SUBSOURCE
Album ‘Tales From The Doombox’ released April 5^th, 2010
Single ‘The Ides’ released March 29^th, 2010

(Doombox Records)

THE IDES MUSIC VIDEO – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2viIoB4JTU

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SUBSOURCE SAY – “Four years ago, 20 miles south of central London, four people went into a studio to start a war.  Fucked off with so-called live dance acts mincing behind laptops, and rock acts with no more substance than the product in their hair we decided things had to change.

The snarl of Punk, the oscillating sub bass of dubstep, the harrowing melody of coldwave all had to be in there with as much of electronica’s glitches and edits, hip-hop’s flows, the galloping ferocity of drum’n’bass and metal as possible. No subgenre’s safe from the “treatment.”  The vivisection becomes complete when firing up the live beast. Amalgamated from double bass, synths, drums, guitars, and vocals, like an amphetamised Rottweiler running riot through a free warehouse party, tearing holes in speaker cones, our live shows leave saucer eyed audiences writhing in sweat-drenched ecstasy.

This is not a war of conflict but a war of unification.  Ravers throw shapes, as Rockers bang heads, and Rude Bois throw their hands in the air. Subsource are a Beat and Bass driven Rock act representing the underground UK dance music scene.  No treaty will be signed and the occupation will be total.”

It’s no surprise that a band with a CV as connected as a nuclear power station is starting to turn a few heads. Studio sessions with The Prodigy and Akil from Jurassic 5, mosh-pit forming shows at 15 summer festivals in 2009 and sold out gigs in Berlin and Paris prompted support from the media as diverse as Metal Hammer, Eddy Temple Morris, BBC, LTD Magazine, Radio 1’s Nihal and The Metro newspaper. Media almost as diverse as the band themselves: a Cambridge educated British-Chinese science prodigy, a Norwegian born multi instrumentalist, a nu-skool breaks double bass player, a DnB drummer and occasional killer guest MC Malawian hip hop star Kimba Mutanda.

Following October’s release of crowd favourite ‘The Reason (Parasite)’, Subsource’s electro, metal and unique take on dubstep (Substep anyone?) influences come to the fore on the socially charged track ‘The Ides’. This single will be released on 29th March with album ‘Tales From The Doombox’ set for release on 5th April. This ethos flows into the band’s art with the album cover for ‘Tales From The Doombox’ being a piece by street artist Faith47, who’s been dubbed the ‘South African Banksy’. The cover’s inscription statement of ‘build you up to tear us down’ reflects the nature of a self sufficient band who have fashioned lyrical paeans to the true accounts of island tribes fighting off oil companies. But it’s not all work and no play. A nod to their dance roots inspired them to create the Subsource iPhone rave app, complete with flashing glow stick and lighter, not that you’ll find many tender moments in a Subsource live set…

THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM
SET TO RELEASE ‘AMERICAN SLANG’ IN JUNE 2010
DUE TO PHENOMENAL PUBLIC DEMAND LONDON HEADLINE SHOW MOVES TO BRIXTON ACADEMY

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2009 was a monumental year for The Gaslight Anthem.  The band toured the world in support of their acclaimed album THE ‘59 SOUND and were featured performers at major festivals including Coachella, Rock Am Ring, Glastonbury, Pinkpop, Lollapalooza, Reading and Leeds, Hyde Park Calling, Fuji Rock, Hurricane, Gurten and Roskilde.

THE ‘59 SOUND was named one of the best albums of the year (and, in some cases, the decade) by NME, Kerrang!, Q Magazine, VISIONS, Rock Sound and Big Cheese, and the band won the “Best International Newcomer” award at last year’s Kerrang! Awards as well.

