Lostprophets are this year going to hold the prestigious slot of the Headline band at the Roundhouse on the closing night of London’s award winning city festival the Camden Crawl.

This appearance is being announced off the back of a sold out UK tour including a SOLD OUT Brixton Academy….with a few dates in the run up to the show as per below after the release of their 4th album the Betrayed which went top 3 in the uk.

“The Betrayed is impressively, chillingly, controlled” **** Q Magazine

“Lostprophets have come back fighting with an album crammed with anthems set to soundtrack this summer’s festivals” **** Heat

“This is a triumph which spreads their appeal far and wide. The rock world is theirs for the taking” **** The Sun

Lostprophets are made up of guitarist Mike Lewis, frontman Ian Watkins, Lee Gaze (guitar), Stuart Richardson (bass), Jamie Oliver (keyboards, programming) and new drummer Luke Johnson. They formed over 10 years ago in Pontypridd, Wales and have risen to be one of the UK’s biggest rock bands selling over 2 million albums along the way.

Live:
Wednesday 28 April BOURNEMOUTH O2 Academy 0844 477 2000*
Friday 30 April FOLKESTONE Leas Cliff Hall 01303 228 600*
Saturday 1 May CARDIFF International Arena

JUST ANNOUNCED!!!!
Sunday 2 May – LONDON – Camden Crawl at the Roundhouse in association with MTV
http://www.seetickets.com/camdencrawl
Ticket supplements for the Lostprophets Roundhouse show go on sale Friday 12th March at 9am.
Ticket price for the festival is £55 (plus booking) and to get to the Roundhouse shows there is a £6.50 supplement.

New single ‘FOR HE’S A JOLLY GOOD FELON’ 5 April 2010
Released on limited edition etched vinyl, Itunes digital bundle (with exclusive track), single track download and L’Amour La Morgue Rinse and Refix Remix.

As the first teaser from the new album the band are giving away a free Mp3 of new track ‘Flash Delirium’ from www.whoismgmt.com.

One of 2010’s most eagerly anticipated new releases, Congratulations is the successor to MGMT’s Oracular Spectacular, the 2008 debut album which established the band’s potential as a visionary force in pop music.

Congratulations is a collection of nine individual musical tours de force sequenced to flow with sonic and thematic coherence: “It’s Working,” “Song for Dan Treacy,” “Someone’s Missing,” “Flash Delirium,” “I Found a Whistle,” “Siberian Breaks,” “Brian Eno,” “Lady Dada’s Nightmare,” and “Congratulations.”

Produced by MGMT and Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3, E.A.R., Spectrum), Congratulations was recorded throughout 2009 in upstate New York, Malibu, and Brooklyn and features Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, MGMT’s core duo, performing with Matt Asti (bass, backing vocals), Will Berman (drums, backing vocals), and James Richardson (guitar, backing vocals), the band’s live line-up.

Congratulations offered MGMT the opportunity to work with a couple of their musical idols and influences including album co-producer Sonic Boom (Pete Kember) and Royal Trux front-woman Jennifer Herrema, who contributed guest vocals. “We’ve been lucky enough to meet and work with some of our all-time musical heroes,” Andrew says, marveling at MGMT’s good collaborative karma. “It’s so great to be around such amazing and unusual musical minds.”

Ben and Andrew first met the mythic Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3, E.A.R., Spectrum) at a Spectrum show in London in February 2009 and wound up onstage jamming with the band on “Suicide,” a vintage Spacemen 3 track paying homage to another light in MGMT’s musical pantheon.

MGMT have become an international festival favourite with performances at South By Southwest, Coachella, Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo in the States and the Glastonbury extravaganza in the UK. The band have toured with Beck, Yeasayer and Of Montreal, among others, while becoming a headline concert attraction in its own right. MGMT are confirmed to appear at the 2010 Coachella and Bamboozle festivals.

With Congratulations, MGMT unlock a new musical world whirling in its own space/time grid infused with hints of music from the past five decades. Soulful and complex, Congratulations is a surprising and delightful quantum step forward in MGMT’s ongoing pop revolution.

whoismgmt.com
www.myspace.com/mgmt

Words by Brendan Monteiro

Who would of thought that eating popcorn and listening to Deftones could make a night out, looking back on the evening’s proceedings and I can honestly say it’s something I will definitely do again once Diamond Eyes is unleashed upon us.

