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From Monday 31 July 2006

Panic! up for VMAs

Panic! At The Disco has recieved 5 nominations for this years MTV Video Music Awards.

Southampton’s Our Time Down Here recently finished recording their first album “How Close We Came To Chaos” with Pete Miles and have uploaded some brand new tracks to their myspace page – www.myspace.com/ourtimedownhereuk. The album will be realesed at the end of August.

Chaser paint the town red

Chaser have posted the track ‘Red Paint’ up at www.myspace.com/chaseruk The song is from their ‘Best Seat In The House’ EP which you can get for just £3 over at http://punktastic.bigcartel.com

Flooded

Flood of Red start their UK tour tomorrow. 1st, Newcastle, Dog and Parrot 2nd, Middelsbrough, Libertines 3rd, Littlehampton, Railway inn 4th, Maldon, Maldon Town Hall 5th, Isle of Wight, Ryde Theatre 8th, Exeter, Zyhper Bar 9th, Southampton, The Nexus 10th, Liverpool, Roadkill 11th, Runcorn, Quayside 13th, Leeds, Cockpit 14th, Wolverhampton, Canal club 15th, Alfreton, Black

Capones/Tauntra split

The Capones/Tauntra split EP is now available to buy from www.myspace.com/tauntra It features 8 tracks – 4 from each band – and you can get it for just £4.50.

Blacktop – Blacktop Have Contracted The Following…

I’ve never understood why bands start their records with an intro. For me, it’s important to make an immediate impact on a listener, for younger bands putting your best song first can pull in a reviewer and make them listen for longer than they may otherwise

The Title, The Author – Our Research Explains It All

I had quite high hopes for this release, but after listening to this 8-tracker several times, I just feel very disappointed indeed. Brigend’s The Title, The Author were formed from the ashes of SheDiedInJune, a band who I’d heard many, many good things about. But this

Elfonso and the Skull Kid – Split EP

In a really odd way, I like this split EP. Released on Daventry label Jaws II Records, Elfonso and The Skull Kid are two separate acts. Both play lo-fi acoustic pop, not too dissimilar to very early Tanaou material. Starting off with Elfonso,

Bowling for burritos

According to europunk.net, Bowling For Soup have chosen “The Great Burrito Extortion Case” as the title for their new album, slated for an October 31 release.

Heresy – Face Up To It!

This is old-school punks Heresy‘s second of three re-issues on Boss Tuneage which will eventually see the band completely re-release all of their recorded output. ‘Face Up To It!’ features 29 songs and, if you like this sort of thing, is absolute value for money. Bearing