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THE FUTUREHEADS ANNOUNCE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED WEST COAST FALL TOUR! Following up on an exciting summer which kicked off with the release of "The Chaos", a sold-out East Coast tour, a UK festival run and the announcement of an acapella album in the works [...]

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Alright, so, where have I been? Missing. Injured. Drunk on buttered seafood. All of those things. I bought illicit lobster rolls on the streets of Greenpoint. I went to a My Morning Jacket concert at Merriweather Post Pavilion THE PLACE that included a Curtis Mayfield cover as its finale. I had an accident on Cinco De Mayo that ended with my girlfriend almost having a heart attack and me spendi...

If you preorder your copy of The Chaos through Newbury Comics - which comes out on June 1 in the US - they will send you an autographed copy with the fresh scent of Sharpie. Click to go to their preorder page.

The music video for "Heartbeat Song" debuts this week on MTV2 Subterranean. Set your DVRs folks. The music video also features popular UK comic Ray Green as the "host" of the show.

For years, I was an inactive slob. I smoked a pack of cigarettes a day, drank an average of ten beers a night, and purposefully ate the fattiest, meatiest, most unhealthy food I could find–cheeseburgers parsed with burritos, deli sandwiches, and bagels. That was it. I never exercised beyond walking around the city a lot and singing for a hardcore band, which, thinking back on it now, was actual...

The Futureheads have just announced their first US tour in over 4 years supporting their new album THE CHAOS, which we are releasing in the US on June 1. For those of you who are itching to buy it early, you can preorder it now and also enter for a chance to win a customized iPad.

We are pleased to announce that HOORAY FOR EARTH will be hitting the road this summer with THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART and SURFER BLOOD. The band also has a couple east coast shows before the tour kicks off on June 3rd. The band will be touring in support of their brand new EP - MOMO - which will be hitting stores on June 1st and will be available digitally, on CD, and on special 12" CLEA...

So, it's been a minute. Had some other things to attend to–life things, work things, hangover things, what have you–but I'm back in the saddle (sorry, that was corny), and ready to wax critical/expound upon menial shit/let my frustrations out/postulate about WHY THE HELL THE LIBERTINES ARE REUNITING. Alright. First some credentials. Let it be known that the Libertines were and are one of my favo...

DO YOU GUYS HAVE TWITTER? WE HAVE TWITTER. IT'S LIKE FRIENDSTER WITHOUT PHOTOS. DO YOU GUYS HAVE FRIENDSTER? WE DON'T. Well not anymore at least. The point is we try to at least be entertaining (which usually gets us in trouble) K'Naan's people didn't like the fact we made fun of his suitcase getting gate checked last year. Look he was the last dude on the plane it was hilarious. So was...

Dovecote Records is super excited to announce upcoming releases by Sunderland, England's The Futureheads AND New York by way of Boston's Hooray For Earth . The Futureheads ' new full-length album, The Chaos, will be released June 1st via Dovecote Records. The Chaos is the band's fourth album and arguably their most riotous to date. Following high-profile tours supporting the likes of The Pixies an...

Carter and I have been, um, thoroughly enjoying the new Ludacris album, Battle Of The Sexes , largely because of this song. Do you think this is a metaphorical place, or does Ludacris actually have a dedicated "sex room" in his house? Would'nt that just be his bedroom? Why must they be different? All we learn is that this room has candles, an iPod dock, a blindfold, a bed, and towels. That sounds...

So, Conan's gone. This much we know. But, his current lack of a television show has not stopped the Great Red One from mining for gold in that enormo-dome of his, as evidenced by his newly begun Twitter feed, which, five tweets in, already pwns pretty much everything else on the Internet. Example: " Today I connected all the freckles on my arm with a Sharpie. It spells out RIKSHAZ9LIRK. Clearly ...

H ey all! We are so stoked to announce that on May 4th, Dovecote will be releasing the debut EP from Cast Spells - Bright Works and Baton - on a limited run of beautiful clear vinyl! For those of you who don't know, Cast Spells is David Davison, frontman of Maps & Atlases [...]

How can you not love an album that begins with a song called "Kill All Hippies"? Like, I used to have long hair and went to Bonnaroo that one time, but such a vitriolic banner phrase cannot go unadmired. And the funny thing is, Primal Scream were kind of hippies. They called their best album Screamadelica , an album that was, essentially, a super trippy record. But, they were (are?) also reckle...

If you didn't hear, cone-shaped pizza has now landed in New York. It looks like that. FOR REAL. This is both wrong and amazing on a few different levels. Ruminations from a few of those levels below. On a "Really? In New York City of all places?" level: Perpetrators of the cone-shaped pizza: In the immortal words of Axl Rose, do you know where the fuck you are? You've taken our beloved slice and t...

A story: When I was sixteen, I went to see The Sex Pistols. Since I wasn't sixteen in 1976, this obviously wasn't prime-era Pistols. Neigh, it was a reunion tour, with original bassist Glen Matlock replacing the dead-as-a-doornail Sid Vicious. It wasn't anything new, really. They'd done a tour like this in 1996 that took them all over the world, though this one was confined to North America for ...

Mike Shinoda aka the guy in Linkin Park with the gross goatee who played guitar sometimes, rapped poorly a lot, and was like the "calm, collected brain" of the group, loves Absofacto , the new project from Mason Proper 's Jonathan Visgr. What a hilarious, inconceivable cosign! We knew we had taste! And come on, don't play like you don't have a copy of Frat Party At The Pancake Festival Lying aroun...