[News] Elbow Announce Homecoming Show

Following their sets at Reading and Leeds Festival this summer and their Mercury Prize nominated album Build A Rocket Boys! Elbow have teamed up with BBC Radio 2 for a one off homecoming gig at Manchester Cathedral. Pairing with BBC2 the show will be available to view online for the unlucky fans that don't get tickets. Scheduled for October 27th the band will bring along the Halle Youth Choir and they'll be playing as part of the BBC Radio 2's weekly In Concert programme. Ticket details will be announced on the 6th of October between 8-10pm via Radio 2.

Jeff Smith, the Head of Music at Radio 2 and 6 Music says: "I’m delighted to continue our homecoming series with Elbow. They are a magnificent live band and I can’t wait to hear how the cathedral setting lends itself to their stirring and anthemic music."

If you're a fan and in Manchester, this is a show not to be missed!

[News] The Radio Dept. Cancel Upcoming North American Tour

Sad day for fans of The Radio Dept. in the US. The band has decided to cancel their fall North American tour. In a statement to the press, the band said, “The Radio Dept. regretfully inform that they are forced to cancel the upcoming North American tour due to family related matters. Hope to see you in 2012.”

The band will remain in Sweden this fall and winter where they’ll be working on new music and we hope to have more to announce in 2012.

[News] Bloc Party Supposedly Looking For New Singer? Maybe not...

I'm going to call bull shit on this one and throw it into the corner to never be mentioned again. If I am wrong then I'll eat a hat or something to that effect. In an interview with NME, Bloc Party's guitarist Russell Lissack confirmed that the band were making music again and are indeed doing so without Kele and have even gone so far as to think about looking for a new singer. Russell said:

"It's not really a secret because Kele's been pretty busy doing solo stuff and it looks like he's going to be doing that a bit longer. The other three of us wanted to meet up and make music. We were talking about just doing an instrumental thing, but now we might get a singer as well, to properly put some music out and play some shows..Because it's the three of us, I guess there'd be some degree of expectation from people to at least play the songs we wrote. I don't think any of us (including Kele) would object to that....We've still got the same management and stuff, so he might have known, he might not. He's doing his own thing and we wanted to play together, so it wasn't like we were going behind his back. I haven't spoken to Kele for a couple of months, I guess since the festivals when I was doing stuff with Ash. But there's no bad vibes."

All well and good but as we know, don't believe everything you read. I saw Zane Lowe take to Twitter and said:

"And as for this rumour that Bloc Party are going to continue without Kele...they're having a laugh right? Its a hoax...gotta be.Yeah, i saw that 'photo' that Kele took of them in NYC. I thought it was some staged joke...never gave it a second thought. And now this? Yeaaaahhhhh...its a joke. Bet you."

Shortly after this, I saw Young Legionnaire AKA the Bloc Party bassists Gordan Moakes' side project tweet Zane back saying:

"Have the NME ever got it wrong? First time for everything...". Tongue in cheek much?

Now to add supposed fuel to the fire Kele has taken to his blog and posted a link to the NME article and wrote the following:

"hmm, i dont know what to make of this. a big part of me is laughing HARD at all of this but another part of me is all like WTF?im quite curious as to what a bloc party audition would be like? i wonder if they would let me sit on the panel so i could be a judge tyra banks style?"

Now if you purely don't think it's all bull shit and hype for Kele's new releases and pure hype for the return of Bloc Party check out THIS TWEET from Young Legionnaire:

"Live 'auditions' will take place tomorrow night at the Borderline, London, 9pm. Get there early to ensure a shot at the big time!"

..note the inverted comma use on 'auditions'. Also after a little dig a fan tweeted Russ saying: "proof the NME reads your twits or time to get worried?" I'd say proof they don't read them..." The man supposedly quoted in NME calling their bluff? I'm going to leave this post at this and end my claim to this all being pure hype. Don't believe everything you read in NME or anywhere for that matter. If I'm wrong then so be it but all signs point to bull shit and a band using the press to get exactly what they want, press. Kudos to them.

[News] Mister Heavenly Announce Tour Dates

Indie supergroup Mister Heavenly, which consists of Joe Plummer (Modest Mouse), Nick Thorburn (The Unicorns/Islands), and Ryan Kattner (Man Man), just recently released their debut album Out of Love via Sub Pop Records. To support the album, the trio will go on tour starting this November. The tour kicks off on November 4th in Philadelphia, and will take the group across North America for a hectic seventeen day, seventeen show marathon.