Without going in to too much detail about songs and musical blah blah blah’s, what is left to say about this ablum is that it is truly breathtaking. The album has all the crashing ferocity as a backdrop for some of the most mystifying melodies and soundscapes I have heard all year. The breakdowns had every guest inside The Cellar Door nodding their head in appreciation, and sitting at the bar I was no different. From start to finish the cadence just builds and if you have high expectations of this album be prepared to have them obliterated. For myself, when I first heard about Deftones there was a lot of hype, I didn’t really succumb to it but with Diamond Eyes I feel myself getting sucked in and I think that this has got MASTERPIECE all over it already.

for a taster of the album check out the video for Rocket Skates and download the song from the bands myspace NOW!!! you will not be dissatisfied.

“Underoath is proud to announce that they will be taking part in the Abbey Road Live series and will have a live recording of their March 11th show at the Koko in London available for purchase exclusively online at http://underoath.sandbag.uk.com and at all dates on their upcoming UK/European tour. This special live album will be professionally mixed and mastered with exclusive artwork and will only be available online and at the UK and European shows, including at the Koko on the 11th directly after the show. Fans in the U.S. and around the world will be able to purchase the physical and digital version at http://underoath.sandbag.uk.com. In fact, you can pre-order your copy from http://underoath.sandbag.uk.com right now to ensure that you will be the first to hear it after the show.

THE GREAT ESCAPE ADDS EVEN MORE CUTTING EDGE BANDS TO THE BILL

Wild Beasts / Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster / Band Of Skulls / Stornoway / Lonelady / White Rose Movement / Seun Kuti (Brighton Festival Co-Promotion) / Canterbury / The Boy Who Trapped The Sun / Summer Camp / Think About Life / Jim Jones Revue / Codeine Velvet Club / Hook & The Twin / Young Guns / John & Jehn / Lucky Soul / Birds Of Tokyo / Chicken Hawk / Chief / Lauren Pritchard / Kassidy / North Atlantic Oscillation / Bo-Ningen / Larissa McKay / John Smith

www.escapegreat.com

Plus
**EARLY BIRD TICKETS EXPIRE ON MARCH 19TH**

With heavy hitting live acts including Chase & Status, Delphic, Broken Social Scene and Marina & The Diamonds already confirmed for this year’s event, The Great Escape are set to unveil even more amazing additions that will make up part of the more than 300 bands that will play in 30+ venues from May 13th to 15th on the south coast. With a burgeoning reputation for mixing the most exciting new acts with some of the best established bands around, this year’s line up is shaping up to be their finest yet.

Adding their not inconsiderable weight to proceedings, Cumbrian quartet Wild Beats will be travelling to Brighton to showcase their baroque ‘n’ roll stylings underpinned by frontman Hayden Thorpe’s beguiling countertenor vocals. Brighton favourites Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster will be making a storming hometown appearance and there will also be sets from bare bones rockers Band of Skulls, blissful folk from Oxford’s Stornoway, Warp Records’ captivating Lonelady, electro punk from White Rose Movement and visceral riffing from Canterbury.

Other acts confirmed to appear at The Great Escape this year include the folk pop of The Boy Who Trapped The Sun, Chill-wavers Summer Camp, Canadian indie purveyors Think About Life, super-psyche rockers Jim Jones Revue, Fratellis spin-off Codeine Velvet Club, the mesmerizing Hook & The Twin Kerrang! Best New Band winners for 2009 Young Guns and London based French duo John & Jehn. Plus there will be Lucky Soul, Birds Of Tokyo, Chicken Hawk, Chief, Lauren Pritchard, Kassidy, North Atlantic Oscillation, Bo-Ningen, Larissa McKay and John Smith.

Seun Kuti, youngest son of legendary afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, who now leads the sublime Fela’s Egypt 80 band, will be making a special TGE appearance as part of a co-promotion with Brighton Festival. With such an incredible act playing there will only be limited space for TGE wristband holders at the Corn Exchange so make sure you get down the front early.

With plenty more top drawer artists still to announce for the festival, there are plenty of reasons to make sure you’re at the best TGE so far. Early Bird weekend tickets, that not only get you in to see all the bands but will also get you access to outdoor gigs, afternoon shows, club nights, after parties and much more, are currently on sale from www.escapegreat.com for just £45.00 but time is running out as the Early Bird deal will expire on Friday March 19th so get in there quick.

