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| 28/09/2006 |
THE HEDRONS
Break New Musical Boundaries… First British Band To Host A Virtual Concert When? Monday 9th October at 7.30pm Where? The Hedro Dome, www.secondlife.com
In conjunction with the release of their second single ‘I Need You’ (Measured Records/Pinnacle) on 9th October, The Hedrons are set to push the boundaries of live performance in this digital age. They will be the first British act to ever host a live virtual concert in front of a 3-D social network in the fantasy land Second Life. At the same time as the band are playing live at a Glasgow location, specially designed 3-D animated figures or ‘avatars’ of The Hedrons will be performing in Second Life’s virtual venue ‘The Hedro Dome’. What Is It All About? No other act in British music history has engaged in virtual reality to this extent before... a 3-D version of the band in it’s own customised 3-D venue, that will allow Second Life members (the gig goers) to purchase virtual swag from the virtual merchandise stand, whilst the virtual meet and greet area will enable fans to interact with the virtual band. The 30-minute set will happen at 7.30pm on Monday 9th October at virtual venue ‘The Hedro Dome’ where the band will play material from their forthcoming album ‘One More Won’t Kill Us’ due out in February 2007. How Do You Do It? For those who want to attend this free virtual gig, all potential ‘Second-Lifer’s’ need do is register a character of themselves at http://secondlife.com/join/ and download the Second Life Client… a game anyone can install on their Mac or PC for free. Once ‘in-world’, the venue can be located by typing ‘The Hedro Dome’ into the ‘Search’ field. Audio of the gig will also be available via a live stream from The Hedrons website at www.thehedrons.com.
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| 27/09/2006 | THE
CRAVATS ‘The Land Of The Giants’ 32 track 2xCD only: 112 minutes: Label: Overground Cat. No. OVER 112VP CD Barcode: 604388676620
Inspired to make music their own music after a Stranglers show in Birmingham in 1977, the band soon entered the studio and recorded their first single Gordon. A £400 loan enabled them to press 1000 copies. A copy was given to John Peel and secured them their first session. Small Wonder liked the single so much that they picked up the remaining copies and booked the band into the studio with producer Bob Sargeant; the result was the Burning Bridges single followed soon by another single Precinct.
For one week in 1980 the band relocated to Torquay, recording the Cravats In Toytown album on a 8-track in a hotel basement. Released by Small Wonder in October that year the album gained healthy reviews and made it into the Top 20 in the independent charts.
For their next single Rub Me Out released May 1981, the band teamed up with Penny Rimbaud from Crass who managed to capture their darker side.
November 1981 saw the release of the band’s last collaboration with Small Wonder with the rockabilly influenced single Off The Beach.
With the collapse of Small Wonder the band were picked up by Glass who released the excellent Terminus single in May ’82. The single received rave reviews but no promotion and the band were again label-less.
Crass duly obliged with sister label Corpus Christi releasing the magnificent Colossal Tunes Out album in February ’83 and the Crass label released probably the band’s best single Rub Me Out which reached No.15 in the indie charts in July ’82.
One last swansong occurred with The Land Of The Giants 12” on Reflex in 1986.
Various members departed to the Poison Girls, Pig Bros and to form the nucleus of The Very Things.
For
more information: www.thecravats.com
or www.myspace.com/cravatsmusic |
| 26/09/2006 | ********************************************************************************** DISCO ENSEMBLE RELEASE SINGLE, ALBUM & TOUR THE UK!!!! ********************************************************************************** Finnish post-hardcore troop Disco Ensemble will release their 'FIRST AID KIT' album on Nov 6 2006. It will be preceded by the 'BLACK EURO' single on Oct 30. Being a heady mix of Refused meets Jimmy Eat World these releases look set to catapult Finland's best kept secret on to the world !! To support these releases the band also head out on the road on the EASTPAK TOUR (with Gogol Bordello, Danko Jones, Bedouin Soundclash). Catch them at one of the following shows: 31/10 Leeds, Uni 01/11 Glasgow, Barrowlands 02/11 Birmingham, Academy 03/11 Manchester, Academy 04/11 London, Brixton Academy 06/11 Brighton, Dome Their brand of rock excess is wildly exciting, and you HAVE to see this band live. "This is thrilling, edgy post-hardcore with huge choruses and colossal vats of energy. Fucking awesome!" Kerrang! KKKKK "These Finns plough a furious furrow of post-hardcore riffery and staccato punk rock tightness... You really should not miss this band." Drowned In Sound |
| 26/09/2006 | ENTRANCE
– PRAYER OF DEATH – (TEE PEE RECORDS)
RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 13TH
ENTRANCE is the musical vehicle of Guy Blakeslee, a self-taught visionary singer and musician from Los Angeles via Baltimore, Maryland. "Prayer of Death" is the fourth ENTRANCE recording, but it is the first to feature all original compositions: a fully amplified electric orchestra and a high-flying, free-flowing sense of spiritual theater inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Timothy Leary, and Delta-Blues legend Charley Patton. “Prayer of Death” is a conceptual meditation on the urgency of life-awareness and death-awareness in a war-torn world; the album has already received some deep and perceptive critical response in the underground press.
