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The Sun Explodes – New Tour Showcasing Debut Album Emergence

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Heavy rock quintet The Sun Explodes are going on tour to celebrate and display their forthcoming debut album Emergence – a genre-defying mix of crushing riffs, sweeping melody and pulsating electronica

The band have already showcased their epic and frenetic live performances across Britain in their early days as a group. These gigs, aggressive and energetic though they were, demonstrated a level of technical quality matched by few new bands. It was these gigs that garnered them a fierce fan base and subsequently strong online presence.

They will be playing the following dates –

April
Saturday 14 – Cockpit 3, Leeds
Monday 16 – Live Lounge, Blackburn
Tuesday 17 – The Riverside, Selby
Wednesda...

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The Ready Stance (ex-Ass Pony’s / Middlemarch) release debut album Damndest, May 21st

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In rock ’n’ roll some tales are just too perfect to make up. And the back story of The Ready Stance is definitely one of them. A truly perfect storm that unfolded within one square block of the historic district in Newport, Kentucky, just across the Ohio from Cincinnati.
The back story of Cincinnati band The Ready Stance qualifies as rock’n’roll fairy tale.
“I hadn’t been in a band in years but was still writing songs and jamming with friends on weekends; really just a therapeutic thing after running a manufacturing business and having a family,” recalls guitarist Wes Pence, the creative force of 1990s outfit Middlemarch...

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Robert Cray – the legendary guitarist and five time Grammy Award winning rock/R&B/soul and blues icon, today confirmed his new studio album will be released in September 2012. He’ll also undertake a European tour during June that will include three UK concerts.

The Blues Hall of Fame Inductee heads into the studio this month to commence recording the new album, released internationally by the Mascot Label Group’s Provogue Records. Cray performs at this year’s London Bluesfest at the O2 Shepherds Bush Empire (June 26), followed by concerts at Glasgow O2 ABC (June 28) and Birmingham Town Hall (June 29).

“I’m very proud to add the legendary Robert Cray to the Provogue roster,” says Label President Ed van Zijl...

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Australian hard rock trio TRACER have today unveiled the new video for their breakthrough single “Devil Ride”, view it here – http://youtu.be/paoOYyecZZc

The video is released in anticipation of the band’s debut UK headline tour, which kicks off at London’s Islington O2 Academy on Tuesday 24th April. Tickets, priced at just £8 regionally and £9 in London, are available now from 0844 478 0898 and www.thegigcartel.com. Full tour dates are as follows:

Tuesday 24th April Islington O2 Academy, London
Wednesday 25th April The Tunnels, Bristol
Thursday 26th April Manchester Academy 3
Friday 27th April The Duchess, York
Saturday 28th April The Plug, Sheffield

TRACER was recently voted third pla...

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Howard Jones is offering fans a free mp3 download of “Like To Get To Know You Well” to coincide with his Nationwide UK Tour, which starts on Wednesday April 11th. This is the first time Howard will undertake a nationwide tour to perform his first two studio albums ”Human’s Lib” and ”Dream Into Action” back to back, in their entirety.

The live track, originally recorded on November 6th 2010 at the London indigO2, is now available to download for free from HowardJones.com. The live recording also appears on a free limited edition double live CD which, given to all VIP ticket holders at the London’s Shepherds Bush Empire show on April 21st.

Howard currently presents his own radio series “Electronic 80s with Howard Jones” on Absolute 80s, Sunday evenings at 8pm.

Howard Jones Ap...

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Shakespeare’s poetry. Shakespeare’s instruments. Modern songs.

Out on April 23rd (Shakespeare’s birthday)

Written during the time of Elizabeth I and re-imagined for the Diamond Jubilee year of Elizabeth II, these are the most precious words ever written about love. Performed on instruments from the early 17th century, played by the cream of the world’s period instrument specialists, conceived with immense passion, commitment and integrity, Shakespeare: The Sonnets was recorded in London over the last 6 months.

Fresh from his success of recording an outsize Renaissance mass for a massive 40 parts that had not been heard for 400 years (and winning a Gramophone Album of the Year Award in the process), Robert Hollingworth, director of vocal ensemble I Fagiolini (also a judge on the UK...

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Various Artists
Northern Soul: 20 Original Classics Volume 2
Out 16th April 2012 on Spectrum Audio

Since its release in July 2010, Northern Soul: 20 Original Classics has sold over 74,000 o.t.c. Now two years later the same team are pleased to present volume 2.

This collection of 20 Original Northern Soul classics provides the listener with an overview of a style of black American soul music which swept across England in the late 60s & 70s. Emerging from the British mod scene in northern England, the style initially focused on the heavy beat and fast tempo of the Tamla Motown sound of the time but expanded to take on other styles.

The album features household names including The Supremes, Dusty Springfield, Ray Charles & The Temptations alongside lesser-known artists made famous by the gen...

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With the release of her nineteenth album, Slipstream, Bonnie Raitt is starting anew. The album marks her return to studio recording after seven years; it’s coming out as the launch of her own label, Redwing Records; and it delivers some of the most surprising and rewarding music of her remarkable career, thanks in part to some experimental sessions with celebrated producer Joe Henry.

The years before and after Raitt’s last album, 2005’s acclaimed Souls Alike, weren’t an easy time for her, with the passing of parents, her brother, and a best friend...

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Germanys thrash export no. 1, KREATOR, have revealed more details on the bands upcoming album, „Phantom Antichrist“.

The tracklist of the album reads as follows:

CD:
01. Mars Mantra
02. Phantom Antichrist
03. Death To The World
04. From Flood Into Fire
05. Civilisation Collapse
06. United In Hate
07. The Few, The Proud, The Broken
08. Your Heaven In My Hell
09. Victory Will Come
10. Until Our Paths Cross Again
11. Iron Destiny (Japan exclusive)

Limited Edition Bonus DVD:

– Conquerers of the ice – The making of Phanom Antichrist
– Harvesting the grapes of Horror
Live at Wacken Open Air in 2011 and 2008.
Mixed by Klaus Scheuermann.
Edited by Marcel Schleif and Stephan Lier
W.O.A. 2011:
01. Choir Of The Damned
02. Hordes Of Chaos
03. War Curse
04. Coma Of Souls / Endless Pain
05...

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Three vinyl reissues – ‘Arthur’, ‘Face To Face’ and ‘Something Else’ – released April 21st on Universal

The Kinks jump on board for Record Store Day 2012 with three vinyl reissues; classic albums ‘Arthur’ (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)’, ‘Face To Face’ and ‘Something Else’, released April 21st on Universal.

Based around fictional character Arthur Morgan – a carpet-layer inspired by Ray Davies’ brother-in-law Arthur Anning – ‘Arthur’ is a canonical Kinks concept album from 1969. This 2-LP edition reissue comes on white coloured vinyl.

‘Face To Face’ was released in 1966 and represents the first full flowering of Ray Davies’ songwriting; narrative-rich, with wry social commentary...