KORPIKLAANI – announce European headliner tour + behind-the-scenes video online!

Shortly after the end of the celebrated “Heidenfest 2012” tour together with their label mates of WINTERSUN, restless Finnish folk metal pioneers KORPIKLAANI will soon be on the road again!

In January and February of 2013, the band will embark on an extensive headliner tour in order to bring both their classics as well as the enchanting tunes of their latest album “Manala” (out since August 6, 2012) onto the European stages. Support will come from Estonian fellow folk metallers METSATÖLL.

Every fan knows about KORPIKLAANI’s onstage brilliancy. Now the band grants exclusive insight into their activities behind the scenes – in the form of a highly entertaining backstage tour of the Heidenfest 2012 show at LKA Longhorn, Stuttgart, hosted by front man Jonne Järvelä!

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SOILWORK – NEW MODEL ARMY’s Justin Sullivan to guest on new album

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Justin Sullivan, lead singer of the English band NEW MODEL ARMY, will be guest vocalist on the track ’The Windswept Mercy’ which will appear on the new SOILWORK double album, ’The Living Infinite’. Formed in 1980 in Bradford, England, New Model Army still have a very loyal fan-base and SOILWORK frontman Björn ’Speed’ Strid counts himself as one of them.

Sullivan shares the serendipitous back-story on how he met up with Sweden’s melodic metal maestros, SOILWORK:
”Some years ago, I met Björn somewhere in the deserts of the southwestern U.S. I expect we both had good reasons for being there – though things like reason get swallowed up in the strangeness of deserts...

GIRL BAND – FRANCE 98 out on Any Other City on February 4th

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Girl Band are a four piece noise-rock band from Dublin, Ireland. There are no girls in the band.

They formed in late 2011 and “France 98” is their second release with Any Other City Records. Musically somewhere between Bleach-era Nirvana, mclusky, Jesus Lizard and even that incendiary first Idlewild demo in their teens, long before they started sounding like REM. This a band listening to the same bands as METZ have been listening to, but living a lot closer to home.

The EP is released on a limited run of 300 12″ handstamped, numbered records.

Klak Tik reveal new single, Reborn. Taken from the forthcoming album, The Servants

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To follow their (9/10 NME rated) debut album ‘Must We Find A Winner’ Klak Tik (comprised of Søren Bonke, Matthew Mitchinson & Jonathan Beyer), escaped the trappings of East London’s alternative coffee shops and vintage chic for a simple purer existence in the Welsh village of Penrhos. For a month Klak Tik drew inspiration from the cold January sea, set up a make shift recording studio deep under Parys Mountain and shouted high into the chapel’s rafters.

On November 26th, the band will release the first single to be taken from the new album, Reborn.
Principal Songwriter Søren Bonke had this to say about the inspiration for ‘Reborn’.

”I was travelling on the Piccadilly Line towards Ealing during rush hour one morning and I was looking at this man in a suit sitting across from...

Richard Thompson – new album and tour

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RICHARD THOMPSON – ELECTRIC
BRAND NEW ALBUM ARRIVES FEBRUARY 11th 2013
FULL UK TOUR IN FEBRUARY 2013

Declared by Rolling Stone as one of the Top 20 Guitarists Of All Time and considered one of the UK’s most outstanding songwriters, musician Richard Thompson returns with a brand new, guitar driven record titled ELECTRIC for Proper Records on Monday, February 11th. Richard’s Electric Trio will be taking to the road for a major UK tour on Wednesday February 20th and will tour the USA starting in March. Full tour details for the UK are below. Tickets are on sale in the UK starting 10am Friday, Nov. 9, 2012!

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FULL TOUR INFORMATION

Wed 20 Feb CARDIFF St David’s Hall
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Thu 21 ...

CHARLIE WINSTON New Album ‘Running Still’

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CHARLIE WINSTON – New Album ‘Running Still’ Out 28 January 2013 on Real World Records

UK press reaction to Charlie’s 2009 album, ‘Hobo’

“immaculately crafted” – Q
”If Chris Martin ditched Coldplay and took to the road with a more rootsy outfit, he might come up with something like Hobo” – Daily Express
“The Chaplin look complements a quirky, bluesy musical style” – The Telegraph
“A worthy contender for la petite sensation de 2010 in the UK” – The Guardian
“Charlie Winston is set to be very big indeed” – Record Collector
”Lyrically, vocally and musically compelling”….“Full flavoured, deep and rich in quality” – Maverick
“we predict great things for this album – and Charlie” – Stylist
“What took us so long to catch on?” – Star Magazine
“I...

JAMES – Box Set & Tour with Echo & The Bunnymen

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JAMES will be releasing their first ever box set on December 10th, 2012. Entitled The Gathering Sound, the box set covers the band’s career to date and includes all eleven studio albums on a unique j-shaped USB stick.

This strictly limited edition, deluxe 12”x12” box set contains:
– the 4GB USB stick (featuring all eleven studio albums plus the non-album “best of” tracks in hi fidelity FLAC format with access to 320 kbps MP3 files),
– three CDs (one CD of live rarities, one CD of studio rarities and one CD which combines the recent, critically-acclaimed The Morning After and The Night Before albums),
– a DVD of Come Home (featuring the show from the Manchester GMEX 92 on DVD for the first time),
– a heavy 12” 180gsm black vinyl featuring four previously unreleased demos from the...

Sister Sin – Now and forever

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Swedish metal band Sister sin formed in 2002. The band is fronted by Liv Jagrell who was the first vocalist in fellow Swedish band Hysterica (where she was known as Sinderella). The band play female fronted old school metal in the same vein as bands such as fellow Swedes Crucified Barbara. They’ve toured extensively with bands including Motorhead, Faster Pussycat, U.D.O, In this Moment, Otep, Arch Enemy and many more

”Now and Forever” is the band’s fourth album, and as with their previous albums what you get is top quality heavy metal – powerful guitars, pounding drums and powerful vocals ...

THE DRAKE EQUATION: ALTERNATIV FAIRYTALE

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Nowadays young band’s music videos are coming like candy rain. And we love them. Now, here is a pretty interesting new one from The Drake Equation. Guys are from Västerås, a metalcore band with pop, jazz and electronic influences.

The clip is like a wild dream, in a lovely metal style in the middle of wheat fields. After few jiffs the music kicks you on ass. Starting with a really hard part, melody and British poprock feelings are popping up, and turning again back to the dark dream. It hammers like Korpiklaani’s music, at least pictures are also remind me to the Finish band, but in a young version...