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From Thursday 13 September 2012

Transit cover Third Eye Blind’s ‘Motorcycle Drive By’ in session

Transit have posted a video of them performing a cover of Third Eye Blind’s ‘Motorcycle Drive By’. It’s part of their long-lapsed “Transit Thursday” and you can see what the band had to say about the cover and the video in this article. “So, we decided to release a Transit Thursday

Mike Scott releases new album for free through Bandcamp

Mike Scott (of Lay It On The Line and Phinius Gage) has released his new solo album gratis through Bandcamp. It’s called ‘Fiesta De Los Muertos’, and you donate a few quid to Mike through the “pay what you like” if you’re so inclined. Check it out using the player

The Smoking Hearts to support Axewound next month

The Smoking Hearts will support Cancer Bats/BFMV supergroup Axewound next month in the UK. You can see the dates below, and get tickets now from Live Nation. OCTOBER 01 NOTTINGHAM Rescue Rooms 02 GLASGOW King Tuts 03 MANCHESTER Academy 3 04 WOLVERHAMPTON Slade Rooms 06 LONDON Camden Underworld 07 BRISTOL Thekla http://www.facebook.com/thesmokinghearts

Alice Can’t Turn Left – ‘Right Back Forward’

Alice Can’t Turn Left’s EP ‘Right Back Forward’ opens with promise – the chunky riff that resolves into the verse of first track ‘The Next Round’ is great. The female vocals that accompany this are slightly reminiscent of Letters From Cleo – the cheesy, pop-rock band that feature on

LIVE: Reading Festival Saturday 2012

Enter Shikari As the sun rose on the Saturday of Reading festival and those bleary eyed hangovers started to kick in, the word soon began to spread that Green Day would be playing the NME/Radio 1 stage at 11am. For those lucky enough to be in the know / on

History Of The Hawk release ‘Old Wounds’ music video

Noise merchants History Of The Hawk have released a music video for their song ‘Old Wounds’. The track is taken from their forthcoming album ‘Future Ruins’, which is on via In At The Deep End Records on November 12.

Straight Lines post ‘Ring The Bells’ video online

If you haven’t checked it out on the Kerrang! website yet, Straight Lines have posted a music video online for their new single ‘Ring The Bells’. The song is taken from their fantastic recent album ‘Freaks Like Us‘, and you can check

Wednesday 12 September 2012

PODCAST: Reading Festival 2012 Friday w/Anti-Flag, Saves The Day, Bouncing Souls, Touché Amoré

In the first edition of our Reading Festival 2012 podcast, we’ve made you a handy YouTube playlist of our highlights of Friday. It features interviews and songs from Anti-Flag, Saves The Day, Bouncing Souls, TouchĂ© AmorĂ©, Future Of The Left and Coheed, as well as our roundups of the day,

LIVE: Reading Festival Friday 2012

Punktastic’s Reading 2012 kicked off – and rightly so – with the raucously noisy Future of The Left. Anthemic and weird in equal measure; their noise rock seemed to boggle some of the punters in the NME/ BBC Radio 1 tent, who we can only assume were awaiting the

Skeleton Kid – ‘The Graveyard Disciples’

Judging by the title of the EP itself, it’s easy to assume that Bournemouth foursome Skeleton Kid will sound dark and depressed and, honestly, you’d be right. On their Myspace page (yes, they still have one) they describe themselves as a band that “will do anything and everything in