Not afraid to handle vocal duties himself, Calvin is a rare commodity indeed. Exhibiting a creative and inventive edge, but still undeniably pop, Calvin’s music is already picking up rave reviews and daytime Radio 1 play. Just 23 years old and hailing from Dumfries, this young Scot made his debut album I Created Disco in his bedroom on a battered old Amiga computer. Now touring with a full band and an explosive live show, this is really something very special. Calvin Harris just completed successful shows at the Proud galleries in London on the 15th February and at Chalk at the Scala on the 17th February and is now set to head off around the country with Faithless (and playing to over 100,000 people in the process!) in March. You really need to come and see what the fuss is about. Remixes on the single are courtesy of The Glimmers and Tom Neville, which both do the job perfectly. Tracklisting CD promo: Acceptable
In The 80s (radio edit) |
| 22/02/2007 | ******************************************************************************************************* SikTh - The Great 'Pick 'n Mix' Package - All-Day Weekend Shows Lined Up For July !! ******************************************************************************************************* UK ROCKERS SikTh have announced a series of weekend-only all-day events for July of this year. All of the bands on the 'Death Of A Week Day' package have been chosen by different members of SikTh - the result being an eclectic line-up of acts, some of whom will be known to UK fans and some of whom are new to the scene. The list of guesting bands is as follows, although the order of play may vary from town to town...
* CRY FOR SILENCE (chosen by SikTh guitarist Dan Weller, who has been heavily involved in the production of their debut album) * BIOMECHANICAL (chosen by SikTh guitarist Pin) * TED MAUL (chosen by SikTh drummer Dan 'Loord' Foord) * MALEFICE (chosen by SikTh vocalist
Justin Hill, who is going to be co-producing the band's debut album) The full list of dates is as follows, with all shows taking place at weekends... JULY Prior
to these all-day outings, SikTh will be making a major festival appearance
in France. |
| 22/02/2007 |
RETURN TO THE UK WITH A NEW SINGLE AND TOUR. Hard rockers Buckcherry return to the UK for three dates in March in London, Glasgow and Nottingham. At the same time, the band will also be promoting a new single “Next 2 You” released on March 19th taken from their current album “15” which has sold over 800,000 copies in the USA to date. Buckcherry turned to fans for inspiration for the video for "Next 2 You”. The idea was spawned from a contest where Buckcherry fans submitted their own videos for the single on Youtube.com and MySpace.com. The band then took their cue from one of the user-generated clips and together with director P.R. Brown developed a big-budget version of the concept inspired by their fans Syd and Lexy, whose own "Next 2 You" video has accumulated over 50,000 views to date. Tickets are on sale now and are all subject to booking fee. Supporting Buckcherry will be The Backyard Babies and Damone.
Online and Credit Cards bookings www.meanfiddler.com; www.seetickets.com, www.cpllive.co.uk and www.alt-tickets.co.uk Buckcherry’s most recent dates in the UK generated rave reviews from the critics: Classic Rock deemed last September’s show in Nottingham “incendiary” while Kerrang gave the same show 4 K’s. Following their massive success in the USA in 2006 with both Fifteen and their single “Crazy Bitch” which reached No.3 in the US rock chart, Buckcherry recently received their first Grammy nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance. Buckcherry lead singer and co-founder Josh Todd reacted to the news of their Grammy nomination & tour, “Who would have thought you could record an album in fifteen days, release it independently, have it go gold and get nominated for a Grammy in less than a year? When we started this project, no one believed in it except our management company and us. It’s exciting and shows that if you’re passionate and work hard anything can happen. The band and I are really excited to be taking our show to our fans in Europe and re-visiting the UK!” Formed in 1995 in Los Angeles, Buckcherry went the independent route after being orphaned by the demise of DreamWorks, their home for two records, Buckcherry (1999) and Time Bomb (2001). TODD and NELSON reunited to play a benefit for the late drummer Randy Castillo, after which they were recruited by Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum to play in the now infamous GNR project that eventually evolved into Velvet Revolver. “By the end, I was spent dealing with all the egos, I needed some time off,” explains NELSON who received a co-writing credit on Velvet Revolver’s “Dirty Little Thing.” The duo continued to write songs, explains TODD. “It made us realize how fun it was to be in a band again; we focused on what mattered, the music.” Revitalized and inspired after recruiting D., MURIEL and ASHHURST, the band recorded 15 in 15 days. “BUCKCHERRY is a rock ‘n’ roll band. We wanted to get the vibe back which made us so explosive,” says TODD. “We went into the studio and vowed not come out until we had a successful, ass-kicking, career-defining album.” Band Links: www.buckcherry.com www.myspace.com/buckcherry |
| 22/02/2007 | ***************************************************************************************************** THE GHOST OF A THOUSAND CONFIRMED TO SUPPORT POISON THE WELL !! ***************************************************************************************************** "Absolutely astonishing" 5/5
Kerrang! In the same week as the release of their critically acclaimed debut album 'This Is Where The Fight Begins', The Ghost Of A Thousand have been confirmed to support Poison The Well on their up-coming tour next month! Catch the band at one of the following venues: MARCH (02 - Tamworth Assembly Rooms - TGOAT
headline show) 08 - Oxford Zodiac 'This Is Where The Fight Begins' is out now on Undergroove Records. Mixed by Kurt Ballou (Converge). |
| 21/02/2007 | Hotly-tipped
Cardiff pop-rock quintet Kids In Glass Houses have just been announced
to headline the third installment of Kerrang! Magazine's 'Klub Kerrang'
night at Koko in London.