On "Prayer of Death" the sound of ENTRANCE is enhanced by the guidance and musicianship of co-producer Paz Lenchantin (Zwan, A Perfect Circle) and recorded by Thom Monahan (Devendra Banhart, Vetiver, Brightblack Morninglight)
Entrance's prior releases include 2004's "Wandering Stranger," released on Fat Possum Records and 2003's "The Kingdom of Heaven Must Be Taken By Storm" on Tiger Style Records.
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| 26/09/2006 | :(
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:( are four young folk from Aberdeenshire. Their debut reckid – a split 7” picture disc with Glasgow’s datapanik – came out on Must Destroy in April ’06, attracting several national radio plays (Radio1 / 6Music / XFMs across the board) and some very nice press (Rocksound / NME / Kerrang / DrownedInSound et al), all of which helped the release to pretty much sell out within a couple of weeks.
If we’re making lazy comparisons… musically, :(‘s 8-bit ‘emo’ (sorry, the ‘e’ word) popcore sits somewhere between The Postal Service and Minor Threat, or The Decendents filtered through a Gameboy... a sound which earned them the pigeonhole of ‘emoticore’ from the sharp-witted tykes at drownedinsound.com.
Though still only a handful of live shows into their ‘career’ (yuk), :( have already started attracting friends and fans from the dizzying heights of indie-rock superstardom, which resulted in them being asked to remix tracks by ?Forward Russia! and Funeral For A Friend, as well as being invited out to tour with Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly.
:( spent the summer of 2006 playing to packed tents at the Download, T in the Park & Truck Festivals, and putting the finishing touches to their debut ‘proper’ release the ‘First Blood’ EP / mini-album / call it what you will.
More recently, :( have been commissioned to write and record a track for the next episode on interweb phenomenon t.v show thing Mighty Moshin’ Emo Rangers, and have contributed a track to the forthcoming Kerrang! 2CD compilation featuring the cream of the current UK emo / screamo / metalcore / you name it scene (suffice to say, there isn’t really much else on there that sounds quite like :( !)
:( round off 2006 with the release of ‘First Blood’ (featuring live fave / pop smash ‘Heartache Of Soccer Moms’) and a full UK tour as support to screamo / trance-metal rising stars Enter Shikari (see below).
For more information, you could always have a glance at; www.colonopenbracket.com or www.myspace.com/colonopenbracket
:( [colonopenbracket] release details / tour dates :( - ‘First Blood’ CD – MUSTY021CD Released Monday 13th November 2006
Tracklist: 1: Fake Blood 2: Codes 3: Pre-emoticons 4: Heartace Of Soccermoms 5: Hunt Hunters
ON TOUR WITH ENTER SHIKARI
Sat 14th Oct 2006 - Queens Hall, Narberth, UK Sun 15th Oct 2006 - Sugarmill, Stoke, UK Mon 16th Oct 2006 - Academy 2, Newcastle, UK Tue 17th Oct 2006 - Acedemy 2, Liverpool, UK Thu 19th Oct 2006 - Tunnels, Aberdeen, UK Fri 20th Oct 2006 - Viewfield, Arbroath, UK Sat 21st Oct 2006 - Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, UK Sun 22nd Oct 2006 - King Tuts, Glasgow, UK Mon 23rd Oct 2006 - Roadhouse, Manchester, UK Wed 25th Oct 2006 - Komedia, Brighton, UK Thu 26th Oct 2006 - First Floor, Derby, UK Fri 27th Oct 2006 - Pitz, Milton Keynes, UK Sat 28th Oct 2006 - Fibbers, York, UK Sun 29th Oct 2006 - Bar Academy, Birmingham, UK Mon 30th Oct 2006 - Zodiac, Oxford, UK
Wed 1st Nov 2006 - Barfly, Cardiff, UK Thu 2nd Nov 2006 - Cavern, Exeter, UK Fri 3rd Nov 2006 - Joiners, Southampton, UK Sat
4th Nov 2006 - Mean Fiddler, London, UK |
| 20/09/2006 | ENTER SHIKARI ’Sorry
You’re Not A Winner’ / ‘OK! Time For Plan B’
September sees the band heading out on the road in the UK for most of the month (with Canadian screamo hair-metallers Blessed By A Broken Heart along for the ride. see dates below). When that’s over, they get a two week break, and then its back out on the road for their third headline UK tour of the year (with some of the dates already damn near sold out already. again, dates below!) which will take ‘em all the way through to November 4th at London’s Mean Fiddler. In the midst of all that, they’ve found the time to record a new single (and best part of their debut album) too! During the Oct / Nov tour (Oct 30th,
to be exact) Enter Shikari will release their debut single proper (if
we’re not not counting the download only single ‘Mothership’
released in August). Further reading on the subject of Enter Shikari can be found at www.entershikari.com or www.myspace.com/entershikari
What the press have said thus far;
NME “Fusing bone-snapping metal dynamics with euphoric house music…it’s a unison that sounds fucking righteous”
ROCK SOUND “With a flurry of labels snapping at their heels, theres no stopping the kings of “Trancecore”…
METAL HAMMER “Squashing together two forms of music that have previously been so distanced might seem like a musical catastrophe, but the band found that their inventive fusion of guitars and electro beats works a treat”
NME “Euphoric House forcibly buggered by teenage screamo tykes… Sounds like Pantera getting off their nut at Manumission”
ENTER SHIKARI on tour Winter 2006
