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Jim Adkins Announces Europoean Solo Tour & Presale

Jim Adkins of emo godfathers Jimmy Eat World has announced a solo tour of Europe later in the year. Full dates below, and a pre-sale is live via Adkins’ website here. August 2015 17 NURNBERG, GERMANY Serenadenhof Open Air 18 HAMBURG, GERMANY Nochtspeicher 20 STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN Bar Brooklyn 21 OSLO, NORWAY Parktheater Bar 22 COPENHAGEN, DENMARK

Tom Delonge Is Releasing A Trilogy Of Novels, Because Of Course He Is

Back in March, Angels & Airwaves frontman and erstwhile Blink-182 guitarist Tom Delonge threatened to release 15 novels. The first of those novels, ‘Poet Anderson…Of Nightmares’ is coming later this year. The first in a Poet Anderson Trilogy, all of which have been co-written with Actual Proper Author

Good Riddance announce ridiculously good North American tour line-up

In an apparent attempt to make foreign fans emigrate, Good Riddance have announced a ludicrously good line-up for their North American tour later this year. Main Support comes from Off With Their Heads, and (depending on your city) Iron Chic, Western Addiction or Fire Next Time. Full information below. AUGUST 2015 23

Watch the new video from Real Friends

Real Friends have posted the official video for ‘Sixteen’. It may be less than two and a half minutes long, but it does feature bowling and cake.

Love vinyl? So does Fat Mike…and Forbes

Business website Forbes, perhaps better known for being the go-to news source for and about Wall Street banker types, have posted a video on the resurgence of vinyl featuring several Punktastic types including NOFX’s ‘Fat’ Mike Burkett. Focussed around the ‘vinyl revival’ and the resilience of the format (from a business

Elway stream new song from forthcoming album

Listen to ‘Albuquerque Low’, the new track from Colorado gruffstrels Elway. The song is taken from brand new album ‘Better Whenever’, released via Red Scare on 24 July.

Tuesday 07 July 2015

Coheed & Cambria Announce New Single and Album

Hairy, genre-defying New Yorkers Coheed & Cambria are back with new single ‘You Got Spirit, Kid’. The single, released on 10 July, is taken from new album ‘The Color Before The Sun’ which comes out on 9 October. You can catch Coheed playing

mewithoutYou – ‘Pale Horses’

There appears to be an unspoken tradition when reviewing albums by mewithoutYou whereby at least fifty percent of the wordcount is handed over, keenly and without protest, to discussing the band’s religious beliefs. Paragraph after paragraph on lyricist Aaron Weiss’ faith, its interaction with branches of other faiths

Tuesday 23 June 2015

Storyteller – ‘A Place By Your Hopes’

You guys, The Story So Far are really, really popular. We can gauge this not just by looking at album sales figures or the increasing size of the venues at which they’re appearing on tour, but by the sheer number of carbon copy acts springing up in their considerable wake.

Thursday 04 June 2015

LIVE: Bayside @ The Joiners Arms, Southampton

‘I think this is the most we’ve ever spoken on stage,’ says Bayside frontman Anthony Raneri to a rapt crowd. ‘You’re all so attentive’. And he’s right – we’ve been coming to gigs at Southampton’s legendary Joiners Arms since some of you were in nappies, and this is the first