Nottingham born singer-songwriter Ellen Mary McGee is quick to point out her council estate upbringing in interviews, which is surprising as her music hardly reflects a life of crime or depravity. Instead, The Crescent Sun depicts McGee’s tendency towards escapism with a tapestry of historical legend (Lord Franklin), fairy tales (The Fatal Flower Garden) and [...]
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CKY are set to play a special club show this Friday 6th November at London’s Barfly. Tickets, priced £14 (includes booking fee) are on sale now from www.ticketweb.co.uk and www.seetickets.com. The show is a 14+ show, with a 10.30pm curfew.The Pennsylvania-based four piece were originally due to appear at the Hellfire Festival in Birmingham, but [...]
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Straight Lines are ready to release ‘Versus The Allegiance’ through Xtra Mile Recordings (Frank Turner, The Xcerts, Reuben…) in early 2010. ‘Versus The Allegiance’ will be released through iTunes and all major DSPs on 7th December.Tracklisting:1. ‘Versus The Allegiance’2. ‘When In Doubt’ (Demo)3. ‘All My Friends Have Joined The Army’ (Acoustic)4. ‘Visions’ (Acoustic)Novem
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Five Finger Death Punch have confirmed a November 16th digital release for “Dying Breed”, the opening track to their latest album ‘War Is The Answer’, currently available via Spinefarm Records UK.The digital single also features “Succubus”, a bonus track previously unreleased and taken from the sessions for ‘The Way Of The Fist’, the band’s hugely [...]
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On 30th November 2009 “underground hero” Beans On Toast will release his debut album ‘Standing On A Chair’ - a 50 track double album incorporating all his songs to date - through Xtra Mile Recordings.He will be celebrating the release of the album with a free gig and launch party on Sunday 29th November at [...]
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When The Cinematics, a band based just along from Loch Ness (I’ll try not to make any ‘beastie’ analogies), toured their debut album A Strange Education they began amassing tens of thousands of fans supporting bands like We Are Scientists, Editors and Snow Patrol. Now by adding a few synthesized effects and calling upon their [...]
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Media Heaven, a “full service CD and DVD duplication and printing company” based in Leeds, will be giving away hundreds of pounds worth of free music merchandise in their “Awesome Music Merch Twitaway.” Button badges, T-Shirts or discount vouchers will be given away every day for 10 days as soon as they reach 250 followers [...]
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On 16th November Moby will be performing an intimate and exclusive show for Q The Music Club Live At Hard Rock Cafe. This special gig will have a unique twist as Moby will open the forum and ask Q Readers, Q Radio, Big City Radio and Kiss FM listeners chose his set. Moby has put [...]
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One of the last albums ever recorded at London’s renowned Olympic Studios (where The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and The Who have all recorded), ‘Acoustic At Olympic Studios’ finds Asobi Seksu’s core duo—vocalist Yuki Chikudate and guitarist James Hanna—affording listeners a fresh take on songs spanning the band’s career. One Little Indian will release [...]
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The Cribs are a band that gets a lot of stick from some quarters but they also get a lot of praise. Some people will say that they are the antithesis of everything they hate about indie music but some people will say that they are a breath of fresh air in a rapidly commercialised [...]
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With Bring Me The Horizon’s ‘Suicide Season - Cut Up’ being released this week the band have put a second track online, ‘Football Season Is Over’ (After The Night Remix). The album also includes remixes from the likes of Shawn Crahan (Slipknot), Travis McCoy (Gym Class Heroes), L’amour La Morgue, The Dillinger Escape Plan and [...]
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Green Day have announced their first outdoor shows since the release of ‘21st Century Breakdown’.The band can confirm their first UK stadium shows since their famous two-night stand at Milton Keynes National Bowl in 2005 that was later documented in their live album ‘Bullet In A Bible’. In addition to the two shows on these [...]
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Dark death metal messiahs Incantation return to europe once more “to decimate you once and for all!”Both Incantation and Hate will be supporting their latest records on this tour.!Other support acts are Divine Eve and Noctem. Dates13.01 - Nottingham (UK) “Seven”14.01 - Manchester (UK) “Satan’s Hollow”15.01 - Leeds (UK) “Rios”16.01 - London (UK) “The Elektrowerkz”17.01 [...]
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Umpteen albums into his storied and acclaimed career, there were signs on last year’s mediocre Heretic Pride that Mountain Goats‘ main man, John Darnielle, was finally running out of ideas. His straightforward chord sequences and hyper-literate lyrics were still apparent, but there was a noticeable lack of the intellectual thoroughness that made his name. Thankfully, [...]
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Why a self-titled album? Perhaps Hatebreed felt this year’s To The Lions covers album had separated them from their main objective. Perhaps, as this is the first original album to feature their newcomer guitarist Wayne Lozinak, they decided they are the whole new breed of hate! Perhaps it’s that they’ve been changing their sound, something [...]
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Death Metal legends Cannibal Corpse have been added to the Bloodstock Open Air Festival line up. Says drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz:“We are extremely excited to be playing Bloodstock! It will be our first ever festival appearance in the UK and we can’t wait to tear it up for the masses!”Limited tickets are on sale now until [...]
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Peterborough post-hardcore quintet We Are Fiction are apparently fixated with the art of performing. Having seen one of their utterly twisted shows - where they all dressed up in superhero outfits to perform - I can honestly vouch for their claim that their shows contain “acrobatics from 10ft speaker cabs, hanging from roof rafters and [...]
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Who remembers thrashers Defiance? Well, after a 15 (count ‘em) year hiatus, they’re back. In early interviews, bassist Mike Kaufmann confirmed “We always felt the band broke up too early so we plan to use this opportunity to pick up where we left off.” Formed in 1985, Defiance recorded their first record three years later [...]
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Newly-founded Nuclear Blast imprint Antsalt Records is on the verge of releasing it’s first three records of, well, intense, gory, grinding and sometimes sadistic music. I will be taking a look at each of the new releases, in turn, starting with Milking The Goatmachine’s Back From The Goats.It is not often that I will quote [...]
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