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From Saturday 29 April 2006

Sick Of It All – Death to Tyrants

There’s a line early on in ‘Death To Tyrants’ which Lou Koller barks “Let’s celebrate that we don’t give a fuck!” And to be honest, after more than 20 years in the ‘business’, that one line sums up the attitude and swagger SOIA show on this record.

Friday 28 April 2006

Plain White Tees – Hey There Delilah

Somewhere along the line, Plain White T’s have got pretty big. The accompanying bio to this release suggests 60,000 album sales, 1-million purevolume listens and 150,000 myspace plays. But on the basis of this rather dull and boring album, I honestly have no idea why. With four

Victory Records makes the end

Taken from ap.net: “Victory Records has signed New York’s Endwell.”

Fresh cheese

The new Big Cheese magazine looks like this and features Less Than jake on the cover. Also in the mag this month are the likes of Fall Out Boy, Aiden, The Academy Is and there’s also a free

The new M2S single is the best thing they have ever done…

A milk2sugars update: “We are planning to release a new track ‘Four-Motion’ as a Download only single in July, to go with the release we are going to make a video! To coincide with the release of the single we are booking a short tour at

Make out kids

Motion City Soundtrack tour the UK in September: 18 SEPT 2006 Bristol University 19 SEPT 2006 Cardiff University Solus 20 SEPT 2006 Wolves Wulfrun 21 SEPT 2006 Newcastle University 22 SEPT 2006 Manchester Academy 23 SEPT 2006 Glasgow ABC 24 SEPT 2006 Leeds Met University 27 SEPT 2006 Portsmouth Pyramid 28 SEPT

Velvet

Submitted: “The new issue of Black Velvet Zine, issue 48, is out now, featuring interviews with Simple Plan, Alkaline Trio, Taking Back Sunday (interviewed by Beat Union), MxPx, I Am The Avalanche, Bullets And Octane

iFR! secret show

iForward Russia! play a secret show in Leeds on Monday. “On Monday, we release NINE, and to celebrate we’re getting our friends together at Josephs Well for a party. Forward, Russia (aka Welcome Megatron) will be playing, as will the previously announced Every Move A Picture, and

Eyes down

American Eyes do a one-off at the Barfly in Camden on June 6.

Raised Bridge to Solace on the Comeback

Just a reminder that RAISED FIST are playing a few dates next month with support from BRIDGE TO SOLACE and COMEBACK KID. The dates, taken from the Burning Heart mailout, are: W/COMEBACK KID: 2006-05-01 Manchester @ Jilly’s Rockworld (UK) 2006-05-02 London @ Underworld (UK)