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Corporate rock whores to tour.
..And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead are to be touring the UK, which is nice.
APRIL
23rd - Metro University, Calverley Street, Leeds
24th - QMU, 22 University Gardens, Glasgow
25th - Manchester University, Oxford Road, Manc»
The Notwist have announced plans for their first ever UK headline tour.
Following up the highly acclaimed "Neon Golden" album a new single "Pick up the Phone" will be released on City Slang Records following the tour.
March
3rd - London, 93 Fe»
The indie-blues pioneers or tedious dad rockists return. Gomez return with their third 'proper' album, entitled "In Our Gun" released on March 18th through Hut Recordings. The album will be preceeded by single "Shot Shot" on March 4th and followed up by an e»
The sickeningly underrated knob twiddlers announce new album. According to their official website, the new Boards of Canada album will be entitled 'Geogaddi' and be released on the 19th February, through Warp Records. The notoriously r»
Since seeing Mogwai at both All Tomorrows Parties in 2000 and Reading 2001 I was certain that they were without doubt the greatest live band in the world. They draw in the crowd from the start and move them into the music, beneath all the fantastic noise. Fragile, intricate and heavily emotional mu»
Bonnie Prince Billy is set to play a number of dates in the coming weeks, inevitable playing tracks from his excellent LP "Ease Down The Road."
OCTOBER
26 Belfast, Mandella Hall
27 Dublin, Whelans (support Reindeer Section)
28 Dublin, Whelans. support: very special guest to be announced<»
Finally all your favourite post-rock superstars together in one soap opera, well two of them anyway. Dave Pajo (Papa M, Slint Tortoise etc.) and Tara Jane O'Neil (ex-Rodan, currently a range of obscure and mostly irrelevant bands) are the stars of this new soap that is to cause mass panic to the pr»
As if the greatest Reading performance ever (no really!) and a tour weren't enough, Mogwai will be releasing some new stuff and ripping off anoraks with unnecesary re-releases come October. October 1st sees the release of EP + 6 which is basically all the old EPs on one CD. Which is great if you hav»
Godspeed You Black Emporer side project The Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra And Tra-La-La Band formerly A Silver Mount Zion are set to release the follow up to their magnificent debut LP "He Has Left Us Alone, But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace The Corner of Our Rooms" on October 1st. »
Birmingham is to play host to this years Radio 1 Sound City.
So far the following details have been announced:
Monday 29th October - The Charlatans @ Birmingham Academy
Tuesday 30th October - Starsailor @ Birmingham Academy
Tuesday 30th October - Richie Hawtin @ Custard Factory
Wedne»
It was just announced on Radio 1 that Foo Fighter Taylor Hawkins is in hospital having suffered a suspected accidental overdose. The forthcoming European dates have been cancelled. Update The band have released an official statement about the incident. It reads as follows: "The Foo Fighter»
Leonard Cohen having already spoilt his mad social recluse image already once this year, should have a new album out on October 8th. The brilliantly titled Ten New Songs contains ten new songs. Apparently since running away from the world a long time ago he has been living on top of a mountai»
It’s becoming increasingly hard to write these ex-member of Pavement reviews, as all there is exciting to write was written in the beginning of this poorly constructed sentence. So, new single by Stephen Malkmus once of the semina................ For those who own the previously released self titled album,»
Preston School of Industry is the new band of a chap called Spiral Stairs, who is better known for being a founding member of Pavement. The cynical indie conspiracy theorists (god bless ‘em) may well point out the following argument; Pavements last (maybe) album was deemed a commercial failure, so the band split»
Mean Fiddler are yet to make an official statement but it appears that there are no weekend tickets left for Reading 2001. The evil capitalist web ticket agencies are certainly declaring the event sold out.
