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Forthcoming Road Runner releases and tour news
20th August - Anyone 'Anyone'
27th August - Slipknot 'Iowa'
10th Sept - Spineshank 'New Disease' single
17th Sept - Dislocated STYLES 'Fire in the Hole' single
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AUTUMN ARENA TOUR November 2001 and NEW SINGLE Following the outstanding successes of their very special summer shows at Donington Racetrack (high attendance, even in light of the foot and mouth crisis) and Cardiff's Millennium Stadium, (lack of 'racist' posturing) which saw the band play to nearly 100,0»
The Foo Fighters have announced that they are to appear at this year's T On The Fringe Festival. The group will play at the Edinburgh Corn Exchange on August 30. Other bands who are taking part in the event include Supergrass on August 23 and Starsailor on August 14. »
KING PRAWN, having recently headlined London's ULU, (and, *ahem* cancelled at London's The Peel) have once again take to the road in August their very own headline show at London's Mean Fiddler (formerly the LA2) in honor of Big Cheese's 5th birthday. »
'Caretaker'(NONG 20CD)is the first ever mid-sized longplayer from Caretaker and their first release for Fierce Panda following a handful of releases on Badmusic Records, including a spot on the 'Please Take Off Your Shoes.' compilation album.
The Tracklisting:
1. 'E»
THE CULT ANNOUNCE UK DATE: The Cult now signed to Lava/Atlantic Records in the U.S. have just released the Bob Rock produced "Beyond Good and Evil", their first album for 7 years, which is; "a statement of unfinished business", The band are pleased to announ»
Baby Bird has been laid to rest. R.I.P.
Easy!Tiger Records is to release a collection of instrumental music recorded between 1985 and this year by STEPHEN JONES, formerly known as Baby Bird.
The album, entitled STEPHEN JONES 1985-2001, will be released on O»
Lifehouse, the Los Angeles based band who have toured with Pearl Jam, Fuel, Everclear and Matchbox Twenty, are about to release their first UK single "Hanging By A Moment" on the 27th August. "Hanging By A Moment" the first radio track from Lifehouse’s debut album, <»
Nina Persson (of The Cardigans) releases her solo debut single as A Camp on 13th August. The single is produced by Mark Linkous (Sparklehorse)and is available on CD and Ltd edition 7" The single "I Can Buy You" will be followed by the release of the A-Camp album. The recor»
Idlewild regret to announce the cancellation of the remainder of the July/August US dates as guitarist Rod Jones, who has recently been in hospital has not made suitable recovery for a trans-atlantic trip. The UK festival dates and the show at Aberdeen Lemon Tree will NOT be affected and in t»
Chart topping enigmatic foursome Gorillaz has confirmed the addition of a London date to their UK tour in September. Murdoc, Russel, 2-D and Noodle will bring their eclectic brand of funky hip-pop to the Kentish Town Forum on September 28th. It will be the final date in thei»
Jurassic Park 3, hugely under hyped (remember the last 2?) and stuck into the cinemas before anything really big starts up the summer blockbuster season, reports are that it's the worst of the series, that it was rushed and practically given up on by all involved with it. And as a 10 year old who read the»
The Kingsbury Manx, whose debut album came out last year to massive critical acclaim and Album of the Year shortlists, have confirmed details of their first ever UK tour. The dates coincide with the release of their second album, 'Let You Down' which is released by City Slang Records»
The Supernaturals will be back with a new single 'Got to Get Myself Together' on September 10th, a new label, Koch International and 2 months of UK touring. This follows a tour of Scotland that was puncuated by both new material and missed/rescheduled dates, due to illness in the ban»
Rap label boss Russell Simmons has gatecrashed a US Senate censorship hearing to tell senators that the lyrics of rap music were not to blame for society's ills. Simmons, who founded the influential Def Jam label, had been refused permission to be a witness at the hearing - but was allowed»
TURIN BRAKES
New Single
TURIN BRAKES follow up their double Top 40 successes of their debut album, The Optimist LP, and last single Underdog (Save Me), Mercury Music Prize hopefuls release a new single, Mind Over Money, out on Source on July 30th.
Mind O»
Belle & Sebastian become an 8 piece again Belle & Sebastian have welcomed another into their fold as 'Belfast' Bobby Kildea joined the band yesterday. Bobby - who is also a member of Glasgow gangsters V-Twin and part of The Reindeer Section - has been working with the band a»
Tour falls apart, band goes home On the cusp of blowing away the gig going people of London, San Francisco based Creeper Lagoon have been hit by an outbreak of glandular fever that has meant the cancellation of the second half of the band's UK tour. Guitarist Sharkey Laguna was hospit»
According to sources at the much-coveted indie label Roadrunner Records, coveted due to, amongst others, Platinum Nu-Metal Men Slipknot, will make its new home at Island Def Jam. Details of the deal, which has still to be finalized, are sketchy, but talks are in their final stages and an agr»
Fun and games at The Heineken Jammin' Italian Music Festival, where the Stereophonics had to suffer the indignity of having a mixture of bottles, rocks and for some reason, cans of tuna fish thrown at them. The band had been warned that "that there might be hassle" with "a lot of»
Things are looking "Tired and Old" in the Offspring camp this summer, after 15 years and 25 million albums sold, plans are afoot to end the pain. Even the bassist Greg Kriesel isn't happy: ''If the next album is something we're not happy with and things have gotten tired and old... that'll be »
Mean Fiddler, has, in a long-awaited briefing on Friday on its stock market flotation, revealed plans to start a digital TV channel. "The directors believe that interactive TV represents the logical conclusion to the convergence of technologies and the future for digital broadcasts," M»
Mean Fiddler, the music firm behind Reading and Fleadh festivals has, in a long-awaited briefing on its stock market flotation, revealed plans to start a digital TV channel. Meanfiddler.com shares, which 'topped 10p' in August 2000, were suspended this Janua»
"But the trouble is, when they cut their wrists, it's not tomato sauce that comes out then, it is real blood." Five 11 year old pupils at a school in Oldham, Manchester, had flesh wounds on their forearms, said to be from copying a scene in an Eminem video where a fan is seen slitting his wrists, th»
Jennifer Lopez has defended her use of the word 'nigger' in 'I'm Real', a song from her new album. During a free concert in NYC she explained to the crowd; "You know, for anyone to think or suggest or say that I am racist is really absurd and hurtful to me. The use of the word in the song, w»
AOL to buy IPC? AOL Time Warner Inc. is in talks to buy U.K. based publisher IPC Media and an agreement expected to be announced next week This deal would include IPC's portfolio of more than 100 titles that include such magazines as Marie Claire, Loaded and the NME(/Melody Maker). »
Napster, the music file sharing system, has announced that they have "resolved a long, contentious legal battle" with both Dr Dre and Metallica. Details of the settlement have yet to be published, but both sides of the long-running legal fight have taken time out to praise each other for their condu»
"I write a column for The word newspaper called 'I Hate It Here.' The joy of living in this City has worn off. I sense, vaguely, that I'm finally as beaten as everybody else. I sense everything vaguely these days." Back from the mountain that he called his home for 5 years, to the City, a nameless p»
Exit Wounds, yeah, guns, explosions, car chases, Steven Segal fighting, DMX owning a club, it'll be terrible. Ok, so I was looking at going to see a film with a bad plot, Segal would be a cop who, while unconventional, would get the job done, that job being taking down drug/arms/whatever dealers w»
