Bad Religion To Release Christmas Album.

Bad Religion is releasing a Christmas album 'Christmas Songs' this month. The album features 8 new studio recordings of traditional Christmas hymns and an alternate mix of their single "American Jesus" by Andy Wallace. Co -songwriter and guitarist Brett Gurewitz says "This might be the most subversive album we've done. To me, what the album is indirectly stating is that this music, and thus the world, can be powerful and beautiful stripped of god and religion. These are just really good songs, and a historically non-religious band like Bad Religion can perform them with as much power and feeling as anyone."

The band's iconic vocalist and co-songwriter, Greg Graffin has a personal connection with these songs. Graffin got his start as a singer when he was young boy in a church choir. His instructors found him so remarkable that he received a scholarship to a choir school. And thus, the voice of Bad Religion was born.

In a world still brimming with rampant anti-intellectualism, inequality and oppression, Bad Religion’s signature brand of sonically charged humanist dissent is as relevant as ever.  And this Christmas season, just a little more ironic.

Christmas Songs Tracklisting

01. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

02. O Come All Ye Faithful

03. O Come, O Come Emmanuel

04. White Christmas

05. Little Drummer Boy

06. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

07. What Child Is This?

08. Angels We Have Heard On High

09. American Jesus (Andy Wallace Mix)

For more info go to www.badreligion.com

Motorhead Announce New Album

On Oct 21st, 2013 Motörhead will deliver their 21st studio album,"AFTERSHOCK" Recorded at NRG Studios in North Hollywood,it is a true leveller, a crushing confirmation of everything Motörhead stands for, marching from the dust storm to deliver 14 belting statements which see Motörhead in perhaps their best writing form for years. There’s swagger, there’s punch, there’s speed and there’s dirty filthy grooves, Lemmy Kilmister, Phil Campbell and Mikkey Dee showing clearly that Motörhead is not simply a band, it’s a genre!

“Steal it if you must, buy it if you can!” says Lemmy, who’s pride in the album is so immense that guests to his home and dressing room in the last couple of months have been treated to extremely loud airings of the rough mixes, while Phil Campbell adds, “I really think the variation on the album shows that we’ve dug deep and produced some of our best work for a long time.”

“It is,” says Mikkey Dee, “a really, really strong Motörhead album, one that really does define everything this band stands for.”
He’s not wrong.
Because Motörhead are Motörhead are Motörhead…and their Aftershock will be felt worldwide…

TRACKLISTING
Heartbreaker
Coup de Grace
Lost Woman Blues
End Of Time
Do You Believe
Death Machine
Dust And Glass
Going To Mexico
Silence When You Speak To Me
Crying Shame
Queen Of The Damned
Knife
Keep Your Powder Dry
Paralyzed

http://www.imotorhead.com/

Frank Turner Tour Dates Announced For Feb 2014

Frank Turner has just announced dates for a UK Arena tour in Feb 2014

FEB 6: CARDIFF MOTORPOINT ARENA

FEB 7: NOTTINGHAM ARENA

FEB 8: EDINBURGH CORN EXCHANGE

FEB 9: MANCHESTER ARENA

FEB 11: PLYMOUTH PAVILLIONS

FEB 12: LONDON 02

FEB 13: PORTSMOUTH GUILDHALL

The announcement comes ahead of the release of Frank's new single 'Losing Days' (out on September 1) and off the back of his performances at Reading & Leeds Festival at the weekend, where he played as the highest billed UK artist on the main stage.

You can watch Frank's performance of 'The Way I Tend To Be' taken from that set by clicking the link HERE

Frank Turner has had a busy year, even by his own standards. Following the release of his fifth studio album ‘Tape Deck Heart’ in April, he played a sold-out tour of the UK and has been on the road with his band The Sleeping Souls ever since. So far his global tour has taken him across Europe, to the Far East, Australasia and North America.

Tickets go on general sale from Fri 30th August

http://www.gigsandtours.com/

Thanks to Louise at Partisan PR

Tiny Paragraphs Of News

I get a lot of emails from PR's announcing new tour dates, upcoming releases and any other update considered relevant enough/important enough/interesting enough...to merit a news article being composed around it. But, apart from a few here and there at an editors insistence, I haven't really ever taken much to do with the 'news item' side of things - and I possibly should do. So as of today I will make an effort to do that. Do not be expecting press release sized news articles - because the exact opposite is likeliest - and what once filled you with jittery anticipation will now torment you with plundering frustration. Ask any psychoanalytic psychologist if that is correct and they shall answer 'yes that is correct' but they shall not just leave it at that because you might remain unconvinced by their monosyllabic reply and that in itself is an internal conflict waiting to happen! No, they shall not procreate such a harm in you - but instead proceed to bolster the harmony of your normality with the informative explanation of how 'internal perception is governed by unconscious complexities and is not spontaneous - so is therefore a contradistinction of the symptomatic derivative' etc etc anticipation/frustration. I digress hugely....so...

