Archive for July, 2008

We Are Scientists are set to release ‘Impatience‘, the third single from their new album ‘Brain Thrust Mastery‘ on September 8th. To the delight of fans frontman Keith Murray and bassist Chris Cain have also release a ‘monstrous’ new video for the single, which I guarantee you will go wolf for. The video for ‘Impatience‘ is embedded below.

The New York 2-piece along with stage-mates Max Hart-Keys and Adam Drum-Aaronson are set for an appearance at Reading & Leeds, Jersey Live, Pukkelpop, Frequency, and will tour supporting REM in September.


We Are Scientists
We Are Scientists

What do you get when you combine a blood brother and pretty girl? Well, you get love, Jaguar Love. Jaguar Love is the new band of ex-Blood BrothersJohnny Whitney and Cody Votolato along with ex-Pretty Girls Make Graves multi-instrumentalist J Clark. Their debut album, ‘Take Me To The Sea‘, isn’t due out till August 19 but if you just can’t wait to hear them you can head over to the band’s MySpace and hear a few tracks. You can also catch Whitney and co. as they continue their tour throughout the US in support of the new album with a stop in Salt Lake City, Utah tonight (July 30) where they will be opening up for The Faint.

Jaguar Love
Jaguar Love

We recently told you about The StrokesNikolai Fraiture’s new band Nickel Eye. The band has yet to officially release any tracks or play live yet, however two songs by the band which were played on Mark Ronson’s East Village radio show have apparently been ripped and are now appearing on several file sharing sites as well as on YouTube. The tracks ‘Brandy Of The Damned‘ and ‘Dying Star‘, are available to download on several sites and feature Fraiture on vocals.

According to their MySpace site at Myspace.com/officialnickeleye, the band will be releasing their debut album, ‘The Time Of The Assassins‘, soon. [Via NME]


Strokes
The Strokes

Kings Of Leon’s highly anticipated forthcoming album “Only By The Night” isn’t due out till September 23, but the Followill boys are giving there fans something special in the while they wait. Fans who head over to the band’s site can get a free download of ‘Crawl‘, a new track from their forthcoming album. To get the track you only need to enter your email address, that’s it. The boys also recently announced a UK arena tour which will kick off on December 1st in Brighton.

Kings Of Leon
Kings Of Leon

The Cribs are set to embark on a US and Mexico tour this September. The band is set to kick off the tour on September 5 at New York’s Irving Plaza. The jaunt is in support of their album ‘Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever‘ which was released in 2007 and is set to be their last tour in support of it. Following their tour, the group, along with ex-Smiths man Johnny Marr, are set to hit the studio to record their fourth album.

Cribs
Cribs

Motley Crue are set to perform from the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas on August 1st for what they call a “live global concert”. The live concert will broadcast around the world for free via DeepRockDrive.com. The broadcast will start at 9:30pm PST. and if you want to catch it you must register on the site first because places are limited. The band will be supporting their recently released album, ‘Saints Of Los Angeles‘.

Motley Crue
Motley Crue

Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos has revealed some unconventional recording methods they have used for their highly anticipated forthcoming album. The band along with producer Dan Carey have been recording the album in Glasgow and are in the midst of wrapping up recording with and expected release date of early 2009. Speaking to BBC Newsbeat, Kapranos said the group “have been doing a lot of experimenting in the studio with Dan. He’s made us record the album in a much wilder way than we’re used to.

“We did this thing in the studio called the Doppler Effect which is like when you are on the high street and you hear an ambulance go past and the sound of the siren pitch changes when it passes you. We were doing something similar on a track called ‘What She Came For‘.

“We were recording the guitar in this big hall next to our studio and Nick climbed into the ceiling and fed a microphone cable down through the rafters above the guitar speaker. Then when we were recording Dan was swinging this microphone above the guitar amp and we got this incredible sound.”

The forthcoming album is the follow-up to 2005’s ‘You Could Have It So Much Better‘.


Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand

The Mystery Jets have recruited Kate Nash for their forthcoming single, ‘Half In Love With Elizabeth‘. Nash has contributed vocals for ‘Disco Liz‘ a track off the new single set for release August 25 as a B-side. A second B-side single will be a version of the Mystery Jets song ‘Flakes‘ by Florence & The Machine.

Mystery Jets
Mystery Jets

Babyshambles drummer Adam Ficek is set to release his debut solo album, ‘Roses, Kings, Castles’, on September 22. In the meantime Ficek, who records under the alias Roses, Kings, Castles , will be releasing the first single off the solo album. ‘Entroubled‘ is set for release on September 8th via his own label, The Sycamore Club. In order to celebrate the release, Ficek will be giving away 1,000 signed copies of the single to fans via MySpace.com/roseskingscastles. In order to get a signed single you must sign up for the album release.

Babyshambles
Babyshambles

The Subways, who kicked off their US tour on Friday (July 25), have announced the US release date for their new sophomore album. ‘All Or Nothing‘ is set for release on September 9. The twelve-track album, which was produced by Smashing Pumpkins producer Butch Vig, is the follow-up to ‘Young For Eternity‘.

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Subways

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