Music For An Accelerated Culture

Hadouken! will be uploading sneak previews of their interestingly titled debut album, 'Music For An Accelerated Culture' from yesterday up until its release. So far they've added 'GAMEOVER' to Myspace.com/hadoukenuk. It's all right, but it doesn't exactly jump out at you - about as exciting as latest single, 'Declaration Of War'.
And if you're a massive fan with the ability to travel to Leeds on Friday 18th between 5pm and 6pm or Saturday 19th between 4pm and 6pm, Jumbo Records in The Upper Mall will be playing an exclusive advance copy of the album, which you can then pre-order instore on the day if you're impressed.

Latest Gigs/Festival News

Gigs
Fear Of Music - 14th June - Academy 2
The Courteeners - 9th October - Apollo (onsale Friday 18th, 10am - This will sell fast.)
Jay-Z - 19th July - MEN Arena (onsale Friday 18th, 9am)

Festivals
The Cribs announce that they are set to play the following festivals this year: Rockness, Beachbreak Live Cornwall, Coventry Kasbah, Isle Of Wight, Glastonbury, Zoo Thousand, Leeds, Reading.

Enter Shikari are set to play a secret show at this year's Camden Crawl. It appears to be fairly difficult to get in, but here's how:
1. Buy a Camden Crawl ticket (sold out).
2. Go to the ticket exchange point to pick up your Camden Crawl wristband.
3. You will need a print out of your MySpace page with Secret Shows (Myspace.com/secretshowsuk) and Enter Shikari (Myspace.com/entershikari) in your top friends.
4. You will then be given a Secret Show pass. The Secret Show passes are limited so entry into the event will be on a first come, first served basis.

Get Loaded in the Park returns to Clapham Common on Bank Holiday 24 August with a line-up featuring Iggy & The Stooges (only UK Show on sale), Supergrass, Gossip and Mylo (DJ set), as well as newly announced additions, The Maccabees.

Camden Crawl Line-up

Since it's on Friday, I thought I might post who's actually playing. It's sold out now, but as far as I can tell, there should be coverage on XFM London (which you can listen to at Xfm.co.uk).

Friday:
Agaskodo Teliverek
The Bad Robots
Blackhole
Bombay Bicycle Club
Chik Budo
Cutting Pink with Knives
Eastern Conference Champion
Esser
Eugene McGuinness
The Fratellis
The Ghost Frequency
Hadouken!
Hatcham Social
In Case Of Fire
Jeremy Warmsley
JME
The King Blues
Ladyhawke
Lowline
Lucy and the Caterpillar
Natty
Pete Molinari
Post War Years
Noisettes
Robyn
Rolo Tomassi
The Rushes
S.C.U.M.
Sergeant
The Shortwave Set
Shut Your Eyes And You’ll Burst Into Flames
Simone White
SixNationState
Soko
Toddla T
Tronik Youth
Vinny Vinny
William
Yoav
Youthmovies

Saturday:
Acoustic Ladyland
The Bookhouse Boys
The Brute Chorus
Cheap Hotel
Circulus
Cheeky Cheeky and the Nosebleeds
Damn Shames
Dead Kids
The Dirty Feel
Duels
Effi Briest
Figure 5
Fox Cubs
Jim Gipson
Innerpartysystem
Invasion
Jay Jay Pistolet
Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong
Kode 9
Lucy and the Caterpillar
M83
Nic Dawson Kelly
Official Secrets Act
Pacific!
Party Shank
Reuben
Robots In Disguise
Rosie Oddie and the Odd Squad
Screaming Tea Party
Skepta
Slagsmalsklubben
South Central
Team Waterpolo
White Lies

Does It Offend You TV

The band have launched a "TV blog thing", which you can subscribe to via their website (doesitoffendyou.com). They should soon be sending out loads of footage from their upcoming tour of the U.S.

Teenagers Soko Cover

The Teenagers have a cover of Soko's "Love No" up on their myspace (Myspace.com/theteenagers). The band proclaim it to be "AMAZING", and I must admit, it is very good - softer than their usual stuff - although there is a faster, more dancey version following it.

The Kooks Downloads

You can download album track, 'Tick Of Time' and a live-at-the-Astoria version of single, 'Always Where I Need To Be', from Stereogum (stereogum.com) (right click, save as).

Tick Of Time begins as laughter and a kick drum, and turns into a fairly dry recording of a song that sounds a bit Bedouin Soundclash in its breaking vocals, acoustic guitars and off-beat rhythm.
Always Where I Need To Be is nothing you haven't heard before of course, but the guitars are far more grizzly than the single, so it's probably worth getting if you were going to get the single anyway.

We Are Scientists Super-fast Live CDs

At four of We Are Scientists' UK dates (including tomorrow's show at Academy 1) there will be people recording the set. They will, remarkably, then mix it in a van outside the venue and using a "super-fast CD burner machine that looks like R2D2 but with five legs", make it available within ten minutes of the end of the show. You can buy it whenever you want via the Concert Live website (concertlive.co.uk), and either pick it up at the show or have it shipped, but there are only 1500 copies from each show, and I imagine they'll sell quickly.

New Releases

The best ones are in bold.