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| 19/02/2007 | ****************************************************************************************************** FROM AUTUMN TO ASHES release 'Holding A Wolf By The Ears' album on April 9 !! ****************************************************************************************************** "When you're holding a wolf by the ears, it's a dangerous situation and there's no way to escape without injury. For us, it's like a build up of energy that can't be restrained forever," so says Francis Mark, drummer and newly appointed frontman of the hard rock band FROM AUTUMN TO ASHES, when talking about the title of the seven-year-old band's fourth full-length release. This New York quartet's latest opus heralds a new beginning for the band. "I want to do everything I can to get people to realize that this is really like a new band," says frontman Francis Mark. The most recognizable sign of this reinvention is Mark's recent shift from drummer to drummer AND full-time vocalist, a result of the departure of former lead singer Benjamin Perri. But over the course of the album's 12 tracks, it becomes clear that for the band more has changed than just a voice. Holding a Wolf by The Ears finds From Autumn to Ashes playing with a level of passion and intensity not seen since their 2001 debut, Too Bad You're Beautiful. Fans will still find the searing guitars and bone-crunching rhythms, but there's a new duality - a much heavier sound buoyed by the focused melodies that introduce the listener to Mark's surprisingly dynamic vocal range. For Mark, one of the most important tracks on Holding a Wolf By The Ears is the album's opener, "Deth Kult Social Club," which recalls the visceral, raw hardcore that inspired him as a youth. "I was pretty happy with that song, because we started tapping into certain elements of hardcore bands that I was really inspired by as a young kid," he explains. "When I was 13 or 14 and started going to hardcore shows, it was a battle. People were so passionate about what was going on that they were hanging from the ceiling. So when I heard what we had going on with 'Deth Kult Social Club' I remember thinking 'I can't wait to play that song live.'" Fans will get plenty of chances to experience this "new" band, with multiple tours already lined up for 2007. With the aid of guitarist Rob Lauritsen, who joined the band last summer, and the addition of a new touring drummer, From Autumn To Ashes have nothing holding them back. "Music is the one thing on this planet that brings me the most enjoyment," confesses Mark. "I don't have a plan B, because if I'm not doing this, I don't intend on doing anything at all." * From Autumn To Ashes have sold over
300'000 albums in US alone. |
| 16/02/2007 | ********************************************************************** GU MEDICINE CONFIRMED FOR WILDHEARTS TOUR !! ********************************************************************** Barnsley's finest rock 'n' roll groove machine GU Medicine will be joining the mighty Wildhearts for a mammoth UK trek in April and May! GU Medicine's second album 'Saints of Excess' was greeted with open arms when it was released in 2006 - getting the thumbs up from every rock scribe and DJ who had the pleasure to hear it! It was the follow-up to the quartet's self-titled debut - which saw GU Medicine get invited to do sessions for both the BBC Radio One Rock Show and London's XFM Rock Show. They've toured the UK countless times as headliners in their own right and on tours with former QOTSA-er Nick Oliveri And The Mondo Generator, My Ruin, Open Hand, Dozer, Supersuckers, Bleeding Through, Johnny Truant and The Ghost Of A Thousand. Most recently they've found a new set of fans in Holland thanks to a Channel hop tour, and Swedish love, thanks to the Swedish radio airwaves! The Wildhearts tour will be a chance to hear new material from the band's third as-yet-untitled album due out later this year on Undergroove. GU Medicine - infectious rock 'n' roll never sounded so good! GU MEDICINE w/ THE WILDHEARTS APRIL More dates to be added shortly too! Out now: 'GU Medicine' & 'Saints of Excess' on Undergroove! |
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