September
October / November (all
dates with :( + guests) Sat
14th - Queens Hall, Narberth |
| 19/09/2006 | ******THUNDER
NEWS ******THUNDER NEWS ******
Thunder News – 2 Thunder in association with Moyst and the National Gig Guide launch support band competition
They’ve also launched a competition in association with Moyst Music and the National Gig Guide to find support bands for their UK dates in the autumn. The tour runs from 15th to 29th November – full details below. The text based support competition is now live, and full details can be found at www.thunderonline.com. The bands that get the most votes will qualify for the slots. Thunder will choose the bands they like the best, and the winners will be announced on 30th October and offered the openings. The Competition is exclusive to Moyst Music and National Gig Guide members. Danny Bowes says “This is a great opportunity for bands to showcase their talents. We're all extremely excited about the possibilities for this, and some new bands are going to get a real good break in front of a lot of people..." Full UK Tour dates are: November City Venue Box Office Wed 15th Plymouth Pavilion 01752 229
922 Full details as well as sound clips for the new album Robert Johnson’s Tombstone at www.thunderonline.com. 19th September 2006 |
| 19/09/2006 | A
fermenting fierce panda press release The Record: ‘THE BLACKOUT! THE BLACKOUT! THE BLACKOUT!’ The Release: COMPACT DISC MINI-ALBUM The Label: fierce panda records (The Catalogue Number: NONG 46CD) The Release Date: OCTOBER 23RD 2006 The Listing Of Tracks: ‘I’m A Riot? You’re A Fucking Riot!’ ‘Hard Slammin’’ ‘Murder In The Make Believe Ballroom’ ‘It’s High Tide Baby’ (featuring Ian Watkins) ‘You And Your Friends Vs Me And The Revolution’ ‘Fashion Conscious Suicide’
The Truth: THE BLACKOUT are six screamo warriors from Merthyr Tydfil in Wales. They consist of Gavin Butler (vocals), Sean Smith (vocals), James Davies (guitar), Matthew Davies (guitar), Rhys Lewis (bass) and Gareth Lawrence (drums). The punchily-titled ‘The Blackout! The Blackout! The Blackout!’ is a mini-collection of massive tunes from their thus far thoroughly hectic career and follows their debut ‘Hard Slammin’’ single release in September.
** Half a dozen tracks of passionate, crunching contemporary rock music with more melodies than you really should be able to squeeze into 21-and-a-half tumultuous minutes, played by a self-contained unit of intense young men who come onstage to the wail of an air raid siren, have Frankenstein on their band t-shirts and have already tucked a Kerrang! Best Newcomer Awards nomination under their collective belt? That’ll be ‘The Blackout! The Blackout! The Blackout!’, then.
** Already in 2006 THE BLACKOUT’s battered atlas has guided them from Monday night at Colchester Twist to a national tour with Lostprophets via Give It A Name at Earls Court. And the atlas ain’t stopping there, as this rather huge list testifies…
Sep 19 – Bar Monsta, London Camden ^^ Sep 22 - Windsor Club, Neath ** Sep 26 - The Music Box, Manchester ** Sep 27 - The Bunker, Belfast, N.IRELAND ** Sep 28 - Voodoo Lounge, Dublin , IRELAND ** Sep 29 - The Nerve Centre, Derry, N IRELAND ** Sep 30 - Dicey's, Strabane, N.IRELAND ** Oct 1 - Central Station, Wrexham ** Oct 2 - The Venue, Preston ** Oct 4 - The Croft, Bristol ** Oct 5 - Toms Bar, Treforest, Pontypridd ** Oct 6 - Studio Bar, Merthyr Tydfil ** Oct 7 - Bar Academy, Islington London ** Oct 8 - Opera House, Bournemouth ** Oct 18 – Water Rats, London (rock sound / Club Fandango show) Oct 20 - The White Horse, High Wycombe ** Oct 21 - The Furnace, Swindon ** Oct 22 - The Gatehouse, Stafford ** Oct 23 - The Junction, York ** Oct 24 – Cathouse, Glasgow ** Oct 25 - Studio 24, Edinburgh ** Oct 26 - The Brickyard, Carlisle ** Oct 27 – Evolution, Worcester ** Oct 28 – RFC, Bridgwater ** Oct 29 – Barfly, Cardiff ** Nov 3 - The Rec, Bridgend **
Eighteen Visions tour = * Take The Crown tour = ^^ Dopamine tour = **
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| 18/09/2006 | Please note that Sound Team are now playing Nottingham Rescue Rooms on the 22nd of September and not Birmingham Academy as previously noted. Sound Team will be supporting The Walkmen at the following dates. Email back for interview and guest list requests. If you could post the tour dates on your website it would be much appreciated! Their debut single 'Born To Please' is also out today. September 2006 Mon 18th Liverpool Barfly Tues 19th Sheffield Plug Weds 20th Edinburgh Liquid Rooms Thurs 21st Leeds Cockpit Fri 22nd Nottingham Rescue Rooms Sun 24th Manchester University Mon 25th Cardiff Point Wed 27th London Koko
‘Born To Please’ The debut single released 18th September 2006
‘Born To Please’ is the debut single from Texan sextet Sound Team. Layered with subtle hooks and deceptively catchy, ‘Born To Please’ is taken from Sound Team’s epic debut album ‘Movie Monster’, released 25th September. Produced by the band itself with Mike McCarthy (Spoon, And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead), ‘Movie Monster’ was recorded mostly at their own Big Orange studio, a former 7" vinyl pressing plant just east of downtown Austin.
