You're browsing the archives « Previous PageNext Page » From Saturday 31 July 2004 The new Strung Out record shall be called… Exile in Oblivion and released on November 1st. Fighting talk They may not be quite as good as Kerrang have proclaimed, but the new The Fight album, ‘Nothing New Since Rock ‘n Roll’ isn’t all that bad… Another Direction – Faking Smiles and Forcing Speech Progression – it’s an essential word for any band, especially for a band on their second release. If there’s no progression between CDs 1 and 2, then something is going drastically wrong. Thankfully for Leicester’s Another Direction, there’s a whole host of progression with ‘Faking Smiles Tour of the week! If you haven’t heard about Punktastic Un-Scene yet then you’re probably living under a rock. It hits stores a week on Monday and to promote it Not Katies and My Awesome Compilation hit the road next week, culminating in the Punktastic Bash. You You idiot Submitted by Noff: “There are new audio snippets of Green Day‘s first single, ‘American Idiot’ from the new album at www.greenday.com. The direct links are www.greenday.com/americanidiot1.mp3 and www.greenday.com/americanidiot2.mp3″ Legend! Submitted by Hayley: “Ex The Uriah Omen, He Is Legend have recently inked a deal with the great Solid State records. They are now in the studio recording their debut album with producer Adam Dutkiewicz (Norma Jean, The Agony Scene) of Killswitch Engage! Distro, anyone? Submitted: “I’m looking to start a independant Distro. Any bands or labels interested in getting there stuff with me to be sold email mark@camerakill.com” HHN tour comes to a close Taken from the HHN mailout: “The massive 38 date Household Name Records Summer Tour is finally coming to an end. We’ve had a load of good reports from venues around the country, and the bands say that the gigs have been great. Thanks very much for coming out and Milk2Birthday Submitted by Mackie M2S: “It’s my birthday day tomorrow – if people want to come help me celebrate there is a gig/party going on in Liverpool at the 24/7 with Zen Baseball Bat, Madskat (Belgium), Workin’ Lunch, Ninepoundnote, Minions Of Jeffrey and of course M2S Antilectual – Mung Culture Well, here’s an almost pleasant surprise. Well, pleasant in the sense that it wasn’t unpleasant as such, which is what I was expecting when I popped it into my CD player. A simple play on words suggesting stupidity for the band name, artwork involving ‘friends’ tossing about and some
