February 2012
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No Americana - Wax Poetic Video
Check out No Americana’s debut video for ‘Wax Poetic’ below. The video was shot by director Ben Thornley (Fightstar, Young Guns) and his team in a storage facility in a business park in Bolton. A construction of Perspex sheets, which were suspended above and around the band, was assembled ready to rain icy cold water on the band below - resulting in drummer Dan Taylor...
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Bonfire To Release EP in Collaboration with PETA
German rockers Bonfire are releasing a six track EP entitled ‘Cry For Help’. If you pre-order the CD you’ll be in with a chance to win an autographed guitar from Dimavery Claus signed by all Bonfire bandmembers and used at Masters Of Rock in Augsburg. The CD costs 10 Euros and will come autographed. For every CD, 1 Euro goes directly to animal rights organisation PETA.
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Storm Corrosion Sign To Roadrunner Records
Roadrunner Records have signed Storm Corrosion, a collaboration between Porcupine Tree’s Steven Wilson and Mikael Åkerfeldt of Opeth. The pair have been friends since the late ‘90s, when Wilson co-produced Opeth’s ‘Blackwater Park’ album. Over the years, they’d spoken of working on a project together, but it wasn’t until recently that they managed to make something happen.
A self-titled...
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Open for Theory Of A Deadman
In a band? Win a chance to open for Theory Of A Deadman at a show near you on their UK and European tour.
To enter, head over to http://www.roadrunnerrecords.co.uk/theoryofadeadman/contest/ and fill in the details, giving a link to your band profile and a song, while stating which city you’d like to play.
The full list of tour dates is at the above link and run from Newcastle on February...
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Motley Crue
Today (February 3rd) sees Motley Crue kicking off the first ever hard rock residency at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas. The mayor of Las Vegas has officially declared it Motley Crue Day. The shows will allow fans many ways to interact with the band such as partnering with Crowdstream to offer fans to use their app to post photos and video direct to Motley facebook page. You can get Crowdstream...
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Sean O'Donnell Leaves Yellowcard
Sean O’Donnell has announced his departure from Yellowcard. The bassist writes on the band’s website, Yellowcardrock.com:
In April of 2010, the 5 of us met up in Los Angeles to play some music, hang out, and talk about the future of the band. I felt privileged to be invited to get to do so, and it was an amazing couple of days. Fast forward a year and a half and we’ve put out two...
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Mateo Camargo
Ex-Madina Lake guitarist Mateo Camargo has posted a video of his new band. Called Little Bitter Cubes, the electronic influenced band are a family three-piece that also features Mateo’s singing sister Maria of the band V For Volume.
Check out their song, ‘Sarah’:
The band are on twitter at www.twitter.com/LBC_Official
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Amy Lee To Receive Women Who Care Award
Evanescence’s Amy Lee is to receive the Luella Bennack Award at United Cerebral Palsy’s 11th Annual Women Who Care Luncheon on May 3rd, 2012, at Cipriani in New York. The Women Who Care Luncheon celebrates women who have blazed new paths and inspired others through their professional and charitable endeavours.
Philanthropist Luella Bennack invested over 20 years of her life to helping...
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Dear Superstar Host Free Album Launch Party
Manchester based Dear Superstar are hosting a free album launch party at Manchester’s Apotheca on Sunday February 12th. The party is to celebrate the launch of their new album ‘Damned Religion’ which hits stores on February 6th. The album was mixed by Bob Marlette (Black Sabbath, Marilyn Manson, Atreyu) and produced by David Jones (better known as Johnny Rocker from...
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Slash, Rise Against, Steel Panther & More Added To...
Download Festival have announced 14 more bands to this year’s festival. Joining in the 10 year anniversary event will be Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and Rise Against who will each headline a day on the second stage… Steel Panther who will be on the main stage… Billy Talent, Five Finger Death Punch, Reckless Love, Terrorvision and more. For the full list, check over at...
January 2012
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Shirts For A Cure Free SXSW Show
Shirts for a Cure, in association with Slip Booking and Traxion Control along with Munitio Earphones, Out of Time Clothing and MerchNOW, have announced a free daytime SXSW showcase on March 16th at Red 7 (611 East 7th Street, Austin, TX) with doors opening at high noon. Hot Water Music, Braid, DYS, Darkest Hour, Comeback Kid, Coliseum, Anti-Flag, Tim Barry and more will play the show. Donations to...
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Punk Rock Bowling 2012
Rancid, NOFX, Pennywise, the Adicts, the Briefs are to be play this year’s Punk Rock Bowling which takes place in Downtown Las Vegas on May 25-28.