Sound Team are Matt Oliver (lead vocals, guitars, keyboards, songwriting), Bill Baird (bass, backing vocals, songwriting), his younger brother Michael (synthesizers), Sam Sanford (guitars), Gabe Pearlman (keyboards) and Jordon R. Johns (drums). They will embark on their first UK tour this September in support of The Walkmen:
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| 13/09/2006 | THE HEDRONS 'I NEED YOU' Single Released: 9th October 2006 The Hedrons have had a massive year already – they sold out of their debut limited edition single, ‘Be My Friend’ in a week, played Download, T In The Park and Guilfest to stage invasions, winning new fans and admirers alike, as well as hitting the road with rock’s finest – from Towers Of London (they out-partied even them) to the seminal Alice In Chains. Hot on the heels of ‘Be My Friend’, The Hedrons are following this up with the release of ‘I Need You’ on 9th October via Measured Records/Pinnacle. The single, released on digital download and limited edition signed 7” vinyl, is taken from their debut album due out in early 2007. Formed
in spring 2005 The Hedrons have collectively flown into their career Join the madness when they play the following dates around the country:- SEPTEMBER SAT 23 Glasgow, QMU (Freshers Gig) OCTOBER MON 16 Liverpool, Barfly TUE 17 Hull, Lamp WED 18 Birmingham, Jug Of Ale THU 19 Derby, Victoria Inn SAT 21 Bath, Moles SUN 22 Guildford, Boileroom MON 23 Wolverhampton, Little Civic TUE 24 Leicester, Charlotte THU 26 Northampton, Soundhaus FRI 27 Peterborough, Met Lounge SUN 29 Bristol, Louisiana TUE 31 Southampton, Joiners NOVEMBER WED 01 London, Barfly THU 02 Nottingham, Social FRI 03 Harlow, Square SAT 04 Welwyn Garden City, Green Room MON 06 Cardiff, Barfly TUE 07 Leeds, Joseph’s Well WED 08 Manchester, Night And Day THU 09 Doncaster, Leopard
www.thehedrons.com |
| 11/09/2006 | MAKE ROADS SAFE NEWS RELEASE Teen killer on the road Dirty Pretty Things and Metro Riots to play road safety gig A serial killer striking late at night has killed at least ten young people this summer. The killer – road crashes - struck most recently on the M25 after the V Festival in August, but has also taken lives in Suffolk, Yorkshire and Scotland. This summer there has been a spate of fatal road accidents involving car occupants in their teens and early twenties, travelling on the road late at night, sometimes after attending a gig or music festival. A particular feature of these crashes has been multiple deaths of teenagers travelling together in one car, with devastating results for local communities. Indie bands Dirty Pretty Things and Metro Riots will play a special gig in London next Wednesday (13) to draw attention to the high number of teenage road deaths in the UK and to point out that, worldwide, someone is killed in a road crash every 30 seconds. The gig, for the Make Roads Safe campaign, was partly inspired by the deaths of three teenage girls in Suffolk in July following a concert that Dirty Pretty Things had played. Red Hot Chili Peppers, who headlined the concert, have also endorsed the campaign. Some close friends and family of the teenage crash victims will be attending the gig. Other fatal crashes involving young drivers have included: A crash on the M25 involving a car returning from the V Festival in August, which killed three people in their teens and early twenties; A crash in Huddersfield on 1st September in which three teenage girls were killed and two young men in their twenties were seriously injured; A crash in Aberdeenshire which killed a teenage driver and injured his two passengers after their car hit a tree in the early hours of August 28th A crash in Cornwall in August which seriously injured a young driver and killed his 15 year old passenger. More than 700 people attended the girl’s funeral. Road crashes are the number one killer of people in their teens and twenties in the UK, and second only to HIV/AIDS as a killer of young men worldwide. As the road accident in India this week involving the entourage of Conservative leader David Cameron has shown, road deaths are also a major problem in developing countries. More than eighty-five per cent of all road deaths occur in poorer countries at a cost of up to $100 billion a year. The Make Roads Safe campaign is calling for international action to tackle these road deaths, which are predicted to double by 2020. Anthony Rossomando, guitarist, Dirty Pretty Things, said: “We need to do more to highlight the fact that 1.2 million people are needlessly killed on the roads around the world each year. This is why Dirty Pretty Things are supporting the Make Roads Safe campaign.” Edmund King, spokesman for the Make Roads Safe campaign, said: “The deaths of so many of our young people in such a short time should be a cause for national concern. We need to make young drivers aware of the dangers they face, particularly when driving at night, and that is why we have teamed up with Dirty Pretty Things to raise awareness about the scale of road deaths