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Futures leave Mercury Records/announce new album/postpone tour.

stephen — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 19:28:40 +0000

FUTURES have announced via their Tumblr page that they have decided to leave their label Mercury Records.

The band said;
“We have been restricted over the past 2 years as to how much music we have been able to share with you. This has been one of the most frustrating parts about being signed to a major record label, no longer being in control of releases. We recorded our album 1 year ago and it is yet to surface so we decided to take the matter into our own hands. We wrote 56 songs for our album and you guys have only had access to 2 of them, we’ve wanted to give you more but it’s been an impossibility. Today we decided to leave Mercury Records, and the team there were kind and understanding enough to let us take our album with us. It’s been an exciting time being signed, and we’ve had some amazing opportunities thanks to Mercury, for without them we would never have been able to visit the studios we did and have our record produced by Gil Norton.

They also made two further announcements in that their as yet untitled album recorded with Gil Norton will be released in June while also breaking the news that as a result they have decided to postpone their planned April tour, you can read the latter half of the statement below.

“We’ve been weighing up over the past few days whether to postpone the album tour to tie in with the album and actually play new songs to you. The songs that we hoped would be in your ears before the tour. Although we love going on the road no matter where we end up, we can’t justify playing another set full of the songs from The Holiday. There’s only a certain amount of time that you can play the same 7 songs, without us or you thinking, ‘Can we hear something else?’ We appreciate that you have bought tickets and been so so patient with us over the past year. It’s been the most frustrating few months of our lives, having to hold off the music that we created in 2011 and the wait has been killing us. We came to the decision that the tour will be postponed with exams in mind, as there’s nothing worse than not being able to go gigs when your mind is meant to be studying.”

As soon as we know the rescheduled dates we will let you know but in the meantime you can check the full blog post from the band here

More from the band at https://www.facebook.com/futuresband

Reviews Roundup – 31 March 2012

stephen — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:55:50 +0000

We’ve posted a few reviews this week that you can check out using the links below.

Nate Leslie – Burst
Officer Down – Thrown To The Water
Make Sparks – Part Of The Masquerade
What The Blood Revealed – Harbour Of Devils
Hollow Earth – We Are Not Humanity>
The People The Poet – Thank You For Today

We can’t believe that we’re almost in April already, but we all know what that means – Festival season is almost upon us and we’ll be hitting our first major festival at the end of April when we’ll be bringing you the best in coverage with news, reviews, and interviews from Groezrock 2012.

We hope you’re as excited as we are.

Reading and Leeds line up announced

stephen — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:13:11 +0000

Reading and Leeds have made their initial announcement for the 2012 festival, set to take place from 24th-26th August the following bands will be playing;

FOO FIGHTERS (headliners) THE BLACK KEYS, KAISER CHIEFS, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE, ALL TIME LOW, THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM, EAGLES OF DEATH METAL, BAND OF SKULLS, PULLED APART BY HORSES, KASABIAN (headliners) FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE, THE VACCINES, ENTER SHIKARI, THE SHINS, ODD FUTURE, MYSTERY JETS, BLOOD RED SHOES, THE CURE (headliners), PARAMORE, BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB, YOU ME AT SIX, CRYSTAL CASTLES, ANGELS AND AIRWAVES, COHEED AND CAMBRIA, CANCER BATS, DEAF HAVANA, JUSTICE, MIKE SNOW, SBTRKT, BILLY TALENT, THE COURTEENERS, THE HORRORS, FOSTER THE PEOPLE, THE CRIBS, TWO DOOR CINEMA CLUB, THE MACCABEES, METRONOMY, KATY B, AZEALIA BANKS and AT THE DRIVE-IN

…and that’s it for now, plenty more bands to be announced in due course.

You can keep up with the Festival at www.facebook.com/officialreadingfestival and www.facebook.com/officialleedsfestival respectively.

Such Gold UK dates announced

stephen — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:58:17 +0000

Such Gold have announced a few UK dates around their appearance at Groezrock.

The dates are as follows

APRIL
30 SOUTHAMPTON Cellar

MAY
1 LONDON Barfly
3 BIRMINGHAM Ballroom
4 SHEFFIELD Corporation
5 LEEDS Santiagos

More from the band at www.facebook.com/suchgold

Glassjaw, Hundred Reasons and more added to Sonisphere

stephen — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 02:08:50 +0000

Sonisphere festival has added a host of new acts tonight, including GLASSJAW playing ‘Worship and Tribute’ in full and HUNDRED REASONS playing ‘Ideas Above our Station’ in full.

