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The Aliens UK Retro rock band having a krack with themselves, Debut album released this year in April with single and just had some good reveiws for their Glastonbury performance… check out the Guys video from the single Setting Sun.
A brand new Coldplay website has launched at www.coldplay.com.
Based around a timeline of the band’s history, all four members of Coldplay have been heavily involved in the re-design of the site.
Their hand-written accounts will accompany each of the entries on the constantly-expanding timeline, for which the band have opened up their extensive archive of flyers, pictures, videos and audio recordings.
The Who Brought the house down and stole the show at the end of Glastonbury 2007, the rock band performed a vintage show to excel and made a mockery of the pretenders who preceded them.
Concert promoters “Rock of Ages Entertainment” has just announced the line-up for it’s first ever charity festival “Rock of Ages Fest”. The event, being held on Saturday September 8th and Sunday, September 9th 2007, will be donating profits to the charity CANCER RESEARCH UK.
Alongside some of Britain’s greatest rock bands will be “Girlschool” who will be headlining day one and former Iron Maiden vocalist Blaze Bayley” who will also be featuring a brief reunion set with the original members of “Wolfsbane”
This event is the first ever “Rock of Ages Fest”, and is taking place at “The Palace” in Tamworth, the home town of both Blaze Bayley, and the legendary “Wolfsbane”. Both are long-established local heroes. Sadly however, this event is limited to just 500 TICKETS and they are likely to go fast at the announcement of “Wolfsbane” being added to the bill! Tickets are available from www.ticketweb.co.uk
One of the bands performing very aptly remarked that “For Tamworth having “Wolfsbane” reunite, even briefly with Blaze Bayley, will be bigger news than The Police coming to town” !!”
Two further bands are to be announced on Monday, June 18th 2007 and will complete a bill of incredible rock & metal that is gracing the stage in the name of the charity Cancer Research UK. More information in relation to the festival can be found on the festival’s myspace page www.myspace.com/rockofagesfest - the event’s official website launches on June 23rd at www.rock-of-ages.net
The Band’s debut album ‘Sinking Without You’. Produced by John Burns (Genesis, Jethro Tull, John Martyn and others) and mixing engineer Ben Findlay (Realworld).
What they say about JEBO:
“I have seen many bands in my (long) life. I have seen Deep Purple at their best. I have seen bands ranging from The Eagles to the Stones and JEBO are on a par with these greats. ” - (Live Review - Bristol Rocks)
“Espousing the true rock and roll ethic of playing live and loud, JEBO are custodians of a sound that takes its lineage from all great British bands, with the emphasis on finely crafted songs and a captivating live performance.”
“Phenomenal” (Planeta-Rock) www.planeta-rock.com.ar
“Whereas some bands take themselves seriously and shouldn’t - JEBO take music and response seriously - resulting in undeniable respect from those who have rarely seen modesty and talent unified so sweetly.” - Clive Leighton BBCi
Bohica release their LATEST album on the 2nd of July in shops but it is available on ITUNE’S NOW.
This Surrey outfit extensibly from the Guildford area are excited about this release:
” It was a dream come true having the album finalised by legendary Mastering Engineer Eddy Schreyer in his Californian studio, as he had previously worked on some of the bands favourite albums of all time”.
With the release of “Written Ignition” it will reinforce Bohica as one of the UKs top modern metal bands however the band are not simply content with their own nation, there are already plans in place to fulfil the demands of touring abroad in 2007.
“Bohica has achieved in making an almost perfect hardcore record with ‘No Apologies’. Those who haven’t heard this band yet really should check them out, because this band makes modern hardcore like it should be.” - Lords of Metal
“Following their impressive self released EP, Bohica have delivered a debut album that takes their initial potential and turns it up to 10. No Apologies is a record that takes a melodic hardcore path with more than enough moments of potential radio-friendly singles material to see them taking 2005 by storm.” - UK Music Search
“Bohica are taking on a lot of radio-friendly US acts on and beating them and you could do worse than to check them out.” - Punktastic
“Extraordinary…truly magical” ***** - Independent
“Catching the strings of the heart ” – Daily Telegraph
***** - Sunday Times Culture
Having recently wowed crowds in the Royal Ballet’s production of ‘Seven Deadly Sins’, Martha Wainwright will be road-testing new songs with a series of must-see summer live dates. Currently recording her eagerly anticipated second solo LP - due for release early 2008 - the acclaimed singer/songwriter will be special guest to Anthony & The Johnsons in Cork, June 21st, before various live sets at Glastonbury. She will also warm-up for V Festival with a headline show at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire on August 17th
On July 2nd Gizeh’s sister label ‘Loom’ releases 2 very special recordings. Her
Name is Calla’s 1 track 16 minute masterpiece ‘Condor & River and Glissando’s
longest release to date ‘Loves Are Like Empires’. Both bands have early July UK
dates together.
