MORE monsters of rock have been lined up for Download festival, taking place in Castle Donington this June. Grunge legends Soundgarden will play the UK for the first time since 1996 with a visit to Donington Park. Band member Matt Cameron said: "We are beyond psyched to play Download 2012. It will be a huge year for the band and what better way to celebrate than bring it all to our UK family at Download. See you there!" Also coming are Scottish sensations Biffy Clyro, while Jack Black and Kyle Gass' musical endeavour Tenacious [...]
THE results are in - and with a record number of votes this year, the Sound Advice album of the year is... Kanye West and Jay-Z collaboration The Throne's Watch The Throne. The album notched 12 votes, beating Opeth's Heritage into second place with 10 votes. Third was a three-way tie, with Radiohead – The King Of Limbs, Rival Schools - Pedals and Tom Vek - Leisure Seizure all scooping nine votes. Phaleah - The Cold In You got eight, Ben Howard - Every Kingdom six, Little Roy - Battle For Seattle four, 40 Winks - It's The [...]
THE results are in - and with a record number of votes this year, the Sound Advice album of the year is... Kanye West and Jay-Z collaboration The Throne's Watch The Throne. The album notched 12 votes, beating Opeth's Heritage into second place with 10 votes. Third was a three-way tie, with Radiohead – The King Of Limbs, Rival Schools - Pedals and Tom Vek - Leisure Seizure all scooping nine votes. Phaleah - The Cold In You got eight, Ben Howard - Every Kingdom six, Little Roy - Battle For Seattle four, 40 Winks - It's The [...]
40 WINKS - IT'S THE TRIP BEN HOWARD - EVERY KINGDOM DJ SHADOW - THE LESS YOU KNOW, THE BETTER LITTLE ROY - BATTLE FOR SEATTLE OPETH - HERITAGE PHAELEH - THE COLD IN YOU RADIOHEAD - THE KING OF LIMBS [...]
THE PRODIGY have been confirmed as the third headliner for the mighty Download Festival on Friday 8 June 2012 , setting the tone to one of the biggest line ups in Download history and celebrating the festival's 10 th anniversary. After notching up over 25 million record sales and selling out venues across the world, the masters of synth punk, The Prodigy are back doing what they do best and [...]
A REFORMED Black Sabbath headed by lead singer Ozzy Osbourne have been announced as the second headliners for next year's Download Festival. The band, who last played together at Donington Park in 2005 as part of the Ozzfest touring festival, will join Metallica at next summer's event, then embark on a world tour. To listen to a playlist of Download 2012 acts, click here .
DOWNLOAD festival in Castle Donington will have Metallica onstage next summer, it has been announced. The giants of metal are set to return to Castle Donington for the first time since 2006 - and will play 'the black album' in its entirity. To listen to a rather empty playlist of Download 2012 acts, click here .
BELTON born indie rockers Young Knives will release their new single Vision in Rags on September 12. The track, the third to be taken from their latest album Ornaments from the Silver Arcade, will be available to download a week earlier. Bassist Thomas 'The House of Lords' Dartnall said: "The lyrics were done by chopping up the original song lyrics and re-arranging them and gluing them back onto a big piece of paper. "The final recording of this song as we used [...]
BELTON born indie rockers Young Knives will release their new single Vision in Rags on September 12. The track, the third to be taken from their latest album Ornaments from the Silver Arcade, will be available to download a week earlier. Bassist Thomas 'The House of Lords' Dartnall said: "The lyrics were done by chopping up the original song lyrics and re-arranging them and gluing them back onto a big piece of paper. "The final recording of this song as we used [...]
LOUGHBOROUGH-spawned music maker Kelpe is set to release a new 7" single, Same New Era , next month. But for those of you without a record player, you can enjoy the mind-bending video above.
TOMORROW sees Download Festival descend on Donington Park for 2011. For anyone heading off tomorrow, or anyone there in spirit if not in body, here's the most comprehensive playlist of all the bands appearing that Spotify will allow . Hail Satan, and have a lovely weekend.