Punk Rock Bowling was started in 1999 as a way to bring the independent music community together for an annual party. It has grown into a 3 day festival that brings out fans and bands alike from all over the world. This year’s festival...
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Madina Lake Leave Tour
Madina Lake have pulled out of their US tour with Me Talk Pretty, Hawthorne Heights and The Young Electric. They write on their Facebook page:
Ahoy fellow passengers,
It’s with a heavy heart, I bid you news that scores below average in the “good” department. I won’t belabor the uppity seas we’ve been navigating for the last year or so, as it seems to be old hat, like the October issue of People...
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Vains Of Jenna Split
Vains Of Jenna have announced they are splitting up.
They wrote on MySpace:
After 7 years, we have amicably and mutually decided to end Vains Of Jenna. There's no drama behind the decision. We simply feel like it is time to move on in our lives and close this chapter. It has been a truly amazing journey for us over the years and we are greatful for the opportunity to do what we've done with this...
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Templeton Pek 'Slow Down For Nothing' EP
Templeton Pek have unveiled snippets of tracks on their forthcoming EP, ‘Slow Down For Nothing’, the trio’s first release on People Like You Records. The CD was recorded with producer Greg Haver (Manic Street Preachers/Lostprophets/Bullet For My Valentine) and sees a slightly more melodic Templeton Pek.
Check the tracks out over at...
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Black Velvet 71
Issue 71 of Black Velvet Zine is out now and includes:
In-depth Interviews with:
Octane Ok, Motley Crue (Nikki Sixx), Alter Bridge, Within Temptation, Theory Of A Deadman, Madina Lake, Kids In Glass Houses, The Answer, Black Stone Cherry, The Famous Class, Stakeout & The Super Happy Fun Club
Concert reviews including Def Leppard, Alter Bridge, Within Temptation, Madina Lake,...
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Halestorm on Roadrunner - New EP & Album
On February 5th Halestorm release their new “Hello, It’s Mz. Hyde” EP. This will be the first release on their new label, Roadrunner Records. They follow Shinedown moving from Atlantic over to Roadrunner in the UK.The EP will be followed by a new full-length release entitled ‘The Strange Case Of…’ due for release on April 9th.
The tracklisting of...
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Madina Lake Lose Guitarist
Mateo Camargo has announced his departure from Madina Lake. Mateo was away from the last US tour, so this does not come as a surprise - although we’re sad by the news. Mateo tweeted, ‘I love those dudes. what we did musically is important and hope you all understand it was the best 7 years of my life,’ before adding ‘I will continue to make music forever. join me, love me...
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Bowling For Soup UK Acoustic Tour
Jaret Reddick and Eric Chandler head back to the UK for an acoustic tour at the end of March. Dates are:
March 26th - Roadmender, Northampton
March 27th - King Tuts, Glasgow
March 28th - Club Academy Manchester
March 29th - The Duchess York
March 30th - O2 Academy 2, Birmingham
March 31st - Chinnerys, Southend On Sea
April 1st - Koko, London
People On Vacation (Jaret Reddick and Ryan...
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Bamboozle Announce 60 Additions To 2012 Line-Up
The All-American Rejects, Boys Like Girls, Jimmy Eat World, Motion City Soundtrack, The Maine and 55 other bands have been announced to be playing this year’s Bamboozle Festival in Asbury Park, New Jersey, May 18-20. The festival is headlined by Bon Jovi, Blink-182 and Foo Fighters.
The Bamboozle, presented by Live Nation, will return to the beach at Asbury Park for the first time since...
The Dangerous Summer - An Explanation →
thedangeroussummer:
I don’t want this to come off as a pathetic apology, but more a explanation for the reasons we dropped off our last tour and why we make jokes on absolutepunk.net.
To clear the air, we LOVE the support that absolutepunk.net has given us over the last years and the releases we have put out, a…
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Download 2012
Bands just announced for Download Festival 2012, which takes place at Castle Donington on June 8th, 9th and 10th are: Soundgarden, Biffy Clyro, You Me At Six, Tenacious D and Chase and Status.
They join the three-day festival headliners: Metallica, Prodigy and Black Sabbath.
More information and tickets are at http://www.downloadfestival.co.uk
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We Are The In Crowd / Every Avenue UK Tour
Happy to hear that We Are The In Crowd are coming back to the UK for a headline tour with Every Avenue.