The Gaslight Anthem are now hard at work recording the follow-up to THE ‘59 SOUND with producer Ted Hutt at The Magic Shop in New York City.  The album will be called AMERICAN SLANG and is set to be released in June 2010 on SideOneDummy Records.  The band has announced the first of many UK/European tour dates to come, in support of their new album:

June 19 – Southside Festival (Germany)

June 20 – Hurricane Festival (Germany)

June 22 – Birmingham (UK) O₂ Academy (headline show)

June 23 – Glasgow (UK) O₂ Academy (headline show)

June 24 – Manchester (UK) Academy 1 (headline show)

June 25 – London (UK) Hard Rock Calling (supporting Pearl Jam)

June 26 – London (UK) Brixton Academy (headline show)

June 29 – Oxford (UK) O₂ Academy (headline show)

July 1 – Amsterdam (Netherlands) Melkweg (headline show)

THE SMOKING HEARTS announce UK Tour
‘PRIDE OF NOWHERE’
Album to be released 8^th March, 2010
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Download ‘George Street Wrestling’ for free here - http://tinyurl.com/smokingheartsDL

Lethal – Vocals  |  Barker – Guitars  |  Calvin – Bass  |  Nobba – Guitars  |  Matty – Drums

The Smoking Hearts will be stamping their mark on the British music scene on March 8^th of 2010 with the release of debut album Pride Of Nowhere. The band has booked up a punk rock collection of dates around the record’s release. Storming out of rural England, The Smoking Hearts unleash a whirlwind combination of relentless punk rock and cutting rock’n’roll that is best experienced in the flesh so check out the full list of dates below.

Graceful is definitely not a word to describe The Smoking Hearts. Live shows have seen guitar headstocks smashed and drum kits sprawled across stages. It is not uncommon to find half the band on the floor with the crowd and, on occasion, half the crowd on stage with the band.

In their short career as a band, The Smoking Hearts have travelled thousands of miles, opening shows for the likes of Gallows, Bring Me The Horizon, Winnebago Deal and The Supersuckers, as well as some iconic acts such as Misfits and Skid Row.

Recorded on a farm in Bedfordshire with Nick Mailing (Quireboys/Trashlight Vision) and Mastered by Russ Russell (Napalm Death/The Wildhearts) over the course of just 14 days (and nights), ‘Pride of Nowhere’ clocks in at a frantic 29 minutes and 25 seconds. It is a record for many states of mind – these are songs that will inspire attitudes to party, drink, fight. But ultimately it is the anti-thesis of sitting around and letting things happen to you; it has everything to do with making life happen for yourself.

LIVE DATES ARE AS FOLLOWS –

Feb:

13th – Peter Parkers Rock N Roll Club      Denmark Street, London

23rd – Clwb Ifor Bach                                      Cardiff

27th – The Nags Head                                     High Wycombe

March:

4th – Red Lion                                                    Stevenage

6th – Man On The Moon                               Cambridge

8th – South Of The Border                            Old Street, London (ALBUM RELEASE SHOW)

11th – Upstairs at The Garage                     Highbury, London

12th – The Marquee                                        Norwich

13th – Club Revolution                                   Peterborough

14th – The Central                                            Nottingham

15th – The Freebutt                                         Brighton

19th – Goblets                                                   Southampton

26th – Esquires                                                  Bedford

April:

1st – The Hat Factory                                       Luton

3rd – Club 85                                                       Hitchin

Thao and The Get Down Stay Down
‘know better learn faster’ album released 2010
Label: Kill Rock Stars

Next UK show: March 16th at Borderline, London

Thao and the ever-versatile Get Down Stay Down (Adam Thompson on bass, keys and additional guitar, and Willis Thompson on drums and percussion) return with the follow up to their critically lauded and riotously applauded previous album, “We Brave Bee Stings and All”, the breakout success and best-selling record of 2008 for Kill Rock Stars.  With super-producer and friend Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, Bill Frisell, Spoon) again at the helm, Know Better Learn Faster perfectly captures the band as their more mature, tastefully raucous, tastefully subdued and musically adventurous selves.  Honed, trimmed and tightened over the last year and a half of constant touring, the now-trio delivers Thao’s cleverly crafted and emotionally evocative songs with vibrant, innovative instrumentation, incredible energy and a still-acutely-solid sense of what sounds good.  The new batch of songs spans all genres and influences, all the while staying faithful to their distinct style, sharp wit, and the infectious and enamoring exuberance of their renowned live shows.

