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Hype Monitor: Celeste, Jean on Jean, La Roux

The Band: Celeste The Buzz: Grim, grinding French metal band releases latest album for free, giving unlimited darkness and doom to all. Listen If: You consider Dillinger Escape Plan “soft rock.” Key Track: “Que Des Yeux Vides et Seches,” a knot of razor-wire guitars and seared-larynx vocals, the sound of an elevator ride to the underworld. The Band: Jean on Jean The Buzz: The inverse of Celeste: sweet, soft, female-fronted pop that blend shoegaze vocals with starry-eyed strumming. Listen If: You’re excited about the return of lo-fi, but wish some of the melodies were a bit stronger and a lot warmer. Key Track: “Cold Horse,” which sounds like it was rescued from the dusty archives of forgotten dreampoppers Lush. The Band: La Roux The Buzz: Dance dance revolution! Big beats and bright synths make for perky, catchy electropop. Listen If: You’re DJing a dance night in Berlin and you’ve run out of MGMT remixes Key Track: “In for the Kill,” where breathy female vocals float over morse code synths like cotton balls over a bed of nails.

Published: 2009-02-26 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Breaking

Dance Gavin Dance tour upgraded

Sacramento post-hardcore quintet Dance Gavin Dance have had two dates on their upcoming UK tour upgraded and the rest of the trek is selling fast! Catch the band at the following venues: April 27 Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms 28 London, Islington Academy (upgraded from The Underworld) 29 Birmingham, Academy 2 (upgraded from Academy 3) 30 Leeds, Met University May 01 Manchester, Roadhouse Support will come from In Fear And Faith. Tickets are on sale now from www.aloud.com.

Published: 2010-04-20 Provider: Kerrang!

Exclusive! Alkaline Trio announce intimate London show

We can exclusively reveal that our favourite goth punks, Alkaline Trio, will play a very special, intimate London headline show later this month. The band will hit London’s Underworld on January 25 in support of their awesome new album, This Addiction. Tickets will go on sale this Friday (January 8) from Hassle Records’ webstore and will come bundled with an exclusive, limited edition This Addiction 7" single. The album proper will follow on February 22.

Published: 2010-01-06 Provider: Kerrang!

Billy Talent for intimate London show

Calling all Billy Talent fans! If waiting for their forthcoming follow-up to 2006's II is doing your nut in, then you'll be pleased to know that the Canadian quintet have just announced a one-off show at London's Camden Underworld on June 9, as a warm-up to their Download festival appearance, which takes place the weekend after in Donington. Tickets for the Underworld gig go on sale tomorrow at 9am. The band's new album, cleverly titled III, which is being produced by Brendan O'Brien (Pearl Jam,

Published: 2009-04-09 Provider: Kerrang!

Innerpartysystem upgrade London show

Pennsylvania dance-rock quartet Innerpartysystem have upgraded their London show at Camden Underworld to the Islington Academy on February 5. Catch the band’s intense live show with support coming from Sacramento duo Middle Class Rut at one of the following shows: January 26 Cambridge Soul Tree 27 Brighton Audio 28 Cardiff Barfly 30 Exeter Cavern 31 Birmingham Academy 2 February 01 Glasgow King Tut's 02 Leeds Cockpit 03 Newcastle Academy 2 04 Manchester Academy 3 05 London Islington Academy For tickets, click here. The band will re-release the single ‘Don’t Stop’ on February 9.

Published: 2009-01-13 Provider: Kerrang!

Shinedown venue upgraded

Due to overwhelming demand, squillion selling US rockers Shinedown have had their London show on January 21 upgraded from The Underworld to the Islington Academy. The band will also play the following venues: January 21 London, Islington Academy 22 Birmingham, Barfly 23 Glasgow, King Tut's 25 Manchester, Academy The band will release their new single, The Sound Of Madness, digitally on February 16 and physically on February 23. The album of the same name follows on March 2.

Published: 2008-12-19 Provider: Kerrang!

EXCLUSIVE! Four Year Strong acoustic set

Massachusetts pop punkers Four Year Strong will be headlining the Underworld in London tonight after their successful UK run with New Found Glory last week. Earlier today, the band performed a special acoustic set at the offices of Hassle Records. Kerrang! was on board to film the event, and bring you this exclusive footage of four songs from the performance. Part one: Catastrophe and Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Hell Part two: Your Song and Bada Bing! Wit A Pipe

Published: 2008-12-01 Provider: Kerrang!

Protest The Hero 2009 UK tour!

Protest The Hero have announced a series of UK tour dates for early 2009. The band, who will be supporting The Human Abstract alongside The Chariot, will be hitting the following shows: MARCH 2009 03: Plymouth, White Rabbit 04: Leeds, Rios 05: Glasgow, IvoryBlacks 06: Sheffield, Corporation 07: Nottingham, ock City 08: Milton Keynes, The Pitz Club 09: London, Underworld The band are currently playing around the UK with the Never Say Die Tour with Parkway Drive, Unearth, Despised Icon, Architects, Whitechapel and Carnifex.

