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Hardcore/metal/jazz merchants the Dillinger Escape Plan are coming. For your children. After their shit-throwing escapades at last year's Carling weekend, DEP will be scaring the *shit* out of venues across the country this December. Your Christmases may never be the same. D»
Funeral For A Friend have released details of their forthcoming debut
album.
The tracklisting for 'Casually Dressed And Deep In Conversation' goes
as such:
Rookie Of The Year
Bullet Theory
Juneau
Bend Your Arms To Look
Like Wings
Escape Artists Never Die
Storytel»
Now that punk and rock 'n' roll have become benign, saturated parodies of their former selves, it's always nice to hear a band who keep things simple. The Roolettes are one such band, delivering scuzzed-up, good time rock 'n' roll. And that's the way it should be. 10 tracks of high-octane punk r»
Brighton metallers Johnny Truant have announced a new tour.
The quartet will be one-third of a rotating headline act. Welsh hardcore
quintet Hondo Maclean and One Pity complete the line up.
SEPTEMBER
18th - Southampton Nexus
19th - Merthy»
Ska-punkers Capdown have now fully rescheduled their last tour, with additional dates along the way.
The Milton-Keynes based foursome will be playing the following dates in September/October:
SEPTEMBER
16th Leeds The Cockpit Leeds
17th Glasgow King Tuts Wah Wa»
California's Thrice have announced a handful of UK club dates.
October has now officially been crowned 'The Month Of Rock', with
Thrice adding UK tour dates to the month, alongside acts such as Thursday,
Hundred Reasons, The Darkness, Biffy Clyro, and Funeral For A Friend.
Lowgold are set to return with a new single, album, and a bunch of live dates. Nearly three years since releasing their first album, 'Just Backward Of Square', Lowgold are back. With new drummer Rob Lee replacing Simon Scott, the band have survived former label Nude goin»
New York rockers Instruction have signed a record deal. The Long Island 4 piece have signed a deal with Geffen Records. Their debut release for the company will be available in the UK via Polydor, sometime early next year. Between buying expensive new gear and performing various showcases in »
Manchester's hardcore newcomers, Beecher, will support the genre's biggest
legends, Converge, on their forthcoming pit-stop of the UK.
The band, whose debut album was produced by Converge's Kurt Balou, will be at
the following venues in September/October:
SEPTEMBER
29th Lo»
Large-of-hair Britrockers Hundred Reasons have announced details of a tour. The London based fivesome have recently finished recording their second album in New York, with Dave Sardy. Tentatively titled 'Shatterproof Is Not A Challenge', the record is expected out early 2004, with a single coming la»
Funeral For A Friend are to tour the UK again later this year. FFAF's debut album, 'Casually Dressed And Deep In Conversation', will be released on October 6th. The single 'Juneau' is out today. The Welsh fiv»
Today may as well be a Sunday. The 300-strong congregation arrive in droves, to worship at the altar (of rock). Wine, amongst other things, is drunk, in the hope that it may pass the time until the moment arrives; 'the moment' being what these kids have been waiting on »
Hardcore ska-punks Lightyear are currently on tour, in promotion of their new record. Derbyshire 7-piece Lightyear are hitting the road to promote new album 'Chris' Gentleman's Hairdresser and Railway Bookshop', with support from Kingston emo-rockers Jerry-Built, who have been»
Biffy Clyro have announced another tour, which happens to coincide with their plans for... well, world domination. Probably.
El Bif will play the following venues
September
20th - Liverpool Academy 2
22nd - Bournemouth The Villa
23rd - Swansea»
In the space of just one year (if that), The Blueprint have gone from being a side project of Nottingham's finest bands, (Consumed, earthtone9, and Pitchshifter) to being labelled a supergroup. The material on display on 'Ecliptic', their second EP, definitely reflects that. Eve»
What happened to Britrock? It wasn't always jokey, half-arsed attempts at bridging the gap between 'pop' and 'rock', was it? As it happens, no, it wasn't. And Britrock's finest purveyors, after a 2 year spell in exile, are back, and rocking it like they were never gone. 'Repeat To Fade' is exactly what you»
After their chart-shagging recent single, Biffy Clyro are getting ready to rock more record stores. Yup, the Scotts trio may have just finished a series of instore gigs, had their first Top 40 single, and are still to finish their current UK tour. Still, they've already lined up more gigs in a shop near yo»
Brighton's finest post-hardcore chaps Scuttle have split. Vocalist Steve left a parting message on their official message board: "Well, it was never gonna be easy writing this, but I'm afraid to say that as of today, May 22nd, Scuttle are no more. It's been a mutual decision between us and certainly m»
Biffy Clyro are still one of those bands who refuse to be labelled. They're not emo, they're not metal, they're not post-hardcore, and they're damn fiddly to write about. However, their latest offering, thankfully, is much easier to describe - gorgeous, pop-filled indie rock. 'Questions And Answers'»
Sludgefeast have one of the most embarrassing names in rock history. Fact. And this book can be judged by its cover. I've seen Sludgefeast described as heavy metal, lo-fi scuzz and a variety of other things - their press release calls them "shit rock", and I couldn't agree more. This »
Taking Back Sunday have cancelled their forthcoming UK tour.
Due to be playing later this month with Brand New, the band have cancelled
all shows on the tour, amidst rumours of a split. The dates affected are:
May 24th London The Garage
May 25th Manchester Academy 2/Academy 3<»
Welsh hardcore noiseniks Funeral For A Friend have announced details of a new single and live dates. The band are to re-record and re-release the song 'Juno', to be re-titled 'Juneau', originally from their debut EP, for a release»
In the context of 'The Neon Handshake', 'Retreat' was probably an ace idea; the comedown after the vigorous rock workout, letting you catch your breath before you hit the play button again. Yeah, it was a good idea. Was.»
Milton Keynes ska-core troupe Capdown have announced new tour dates. After the cancellation of their last tour, due to a family emergency, Capdown have announced rescheduled dates for September and October. Supports a»
Jerry-Built have announced plans to shoot their first music video. Surrey punk muppets Jerry-Built are to shoot a video for 'Receivers', from their album 'Upstarts'. The shoot will take place at the Yacht Club Boat, opposite Temple Tube Station, London, on Sunday May 25th. The band wil»
Instruction.(that's Instruction-period), made up of three-quarters of the criminally ignored Errortype:11 plus the ex-guitarist of Quicksand, are a band of ideals, a band with something to say, and that's something that's all too rare in bands these days. Thank fuck for Instruction. Ne»
New Jersey's The Early November are sooooooo =emO=. But, like all good emo bands, they probably won't admit to it. At least, that's the impression given by this, their debut album. Admittedly, things do start promisingly. 'Every Night's Another Story' is an all-out alt-rock show»
Epic emo rockers and all round nice guys, The Copperpot Journals, have released details of their debut album. The 'Journals, after a year of highs, which included top reviews for their EP 'Plotting To Kill Your Friends' and massive »
Currently rocking their way around our fair shores with Funeral For A Friend,
New York's Instruction are one rock band who live up to the hype. It's not garage, it's not emo, it's not grunge. It's rock, and it comes in plentiful amounts. I met frontman Arty Sheperd (aka 'Arty The One Man Party') in Dundee.
Scottish indie-emo types Stapleton have split up. Glasgow's Stapleton have decided to call it a day, for now. Bassist Ian Arthur has said that after "5 years of no-one giving a shit or taking notice" he and his bandmates, guitarist Al Paxton and drummer Gordon Farqhuar, have decided to give»