But the band can be serious too.  Know Better Learn Faster is in many ways a boisterous, frenzied, and resigned break-up record, and with that territory comes a few songs wherein Thao does not employ her trademark method of juxtaposing brighter melodies with melancholic content.  “A few of these are just straightforwardly sad.  Sometimes there’s not much room to mince words and music when you feel like shit,” she says.

The diverse and wide-ranging songwriting only helps to showcase the trio’s formidable musicianship: all members have stepped up and expanded their repertoires to fill out the trio’s sound.  To further help the cause, the band was thrilled and humbled to enlist album guests Andrew Bird, Eric Earley of Blitzen Trapper, Laura Veirs, Horse Feathers, Steve Berlin of Los Lobos, Jenny Conlee of The Decemberists, and close friend and new 4AD artist Tune-Yards.

Know Better Learn Faster is a deeply felt, honestly rendered audit of the end of one or any number of relationships.  Thao says: “We are thankful for the opportunity to have explored and then purged all crippling tensions and anxiety inherent in such dramas and hope you enjoy the scrappy by-product.”

KRYSTLE WARREN
HMV Next Big Thing at the Jazz Cafe 8th February
Four nights at The Soho Theatre 24th – 27th February
Debut Album ‘Circles’ 22nd February

CODEINE VELVET CLUB
CONFIRMED AS SPECIAL GUESTS FOR JOHN MAYER UK DATES

Codeine Velvet Club, the sensational new band featuring chief Fratelli Jon Lawler and Glasgow chanteuse Lou Hickey, have been confirmed as special guests on the forthcoming UK shows by US star John Mayer.  The dates are as follows:

JANUARY
15        MANCHESTER APOLLO
16        GLASGOW ACADEMY
18        LONDON HAMMERSMITH APOLLO
19        WOLVERHAMPTON CIVIC

Codeine Velvet Club is a new musical collaboration that celebrates Jon Lawler and Lou Hickey’s shared love of ’60s girl-boy duets, dramatic orchestral pop, and dark post-war Hollywood romanticism.  They have just released their eponymously titled debut album.

SO MANY DYNAMOS

Release ‘The Loud Wars’ February 22^nd on Vagrant records

Give away new single ‘New Bones’

Announce UK Tour dates

The quartet from Illinois, So Many Dynamos, has finally announced details of the UK release of ‘The Loud Wars’. The band will release the album on Vagrant records on February 22^nd.

The album was produced by Chris Walla, guitarist in Death Cab for Cutie. It was mixed in the more than capable hands of Alex Newport (At The Drive-In, The Mars Volta, Pissed Jeans, Frank Turner) and is a stand-out classic for 2010 with it’s post-punk, synth tinged dance-ability laced throughout. As a preview to the album Vagrant are giving away the forthcoming single from the album, ‘New Bones.’ The track can be downloaded for free over at www.mediafilesccc.com/NewBones.mp3

So Many Dynamos will also be accompanying the release with a bunch of UK dates in February.

February

18^th – Glasgow, UK @ Captain’s Rest www.ticketweb.co.uk

19^th – Middlesborough, UK @ Uncle Albert’s  www.myspace.com/bar_sumo

20^th – Nottingham, UK @ Stealth vs Rescue www.alt-tickets.co.uk

21^st – Leicester, UK @ The Firebug www.wegottickets.com

22^nd – Birmingham, UK @ The Flapper www.seetickets.com

23^rd – London, UK @ Buffalo Bar www.ticketweb.co.uk

25^th – Brighton, UK @ Jam www.myspace.com/kongpromo

26^th – Oxford, UK @ Bullingdon www.tctmusic.co.uk

27^th – Southampton, UK @ Unit www.joinerslive.co.uk

So Many Dynamos release ‘The Loud Wars’ on February 22^nd and tour the UK in February 2010.

SINGLE: HOT MESS – FEBRUARY 15, 2010

ALBUM: HOT MESS – FEBRUARY 22, 2010

UK TOUR ANNOUNCED – FEBRUARY 2010

Cobra Starship are set to release their brand new single

FLOOD OF RED
Tours with We Are The Ocean (November) and The Xcerts (December) announced

www.floodofred.co.uk

Following the release of Flood of Red

Elliot Minor