July 2012
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Coheed & Cambria Announce Double Concept Album +...
Coheed and Cambria’s upcoming sixth studio album will be a double concept album entitled ‘The Afterman’, which will be released in two separate full-length volumes. The band have released a short cinematic video trailer on their official website www.coheedandcambria.com
The first volume, ‘The Afterman: Ascension,’ will be released on October 8, 2012 via V2 Recordings/Everything Evil and the...
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Official Killing Joke Statement Regarding Missing...
Killing Joke have released an official statement regarding vocalist Jaz Coleman. It reads as follows:
A statement was posted on Facebook, reputedly by our singer, maligning both The Cult and The Mission and pulling us out of the shows.
He is now AWOL and has not contacted any of his band mates.
We are deeply embarrassed by this and offer our sincere apologies to all involved.
We are all...
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Slash UK Tour Oct 2012
Following a sold out date at Hammersmith Apollo and a headline show on the second stage at Download Festival in June 2012 (and more recently getting a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame), Slash is to return to the UK in October 2012 for a series of headline shows, which includes an arena show in Birmingham.
Dates are:
Sunday 7th October 2012 Edinburgh Corn Exchange
Monday 8th October 2012...
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Lostprophets / Cherri Bomb West Coast US Shows
Lostprophets have confirmed a week-long west coast headline club tour to follow on from their Vans Warped Tour appearances. Joining them on the tour as support is L.A.’s female four-piece Cherri Bomb.
Dates are:
August 7 - Sacramento, CA @ Ace of Spades
August 8 - San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s
August 10 - Los Angeles, CA @ Roxy Theatre
August 11 - Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues
August 12 -...
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What Are You Doing Here?
Skin, frontwoman of Skunk Anansie, has penned a foreword titled ‘Who Put That Shaven-Headed Black Woman on the Stage?’ for the forthcoming book WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?: A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal, by author Laina Dawes.
Skin writes: “The first time I heard rock music it was really exciting. I felt that this new music and vibe was really me. I...
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Madina Lake announce UK 'Trilogy Finale Tour'
Madina Lake have announced a UK tour starting on November 26th. Guitarist Mateo Camargo will be returning for the tour which is deemed as the ‘Trilogy Finale Tour’. The band will also play their ‘From Them, Through Us, To You’ album from start to finish before playing other material.
Dates are:
November 26th – Sub 89 Reading, UK
November 27th – Deaf Institute Manchester,...
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Black Velvet 73: Steel Panther, Lostprophets,...
Issue 73 of Black Velvet Zine is out now and includes:
Interviews with Steel Panther, Lostprophets, Angels & Airwaves, We The Kings, The Used, Forever The Sickest Kids, The Rocket Summer, Twenty Twenty, Deaf Havana, Summerlin, Strangle Kojak & Patent Pending.
Concert reviews including Blink-182, Bon Jovi @ Bamboozle, You Me At Six, Lostprophets, The Used, We The Kings, Steel...
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Boys Like Girls / The All-American Rejects...
Boys Like Girls have announced a co-headlining US tour with The All-American Rejects, beginning September 13 in Hampton Beach, NH. The tour, with support from The Ready Set and Parachute, will give Boys Like Girls fans the opportunity to hear new material from their full length album ‘Crazy World’, due out this fall on Columbia Records. Three songs from the LP - ‘Be Your...
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Reel Big Fish Donate Proceeds to Aurora Theater...
Reel Big Fish have donated the proceeds from their recent Denver, Colorado show to the victims and families of the recent Aurora Theater shootings. They write:
Last Thursday night, Reel Big Fish played to an amazing Denver crowd. The night was buzzing with positive energy as the last notes of the horns blared and the audience poured into the dark to head home. Little did we all know; right down...
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Brian May To Appear At Wildlife Rocks
Queen’s Brian May will be a guest at Wildlife Rocks, an event taking place in Guildford, Surrey on September 1st. May is the founder of Save Me, an organisation that raises awareness and speaks out against cruelty to animals, in particular wildlife. Save Me presents Wildlife Rocks, a daytime event which will include music (Brian will perform with Kerry Ellis), talks, stalls and other...
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Serj Tankian Oct UK Tour
Is it official tickets go on sale week this week? Another UK tour with tickets going on sale before the week’s end is Serj Tankian’s UK’s tour, which will take place in October. In support of latest album ‘Harakiri’, Tankian will bring his show to London, Manchester and Birmingham. Dates are:
Sunday 7th Oct O2 Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Monday 8th Oct Manchester University,...
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Evanescence / The Used / LostAlone UK Tour - Nov...
Evanescence are returning to the UK for an arena tour in November. The band have spent the summer playing sold out shows in Europe and around the world and head out on their Carnival of Madness tour in the US at the end of July. Recently singer Amy Lee was chosen as the recipient of the Luella Bennack Award at United Cerebral Palsy’s 11th Annual Women Who Care Luncheon, for her work with the Out...
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Motion City Soundtrack Sept 2012 UK Tour
Motion City Soundtrack are to tour the UK tour this September. They are touring in support of their fifth studio album ‘Go“‘which was released on June 11th via Epitaph Records/The Boombox Generation. Tickets go on sale 9 a.m. 20th July 2012. Tickets are £13.50 except for the London show which is £15.
Dates are:
Sat 15 Sep Glasgow King Tuts
Sun 16 Sep Norwich Waterfront
Mon 17...