WITH 2011 barging recklessly into June already like a drunk in a moshpit, I thought I'd tentatively put out a longlist of possible contenders for Album Of The Year 2011 that have already been released. Statistically, about half of them should be sitting in my rack or on my hard drive by now, surely? 40 Winks - It's The Trip And So I Watch You From Afar - Gangs Beastie Boys - Make Some Noise Fink - Perfect Darkness [...]
A LOT of you, like me, will have started paying for the privilege of using Spotify after they introduced limitations to the programme at the start of this month. And I'm sure a lot of you, like me, want to make the most of the service now you've actually got your wallets out. So here are some of the external sites you can use alongside Spotify to make the most - and of course, all of these work with the free version too, you skinflints... FACEBOOK Apologies if I'm running an egg-sucking course with this one, [...]
MORE new names have been shoe-horned onto this year's epic Download Festival line-up. The line-up has been released for the Jagermeister Rock Truck acoustic stage - including acts like Bowling For Soup, Skin and more in an intimate setting. And elsewhere new bands have been revealed, including Slaves to Gravity, Obsessive Compulsive, Verses, Heaven's Basement, Million Dollar Reload, Maiden United, Voodoo Johnson, Red White And Blues, Modestep, Don Broco, Kill 21, Fighting Wolves, H.E.A.T and You And What Army. You [...]
I KNOW this blog is pretty void of posts these days, but as reward for coming back just in case, here's a free mp3 for you all to enjoy. Up-and-coming band Driver Drive Faster, of Manchester, are set to release It's All Over It's Everywhere ahead of their album Open House . And they've been kind enough to offer up a free download of b-side Gravel Dents . Grab it here .
WITH a career spanning over two-decades, New York's hardcore rockers BioHazard are now confirmed to take to the stage at this year's Download. The band influenced generations as one of the initiators of 'metal rap', and will bring their New York cult metal sound to Donington. After the success of their debut album All Our Kings Are Dead , and fresh from sell-out headline dates and touring with Bon Jovi and Lostprophets , UK rockers Young Guns are also ready to rock out at this year's festival. They are [...]
THE Darkness, Funeral For A Friend, Plain White T's, Kvelertak, Framing Hanley and Hyro Da Hero are all more heading to Donington this summer! "The idea of playing Download terrifies us," Darkness frontman Justin Hawkins said. "We played in an early slot on the main stage in 2003 and we were frightened then. "It's reassuring to know that nothing has changed" "On a serious note it's the most rockest of festivals and the perfect place for us to begin the next phase of our journey."
GIMME some Skin! Another monster of rock has been added to the bill for Download Festival. Skunk Anansie wil be gracing the Castle Donington stages with their presence, it was announced today. A Festival spokesman said: " Right then campers - we've just gone and added Brit rockers Skunk Anansie to the Download line up – result!"
SEVEN more acts have been added to the line up for this year's Download festival at the 'home of rock', Donington Park. A spokesman said: "New kids on the block VersaEmerge, tipped to be the next Paramore (whom they share a label with) will be making their Download Festival debut, hot off the heels from the Alternative Presstour in America where they share the bill with Black Veil Brides, who are also playing this year's Download. "Gossip Girl and Hollywood actress Taylor Momsen will be bringing her rock outfit The Pretty Reckless to Download, following a Top Ten album in [...]
ORGANISERS of Download Festival have poured some sugar on this year's event, confirming legendary rockers Def Leppard as third headliner. The British band will line-up at the top of the bill alongside Linkin Park and System Of A Down. A spokesman for the event at Donington Park from June 10-12 said: "Def Leppard are a global rock phenomenon with hit singles spanning an incredible three decades such as Animal, Love Bites, Pour Some Sugar On Me, Lets Get Rocked and When Love And Hate Collide." A further 20 artists have also been confirmed. These include Bring Me The Horizon, Disturbed, [...]
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