Singles
Bjork – Wanderlust
Black Ghosts – I Want Nothing
Duels – Regeneration (7”) [Limited]
Ebony Bones – Don’t Fart On My Heart (7”)
Gay For Johnny Depp - Belief In God Is So Adorable
Goldfrapp – Happiness
Heartsrevolution - Switchblade (EP) (12") [Limited]
Infadels - Make Mistakes
Kanye West feat Dwele - Flashing Lights
The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement
Portishead – Machine Gun (12”) [Limited]

Albums
Blood Red Shoes – Box Of Secrets
Elle Milano - Acres Of Dead Space Cadets
Fall Out Boy – ****: Live in Phoenix
Forward Russia - Life Processes
I Am Kloot - Play Moolah Rouge
Indelicates – American Demo
The Kooks – Konk
The La’s – The La’s [Deluxe Version]

Dodgy Hadouken! Album

Apparently someone has circulated a copy of Hadouken!'s debut album with 30 second snippets of each track looped over and over. To top that, some moronic blog writers have downloaded this version, failed to spot it’s not actually the album and written reviews of it saying that all the songs are really repetitive. So watch out for it, and try not to be quite so stupid.

Babyshamles Roses Kings Castles

To get your hands on the first 'Roses Kings Castles' limited CD, send a stamped, self addressed envelope (an envelope inside an envelope - strong enough for your cd) to:
Roses Kings Castles
PO Box 55152
London
N12 0YJ
Make sure you have enough postage to get your cd sent back to you. Drummer, Adam Ficek, "excepts [I assume he means accepts] no responsibilty for lost or damaged CDs - the gamble with Royal mail is yours... Don't expect them too soon as I'm away on holiday for two weeks tomorrow (13th)!".
There are only 500, and the first 300 are hand signed and numbered, so get a move on!

Cajun Dance Party Album

This is what Cajun Dance Party's debut album, Colourful Life, out 28th April, will look like:


1. Colourful Life
2. The Race
3. Time Falls
4. The Next Untouchable
5. No Joanna
6. Amylase
7. The Firework
8. Buttercups
9. The Hill, The View & The Lights

Bromheads Jacket New Single

You can hear a clip of new single, 'Speaker Box', on Bromheads Jacket's myspace (http://www.myspace.com/bromheadsjacket)

Hot Club de Paris Album Tracks/Night & Day Video

You can now listen to three tracks from the new Hot Club de Paris album on their myspace (http://www.myspace.com/hotclubdeparis). 'Hey Housebrick' is the new single, out 26th May; 'A Friendship Song' is a one handed vs two handed tapping duet with some tin can and clapping; 'The Anchor' is a cover version of the minutemen song - one of their favourite songs.

They've also released the following video of them playing Manchester's Night & Day.

Jack Penate Tour Video

Johnny Foreigner Single/Japan/Merchandise/Festivals

Since their debut single, 'Our Bipolar Friends' sold out, Johnny Foreigner have decided to release another one - Eyes Wide Terrified. The video (below) features the band doing what they do best surrounded by some not-so-terrifying ghosts and, of course, an excellent follow-up single. They're also planning to take over Japan, having just signed a Japanese deal with Fabtone Records (Media Factory) for the release of the forthcoming debut album, 'Waited Up 'til It Was Light', the Japanese release of which will have two bonus tracks and extra artwork features. And they'll even be appearing at this year's Summersonic Festival in Tokyo, Japan on 9th August - they're "well excited!"


You can now buy Johnny Foreigner merchandise at very reasonable prices from their online store (http://www.slipstreamstores.co.uk/johnny_foreigner/index.php). Like this:


Newly announced festival appearances: The Great Escape, Hereford Jailhouse All-dayer, Redfest, Zoo Festival, Lounge on the Farm, Truck Festival and Lovebox.

Editors Support REM

It has just been announced that Editors will be the main support to REM on their UK tour in August, which includes a date at the Lancashire County Cricket Club on Sunday 24th August, as well as some of the European dates. The Manchester date hasn't sold out yet, and tickets cost £45 (£50 with booking fee), but I suspect they're going fast.

Latest Gigs/Festival News

Gigs
The Automatic - Monday 14th June - Academy 2
Funeral For A Friend - Monday 30th June – Academy 3

Festivals
The O2 Wireless Festival, which recently announced Jay-Z as headliner, is holding something of an outreach programme for those who can't make the actual event by staging three gigs in Newcastle, Glasgow, Manchester, Birmingham and Bristol over the course of 5 weekends. The dates in Manchester are as follows:
Santogold - Friday 16th May - Roadhouse
Sam Sparro with Jack McManus - Friday 16th May - Night And Day
We Are Scientists - Saturday 17th May - Academy 2
Young Knives - Sunday 18th May - Club Academy

Hadouken! will be playing an under 18s show on the Camden Crawl's Red Bull Stage. You don't need Camden Crawl tickets to go, just to sign up for the guest list on their website: www.redbullbedroomjam.co.uk. Other new additions to the line-up include Ice, Sea, Dead People and Rolo Tomassi.

New additions to the Latitude Festival include Grinderman, Mars Volta, The Go! Team, Seasick Steve and Tindersticksp, as well as Omid Djalili and Dave Gorman on the non-musical side of things.