SKID ROW
Skid Row are set to release their second single This Is Killing Me from their United World Rebellion – Chapter 1 E.P on November 4th 2013. October and November will see SKID ROW and UGLY KID JOE play a 29 city, 12 country co-headline tour of Europe and the UK. Dates will kick off in England on Oct 22nd and run through Nov 26th ending in Austria. With combined sales of millions of albums, each band will play a full set of the songs fans want to hear. As a special treat for fans, there is also to be a bundle package that includes the songs of 'UNITED WORLD REBELLION - Chapter One' and the bonus tracks on high quality vinyl and an exclusive Skid Row shirt, available only through the UDR Store!

Tour Dates

Tues  22 Oct Southampton, ENGLAND Mo'Club

Wed  23 Oct Rugby, ENGLAND The Vault

Thurs  24 Oct Manchester, ENGLAND NQ Live

Fri  25 Oct Nottingham, ENGLAND Rock City

Sat  26 Oct Wrexhan, WALES Central Station   

Mon  28 Oct Glasgow, SCOTLAND The Garage

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NOAH AND THE WHALE

Noah And The Whale will release their fourth studio album, Heart Of Nowhere, on September 24th via Caroline Records. The album, recorded at West London's British Grove Studios, is the band's fourth record in five years, and follows 2011's platinum-selling Last Night On Earth

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RUSH

This year’s celebration of Rush continues with the highly anticipated release of a remixed version of the band 2002’s album VAPOR TRAILS. In 2009, two tracks from VAPOR TRAILS (“One Little Victory” and “Earthshine”) were remixed for the Retrospective III collection, setting fans into a frenzy in anticipation of a possible remixed version of the entire album being released one day. Four years later, that day is finally approaching as the remixed album will be available on September 30 from Atlantic/Rhino. "Vapor Trails' was an album made under difficult and emotional circumstances - sort of like Rush learning how to be Rush again - and as a result, mistakes were made that we have longed to correct. David Bottrill's remixes have finally brought some justice and clarity to this deserving body of our work,” says Geddy Lee. Every song has been given a new life, from the fire of ‘One Little Victory,’ ‘Secret Touch,’ and ‘Ceiling Unlimited’ to the melodic musicality of ‘Sweet Miracle’ and ‘How It Is’… these songs have been redeemed. 

The remixed version of VAPOR TRAILS will also be included in the new 7-disc boxed set THE STUDIO ALBUMS 1989-2007, which features every studio album Rush recorded for Atlantic Records. The collection includes the Gold & Platinum albumsPresto (1989), Roll The Bones (1991), Counterparts (1993), and Test For Echo (1996), as well as their covers EP Feedback(2004) and the Billboard Top 5 album Snakes & Arrows (2007). THE STUDIO ALBUMS 1989-2007 features each album presented in a wallet sleeve that faithfully reproduces the original artwork (except for VAPOR TRAILS, which features a reinterpreted version of the original cover) and is available on September 30 from Atlantic/Rhino.
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BLACK MARKET CLASH

EXHIBITION of rare items

& pop up store

75 berwick st, SOHO, LONDON

   for 2 weeks only

Saturday 7 Sept – Sunday 22 Sept 2013

Store opening times: 12pm – 8pm Monday to Saturday & 11am – 5pm on Sunday

FEATURING AN EXHIBITION SHOWCASING UNIQUE ITEMS

FROM THE CLASH ARCHIVE

 PLUS

LISTENING LOUNGE AND EXCLUSIVE MERCHANDISE AREAS

In celebration of one of the most iconic bands to have ever come out of the UK, the first ever BLACK MARKET CLASH pop-up store will open for 2 weeks in the heart of Soho, London. The store opening coincides with the release of The Clash’s 2-disc ‘HITS BACK’ and collected recorded works ‘SOUND SYSTEM’ box, alongside re-releases of all of the band’s seminal studio albums, lovingly remastered from the original master tapes under the supervision of The Clash. The store, which is fully art directed and curated by the band and Robert Gordon McHarg lll of The Subway Gallery, will open for a limited time only, from Saturday 7 September to Sunday 22 September 2013 at 75 Berwick Street, Soho.

The store will open with an exclusive launch party, attended by the band on Friday 6 September.

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