“Every year one of the ultimate highlights for Death Angel is playing the outdoor open air festivals, both in Spring and Summer!! From pulling into the city to getting backstage and catching up with old friends from other bands, and making new ones. Also getting out in the crowd, and reconnecting with fans new and old, bonding over the power and love for music! To most of all hitting the stage in the ultimate release of energy and feeding off the crowd’s energy! And this year the excitement level for us will be at an all time high because we will be breaking out of the studio amidst recording the NEW DEATH ANGEL RECORD and getting to do what we as a band have always loved doing most – Playing live! So can’t wait to see all you crazy f-ckers out there. Help us blow off some steam, and celebrate the love, and power of this music we play! Metal!!!!”

Confirmed dates include:

Apr 4, 2010                        The Engine Room                           Brighton, UK
Apr 5, 2010                        Sub89                                           Reading, UK
Apr 6, 2010                        Rio’s                                             Leeds, UK
Apr 7, 2010                        Central Station                              Wrexham, Wales, UK
May 18, 2010                     O2 Academy w/ Nevermore            London, UK

The band is currently recording their new album at AudioHammer Studios in Florida with producer Jason Suecof.

Studio updates and blogs can be seen at www.deathangel.us

Deluxe Expanded Editions Of
“Heaven and Hell”, “Mob Rules” and “Live Evil”
Release date: 5th April 2010

Black Sabbath, one of the most prominent and influential faces of the 70’s Rock topography were, by the decade’s end, a band in disarray. Once the masters of their own reality; the Birmingham four-piece were now battle weary veterans, wearing the deep scars of a near ten year album-tour-album cycle. Black Sabbath’s latest album, Never Say Die!, released in September 1978, would transpire to be their final studio recording with Ozzy Osbourne, who in less than a year, would no longer be with the band.

The loss of the iconic voice might have signalled the end of the band. But, that wasn’t to be the case…

Ronnie James Dio, Rainbow’s founding lead vocalist whose lion’s roar had taken the band to gold and platinum status also parted company with his band. Several phone calls later and a chance meeting in, of all places, the Rainbow Bar & Grill on Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood, Iommi invited Dio to join the remaining members of Black Sabbath for an impromptu rehearsal. Within fifteen minutes and one brand new song later (‘Children Of The Sea’), a new era of Black Sabbath was born.

The resultant album releases over the next few years proved without question, that this match was one without peer and succeeded without question in carrying the name of Black Sabbath (later with Vinnie Appice replacing Bill Ward on drums) proudly into the new decade. With an accompanying soundtrack featuring some of the most exciting and dramatic Heavy Metal to ever grace a studio or stage, Black Sabbath rose once more to a place of highest regard within elite Rock circles.

Such was the chemistry between these players, that two reformations of this Black Sabbath line-up have since been made, the second of which, occurring in 2007, went under the title of that first ground-breaking album, Heaven And Hell, and still survives at the dawn of yet another exciting new decade for Heavy Metal.

“Heaven And Hell” was the first album to be released by the new Black Sabbath lineup of Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward, in 1980. It remains one of the most important and influential of Black Sabbath’s releases and the deluxe expanded edition comes with a bonus disc of live material.

1981’s “Mob Rules” featured largely the same lineup, although Vinnie Appice replaces Bill Ward on drums. The deluxe expanded edition, again, features a bonus disc of live material.

1982’s “Live Evil” caught a band at the height of their powers. The classic lineup of Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Vinnie Appice giving a flawless performance.

The full track listing for all three deluxe editions is as follows.

HEAVEN AND HELL

DISC ONE:
Neon Knights
Children Of The Sea
Lady Evil
Heaven And Hell
Wishing Well
Die Young
Walk Away
Lonely Is The Word

DISC TWO:
Children Of The Sea (Live)
Heaven And Hell (Live)
Lady Evil (Mono Edit)
Neon Knights (Video – Live)
Die Young (Video – Live)
Neon Knights (Live, Hartford, CN, USA, ‘80)
Children Of The Sea (Live, Hartford, CN, USA ‘80)
Heaven And Hell (Live, Hartford, CN, USA ‘80)
Die Young (Live, Hartford, CN, USA ‘80)

MOB RULES

DISC ONE:
Turn Up The Night
Voodoo
The Sign Of The Southern Cross
E5150
The Mob Rules
Country Girl
Slipping Away
Falling Off The Edge Of The World
Over And Over
Bonus Tracks:
Die Young (Live – 12″ version)
The Mob Rules (Alternative Version)