HER NAME IS CALLA - Condor & River
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JULY 2nd 2007
Loom Recordings
Brooding and haunting, the sound Her Name is Calla omit brings to mind a more
stripped back Radiohead or a more compact Godspeed You! Black Emperor. ‘Condor &
River’ is the band’s first release for Loom after a couple of self-released EP’s
and marks a true progression of the sound the Leicester-based quartet is
striving to achieve.
GLISSANDO - Loves Are Like Empires
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July 2nd 2007
Loom Recordings
This release brings a few loose ends together for the Leeds duo - a collection
of Glissando’s work to date as they prepare for their debut release-proper on
Gizeh later in the year. Here we get a taste of the variety Glissando ensues as
the record moves from ambient soundscapes to some beautful vocal-led movements.
This is the duo’s 3rd Loom release and contains the motions of the likes of
Stars of the Lid and Charalambides next to the more ’song’ based sounds of Low
and Cocteau Twins.
Both records will be available exclusively from the Gizeh Records online store
and at all forthcoming shows.
Forthcoming shows:
July 3rd - Leicester (Firebug)
July 4th - Oxford (Port Mahon)
July 14th - Leeds (Packhorse)
All shows - Glissando and Her Name is Calla
Glissando also embark on a full UK tour in October alongside dates in Denmark
and European shows - details of which will be announced in the near future.
Million selling Dutch favourites WITHIN TEMPTATION return for their biggest UK headline shows to date this November. Confirming four shows, including Brixton Academy, tickets went on sale this week, priced at £16 regionally and £17.50 London.. watch the video..
The band delighted fans at the Download Festival this weekend, treating them to a last-minute special acoustic set and short Q&A session at the Nokia Rock Up And Play tent, in addition to their scheduled performance on the Dimebag Darrell stage & Kerrang! signing tent appearance. Within Temptation continue on the European festival circuit through June, with Japanese dates planned for early July.
Within Temptation return with new single, ‘The Howling’ on June 2
‘The Howling’ is the second track taken WT’s current UK Top 40 album, ‘The Heart of Everything’
The album hit the # 1 spot in Holland, Top 40 across 13 European countries (including 4 x Top 5 positions
3 platinum albums & over 1.5 Million records sold worldwide!!
Platinum and Gold selling records in Holland, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Luxembourg, Finland & chart success in Australia, Japan, Norway, France, Sweden and Turkey
amongst others!
‘The Howling’ was snapped up as the soundtrack of computer game ‘The Chronicles of Spellborn’, with an animated video launching worldwide on MTV.com.
Lead single ‘What Have You Done’ playlisted on B4, The Box, Chart Show TV, Kerrang TV (Top 10 video), Scuzz TV (Top 10 video) and spots on MTV2 and
the VH1 rock show!
Spins on XFM Scotland, Manchester & London & BBC 6Music, local BBC’es and ILRs nationwide‘A-listed at Kerrang Radio – acoustic session recorded, and both fan album playback event and ‘Live at Kerrang’ comp winners gig ran in conjunction with the station
Accolades: World Music Award (Best Selling Dutch), MTV Europe Award, Conamus Dutch Music Export prize (4 years running), Edison Award (Best National
Band - Dutch equivalent of The Brits), TMF Award, Metal Hammer Award (Best Video).
It’s non-stop for Jyrojets – they finish their two month US tour with the BBC BritBus this week, then, after a few days to catch their breath back home in Inverness, their UK tour kicks off.
Their debut single, ‘Favourite Thing About Jane’, was released in May. Sunday Times featured it as their ‘hottest download’, XFM called it a “Britpop anthem” and an acoustic session aired on the station on 5th June. They will be performing a live session on Radio 2 on 29th June.