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Seether November UK Tour
Seether are heading back to the UK in November for some headline shows. Dates are:
15th Nov Electric Ballroom, London £16.50 16th Nov Academy 2, Manchester £14.50 18th Nov O2 Academy 2 Birmingham £14.50
The general ticket sale will be on July 20th.
Following these dates the band will be in mainland Europe with shows in Tillburg, Bilbao, Madrid and Milan already announced.
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Theory Of A Deadman team up with Habitat For...
Theory Of A Deadman has teamed up with Hollywood for Habitat for Humanity in partnership with Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles to sell $5 bracelets at their shows to benefit the cause and contribute towards a Theory sponsored Habitat build in the fall. With a goal of eliminating substandard housing worldwide and supporting affordable homeownership, Habitat for Humanity supports this...
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Papa Roach - 'The Connection'
Papa Roach have announced the title to their hotly anticipated upcoming fall album. ‘The Connection’ is set for release on October 1st on Eleven Seven Music. The new album was recorded at the band’s hometown studio, The Red House in Sacramento, CA and was produced by James Michael (Sixx:A.M.) and John Feldmann.
The first single from ‘The Connection’ will be ‘Still...
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Boys Like Girls' Crazy World
Boys Like Girls will be releasing their ‘Crazy World’ EP on July 17th on Columbia Records via iTunes. The EP features three full length songs - the first single ‘Be Your Everything’, ‘Life Of The Party’ and ‘The First Time’- from the pop-rock band’s forthcoming third album ‘Crazy World’ (Columbia Records), available this fall. The band...
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Attack! Attack! (UK) Interview
Watch part of an interview we did with Attack! Attack! (Neil Starr and Ryan Day) last September. The interview was in print in issue 70 of Black Velvet.
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Shinedown Announce UK & European Tour
Shinedown have announced a new European tour which includes 9 UK dates. Tickets go on sale later this week.
Oct 14 - Lucerna Music Bar, Prague, Czech Republic
Oct 15 - Markthall, Hamburg, Germany
Oct 17 - Postbanhof, Berlin, Germany
Oct 18 - Proxima, Warsaw, Poland
Oct 20 - Ewerk, Köln, Germany
Oct 21 - Gibson, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Oct 22 - O13, Tilburg, Netherlands
Oct 24 - Guildhall,...
Body Of Chris Brahney Found
Chris Brahney, who went missing after attending the Stone Roses concert at Heaton Park on June 29th has sadly been found dead. A body found in Manchester Ship Canal in Salford is said to be his. A post mortem will take place tomorrow.
A message posted on the Find Chris Brahney Facebook page by Francesca Tracey read: “The family would like to thank everyone for all the kind words, thoughts...
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iHeart Radio Music Festival 2012
Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, P!nk, Green Day, No Doubt, Rihanna, Taylor Swift, Linkin Park and more are to play the iHeart Radio 2012 Music Festival in Las Vegas on Sept 21st and 22nd. The event is to take place at the MGM Grand.
Tickets go on sale on Saturday July 14th at 1pm ET.
More information is at festival.iheart.com/ where you can see the day splits and full list of artists.
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Destine - Wait Forever Video
Destine have released the video for ‘Wait Forever’, the third single to be taken from their latest album ‘Illuminate’. Laurens Troost (keyboards/vocals) says of the video; “We shot our new video in a big warehouse in the Netherlands and it was freezing cold. Luckily dancing keeps you warm! Don’t wait too long to do something good for somebody else. Before you know, it...
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Zoli Teglas Fund Following Collapse
A fund has been set up so Zoli Teglas of Pennywise can return to the US following an injury on stage in Germany. Teglas and band were performing on stage at the With Full Force festival when he acquired an injury that brought him to his knees. He received emergency surgery. The band wrote on July 3rd, “We would like to thank everyone who has expressed care and concern for Zoli after he...
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Redditch Morton Stanley Festival Aug 17-19th 2012
After seeing bands such as StakeOut, Vegas Assault & The Callout post on Facebook that they are playing this year’s Morton Stanley Festival in Redditch on August 17th, Black Velvet sent an email to the organisers to see if they had a list of the bands playing (nothing has been officially announced as yet). The free festival this year takes place the weekend of Aug 17-19th.
We’ve just...
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Lamb Of God Release Statement Concerning Randy...
Randy Blythe of Lamb Of God was arrested last week in Prague accused of manslaughter, following the death of a fan that happened two years ago.The fan had got on stage three times during a Lamb Of God concert to stage dive. The third time saw a security guard and Randy give him a small helping hand off the stage. Unfortunately the fan ended up hitting the concrete floor. He died a couple of weeks...
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All Time Low Return To Hopeless Records
All Time Low have announced their return to Hopeless Records. Their next album is scheduled for release this Autumn. Produced by Mike Green (Paramore, Set Your Goals, The Matches) and mixed by Neal Avron (Yellowcard, New Found Glory, Fall Out Boy) the new album features guest appearances from Anthony Raneri of Bayside, Jason Vena of Acceptance & Cassadee Pope.
All Time Low released their...
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Tonight Alive / LostAlone Tour
LostAlone are to support Tonight Alive on their European tour in October. UK dates are: Tue 2nd Oct Leeds Cockpit 2 £10 Wed 3rd Oct Glasgow King Tuts £10 Thu 4th Oct Manchester Academy 3 £10 Fri 5th Oct Milton Keynes Crafurd Arms £10 Sat 6th Oct Birmingham Asylum £9 Mon 8th Oct Nottingham Rock City Basement £10 Tue 9th Oct London Barfly £12 Tickets are on sale...
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