DISC TWO:
E5150 (Live)
Neon Knights (Live)
N.I.B. (Live)
Children Of The Sea (Live)
Country Girl (Live)
Black Sabbath (Live)
War Pigs (Live)
Slipping Away (Live)
Iron Man (Live)
The Mob Rules (Live)
Heaven And Hell (Live)
Paranoid (Live)
Voodoo (Live)
Children Of The Grave (Live)

LIVE EVIL

DISC ONE:
E5150
Neon Knights
N.I.B.
Children Of The Sea
Voodoo
Black Sabbath
War Pigs
Iron Man

DISC TWO:
The Mob Rules
Heaven And Hell
The Sign Of The Southern Cross / Heaven And Hell (continued)
Paranoid
Children Of The Grave
Fluff

Words by Ian Dickinson

The Smoking Hearts have created an album of music to get you off your arse, pickling your liver and punching puppies in the face. It is fast, upbeat, riff laden, scuzzy punk rock for people who want to have a good time with no thought for the consequences. Pride of Nowhere is The Smoking Hearts (TSH) third release since 2007 and the bands first full length adventure. If what you want is an album to keep your head banging and the party rocking into the dangerous hours of the next day Pride Of Nowhere is ideal for you
Drinking, rocking, womanizing, fighting, all the finest ‘ing’ words in our language are conjured up upon listening. The songs are gunshot fast with the majority clocking in around 2minutes. It is quite a feat to cram as much as they do into each track, especially the impressive guitar solos. The song George Street Wrestling epitomizes the sound and feel of the album with lyrics like “whiskey, women and the sound of guitars…this one’s going to be a real train wreck.” You know what you are getting yourself in for.

It is the guitars that play the standout role within Pride Of Nowhere making TSH slightly different from many of their peers. There are no break downs or double bass pedals. At times TSH lean towards the heavy Rock n Roll sound of Motorhead. It is a fusion of heavy British Rock n Roll riffs and tempo, with a Cajun seasoning of sleazy whiskey eroded vocal cords. It is an uncommon combination and it is surprising in the current climate for a Punk/Hardcore band to be so heavily riff driven. It reminds me of Turbonegro’s (Hot Cars & Spent Contraceptives era) very own brand of Death Punk.
When bands are focusing on the grim issues that face us on a daily basis it is good to have bands like TSH producing music that gets you in the mood for a good time. Even a severe case of alcohol poising wouldn’t stop me from reaching for a pack of smokes, a beer and finding some excitement with this on my stereo. One Eyed Drunk has a Black Sabbath tone and is the only time that the album ever becomes morbid or dark. I do find the upbeat aura a refreshing change of pace from the ultra gloomy and dejected sound of many harder bands out there right now.

Although it may be about 5 tracks to long and lacking in variety and depth, it is a decent album that fans of sleazy riffs and punk aggression will enjoy. Fans of other super hard Rock n Rollers, with southern swagger and switch blade charm, such as The Plight, Blackhole and The Shotgun Riot will find TSH a welcome addition to their musical arsenal.

I would like to make a special mention for the track title Thrash B4 Gash. I intend to make this my families’ motto from now till the end of time.

After winning Best New Band at the NME Awards last month, Bombay Bicycle Club have sold out their biggest headline date in London – 2300 capacity – in less than a week, and announced two more shows in the UK to meet demand:

April 22nd 2010 – QMU, Glasgow
Apr 23rd 2010 – Academy 2, Manchester
Apr 24th 2010 – Forum, London – sold out

Tickets go on sale today, Monday March 8th.

Bombay release one of the stand out tracks from their recent live dates, ‘Evening/Morning’ this week. The single will be a super limited edition 7” (only 400 copies) with the band doing the artwork for each one of the copies individually.

Additionally, the band is putting the finishing touches on a brand new acoustic album which they aim to release later this year. Singer, Jack Steadman’s love of Appalachian music coupled with the folk heritage of guitarist Jamie MacColl (son of Neill and grandson of Ewan) has given these new tracks a distinct acoustic feel, as heard on the band’s recent cover of Loudon Wainwright III’s ‘Motel Blues’.

The critically acclaimed debut album ‘I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose’ is out now.

We are very excited to be able to offer you a little taster from the brand new 1000 Hertz album called …Are Burning Maps.

Just click here to get your free download of the new track Loss Of A Soul, which was recently showcased on Mike Davies BBC Radio 1 Punk Show.

For more details about the upcoming album check out the 1000 Hertz Myspace page.

Enjoy!