The indie-rockers’ US tour hit 15 major cities from San Francisco to New York. They created quite a spectacle travelling in a specially converted London red double-decker bus (see photo below). They survived extreme desert temperatures, tyre blow-outs, a smashed top deck window by an unfriendly lamp post, tropical storms, gallons of beer (the tour was sponsored by Bass) and some of the country’s less salubrious motels. They appeared on many TV stations (including ME TV, ABC7, Music Plus TV, Fox News) and radio stations on route. San Francisco Chronicle named them “the best kept secret at SXSW” and Music Week’s Editor “undeniably talented, with more than a couple of songs to their name..” after seeing their Musexpo show at The Roxy in Hollywood.
Madina Lake are in the UK for a week from Monday 16th to Sat 22nd July to promote their single, “Here I Stand” (release is now August 6th – and already been spun by Jo Whiley on BBC Radio 1)
After that they jet back to the USA as special guest of Linkin Park on their US Projekt Revolution tour (alongside My Chemical Romance, Him, Placebo and Taking Back Sunday!). Their headline tour in October is selling fast, with 2 venues having been upgraded within the first two weeks and another 3 venues set to move up imminently!
****BIRMINGHAM BAND UXL RELEASE DEBUT ALBUM AND SINGLE****
Single: Can I Dream Again? - download only - release date 16th July
Album: Can I Dream Again? - download and physical - release date 23rd July
UXL are hotly tipped to become one of the major young breakthrough acts of 2007. From Birmingham, the Tierney brothers formed UXL (formerly Elixir) over three years ago with friend Dan Clark and have evolved into an intriguing combination of energy and melody that draws on the varied musical influences of Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Dylan, Hendrix, The Beatles and U2.
‘The act has become one of the most talked about new bands in the UK.’
-Metal Hammer-
‘Brooding alt. Rock with enough tension and explosiveness to ensure stadiums will be full of fans in the near future’
-Subba Cultcha.com-
‘A band destined for greatness’
-Get Ready to Rock-
The Tierney brothers formed UXL over three years ago with friend Dan Clark and have evolved into an intriguing combination of energy and melody that draws on the musical influences of Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, U2 and The Beatles.
2007 will see the launch of their long awaited debut album recorded at Mad Hat Studios in Wolverhampton and see’s the band embark on the following tour…
The album is produced by Mark Stuart who has worked with many top recording artists and producers including Balaam and The Angel, Phil Lynott, Magnum, Mighty Lemon Drops, Neds Atomic Dustbin, Pop Will Eat Itself, Rozalla, Slade, Wonderstuff, Kit Woolvern, Steve Lillywhite, Steve Brown and Robert Plant.
London 19 June 2007. As if using a combination of different mediums in his live stage show wasn’t enough, “reborn Gothic Elvis” (NME) and glam-rock music hall performer/human installation contraption MR SOLO (www.myspace.com/mistersolo) is proud to introduce yet another art form into his repertoire, in the form of nORMAN wISDOM, a fanzine-based exhibition collaboration between himself and Pop Art (www.popartlondon.co.uk).
A collection of paintings, photos, cinema projections and bird-boxes, which reflect the self-consciously iconographic image of MR SOLO and explore the strange collision of vulnerability and invincibility it embodies, the exhibition will also include popArtidol performances on the karaoke stage, which MR SOLO himself will take for a (musical) performance at around 8 in the evening.
“When I began writing and performing songs the words and images seemed to constantly intermingle, and what made a good chorus could equally make an exciting painting,” says MR SOLO of his latest endeavour. “Pretending to be a pop star and the earthly conduit for a dead magician eventually lead me through the gates of the Emerald City, where I resolutely failed to ignore the man behind the curtain. Trite as it may seem, I am now clicking my heels together and relearning the joy of channelling ideas from an outside source.”
Huddersfield metallers Nex round off their tour supporting Head Automatica with a show at Cardiff University tonight (June 19th).
Their debut album is re released on July 16th with bonus live acoustic tracks, preceeded on July 9th by a download only single, The Worm. The promotional video for The Worm has recently been playlisted by MTV2.
Rising Records are delighted to announce that they have signed young Essex / Suffolk based metal band Many Things Untold. The band will be recording their debut album during December 2007 for release in spring 2008.
With a new album due to be released in July titled ‘What Doesn’t Kill Us…’ Panic Cell Pump it up with the release of a single ‘Fallen’ taken from the album and with rave reviews from DOWNLOAD last week the boys are on a high, check out their website or myspace for download options..
