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The news for Tuesday 19 February 2019

Ursus release new single and video

Fresh from the song’s premiere on Alex Baker’s Fresh Blood show, tech metal foursome Ursus have shared their video for new single ‘Totem’ – you can watch the video in full below. The hard-hitting track will be available on all streaming services from Friday 22 February, and vocalist Joe Grimes →

Deaf Havana announce release of live album with new video

After their huge Brixton Academy show in December last year – the band’s biggest headliner to date – Deaf Havana have confirmed that the electric atmosphere has been preserved forever in the form of a new live album, ‘Deaf Havana Live At Brixton Academy’. The album will be released on →
Monday 18 February 2019

Mat Kerekes (Citizen frontman) releases video for new single ‘Diamonds’

Ahead of the release of his solo album, ‘Ruby’, Mat Kerekes (perhaps better known to you as the frontman of Citizen), has released his new single ‘Diamonds’, accompanied with a rather outrageous and entertaining video. The track combines a number of influences, but most noticeably, there are elements that will →
Friday 15 February 2019

Dave Hause announces New Album + Euro/UK Tour

Acclaimed Philadelphia-raised singer-songwriter Dave Hause announces his brand new studio album titled ‘Kick’ . Out on Friday 12th April via Rise Records. Kick is Hause’s fourth solo outing that finds him carrying on in the voice and tradition of classic American songwriters, tackling topics of hope, depression, global warming, a →

T-10 release single ‘Back for (even) more’

London-based pop-rock band, T-10 release their new single ‘Back For (Even) More’. Re-worked by singer and guitarist Jamie Skinner and drummer Ben Alwin, alongside the band’s most recent additions, Gian Carlo on bass and Ant Sergio on guitar, this release from T-10 comes with a fully produced music video for →
Wednesday 13 February 2019

Final Slam Dunk artists announced

Alternative music fans rejoice – the final seventeen bands have now been added to the 2019 Slam Dunk line-up, and it’s quite the announcement! There’s plenty for pop punk fans to celebrate as A Loss For Words return after their break up a few years ago, with Neck Deep, As →
Monday 11 February 2019

Our Hollow, Our Home release video for ‘Wraiths’

Southampton’s metalcore 5-piece Our Hollow, Our Home are back with the video for their much-loved track ‘Wraiths’. The video comes just in time for their UK tour to kick off at the end of the week in support of their latest album ‘In Moment // In Memory’, released in October →

Bury Tomorrow announce UK tour

Bury Tomorrow have today confirmed a string of tour dates for December, set to be their only UK shows in 2019. The tour kicks off in Portsmouth on 13 December, finishing up at London’s Roundhouse on 21 December – full dates are listed below. The band have promised their biggest →
Friday 08 February 2019

Sun Arcana release new single and video

Essex-based alt-rockers Sun Arcana have today released their atmospheric, stadium-filling new single ‘Let Me Down (Ventilate)’, the first follow up to 2018’s ‘As I Take A Breath…’ and acoustic sessions EPs. You can watch the video for the new track in full below. Sun Arcana will be supporting Normandie on their →

While She Sleeps release new track ‘The Guilty Party’

While She Sleeps have shared another cut from their upcoming album ‘SO WHAT?’ due out on 1st March via their own Sleeps Brothers label in partnership with Spinefarm Records. The Sheffield band are heading out on a UK tour later this month. Check out full tour dates below. FEB 26 NOTTINGHAM, Rock City 27 →

Descendents announce exclusive headline date

Punk legends Descendents have announced an exclusive London headline date at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire on Friday 2 August, with special guests C.J. Ramone and PEARS. The gig will be their first back in the capital since June 2017 and will follow their Thursday night headline set at Blackpool’s Rebellion →

Gojira UK summer tour dates announced

Progressive heavy metal kings Gojira have announced their biggest UK headline shows to date, with three shows nestled comfortably in the middle of metal festival season at the end of June and beginning of July. The band, who released debut album ‘Terra Incognita’ in 2001, have become one of the →
Thursday 07 February 2019

Slam Dunk announce Jagermeister Stage

With just over a hundred days to go (not that we’re counting, of course) until Slam Dunk 2019, the excitement is really starting to set in – and the good news for fans of the heavier stuff is that the festival have today announced the Jagermeister Stage line-up, as →
Thursday 31 January 2019

Bristol’s Booze Cruise announces second wave of acts

For the first time, European’s fast-growing DIY festival is coming to the UK, taking place across various venues in Bristol. The 18+ festival takes place from May 24 to 26, and joining names already announced, such as Tiny Moving Parts and Ducking Punches, are: Apologies, I Have None, Mercy Union (featuring →

She’s A Punk Podcast drops February 5th

She’s a Punk, a brand new podcast from host Siobhan Woodrow, comes out of the gate swinging on February 5th with a five-episode launch on all major podcast platforms. This bi-weekly interview series, features intimate portraits of radical women who are guided by a punk ethos. It aims to →

Reading and Leeds Festival announce 50 more acts

Joining headliners The 1975, Post Malone, Twenty One Pilots and Foo Fighters are: A Day To Remember, Against The Current, AJ Tracey, Alma Anderson. Paak & The Free Nationals, Andy C, Becky Hill Bexey, Blaenavon, Bloxx, Cavetown, Charli XCX, The Chats, Chvrches, Circa Waves, Comethazine, D-Block Europe, Distruction Boyz, Fisher, →
Wednesday 30 January 2019

Community Festival just got even bigger with four new acts announced

Finsbury Park’s one day summer fest has just had four new bands added to the bill. Community Festival goers already had the likes of The Kooks, Blossoms and Sea Girls to look forward to, and now have an excuse to get even more excited with the addition of The Hunna, →

Slam Dunk add ten more bands to the 2019 bill

As if Slam Dunk wasn’t already massive this year, ten more bands have been added to the lineup. Joining the likes of All Time Low, NOFX and Bad Religion, are Lights, Wage War, Plain White T’s, Hellogoodbye, Touche Amore, Tigers Jaw, Wallflower, Employed To Serve, Microwave and Our Hollow Our Home. Slam Dunk will take place in Leeds and Hatfield on →
Tuesday 29 January 2019

Deaf Havana drop music video for ‘Holy’

If there was ever any doubt that Deaf Havana have taken their career to a whole new level since the release of ‘Rituals’, their video for single ‘Holy’ – which dropped today – will surely quash it. Filmed at the band’s packed out O2 Academy Brixton show that took place →

Blood Youth announce support acts for Starve Tour

Melodic hardcore four piece Blood Youth have today confirmed the support acts for their upcoming Starve Tour, with Palm Reader and Lotus Eater set to join the band on seven UK dates before Manchester’s Parting Gift take over as support for all remaining EU dates. Tickets for the tour are →

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