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The news for Thursday 16 August 2018

Glassjaw reveal new video

Glassjaw have released their new video for ‘My Conscience Weighs A Ton’, a track taken from current album ‘Material Control’. Watch the video in full below. The band will be playing ArcTanGent in Bristol on August 17 – tickets available here – followed by a headline show at Brixton’s →

As It Is announce one-off acoustic show

Fresh after the release of album ‘The Great Depression’, As It Is have announced a special full band acoustic show to be held at Kingston’s All Saints Church on December 4. Held in association with Banquet Records, tickets for the show are available now here. →

I The Mighty release new video for ‘Pet Names’

Ahead of their appearance at Reading & Leeds next weekend, I The Mighty have dropped a new video for their song ‘Pet Names’. The track is taken from the band’s latest release ‘Where The Mind Wants To Go/Where You Let It Go’, which was released through Equal Vision Records →

New Found Glory release new video for ‘Barbed Wire’

New Found Glory have shared a colourful new music video for their track ‘Barbed Wire’. The song is taken from the band’s latest record ‘Makes Me Sick Again’, a re-release of their 2017 album ‘Makes Me Sick’, which came out earlier this year through Hopeless Records. Check out the video →
Wednesday 15 August 2018

Joyce Manor unveil new video

Joyce Manor have released a video for new single ‘Think I’m Still In Love With You’, taken from forthcoming album ‘Million Dollars To Kill Me’. The video sees vocalist/guitarist Barry Johnson take a starring role – watch it in full below. ‘Million Dollars To Kill You’ is set for release →
Monday 13 August 2018

Boston Manor release new single ‘Bad Machine’

Blackpool-based quintet Boston Manor have shared a new single, ‘Bad Machine’. The track is taken from the group’s upcoming sophomore album ‘Welcome To The Neighbourhood’, which is set to be released through Pure Noise Records on September 7th. Check out ‘Bad Machine’ here: Boston Manor will also be heading out on →
Thursday 09 August 2018

Dan Lancaster releases new track ‘Move a Mountain’

Dan has written, produced and mixed albums including Blink 182’s ‘California’, 8 BBC Radio 1 A-Listed records in the last 2 years and has worked with Bring Me The Horizon, Avril Lavigne, One OK Rock, Lower Than Atlantis, Don Broco, and Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes. Check out his new →

Polt Her Geist​ announce the release of ‘Haemorrhage​’

Polt Her Geist​ announce the release of ‘Haemorrhage​’ on November 16, via The LP Cafe. Rewind 40 years – a mysterious poltergeist is terrorizing an Enfield family, throwing ashtrays, possessing the kids and causing a great deal of trouble. Forward again to present day and people start receiving cryptic messages →
Tuesday 07 August 2018

Alkaline Trio release title track from upcoming album

Chicago punk rockers Alkaline Trio have shared the title track from the upcoming ‘Is This Thing Cursed?’ – their ninth studio album, and first since ‘My Shame Is True’ was released over five years ago. Check out the video below. ‘Is This Thing Cursed?’ is set for release on CD/Digital on →
Tuesday 31 July 2018

You Me At Six add seven more ‘Take Off Your Colours’ shows

The demand to hear You Me At Six play their debut album in full has been overwhelming, causing the band to announce 7 additional dates to the run– the last Brixton Academy date sold out in 20 minutes. Pre-sale for the extra dates is August 1, whilst general sale will →

IDLES to raise money for Samaritans with pop-up art exhibition

The pop-up exhibition will be held between 30-31 August at HM Electronics Gallery, London. Open between 2-8pm each day, the exhibition will celebrate the bands upcoming album ‘Joy as an Act of Resistance’ and is curated by the band themselves, with contributions from Orlando Weeks, Tao Lapsley, Beth Cater →
Wednesday 25 July 2018

Counterparts announce EP, release new single ‘Monument’

  Counterparts have announced their new EP ‘Private Room’ is to be released on September 7 through Pure Noise Records. The EP is made-up of three tracks which are all B-sides from the band’s last two albums. Here’s the track list: 01  Monument 02  Selfishly I Sink 03 We Forgive Counterparts also shared the first →
Tuesday 24 July 2018

William Ryan Key and This Wild Life announce co-headline tour

Former Yellowcard front man William Ryan Key and California acoustic rockers This Wild Life have announced a co-headline tour of Europe, with dates spanning January and February 2019. Key recently released debut solo EP ‘Thirteen’, whilst This Wild Life released third album ‘Petaluma’ on June 22. Full tour dates →

The Story So Far release new single

The Story So Far have shared their new single ‘Let It Go’. The track is taken from the band’s upcoming album ‘Proper Dose’ which is to be released on September 21. You can pre-order ‘Proper Dose’ here. →

Tides of Man announce tour to support release of ‘Every Nothing’

Florida-based Tides of Man started a new chapter in 2014 with their first instrumental record. Though debutantes in the genre, having started out as a progressive post-hardcore act, ‘Young and Courageous’ was a masterclass in post rock, and on August 3, the band will follow it up with their →

Normandie release new single

Swedish alt rockers Normandie have released a new single and video. ‘Ecstasy’ is the debut track from their upcoming second album, and their first since signing to Easy Life Records earlier this year. Normandie will be touring with Hands Like Houses later this year, full dates below. OCTOBER 19 GLASGOW Cathouse 20 BIRMINGHAM →

The Uncharted share video for Deathdrive’

The Uncharted are a 7 piece Progressive Metal band from Gloucester, formed from the ashes of their previous endeavours, with a vision of combining the best elements of their favourite genres to create something unique and forward thinking. Taking their name from the ‘uncharted’ territory they found themselves in, the band found →

Beartooth release new video for ‘Disease’

Beartooth announce their third studio album and video for the title track. ‘Disease’ is a stark look inward and the next instalment chronicling frontman Caleb Shomo’s battle with his own demons. Released via Red Bull Records globally on September 28. “The album is a whirlwind of emotion,” Shomo explains. “Crazy highs, →
Friday 20 July 2018

SHADED release their new single ‘Tell Me’

London pop/punk 3-piece, SHADED revealed their video for new single ‘Tell Me’. Singer Matt East explains ‘Tell Me comes from a place in my previous relationship where I felt that there was a serious lack in communication. I spent so long over-thinking and being made to feel that I was →
Tuesday 17 July 2018

Enter Shikari announce UK tour

Enter Shikari have announced a UK tour for December 2018 and January/February 2019. The band will play 28 dates across the UK. Frontman Rou Reynolds had this to say about the tour: “Our most recent UK tours have been of the “eight or nine shows in arenas / big sheds” variety, so →

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