both here in the UK and across the world’. Note to Editors: The Make Roads Safe campaign has been established to call for G8 action to tackle road deaths in low and middle income countries. The campaign, supported by an international coalition of organisations, is calling for a 300 million Action Plan for global road safety; a minimum 10% road safety element in all road programmes funded with development money; and a UN summit to address the global road safety crisis. The campaign is coordinated by the FIA Foundation and in the UK by the RAC Foundation. The campaign is running an online petition at www.makeroadssafe.org; The campaign also aims to raise awareness amongst young people around the world of the global, developmental problems of road safety. This will also help to raise awareness about and acceptance of domestic road safety amongst a key high risk age group in terms of road crashes in industrialized countries: young people in their late teens and early 20s; Four
hundred tickets to the Dirty Pretty Things gig have been won in a competition
run by the Make Roads Safe campaign. The concert has now sold out. |
| 07/09/2006 |
NOW AVAILABLE - SCREAM FOR HELP double LP: Punk & Hardcore Bands 4
Gulf Coast Animals. DETAILS: 21 bands join forces with southeast texas based indie label KOI Records to show their support for the Louisiana SPCA. The Louisiana SPCA is still tackling major animal welfare issues in the city of New Orleans post hurricane Katrina. To help with these ongoing efforts, the folks at KOI Records hope to make a sizable donation to the LASPCA with the help of this compilation. For more details about this release and the LASPCA please visit the following websites: www.la-spca.org www.myspace.com/screamforhelp TRACKS: SIDE A 1. Bloodjinn - See Through (unreleased demo version) Courtesy: Forsaken Recordings 2. Nine Days To No One - So My Inferior This Ends Courtesy: Engineer Records 3. Cipher - Privilege Courtesy: Uprising Records 4. H20 - Family Tree Courtesy: Blackout Records 5. Kill Your Idols - Skinhead Girl (recorded live 9/05) Courtesy: Sideonedummy Records SIDE B 1. Fifty Stars Anger - Mordechai Vanunu Courtesy: Fifty Stars Anger 2. Killed By The Bull - I, The Crooked Hero Courtesy: KOI Records/Dick Harris Recordings 3. Spitfire - Life & Limb (previously unreleased) Courtesy: Goodfellow Records 4. Ensign - Where's The Unity Courtesy: Blackout Records 5. Deathcycle - No RNC in NYC Courtesy: Chainsaw Safety Records SIDE C 1. The Chariot - Dialogue with a Question Mark Courtesy: Tooth & Nail Records 2. Thirty3 - Let's Keep This Joke Going Courtesy: State of Grace Records 3. My Shining One - Dance of the Ghost Courtesy: Engineer Records 4. The Fire Still Burns - Insert Motivation Here Courtesy: Blackout Records 5. Know Your Enemy - Stop Beating Your Meat Courtesy: Teishu Records 6. Celebrity Murders - Jealous Again (recorded live 9/05) Courtesy: Chainsaw Safety Records SIDE D 1. Most Precious Blood - Damage Control Freak Courtesy: Trustkill Records 2. Cattle Decapitation - Long Pig Chef & The Hairless Goat (recorded live at KXLU) Courtesy: Metal Blade Records 3. Worlds Between Us - Red Eye Figures Follow Black Cats Courtesy: Engineer Records 4. Static Radio - Who's Laughing Now Courtesy: Static Radio 13. Farewell - Manilla Courtesy: Forsaken Recordings PRESSING INFO: 750 OPAQUE GREEN VINYL FORMAT: The Scream for Help compilation is pressed on 2 10" colored vinyl LPs. The LPs are packaged in a full color, folded cardstock sleeve that features artwork designed specifically for this release by cartoonist Dan Piraro (aka Bizarro). The package is packed with stickers, leaflets, and literature, donated by various charitable animal rescue organizations, including Best Friends.org, Peta2, UAN, Noah?s Ark, New Parent Magazine etc. In addition, this compilation is individually hand numbered (#/750) and comes with a limited edition Scream For Help pin. PRICE: North America: $18.00 (includes USA & Canada Shipping) World: $25 (includes AIRMAIL international shipping) For any questions or further info please contact: mark@koirecords.com www.KoiRecords.com www.EngineerRecords.com |
| 06/09/2006 | CONVERGE In life, there are those who follow and those who boldly forge their own path. Boston’s Converge have defined themselves over the past 15 years as one of the few bands who truly fits into the latter category—and their latest full-length No Heroes is quite possibly their most cerebral and ferocious album to date. While their Epitaph debut You Fail Me helped the band—vocalist Jacob Bannon, guitarist Kurt Ballou, bassist Nate Newton and drummer Ben Koller—expand their audience outside the Converge Cult, No Heroes shows the group revisiting the sound of classic records like Petitioning The Empty Sky and When Forever Comes Crashing. “We don’t try to outdo ourselves each time in terms of making a heavy, ridiculous record, but this time we feel like we kind of did,” explains Bannon. “We’ve never been a band who’s just going through the motions and I think that shows on this