Monthly Archives februari 2012

Posted in Gig/Festival Reviews

Tonight at the Garage was part of the HMV Next Big Thing event showcasing up and coming talents. Tonights bands are all signed to Spinefarm, and the bands have played with each other before, but judging by how well these bands are going down on their tours and the quality of the albums they’re putting out, this may be one of the last times you’ll see all three on the same bill. Despite the bands having a strong appeal to the ladies, the crowd tonight is fairly evenly split between men and women, showing that these bands are not relying on their youth and looks, but actually play damn good music.

The night opened with young Cambridge band, The Treatment. The smallest of the three bands at the moment, these guys are growing in popularity rapidly...

Posted in Cd Reviews

N.O.A.H. is the third album from German metallers Kadavrik. Over the last nine years they’ve been playing some good melodic death metal, doing well in Germany but not making much impact internationally. I’m not sure why they haven’t made an impact, because based on the music they certainly deserve to be much better known.

Death metal riffs with some good heavy melodies put them at the heavier end of the melodic death metal spectrum, without losing the all important melodic element.

There are some great tracks on the album – ”Let my blood boil tonight” being a particularly good one. The album is unusual in having a mix of German and English songs, but the inability to understand the lyrics on the German language songs didnt detract from the enjoyment of the songs.

A very good album for fa...

Posted in Press Releases

Los Angeles, California: Fear Factory today confirms Matt DeVries as the band’s new bass player. DeVries, previously of Chimaira and most recently Six Feet Under, joins the band replacing Byron Stroud. The announcement comes as the band continues work on their upcoming new album, planned for release early summer. The album is currently being mixed in Canada by Greg Reely while artwork for the album’s packaging is nearly complete.
DeVries comments, “I have been asked by Dino and Burton to join one of my favorite bands. I have been a fan of Fear Factory since 1992 and I could not be more excited to be part of this incredible band. We have shared the stage many times together and now I’m beyond stoked to be on the same stage playing together...

Posted in Press Releases

Hot off the incredible reception of his collaborative album LULU with Metallica, Lou Reed will embark on a “FROM VU TO LULU” European tour during Summer 2012.

The tour will start in Luxembourg on Wednesday 6th June and will take in several festivals, including Switzerland’s Caribana Festival, France’s Montereau Festival, Berlin’s Citadel Music Festival and Slovakia’s renowned Pohoda Festival. Lou will also perform several concerts in France, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, and Germany.

The tour will feature a 5-piece band, including Lou Reed, Tony ‘Thunder’ Smith (drums), Rob Wasserman (bass), Kevin Hearn (keyboards), and Aram Bajakian (guitar)...

Posted in Press Releases

Due to popular demand, Australian power rock trio TRACER kick off their first nationwide headline UK tour at London’s Islington O2 Academy on Tuesday 24th April.

Tickets go on general sale at 10am on Friday 3rd February via the 24 hour ticket hotline: 0844 478 0898, Gig Cartel.
Tuesday 24th April Islington O2 Academy 2, 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 place in Planet Rock’s “Best New Band” listeners’ poll...

Posted in Press Releases

Los Angeles based singer Beth Hart has been confirmed to play the Isle of Wight festival on Sunday 24th June, alongside Bruce Springsteen and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds.

Beth’s new single, “Sister”, which features Slash, is currently A-listed on BBC Radio 2, she headlines the London Shepherd’s Bush Empire on Saturday 25th February.

Shepherds Bush will be Beth’s biggest UK headline concert to date. It follows a whirlwind few months which saw the release of top-20 selling album “Don’t Explain”, a collection of soul classics with guitarist Joe Bonamassa, plus a rapturously received performance at London’s Camden Dingwalls last November...

Posted in Press Releases

26, 27, 28, 29 JULY 2012
CHERRY HINTON HALL GROUNDS

FIRST NAMES ANNOUNCED

Clannad (Sat) Joan Armatrading (Sun) The Proclaimers (Sat)

June Tabor & Oysterband (Fri) Loreena McKennitt (Sun)

Billy Bragg celebrates Woody Guthrie’s 100th Birthday (Thurs)

Nic Jones (Sun)

Europe’s most acclaimed folk festival has revealed some of the first artists confirmed for 2012’s eclectic bill.

Performances include a rare Festival appearance by the original line-up of Irish folk royalty and multi-million album sellers Clannad, leading singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading, who has enjoyed success in pop, folk, blues, reggae and jazz genres; ever-popular Scottish icons The Proclaimers, guaranteed to bring the Festival to its feet; a rare Festival appearance by June Tabor & Oysterband, following their a...

Posted in Press Releases

Alongside Steeleye Span and Fairport Convention, The Albion Band are one of the “Big Three” of English Folk Rock, fusing traditional British songs and tunes with contemporary instruments and sounds. All three were formed by legendary band leader Ashley Hutchings. Generally considered one of the most important groupings in the genre, The Albion Band has contained or been associated with a large proportion of major English folk performers from Richard Thompson to Martin Carthy in its long and fluid history.

This March, The Albion Band will be set about a nationwide UK tour. Playing their first shows as a new-look like-up, this is an exciting time to catch the band live as a rejuvenated cast starts to establish itself.

The brand new album ‘The Vice of The People’ is released on April 3...

Posted in Press Releases

It’s an extreme noise pleasure!

SCUM, the classic 1987 debut album from grindcore pioneers NAPALM DEATH, is due to be re-released on limited edition redux CD and coloured vinyl LP on March 5th.

To celebrate 25 years since the release of the most influential grindcore album ever made, SCUM has been remastered especially for this release from the original tapes with Full Dynamic Range (FDR), allowing the music’s nuances to shine through and giving the whole album a more ferocious and dynamic sound than ever before, and enabling the listener to immerse in the full audio chaos like never before.

Original NAPALM DEATH guitarist and founding member MICK HARRIS states: ”It sounds wicked – that record still holds up today and I’m proud I was part of it.”

This full dynamic range release is a reacti...

Posted in Press Releases

T.REX’s “ELECTRIC WARRIOR” TO BE RELEASED IN BRAND NEW MULTI FORMAT EDITIONS FOR APRIL 23rd 2012 – CELEBRATING THE 40th ANNIVERSARY OF GLAM ROCK

SPECIAL BOX SET OF VINYL SINGLES “ELECTRIC SEVENS” TO BE RELEASED FOR “RECORD STORE DAY 2012”

Universal Music is pleased to announce a Deluxe, Super-Deluxe, a special vinyl and digital exclusive editions of T. Rex’s monumental ELECTRIC WARRIOR album on April 23rd 2012. It will be preceded by a box set of singles produced especially for Record Store Day 2012 (April 21st 2012).

These new editions are crammed with previously unreleased demos and out-takes – the centrepiece of which is original producer Tony Visconti’s re-mastered version of Electric Warrior.

This year is the 40th Anniversary of Glam Rock, or Glamiversary as some ha...