If you're desperate to go (and you should be because mogwai are playing!) it's worth ringing around »
It is yet to be confirmed but (very strong) rumours are that former frontman of Soundgarden and solo failure Chris Cornell will be Zack De La Rocha's replacement as vocalist in Rage Against the Machine. It is believed the band did not announce it earlier because of those pesky major labels. Some agreement now see»
The latest addition to the Eels Orchestra 2000 (erm 2001) is John Parish, the PJ Harvey guitarist. The news was announced by E at a press conference held on the steps of the bands booking agent's headquarters. "In a show of good faith, we are reaching out with hands across the water. There are English bands and t»
It is inevitable that as bands progress they will improve, They will improve in musicianship, in understanding of the industry and in how to record a record. There is also a trend that as bands progress they become boring, nothing but blunted, unimaginative and slaves to the industry that groomed them.
Let u»
Rock legends can get away with all manner of repulsive musical tirades. They will inexplicably avoid criticism until they do something reaching Pink Floyd style indulgence. How else can anyone explain Sonic Youth?s SYR recordings? People continue to buy these records!
For anyone unaware, Papa M is Dave P»Belle and Sebastian have finally announced something new, the first release after the pretty awful but excellently titled "Fold your hands child, you wank like a peasant"
The news comes after the bands first gig of the millenium, which was held at Glasgows Nice'n Sleazy infront of just 150 people.
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The rather seminal arty types ESG have been cancelled from the All Tomorrows Parties line-up. The reason given is they are "unable to fly to the UK due to health reasons". They were due to headline the second stage on the Saturday. It is thought that there will be no replacement and The Sea and Cake will be moved»
Alan McGee's Poptones label have now decided that theyre claims to revolution the music industry and universe might have been a bit optimistic. Originally the label were going to sell music via MP3 'really cheap'. But now they're not. Quite what the shareholders, who invested a few million into the compan»
The Wildhearts are touring Britain, presumably this also means the rumours were correct and they have reformed. There are 5 confirmed dates:
Glasgow Garage - June 16th
Dudley JB's - June 17th
Cambridge Junction - June 18th
Nottingham Rock City - June 19th
London Forum - June 20th
Even »
For those unfamiliar with the genius of Arab Strap all the songs generally follow the formula of drum machine + feedback + love scorn drunk Scotsman rambling about his latest sexual conquest. I’m of the belief more bands should make music like that. But alas this is their fourth (studio) album so musical trad»
As part of a massive world tour which will undoubtedly see the band break America and achieve constant MTV rotation, Arab Strap head to the following:
May
01 Dublin Red Box
02 Newcastle stage 2
03 Leeds Cockpit
04 Birmingham Ronnie Scotts
06 Nottingham Rock City
07 Bristol »
Recorded in New York with Dave Fridmann, the album showed a much more refrained and unique direction from the lo-fi slintisms of ‘Young Team’. Instead of just emulating their heroes the band really became unique. It seems unlikely they will be remembered for anything but sheer noise. But there are only two moments o»
Fiel Garvie appear to strive for some sort of gothic stylings with slightly poppy and occasionally lo-fi tunes. In fairness it’s a bit of a mess. The (talented) female vocalist saves them from absolute averageness, At times sounding like PJ Harvey and at less interesting and more annoying times like a female Brian Molk»
To add to the rather substantial list of titles for the new mogwai album it seems Matador are under the impression that it is to be called simply "Rock Action." Rock Action being the title of Mogwai's very own label. Since Matador are their American record label we might finally have the final title. Rejoice!»
Fractured, fucked, funky, fatalistic, formidable and flourishing electronica from two blokes hailing from Scotland. Following up their unanimously acclaimed debut album “Music has the right to children”. They take the Aphex Twin aesthetic of head-fucking ambience to a much more subtle environment. Mixing enticing, hypn»
The second in the Chemikal Underground Fukd Id series, and the only to come from an established act. Limited to 1000 for the sake of purism, meaning only the truly dedicated can get there hands on the bugger. Chances are if your looking now you will not find one. Which is a pity as it is Arab Straps best release yet, d»
