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From Saturday 24 March 2007

The Welch Boys – Self-titled

For fuck’s sake. I took one look at the sleeve that came with this – a four-leaf clover behind a skull and crossed bones – and thought to myself “If this a fucking Boston Irish/Dropkick Murphys sound-a-like I’m gonna top myself”. I don’t like being right in

Tuesday 27 February 2007

La Piovra UK Tour

Submitted by Nick The Greek: “Italian Youth Attack fast-hardcore band La Piovra tour the UK in March. 22nd March – Guildford, Community Centre w/ Shoot To Kill, The Vomits, The Motherfuckers 23rd March – Ipswich, Pool Club w/ Organised Sports 24th March – Boston, Indian Queen w/ Organised Sports 25th March – Leeds,

Monday 19 February 2007

A digital Draft

The Draft are set to release a digital EP on 13th March through iTunes et al. PN.org suggest that the EP may be a digital compilation of the two 7″ singles that are coming out on No Idea soon.

No Smoke without Melatonin

Fat Wreck’s awesome Smoke Or Fire have put up new song ‘Melatonin’ for you to download here. Their record ‘This Sinking Ship’ is available on import from today and in the UK from next week. Expect a review shortly.

3 Storeys Postponed

3 Storeys High have postponed tonight’s gig at The Packhorse in Leeds until the 27th of this month. The band apologises to anyone this affects. Check out the full tour dates at their MySpace page.

Monday 05 February 2007

Comeback Kid – Broadcasting

Comeback Kid are, to me, a bit of an enigma. They managed to go from relative obscurity to scene celebrities through the single namesake of 2005’s Wake The Dead, and thus became the hardcore band that people who don’t like hardcore like. Fast forward to today, add

Sunday 28 January 2007

YouTube to pay users

YouTube is going to start giving some of the advertising money it generates back to uploaders of original content. So, although users uploading band videos/live gigs won’t get paid, if the band were to do it themselves then this could be a very interesting source of revenue for smaller

Saturday 20 January 2007

A Wilhelm Scream – Manchester University

Academy 3 received a fair turn out tonight for what, in my mind, was always destined to be one of the shows of the year. And so it proved to be. Openers Failsafe were obviously at odds with the sound setup for the more raucous

Should be interesting…

To add to the other recent Fall Out Boy news, they’ll be appearing on the Soccer AM sofa next Saturday (27th) morning.

Thursday 18 January 2007

MySpace to offer spyware

MySpace is about to bow to pressure from a group of 33 US attorneys and offer parents a chance to monitor what their children are doing on the site. Full details here.