Fusing the passionate intensity of Celtic themes, a heavy rock and roll mindset and stunning improvisations, Bluehorses’ music is a genuinely unique hybrid.
Formed in the mid 1990’s, Bluehorses are fronted by founder and lead singer Irish/Welsh Gothess Lizzy Prendergast’s electric violin, electric Celtic harp, space-mandolin and synthesizer and led by her co-founder and co-songwriter Nic Waulker.
Nics’ ferociously precise drums are joined by the thundering bass of Nathan Waulker and guitar histrionics from Jay MacDonald, producing a serious noise in a contemporary but classic rock mould.
Bluehorses have shared stages with bands as diverse as Hawkwind, Levellers and Oysterband and have wowed festival crowds in every country of W. Europe and Scandinavia, including
Madrid, Skagen, Irun, Glastonbury, Dranouter, Luxembourg, Trowbridge, St Ives, Gosport, Fareham, Lokeren, Bilbao, Otley, Deerlijk, Ghent, Middlewich, Crawley, Guildford, Dadizele, Basle, Brampton, Oostende, Off the Tracks, Peterborough, Oostkamp Castle, Folk at Fram, Gerrardsbergen, Lyon, Cheltenham’ Fylde, Burnham, Blackdown Hills, Sesiwn Fawr, Pigstock, Romerike , Mayfest, Titchfield Abbey, Saul Folk on the Water, Solfest, Newt Beer and Music fest
Bluehorses have received many accolades including a MOJO ‘Album of the Month’ and a ‘Best Of 2005′ award from The Classic Rock Society.
Bluehorses’ 5 critically acclaimed CDs and stunning live shows are full of Celtic passion, instrumental virtuosity and good old fashioned rock and roll fun!
Copro are the leading Heavy record label in the UK and seem to be signing up most if not all the best Heavy rock bands in the UK, and when I mean Heavy that goes from hardcore to mainstream metal… if it’s a metal band of any shape or form with talent they will sign them up, so in this article we will be providing links to FREE music downloads and bags of Video’s that you can watch from the COPRO stable. Copro also produce a FREE Rock Magazine which you can sign up for which always includes a Free CD full of great heavy rock music of their latest signings and new release’s. Thats the great thing about COPRO records they are run by Heavy metal freaks who just want to convert the world to HEAVY METAL which is why they give so much stuff away for free.
Copro also have their own recording studios which is gaining a deserved world-wide reputation for quality productions and bands from around the world come to be recorded and produced, and to make sure that the bands have CD’S Copro have their own CD manufacturing factory. When we say Copro are Heavy metal missionary’s we are not kidding!
Nuerra Records Vows Suit’s Against Dream On Music Corp.(Korea), Rock Empire Ltd.(Taiwan) and Neil Zaza -
Nuerra Records, the previous label to guitarist Neil Zaza indicates that they are preparing legal action against Dream On Music (Korea), Rock Empire (Taiwan) and Neil Zaza. On January 01, 2001 Nuerra Records entered into a licensing agreement with Rock Empire and December 01, 2002 with Dream On for the Zaza titles, “Staring at the Sun” and “Sing”. Since this time, both Dream On and Rock Empire have failed to make accounting and or payment’s to Nuerra for the royalties indicated in their respective agreements. Recently, demand letters were sent from Nuerra Attorney’s in Los Angeles.
Mr. Space K. Chen of Rock Empire, claims, “there is no stock for these titles and we don’t manufacture it anymore “. However, despite long term efforts made by Nuerra, both companies continue to actively market Zaza along with two additional Nuerra titles from Michael Lee Firkins - “Decomposition” and Jettison Eddy - “Trippin on Time”. Both of these titles licensed to Dream On also remain unaccounted for, says Michael Phelan of Nuerra Records.
Phelan continues by saying that we would prefer to utilize our professional lives and creative resources in more effective ways. However, when your financial interests rely within companies on the other side of the world, whom have otherwise ignored our numerous polite attempts, that becomes difficult. Hopefully, we can create some much needed “ethical proactivity” from all of the parties involved”, Phelan said. Mr. Chen from Rock Empire issued a written statement to Nuerra saying, “I believe God will damn you and this behavior like a blood sucker deserves punishment to go hell”.