record.” Produced by Ballou at the band’s longtime studio/practice spot Godcity, No Heroes shows the band exploring new sonic textures while still retaining the palpable energy they’ve become known for. While the album blazes out of the gate with the aptly titled “To The Lions,” songs like “Orphaned” the instrumental “Plagues” prove that breakneck speed and heaviness aren’t necessarily interrelated—and when Converge lower the tempo, they’re able to effortlessly transcend traditional notions of “heaviness.” Devotees of Jane Doe will also be blown away by epic tracks like the nine-minute “Grim Heart/Black Rose,” a doom masterpiece which shows that Bannon can sing as deftly as he can screams. “What we do is very different than what’s happening in the mainstream,” Bannon explains. “I think we’re a weird amalgamation of stuff that doesn’t really exist anymore that’s somewhere between the thrash world, the hardcore world, the punk world and the alt-rock world,” he continues. “We just went and did our thing on this record rather than try to make a name for ourselves or dilute our approach.” From Bannon’s captivating artwork and introspective lyrics to Ballou’s masterful production techniques, Converge’s artistic vision has always separated the band from their peers, and No Heroes is no exception. “A lot of the bands that people consider to be our contemporaries don’t share that attention to detail,” Ballou admits, fresh off the Sounds Of The Underground amphitheatre tour. “With us, everything is carefully crafted and intentional, which is kind of ironic considering to a lot of people our music is just a wall of noise,” he continues. “I think a lot of what exists now is just decoration—and we’re simply not decoration.” All of this ties into the album’s central theme: No Heroes. “There’s people who choose to stand up and do something and be relevant in life and there’s other people who choose to be part of a herd,” Bannon explains. “But, like any other Converge album, these songs are outwardly personal and we don’t really make any excuses for that. That’s just kind of what we are and what we dig.” ‘No Heroes’ is released October 23rd 2006 |
| 04/09/2006 |
THE LEVELLERS
CHAOS THEORY LIVE DVD OTF RECORDINGS RELEASED 18th SEPTEMBER
The first DVD on the Levellers own ‘On The Fiddle Recordings’ label captures the band in their element. Recorded in Spring 2006 before a partisan crowd, it’s a storming run through a crowd pleasing ‘best of’ set. The combination of the energy of the band, the crowd and a 15 camera production captures the essence of one of Britain’s best live acts of the past two decades.
Disc Two provides an incredible two hours of bonus footage – ranging from 1993 tour diary to acoustic shows at the Buxton Opera House together with all the band interviews, backstage and hidden footage you’d expect.
Released on 18th September, the DVD will be promoted throughout the Levellers 17 date Winter tour.
Details Disc 1 A complete concert recorded in stereo and 5.1 surround sound. Featuring 23 classic songs including the hits "One Way, "What A Beautiful Day” and "15 Years".
Disc 2 Levellers acoustic show highlights at Buxton Opera House featuring guests Maddy Prior, Nick Burbridge, Rev Hammer and Nick Harper including the songs “Julie”,” Boatman” & ”Dirty Davey”.
Levellers live encore at Beautiful Days 2005 with Billy Bragg. Part Time Punks – 1993 tour diary. Band and fan interviews. Jez
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| 04/09/2006 | ********************************************************************************************************* BRIGADE ANNOUNCED AS SPECIAL GUESTS TO INME & RELEASE NEW SINGLE !!! ********************************************************************************************************* Fast rising UK rockers Brigade release the third single from critically acclaimed album 'LIGHTS' on Oct 23. Entitled 'Guillotine' it was produced by Joe Gibb (Robbie Williams, Madonna, The Cure, Funeral For A Friend) and Gethin Woolcock. It will be available on Mighty Atom Records. To support the single the band have been announced as special guests on the INME tour! Dates are: INME TOUR 15-Oct-06 Reading Fez 16-Oct-06 Brighton Concorde 2 18-Oct-06 Bristol Carling Academy 2 19-Oct-06 Sheffield Corporation 20-Oct-06 Glasgow Garage 21-Oct-06 Manchester Academy 3 22-Oct-06 Oxford Zodiac 24-Oct-06 Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall 25-Oct-06 London Mean Fiddler 26-Oct-06 Cambridge Junction 29-Oct-06 Gloucester Guildhall 30-Oct-06 Liverpool Carling Academy 2 Brigade also play: 19-Sep-06 Glasgow Revolution @ QMU 'HellIsForHeroes / Brigade' 29-Sep-06 Middlesbrough 'Sumo @ The Cornerhouse' 30-Sep-06 Peterborough Met Lounge 7-Oct-06 Romford The Bitter End 13-Oct-06 Serby Town Hall 14-Oct-06 Great Yarmouth 'End Of Days@ Pontins' 17-Nov-06 Leicester De Montfort Uni 'Brigade are one of the UK's MOST important bands!' KERRANG 'a towering beast of a rock band!' NME '... these boys are onto something very special.' ROCKSOUND 'roof raisers!' DAILY STAR 'Rock's next big thing!' TV HITS '.. one of the defining albums of 2006' BURN '...another fantastic UK rock band about to break through into the mainstream.' ZERO 'gargantuan riffs and angsty vocals'' TOTAL GUITAR 'this ROCKS!' POWERPLAY '... a clutch of great and beautiful songs!' METAL HAMMER |
