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From Sunday 23 October 2011

Officers – On The Twelve Thrones

When a press release includes a quote claiming the associated album to be one of the best of the year, it places a lot of pressure on the band in question to live up to the expectations. With ‘On The Twelve Thrones’, OFFICERS (now minus the ‘The’

Saturday 22 October 2011

New Counterparts song

COUNTERPARTS have posted new song ‘The Disconnect’ online. You can check the song out at http://www.facebook.com/VictoryRecords?sk=app_178091127385, and the band’s new album ‘The Current Will Carry Us’ is out next week. More on the band at http://www.facebook.com/counterpartshc

Close Your Eyes release Valleys music video

CLOSE YOUR EYES have released a music video for their new single ‘Valleys’. You can see it below: It’s taken from the band’s new album ‘Empty Hands And Heavy Hearts’, which is out next week in the US on Victory Records. More

Friday 21 October 2011

Young Guns supporting Enter Shikari in EU as well

As well as the UK dates, YOUNG GUNS will support ENTER SHIKARI on the mainland next March. The full run is as follows: March: 10 – AMSTERDAM – Melkweg (Netherlands) 12 – HAMBURG – Markthalle (Germany) 13 – KOLN – Live Music Hall (Germany) 13 – FRANKFURT – Sankt Peter (Germany) 15

Groezrock 2012 additions

MAD Tourbooking has listed THE OLD FIRM CASUALS and DYS as playing next year’s Groezrock festival. The festival takes place in Meerhout, Belgium at the end of April.

Weekly Reviews Round Up (21/10/2011)

Oh look, we’ve been busy this week! Four weeks into reviving our reviews round ups and you can see what we thought of the latest releases and a few shows we’ve been to recently: CDs: The Hype Theory – GLory Days A Loss For Words – No Sanctuary

Punktastic Does America #1 – Preparation

This Autumn/Winter, our Visual Media Editor Maryam will be out in the US digging deep into the Chicago scene, and making a quick trip down to the legendary Fest while she’s there. She’ll be writing a column alongside loads of the usual awesome content, and to read

The Hype Theory – Glory Days

Essex based four-piece THE HYPE THEORY may just represent the epitome of the “Paramore Curse”; an unavoidable comparison in music journalism comparing the upstarts to the female fronted power-pop megastars. In the case of ‘Glory Days’ this comparison is not entirely unjustifiable, with

Rolo Tomassi – Camden Barfly

The banner at the Barfly’s stage rear reads “Everyone remembers their first gig” (I certainly remember mine, it was Deftones and A Perfect Circle back in September 2003. It was great, thanks for asking), and tonight a band more of the age experiencing their first gig rather than commanding

Full Direct Hit! / The Priceduifkes UK dates

DIRECT HIT! (USA) and THE PRICEDUIFKES (Belgium) will tour the UK in May 2012. You can see the full list of dates below: May; 17 – SWINDON 12 Bar 18 – NOTTINGHAM Old Angel 19 – DUNDEE Balcony Bar 20 – GLASGOW 13th Note 21 – LEEDS Fenton (tbc) 22 – CARDIFF Venue TBC 23