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From Wednesday 31 January 2007

Short circuits

The Circuits have been confirmed as openers for Bedouin Soundclash on their UK tour. Check them out at www.myspace.com/circuitsband

Standard Issue – Breed The Bomb EP

This Stoke post-punk mob originally sent me an EP (not this one, I hasten to add) to review many months ago, but after writing a review the file became corrupted and it was never posted on PT. Since December the band have hassled us for a review (incidentally

Cheap Regrets – The Happy Tank EP

It’s refreshing to see that really young bands don’t always copy what mainstream culture tells them to play. Cheap Regrets were only 15 when they recorded this now out-of-print 5-song EP, yet it’s more influenced by someone like The Hives than Hawthorne Heights.

Pylon – The Standard Fight

I usually slag press releases and bios off, so sometimes it makes a change to point out the good ones. Gravity manage to hit the nail right on the head when they describe Pylon, so I thought I’d slap in some copy and paste and let the

30STM UK April dates

30 Seconds To Mars return in April. Tickets now on sale: APRIL 20 – GLASGOW ABC APRIL 21 – LIVERPOOL Carling Academy APRIL 22 – CARDIFF Solus APRIL 23 – BIRMINGHAM Carling Academy APRIL 24 – LONDON Astoria

Tuesday 30 January 2007

GCH toss off the UK for TRL

A message from Gym Class Heroes: So we’ve had to do some rearranging. You see we were supposed to play at the Cockpit on February 6th, but we had to change the date. We will now be playing at the Cockpit (the same one in Leeds) on

New competitions!

After four months of nothing, we now have THREE brand new contests! Win things from Bayside, Alexisonfire and a new book about MySpace here

You Me At 6 – 4-tracks

After going quite some time without finding any young homegrown bands that excited me, I’ve suddenly come across a couple. One of them, You Me At 6, have as much potential as any unsigned act I’ve recently come across. This 4-tracker shows two sides to the band

Pre-order Enter Shikari’s album

You can now pre-order the Enter Shikari album ‘Take To The Skies’ from Play.com and HMV.co.uk for around £8.95.

LoveHateHero – White Lies

Any preconceptions you may have about this album will be well and truly demolished when ‘Goodbye My Love’ echoes from your speakers – Jesus, this band can shred! With metal riffs straight outta Maiden, Lovehatehero have the knack of mixing up some very contemporary styles (TBS,