The full European tour dates are:
Apr 11 Melkweg - Amsterdam, Netherlands
Apr 12 Point FMR - Paris, France
Apr 13 Concorde 2 - Brighton, United Kingdom
Apr 15 Waterfront - Norwich, United Kingdom
Apr 16 Solus - Cardiff, United Kingdom
Apr 17 Academy 2 - Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Hostage Calm Support Anti-Flag
Connecticut punk band Hostage Calm will be supporting Anti-Flag on their European tour from April 15-28. They are also confirmed to perform at Belgium’s annual Groezrock Festival on April 28.
Dates are:
Apr 15 Den Atelier w/ Anti-Flag Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Apr 16 Zentrum Altenberg w/ Anti Flag Oberhausen, Germany
Apr 18 Luxor w/ Anti Flag Cologne,...
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Groezrock Festival 2012
Groezrock Festival’s line-up is looking pretty awesome as always. So far bands such as Simple Plan, Alkaline Trio, Refused, Rancid, Billy Talent, Yellowcard, I Am The Avalanche, Anti-Flag, Mike Herrera, We Are The In Crowd, Motion City Soundtrack, Gallows, The Dangerous Summer, Thrice, Zebrahead and others have been announced.
For the full line-up head over to http://www.groezrock.be
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MxPx With Plans Within Plans
MxPx plan to release new album Plans Within Plans. It will come out on MRI/Rock City Recording Company within USA and Canada on April 3rd, 2012. The album will feature 13 tracks and will also be available in Japan on Bullion Records, Europe/UK on Flix Records and Australia/New Zealand (El Shaddai Records).
Vocalist and bassist, Mike Herrera says of the album title, “I had been recording...
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Falling Red Lose Members
Falling Red have announced that Matty Penn and Shane Kirk are leaving the band. In their place come bassist Dann Marx and guitarist Jade Starr.
The new-look band will tour for the majority of 2012 with a show at Lancashire Rock & Bike Show in Blackpool on June 2nd already confirmed.
For more info visit http://www.fallingred.co.uk/
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Rise To Remain Lose Bandmembers
Rise To Remain have parted company with bass player Joe Copcutt and drummer Pat Lundy on the eve of their first American tour. As a result they have had to cancel the shows as planned supporting Machine Head. The band apologise to all their US fans but have plans to tour there shortly.
The US release of debut album ‘City Of Vultures’ will now be June 5th, and Rise To Remain will then head...
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Lostprophets 'Better Off Dead' Free Download
Lostprophets will release their fifth studio album entitled ‘Weapons’, through Epic on April 2nd. The band are giving away a free download of new track ‘Better Off Dead’ over at www.lostprophets.com. Radio 1’s Zane Lowe has made ‘Better Off Dead’ his ‘Hottest Record In The World’ and gave it the first airing at 8.40am this morning from his temporary breakfast show slot.
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The Used - I Come Alive
Check out the first song from The Used’s forthcoming album, ‘Vulnerable’ over at http://tinyurl.com/icomealive “‘I Come Alive’ was the first song completed once we began writing this record. It sets up the album really well and I like how diverse and theatrical it is”, says front man Bert McCracken.
The album was record with producer John Feldmann and will be released on ...
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Howard Jones Leaves Killswitch Engage
Killswitch Engage have announced the departure of vocalist Howard Jones. On www.killswitchengage.com they wrote:
To our family, friends and fans: We have decided to continue on without Howard Jones as the singer of Killswitch Engage. We love Howard and are thankful for the nine years that we’ve had him in the band. Out of respect for everyone involved we will not be discussing the specific ...
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Shinedown To Release 'Amaryllis' Via Roadrunner
Shinedown are now signed to Roadrunner Records in the UK - and all territories excluding the USA (where they remain with Atlantic). Their forthcoming new album ’Amaryllis’ will hit stores and digital retailers on March 26, 2012.
New single ‘Bully’ was premiered yesterday on iTunes and via www.shinedown.com where the band posted a lyric video.
Shinedown frontman...
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RIP Critter
Angels & Airwaves’ sound engineer, Critter, passed away on New Years Eve. Critter, real name Jeff Newell, worked on all four AVA albums as well as the ‘LOVE’ movie and the Blink-182 record ‘Neighborhoods’.
Atom Willard wrote on Facebook, “I am at a loss today, and I am truly saddened by our loss. We have all lost a huge talent, a creative genius, a...
December 2011
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New Model Army Studio Destroyed By Fire
New Model Army’s studio in Bradford went up in flames following a fire at the furniture outlet that is situated directly below the studio. The studio suffered a roof collapse, fire, water and smoke damage and almost complete devastation. Various instruments as well as demos for their 12th studio album have been demolished as well as 30 year old tapes containing early work that the band were...
