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Engerica, one of the starring bands of this year's 'DON'T THINK!' EP continue the year with a handfull of tour dates over the next month, and new single 'My Demise' released 15th March through Scarlet Records & Pinnacle. A strange messa»
Ex-ATD-I members, The Mars Volta are to release a split single with The Apes and Les Savy Fav, as well as their own debut record release, both around the time of their upcoming March Euro tour The Mars Volta, featuring former At The Drive-In members Cedric Bixler and Omar Rodriguez, are set t»
The Cooper Temple Clause are to make a very special appearance at nine of the UK Virgin Megastores in a week long tour/album promoting drive around the country... The band are to appear at the Virgin Megastores in Oxford, Birmingham, Swindon and Ipswich to sign copies of their 4/5 rated debut albu»
The Glastonbury Festival is set to go ahead after organisers and councillors finaly agreed on an entertainment licence. The three-day event held at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset, was cancelled last year due to crowd safety fears stemming from the 2000 festival that was attended by 200,000 people, doub»
Due to various venues closing down, being flooded with sewage and so forth, a few live dates have been changed, so here's the new line up for the next 6 weeks of The Dawn Parade dates... Saturday 19th of January (tomorrow) at The Kentish Town Bull And Gate, London. Support comes from Libri»
Leeds 'Battle of the Bands' competition dates set for the end of February with all sorts of band-promting prizes to be won. Set up by www.skadoosh.com as part of a Young Enterprise Company scheme, the 'Battle of the Bands' is a standard format with a panel of profess»
The Dust Bytes have recently secured a deal with The JMG Agency/Casket Music, now enabling them to take their noise pollution to Europe and beyond, with a single and tour both set for next month Dust Byte's blend of angular rock with buzzsaw riffs and electronic subtleties has r»
After a full month's worth of voting, here is the final, formal, and 100% accurate list, as compiled by a genuine Politics BSc (dropout). The rundown of the best albums of 2001 is ready. We could have rushed it out before Christmas like so many other, lesser, lists, but no, we respect»
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion are set to release their new album, "Plastic Fang", on Mute in April 2002. Recorded last summer in their hometown of New York, the follow up to 1999's 'Acme - Plus', features twelve brand new tracks and includes the forthcoming single 'She Said'»
I'm a very impressionable person. An Indiecent Exposure night. Not a concert, gig or whatever, but an experience, something you live through, hopefully. Tonite held the promise of four acts, Smallworld having pulled out days earlier being replaced by not one, b»
Three classic Sonic Youth albums are to be re-released by Universal. 'Daydream Nation', 'Goo' and 'Dirty' will be reissued as double CDs with additional material. All of the repackaged albums are to consist of the original tracks re-mastered in their original running order, plus live v»
Secret gigs? UK tours? grass-roots level fan action? pop-rockers 'A' have them all...
UK Secret/Warm-up Gig In London
There will be a tiny gig on Jan 21st in London for 'A' to "try out the new songs and play them to a select few of you as well as the worlds press and radio plugg»
Anthrax are getting interactive, providing their fans with a chance to learn about the disease of the same name. After receving comments such as "wouldn't it be funny if Anthrax caught Anthrax?" and playing at a NYC Firefighters benifit gig, the band set up a link to the Centres for Disease Contr»
It's going to be a Toploader vs Shed 7 Battle Royal during Edinburgh's Hogmanay Concert this year. Out of date indie-pop brawl, Fight on! Toploader's Dan Hipgrave has publicly 'threatened to fight' Shed 7's Rick Witter after insults were traded during a recent gig at Edinburgh's Commer»
Krist Novoselic & Dave Grohl take the battle to Courtney over the release of an anniversary Nirvana boxed set, and the whole future of the band's back catalogue Over the last few days, Legal papers filed at Seattle's Superior Court Of Washington have launched an action seeking to overturn an earlier court »
The Icarus Line will return to the uk with a one-off show at London's 100 Club on January 22nd, followed by a possable full tour in February. In the short space of 6 months, The Icarus Line have amassed considerable critical acclaim for their first album, 'Mono' (released on Sweet»
Surrey's very own emo-rock five-piece, Hundred Reasons were involved today in a classicly indie high speed van accident The incident took place today, while the band were on their way to headlining the London Mean Fiddler. Reportedly, a wheel came off their van as the band's vehicle was travelling »
Kittie, contenders for a high place in the coveted 'DiS album of the year' begin their world tour, including the UK, starting in Montreal on December 27th The tour, following up the world release of their second album 'Oracle' takes in 25 dates over Canada, the USA and Europe, with 6 UK shows»
The latest Glastonbury news is that the license hearing is pencilled in for the 3rd week of January. With the hope that the council's and police concerns can be addressed. www.efestivals.co.uk have set up a pro-Glastonbury Festival»
San Diego's RFTC get their merchandise on sale, including a special design to raise money for the American Red Cross Best Band of Reading 2001, Rocket From The Crypt, are celebrating their new found ability to take credit card orders on their on-site merchandise (after what? 10+ years of bein»
After the win of the first Shortlist prize Icelandic four-piece, Sigur Ros are to follow up their last album, the critically-lauded Ágætis Byrjun. The band are said to be planning to head to an indoor swimming pool that has been converted into a recording studio in Reykjavík, Iceland. Georg H»
Black Box Recorder are currently in talks with four major record labels, all looking to sign the band after previous label, Nude, went into voluntary liquidation Singer Sarah Nixsey has commented: "We're in a strong bargaining position because we've already recorded our third album so we're all r»
The Easy!Tiger Records, in association with Twisted a.m. Lounge present their Sunday Xmas Xtravaganza Four fine bands, films, special guest DJs Ross Godfrey of Morcheeba and Easy!Tiger's own DJ Dances With Monkeys, and an Irish Santa... and, so they say "we»
Jimmy Eat World have announced details of a two-date headlining UK tour and seven dates supporting Blink 182, which is already half sold out, in January. The next single has also been confirmed. The next single, 'The Middle', is set for release on 28 January 2002. It follows 'Salt, Sweat, »
Mercury Rev will be releasing the second single, the opening track from their current album. 'All Is Dream' which has recently gone silver in the UK. The single is 'The Dark Is Rising' 'The Dark Is Rising' will be released on January 14th on V2 Recordings, over 2 CD's a»
After a year of national tours, one member leaving, the addition of a new member and the signing to a new label, Twist have been busy... To reflect this activity and new record company, their website has been re-launched, now Flash enhanced and multimedia brim-f»
So Solid Crew's UK tour has been cancelled completely, SJM have now told Radio 1 they will have to cancel the entire tour Promoters SJM have pulled the remaining six dates in Norwich, Wolverhampton, Leeds, Southampton, Manchester and Folkestone after four cancellations in Cardiff, Leicester, Cambrid»
Ex-At The Drive-In members Omar Rodriguez and Cedric Bixler have posted mp3 versions of two tracks by their new band After this summer's (final?) break up of At The Drive-In, Cedric and Omar, now members of the band Mars Volta have posted mp3s and RealAudio tracks online at their official we»
John Peel is to receive an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Bradford. The Radio 1 DJ, the only one to stay with the station for it's whole history, will become a Doctor of Letters at the ceremony this friday, December 7, being honoured for his contributions to the field of popular music ove»
The Foo Fighters release new track 'The One' via their official website while recording their next album. Still hard at work in the studio, The Foo Fighters are recording their follow-up to 'There is Nothing Left to Lose' and a few other projects, including new tune 'The One'»