You can check out all of the band's tour dates after the jump, and head here to listen to a full stream of Out of Love.

Mister Heavenly 2011 Tour Dates:
11/04 – Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
11/05 – Baltimore, MD @ Metro Gallery
11/06 – Chapel Hill, NC @ Local 506
11/07 – Charleston, SC @ Tin Roof
11/08 – St. Augustine, FL @ Cafe Eleven
11/09 – Orlando, FL @ Back Booth
11/10 – Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
11/11 – Lexington, KY @ Cosmic Charlie’s
11/12 – St. Louis, MO @ Firebird
11/13 – Chicago, IL @ Subterranean
11/14 – Pontiac, MI @ Pike Room
11/15 – Cleveland Heights, OH @ Grog Shop
11/16 – Toronto, ON @ Great Hall
11/17 – Montreal, QC @ Il Motore
11/18 – Milford, CT @ Daniel Street
11/19 – Boston, MA @ Remis Auditorium
11/20 – New York, NY @ Mercury Lounge

[News] M83 Announces UK Tour For 2012

M83 has just announced a UK tour set for 2012 after his first show at London's Heaven sold out rather quickly. Fans can now see M83 in action in the new year on a tour that will start out at Bristol's Trinity, on January 17th finishing up with another London show on Feburary 16th at Shepherds Bush Empire. The tour will make stops at Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds, Birmingham and Brighton in between. Tickets will be available as an exclusive pre-sale on the 26th of September via ilovem83.com, so make sure you are subscribed to the newletter.

M83 2012 UK Tour:

Thu 1 Dec London Heaven SOLD OUT
Tue 17 Jan Bristol Trinity
Wed 18 Jan Manchester Ritz
Thu 19 Jan Glasgow Arches
Fri 20 Jan Leeds Cockpit
Sat 21 Jan Birmingham Institute
Sun 22 Jan Brighton Concorde
Thu 16 Feb London Shepherds Bush Empire

[News] Thom Yorke: Radiohead Touring in 2012 x Atoms For Peace Album Finished

During an interview last night on Gilles Peterson’s show on BBC Radio 1, Thom Yorke made a lot of Radiohead fans very, very happy. Having played a surprise set at Glastonbury this year many fans were left wanting more and it seems like those fans may have had their wish granted by the man with all the dance moves. Thom revealed that Radiohead will be touring in 2012 after figuring out how to actually play KoL live stating:

"The idea is to go out and play next year on and off during the year."

Additionally, Thom spoke about his his side-project Atoms For Peace which is made up of Flea, Nigel Godirch, Joey Waronker, and Mauro Refosco, and says the band have recorded an album and it's on the way. It's just being finished up by Godrich at the moment. 

So all in all a very good night for Radiohead and Thom Yorke fans alike. You can listen to the broadcast for the next 7 days on the BBC website. Hat tip to the Radiohead fan site Green Plastic.

[News] The Big Pink Announce UK November Tour

To coincide with the release of The Big Pink's new single "Stay Gold" that we heard last week the duo have announced a UK tour stopping off in 9 cities during November. Starting out in Glasgow on November the 11th they'll finish up on the 22nd of Nov. in Bristol. Peep the dates below and head over here to see their visuals for "Stay Gold".

The Big Pink's November Tour:

11th - Classic Grand, Glasgow
12th - Metropolitan University, Leeds
14th - Academy 3, Manchester
15th - O2 Academy, Liverpool 
17th - Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
18th - Digital, Brighton
19th - HMV Library, Birmingham
21st - Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
22nd - Thekla, Bristol

Tickets are on sale from this coming Friday (Sep. 23rd) at 9am.

[News] Coldplay Announce UK Arena Tour For December

Coldplay are to follow up the release of their new album Mylo Xyloto next month with a UK arena tour. Announced this morning it's pretty small for a band of their calibre and following, but none the less, fans will be sure to snap up tickets for the three dates when they go on sale this Friday (Sep.23rd) at 9.30am.

The band will start out at Glasgow's SECC on December 3rd and hit up Manchester's MEN the day after before a 5 day gap and finishing up at London's O2 Arena. Anyone else thinking that some more dates are probably going to be added to this sooner rather than later?

Glasgow, SECC – December 3
Manchester, MEN Arena – 4
London, O2 Arena – 9