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Vain UK Tour
Vain, fronted by Davy Vain, will be back in the UK for a short tour in March. Dates are:
March 14 O2 Academy Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne March 15 Bogiez, Cardiff March 17 HMV Institute, Birmingham March 18 Underworld, London
Tickets are on sale now via www.ticketweb.co.uk, www.seetickets.com and other ticket agents.
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Bullets & Octane
Bullets And Octane return to the UK in March. Dates are:
March 21 – Grimsby Yardbirds Rock
March 22 – York Fibbers
March 23 – Sunderland Independent
March 24 – Manchester Academy 3
March 26 – Cardiff Bogiez
March 27 – Birmingham Ballroom ‘The End’
March 29 – Southampton Joiners
March 30 – Camden Underworld
The tour will see original members Jack Tankersley and Skye Vaughan-Jayne back in the...
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A Pale Horse Named Death Tour
A Pale Horse Named Death, the band formed by Life Of Agony drummer and co-founder of Type O Negative Sal Abruscato have announced a UK & Ireland tour for January 2012. The band have a new guitarist in the form of Eddie Heedles, who will take over from Biohazard’s Bobby Hambel. Dates are: January 20th – Dublin The Pint January 21st – Belfast Spring & Airbrake January 22nd –...
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo
Nine Inch Nail’s Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross have announced the release of their soundtrack to David Fincher’s adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Reznor says: “For the last fourteen months Atticus and I have been hard at work on David Fincher’s The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. We laughed, we cried, we lost our minds and in the process made some of the most...
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Angels And Airwaves UK Tour
Angels and Airwaves will be back in the UK in April 2012. Tickets go on sale this week (general sale on Friday).
9 Apr Nottingham Rock City
10 Apr O2 ABC Glasgow
11 Apr Manchester HMV Ritz
12 Apr O2 Academy Leeds
13 Apr HMV Institute Birmingham
14 Apr O2 Shepherds Bush Empire
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Bamboozle 2012
The Bamboozle Festival in New Jersey will be celebrating their 10 year anniversary in May 2012. The three-day festival will take place on May 18, 19 and 20 and feature headliners Bon Jovi, Blink-182 and Foo Fighters. Other bands confirmed include The Used, Jimmy Eat World and Fun.
Tickets are now on sale (pre-sale) with the general sale being on Saturday. Three-day passes/wristbands cost $216...
2012 Bamboozle Ticket Prices →
lincstarboss:
Unfortunately this morning, our Fan Club service providers website was exposed. Some of the 2012 VIP packages surfaced early and most were seen before they should have.
I would like to let everyone know that we have done all we can to keep ticket prices as low as we could. This years return to…
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Max Raptor To Stream live from the bedroom of a...
Midlands four-piece Max Raptor, who have just completed a small Kerrang! Radio Breakthru Tour with Octane Ok, New Killer Shoes and No Americana are to play in the bedroom of Barney Hall at 4.30pm on Sunday 18th December. Barney Hall is a teenager from Wandsworth, who has supported the band and helped them get magazine inches. In an interview recently, Max Raptor frontman Wil Ray, stated that...
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Steel Panther UK 2012 Tour
Steel Panther have announced that they’ll be returning to the UK in March 2012 for a headlining tour. The band are currently on the road in the UK with Def Leppard and Motley Crue. The March 2012 dates are as follows:
TUESDAY 27 MARCH O2 ACADEMY BIRMINGHAM
WEDNESDAY 28 MARCH O2 ACADEMY GLASGOW
FRIDAY 30 MARCH MANCHESTER ACADEMY
SATURDAY 31 MARCH O2 ACADEMY...
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Francesqa Split
Oxford based band Francesqa have announced they’re splitting up. The band posted the following statement on their Facebook page:
Hello everyone, As a group we have recently had to make one of the hardest decisions any one of us will ever make. Over the past two years we have poured our hearts into writing music and Francesqa has taken us places in life that we never dreamed of being...
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It's Time for '7' from Sixx:A.M.
Nikki Sixx sure keeps busy. Not content with hitting the UK for a Motley Crue tour, and aside from doing his SixxSense radio show (which he still works on when he’s out of the country!) and photography (for starters), his Sixx:A.M. band with James Michael and DJ Ashba have announced the release of a new seven track EP entitled ‘7’. The EP will be released on December 13th and...
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Mötley Crüe in Sin City
Mötley Crüe launch Las Vegas’ first ever Hard Rock residency. Vince Neil, Nikki Sixx, Mick Mars and Tommy Lee will be performing from February 3 through February 19 at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Tickets go on sale tomorrow, Saturday, December 3 via www.motley.com, www.thejointlasvegas.com, www.ticketmaster.com and the venue box office. VIP seating and packages...