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Manics announce May dates

Manic Street Preachers have completed work on their new studio album, Journal For Plague Lovers, which was recorded at Rockfield studios in Monmouth, with producer Steve Albini (Nirvana, Iggy And The Stooges Scott Weiland). The record will hit stores on May 18 and the band will tour the UK to support the release. Dates are as follows: May 25 Glasgow, Barrowlands 26 Llandudno, Cymru Arena 28 London, Roundhouse 29 London, Roundhouse 30 London, Roundhouse June 01 Wolverhampton, Civic Hall 02 Brighton, Dome 04 Dublin, Olympia 06 Belfast, Ulster Hall Tickets are on sale now from www.aloud.com.

Published: 2009-03-30 Provider: Kerrang!

Green Day unveil new album release date

Green Day have revealed today that they will release upcoming new album, 21st Century Breakdown, on Friday May 15 - worldwide. Last week, the band gave Kerrang! a sneak-preview of the follow-up to 2004's American Idiot. The record was recorded in LA at Ocean Way Studios with producer Butch Vig (Nirvana, Against Me!, AFI) and features 16 tracks - divided into three acts: Heroes And Cons, Charlatans And Saints and Horseshoes And Handgrenades. For more details, and track names from the upcoming album, see this week's Kerrang! magazine!

Published: 2009-03-26 Provider: Kerrang!

Manics complete work on Journal For Plague Lovers

Welsh rockers Manic Street Preachers have completed work on the follow-up to 2007's Send Away the Tigers. Journal For Plague Lovers, which was recorded at Rockfield studios in Monmouth, with producer Steve Albini (Nirvana, Iggy And The Stooges Scott Weiland). In a handwritten note posted on the band's official website bassist Nicky Wire said the band are "excited, nervous, proud and fearful as usual but can't wait for everyone to hear it." Journal... is scheduled for a mid-May release through Epic Records.

Published: 2009-03-02 Provider: Kerrang!

Green Day reveal new album artwork

Punk rock heroes Green Day have unveiled their new album artwork via their official website. The band recorded the follow-up to 2004's multi-million selling American Idiot with producer Butch Vig (Nirvana, Against Me!). 21st Century Breakdown will be released in May through Warner Bros.

Published: 2009-02-10 Provider: Kerrang!

Against Me! name new album

Florida political punks Against Me! have completed work on White Crosses, the follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2007 album, New Wave. The band finished tracking the album this past Saturday (October 17) in LA with producer Butch Vig (Nirvana, Garbage, Green Day). White Crosses, which is the first Against Me! album to feature new drummer George Rebelo (formerly of Hot Water Music), will be released in the UK through Warner Bros in early 2010.

Published: 2009-10-22 Provider: Kerrang!

Classic Nirvana live set to be released on DVD

After years of legal to-ing and fro-ing between the estate of late frontman Kurt Cobain and the remaining members of Nirvana (bassist Krist Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl) it seems that the band's classic 1992 performance at the Reading festival will finally see the light of day. The set was the band's last performance in the UK - Cobain was found dead on April 5, 1994; the day the band were due to play Dublin - and will be released on May 4 on DVD under the moniker of Life Takes No Prisoners.

Published: 2009-04-21 Provider: Kerrang!

Green Day to record power pop album

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has hinted that the follow-up to their multi-million selling 2004 release American Idiot could be a power-pop album. "I really like fucking with arrangements and I always try to look at the possibilities of how you write power-pop music," Armstrong told US magazine Alternative Press. "You know, it's like, how do you take something and try to expand on the idea of what is supposed to be three-chord mayhem? I'm pushing myself to be progressive in songwriting and being a songwriter." The band are currently holed up in a Los Angeles studio with producer Butch Vig (Nirvana, Garbage, Against Me!). Armstrong revealed that the songwriting is proving to be a "painstaking process". "I'm allowing time for the process to happen naturally without having to force it," Armstrong told AP. "That is a painstaking process, let me tell you! For a bunch of guys that are ADHD [Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder], it's hard to have patience!" The as-yet-untitled album will be released next summer.

Published: 2008-12-05 Provider: Kerrang!