Published: 2008-11-14 Provider: Kerrang!

Innerpartysystem stream album on MySpace

Pennsylvania dance-rock quartet Innerpartysystem are currently streaming their self-titled debut album on their official MySpace page. The band have announced a series of dates for January and February. They are as follows: January 26 Cambridge Soul Tree 27 Brighton Audio 28 Cardiff Barfly 30 Exeter Cavern 31 Birmingham Academy 2 February 01 Glasgow King Tut's 02 Leeds Cockpit 03 Newcastle Academy 2 04 Manchester Academy 3 05 London Underworld For tickets, click here. A new single, Don't Stop, will be released to coincide with the tour.

Published: 2008-11-01 Provider: Kerrang!

Shinedown dates

Squillion selling US rockers Shinedown are set to return to the UK early next year for a series of dates. The band, who will release their debut UK single, Devour, on November 17, will play the following venues: January 21 London, Underworld 22 Manchester, Academy 23 Glasgow, King Tut's 25 Birmingham, Barfly

Published: 2008-10-28 Provider: Kerrang!

Grizzly Bear’s Tour Blog: Grilling Burgers for Radiohead and All Points West

All Points West festival had been getting tons of bad press about it being a dressed up Radiohead show, or overpriced, and aside from a crew member carelessly destroying Dan’s amp (the festival reimbursed us for it), I had a really great time there. The setting was gorgeous with the NYC skyline behind us. The grounds were clean. People seemed relatively sober thanks to a five-beer maximum policy and the shows and sound were on point. Highlights for me were watching pieces of Andrew Bird and CSS and the raucous party set by Girl Talk, complete with toilet paper guns (not very green of them, but we’ll just look past that). A special treat for me was getting to see Underworld whom I’ve loved for a good decade or so but never seen perform. They were quite the amazing band to come on before the main event of Radiohead, who played one of my favorite tracks “You and Whose Army.” During that song there was a great fish eye lens directly on Thom’s face while he played the piano that was edited and modulated across dozens of screens. Have I mentioned how insanely amazing their light show is? I was talking to some of the band about it and they said this is definitely their biggest production yet and they were really happy to hear how enamored we were with the lights (and music of course). Our own set at APW was surprisingly great. As I’ve mentioned before we aren’t exactly a festival band, and so when it was raining during the Mates of State who played right before us we all got a bit doomed about the prospect of playing to a wet crowd (having just done so in Montreal) but the sun cleared right before our set and a gorgeous dusk light came out and we plowed through our new songs to a really really great crowd. Probably one of the better festival experiences we’ve had. Of course I can’t not mention our hometown show the following night at the Williamsburg Hall of Music, which was truly incredible for us. We’ve never been the type of band to sell out a show in a few hours but t

Published: 2008-08-13 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Tom Waits Spins Yarns, Sings About Jesus at Tour Opener in Phoenix

“The world is not my home,” Tom Waits sang on the opening night of his highly anticipated U.S. tour. “I’m just passing through.” One place Waits has always made his own is the stage, so no surprise that last night’s looked like a junkyard at midnight: nebulously lit and hung in mist. Flanked by a menacing installation of horn speakers crackling out old-time phonograph music and surrounded by a graveyard of cigar-box banjoes, bullhorns and ramshackle guitars, Waits’ sextet took the stage at Phoenix’s Orpheum Theatre around 8:30 and powered into a lurching medley of “Lucinda” and “Aint Goin Down to the Well.” Set against his own towering silhouette, Waits was a drawn sketch of twisted limbs: heaving and panting like a stalled locomotive. Clutching the microphone with both hands as if it were the only thing keeping him up, he stomped his workman’s boots so hard the floorboards coughed up thick clouds of dust into the spotlight around his legs. The 25 songs the band played were fever dreams from an old, weird America whose greatest trick has been convincing the world it’s been eradicated by modern life: an underworld of “Rain Dogs,” “Eyeball Kids” and “Black Market Babies”; of “Trampled Roses” and “Christmas Cards from Hookers in Minneapolis.” “Jesus Gonna Be Here” Waits coughed, but “God’s Away on Business.” Waits’ subjects are down and out American grotesques, and he spent the better part of his performance playing the demented preacher to that set: slightly oversized suit and bowler hat, arms spread out to their length, palms down, wide hands quavering or waggling an index finger. “Does life seem nasty, brutish and short?” he sang. “Come on up to the house.” Sonically, Waits still sings like the devil he’s slated to play in the new Terry Gilliam flick, and h

Published: 2008-06-18 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News, Live Shows