Other additions are SEETHER, BLACK STONE CHERRY, KVELERTAK, SKINDRED, NEW MODEL ARMY, CROWBAR, ALESTORM and THE GETAWAY PLAN

Check the updated line up on the poster below (click for full size):

More from the festival at http://www.facebook.com/sonisphereuk

Not Advised call it quits

stephen — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:13:42 +0000

According to a message posted on their Facebook page today, NOT ADVISED have seemingly decided to call it quits.

The band had recently completed a recording session in LA with John Feldmann, there’s no news as of yet as to whether they’ll release the music.

This is what the band had to say;

“NOT ADVISED IS DEAD. We’ve had the time of our lives in this band but have all decided that the time has come to move on. Thank you for everything.

We’ll be getting together next week to record a video message explaining the reasons why, which we will post on here.”

Foxy Shazam stream new album online

stephen — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:25:22 +0000

FOXY SHAZAM have put their (so ridiculous it’s completely brilliant) new album ‘The Church of Rock and Roll’ up for streaming over at Rolling Stone.

Click the below link to go to the site and check it out.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/exclusive-album-premiere-foxy-shazams-the-church-of-rock-and-roll-20120120

‘The Church of Rock and Roll’ is out on Monday.

More from FOXY SHAZAM at www.facebook.com/foxyshazam

Foxy Shazam post new song to Youtube.

stephen — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:03:33 +0000

You can hear a brand new song from FOXY SHAZAM called ‘Holy Touch’ by using the player below.

The song is taken from their forthcoming album ‘The Church of Rock and Roll’ out Monday 24th January.

More from FOXY SHAZAM at www.facebook.com/foxyshazam

Anthony Green streams his new album online

stephen — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:34:35 +0000

Click on the below link to stream ANTHONY GREEN’s new album ‘Beautiful Things’ on his website.

http://anthonygreenschildren.com/stream-the-entire-album/

‘Beautiful Things’ is out on January 17th through Photo Finish Records.

More from ANTHONY GREEN at www.facebook.com/anthonygreen.

Refused release a statement on their reunion

stephen — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 03:01:39 +0000

REFUSED have released a statement via their website discussing their reunion.

Check out what they have to say below;

“We had a band once, in Umeå. We would pile in a van, like every other punkband, and thunder off in pursuit of friends and glory in some basement in front of 20 people, 50 people, in towns 4-5 hours away. Sometimes there would be more than a hundred people and we would later in the week refer to that as a “big show”. We were ambitious, but we didn’t think of it as a career. We never made any fiscal sense whatsoever during 7 years of touring. Like most punkbands, it never occured to us to even try. We had a scene, we had some politics and we had just a hint of artistic ambition. True to our swedish roots we got very serious very fast. And then suddenly we got good. It’s a delicate path to tread for precocious twentysomethings anywhere on the planet, but this particular bunch didn’t make it. And that was fine. Most enterprises in life are unrelated to incredibly violent rock music.

It’s been a motley 14 years since our band came apart. We’ve all kept busy in our respective endeavors but we’ve all remained friends and kept in touch. There have been offers, and lots of jokes about these offers. We’ve sort of looked down from our high horses and made fun of people who’ve just wanted to share the psychopathic intensity that we would deliver on a nightly basis in our post-pubescent prime. A reunion has just seemed irrelevant to us. Too much other shit to do.

But then Kristofer got his degree from the Swedish opera academy, Jons medical studies began drawing to a close and Dennis and David started a new hardcore band together. Finally, after a decade and a half hiatus, Kristofer picked up the guitar again. Which made David want to play the drums again. Which in turn led to all four of us suddenly making new music in assorted constellations. As all this was brewing, Coachella got in touch. There were a couple of phone-calls, lots of skepticism, some hesitant enthusiasm before one of us basically said: “– This is ridiculous. There are friends of ours who would murder close relatives just to go see bands there. Let’s just do it, one last time.” And with that, socialist fag-loving pc scumbags were on the road again.

We never did “The shape of punk to come” justice back when it came out, too tangled up in petty internal bickering to really focus on the job. And suddenly there’s this possibility to do it like it was intended. We wanna do it over, do it right. For the people who’ve kept the music alive through the years, but also for our own sakes.

We feel that you deserve it and we hope the feeling is mutual.

See you in the pit.

//Refused“

The band play Coachella in the US this April, and WayOut Festival in Sweden this August. No UK dates are confirmed at the moment.

Yep, this is actually happening, check out more from REFUSED at http://www.facebook.com/RefusedBand