| 04/09/2006 | THE
MARS VOLTA Amputechture 11th Sep/ ‘Viscera Eyes’ 4th Sep The Mars Volta is the creative partnership formed in 2001 between bandleader/composer/guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and lyricist/vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala. The Mars Volta's first recorded output was the three-song Tremulant EP, released April 2002 on the Gold Standard Laboratories label. De-Loused In The Comatorium, the first full-length album by The Mars Volta, was released in June 2003. Produced by Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Rick Rubin, De-Loused In The Comatorium served as a celebration of the life of Julio Venegas, a local artist who had been a mentor to Omar and Cedric during their youth in El Paso, Texas, before committing suicide in 1996. De-Loused… established the Mars Volta creative template: Omar writing, arranging and musically directing every note, and Cedric distilling every lyric and vocal melody from a story he’d written inspired by Venegas: a story in which fictional protagonist Cerpin Taxt falls into a coma following a botched suicide attempt, experiences fantastic adventures in his dreams, epic battles between the good and bad aspects of his conscience, and ultimately emerges from the coma--only to succeed in taking his own life. Omar and Cedric’s musical and lyrical creation was expressed on De-Loused… with the help of keyboardist Isaiah Ikey Owens, drummer Jon Theodore, sound manipulator Jeremy Ward, as well as Flea and John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The Mars Volta’s second album, Frances The Mute was released in March 2005. While similarly inspired by the memory of a dear departed friend, Frances… was by no means a "sequel" to 2003's De-Loused…. Where De-Loused… was a finite sci-fi narrative that took place entirely in an imaginary universe created for the story, Frances… would transpire in the real world, inspired by a diary found by late bandmate Jeremy Ward (R.I.P.) and the similarity of the anonymous author’s life to his own. Frances The Mute was named for the biological mother who is the object of protagonist Cygnus’ quest--a story roughly and (deliberately) vaguely mirroring events and characters in the aforementioned diary and possibly even in the brief life of the then-recently deceased Ward. The freshness of the trauma in the case of Frances… rendered it a very different record from De-Loused…: Cedric’s lyrical tapestry of abandonment, addiction and the search for the meaning of family more intense and ambiguous, Omar’s assumption of the musical helm more absolute as he added video director (“The Widow”) to his list of duties on Frances…, and dropped the co- to produce the record himself. Having made their recorded debut on Frances The Mute, the members of the Mars Volta band that had been touring together since De-Loused…--Owens, Theodore, bassist Juan Alderete De la Peña, percussionist (and Omar’s younger brother) Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez, flautist/multi-instrumentalist Adrian Terrazas Gonzalez, sound manipulator and fellow at the drive-in alum Pablo Hinojos-Gonzalez—joined Omar and Cedric in translating Frances… into an unforgettable live experience—the culmination of which being a stint curating All Tomorrow’s Parties 2005 Nightmare Before Christmas festival at the UK’s Camber Sands. Inspired by the diverse array of talent they were able to assemble—CocoRosie, Diamanda Galas, Antony & the Johnsons and many others—Omar and Cedric regrouped determined, in their own words, to “step up our game.” The resultant Amputechture, the third album by The Mars Volta, marks the first time Omar and Cedric have created a work without a single unifying narrative. The essential creative process remained the same: Omar creating the music (including the horn sections) for Cedric to lyricize—but this time with the freedom to document unrelated stories, vignettes, inside jokes, various people, events memories… All in all, Cedric likens the experience alternately to the compartmentalized episodes of Rod Serling’s NIGHT GALLERY or the disparate plotlines of David Lynch’s TWIN PEAKS: Storylines not necessarily linear or in any way connected, but all told in the same voice. The
Mars Volta cast that performed Amputechture will be modified for live
dates that begin imminently, with drummer Jon Theodore replaced by Blake
Fleming, formerly of Laddio Bolocko and Dazzling Killmen and actually
the drummer who played on the very first Mars Volta demos. Pablo Hinojos-Gonzalez
will expand his role, contributing both guitar and sound manipulation
skills. Finally, while not a member of the touring Mars Volta band per
se, Amputechture contributor John Frusciante, on the other hand, will
be in close proximity, as his Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Mars Volta
are scheduled to tour together through November 2006. |
| 03/09/2006 | ********************************************************************************************************** SIKTH HEAD OUT THIS MONTH ON HEADLINE TOUR & GET SET TO RELEASE EP !!! ********************************************************************************************************** Noisecore metallers, SIKTH, take to the road this month on their headline tour of the UK. On this run of 18 dates the band will be joined by Special Guest's Dead Man In Reno with Architects opening. The tour is in support of the release of their new EP 'Flogging The Horses' due out October 2nd via Bieler Bros/ADA. This strictly limited edition enhanced package features four audio tracks (three of them previously unreleased) plus the animated video for 'Bland Street Bloom' - lead song from the group's second studio album, 'Death Of A Dead Day', released in the UK, America & Japan to universal acclaim. The full tracklisting of the EP is as follows:- 1) 'Flogging The Horses' (a track from 'Death Of A Dead Day') 2) 'Where Do We Fall?' Remix (also a 'DOADD' track) 3) 'Part Of The Friction' (demo recording) 4) 'When Will The Forest Sleep?' (live) 5) 'Bland Street Bloom' (video, an animated affair directed by SikTh & designer Tim Fox) Catch them at one of the following shows: SEPTEMBER 28th Oxford, Zodiac 29th Ilfracombe, Landmark Theatre Pavilion 30th Wadebridge, Town Hall OCTOBER 1st Falmouth, Princess Pavilion 3rd Newport, TJ's 4th Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms 5th Brighton, Concorde 2 6th Wolverhampton, Wulfrun Hall 7th Leeds, Cockpit 9th Newcastle, University 10th Aberdeen, Moshulu 11th Glasgow, King Tut's 12th Sheffield, Corporation 13th Milton Keynes, Pitz 15th Norwich, Waterfront 16th Stoke, Sugarmill 17th Manchester, Academy |
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| 03/09/2006 | *********************************************************************************************** DORSET SURF-ROCKERS HIT THE ROAD THIS MONTH WITH ROOSTER !!! *********************************************************************************************** Dorset rockers GETAMPED - made up of brothers Rick & Tim Parkhouse and Pitchshifter/This Is Menace tub-thumper Jason Bowld - hit the road this month as main support to fellow rockers Rooster. They'll be on the road right through to November, hitting every credible venue on the way. Catch them at one of the following shows: 27-Sep-06 Liverpool Carling Academy 28-Sep-06 York Fibbers 29-Sep-06 Aberdeen Moshulu 30-Sep-06 Inverness Ironworks 01-Oct-06 Keele University 03-Oct-06 Reading University 04-Oct-06 Norwich Waterfront 05-Oct-06 Northampton Soundhaus 08-Oct-06 Manchester Academy 3 10-Oct-06 Bradford Rios 11-Oct-06 Sheffield Leadmill 12-Oct-06 Barnsley Lucorum 13-Oct-06 Newcastle Stage 2,Northumbria Uni 15-Oct-06 Portsmouth Wedgewood 16-Oct-06 Falmouth Princess Pavillion 17-Oct-06 Oxford Zodiac 18-Oct-06 Exeter The Cavern 19-Oct-06 Brighton Concorde 2 21-Oct-06 Birmingham Academy 2 22-Oct-06 Gloucester Guildhall 24-Oct-06 Bristol Academy 25-Oct-06 Swansea Barons 26-Oct-06 Peterborough Metropolis Lounge 27-Oct-06 Cambridge Junction 28-Oct-06 Preston 53 Degrees (early curfew) 30-Oct-06 Southend Chinnerys 31-Oct-06 Cardiff Barfly 01-Nov-06 Nottingham Rock City 02-Nov-06 Wrexham Wrexham 03-Nov-06 London Mean Fiddler |
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****************************************************************** SLUNT RELEASE NEW ALBUM & HIT UK SHORES !!! ****************************************************************** SLUNT's new album 'One Night Stand' is out on Oct 9 2006 on Repossession Records ......................"so check it, punks!" (www.myspace.com/slunt) You won't find the word SLUNT in Webster's dictionary (use your imagination, folks) but it has arrived in the form of a badass, rock-now-ask-questions-later New York Fucking City four-piece with a no-subject-too-taboo attitude long ago lost on rock & roll. So what is SLUNT? Take a modern-day slant on the carefree spirit of classic rock, add to that the attitude & sex appeal of 80s metal, then throw in a lot of booze, a sprinkling of oestrogen, some hard-rockin' AC/DC riffs & some good, raunchy spitfire lyrics that will make any school boy blush & you've got yourself the most kickass rock n roll band around.....SLUNT!! Check out the band pic attached! The guys hit the UK for the following shows: Oct 1 Crawdaddy, Dublin Oct 2 Cathouse, Glasgow Oct 3 Joseph's Well, Leeds Oct 4 53 Degrees, Preston Oct 5 The Plug, Sheffield Oct 8 Jabez Clegg, Manchester Oct 10 The Sugarmill, Stoke Oct 11 Edwards No, Birmingham Oct 12 The Charlotte, Leicester Oct 14 The Peel, Kingston Oct 15 The Croft, Bristol Oct 16 Engine Rooms, Brighton Oct 17 The Portland Arms, Cambridge Oct 18 Underworld, London Oct 19 Unit 22, Southampton |
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