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Editorial

Bright-eyed, bushy-tailed and back! To all those who were luck enough to get to Give It A Name this year will know what a rejuvenation it was. The UK's young upstart rock festival has proved… …more»

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Our new Finnish correspondant on the impact of a little known Eurovision band...
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Sound Nation's editor on The Internet, Profile Sites and Viral Marketing
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Rock Pics' Photographer Orianne takes a walk through the French rock scene

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Media & Interactive Goodies

Goodies for your perusal also include live mp3 and video streams of the latest alternative bands…

Plus online radio, e-cards and other random online stuff!

New goodies this week include THE OUTLINE, FIGHTING WITH WIRE and THE FLATLINERS …more»

The Big Feature

DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN

DEP have spent the last decade producing some of least conventional and most eclectic alt-rock/mathcore/nocore on the scene - yet for all this bloody-mindedness, they're still magazine cover stars. In our new interview, we get into the minds of one of the benchmark bands for unbridled creativity in hardcore, in a chat about morse code, colour wheels, reggae, the Dillinger curse, and why 'Milk Lizard'... It's all here.

Elsewhere on the site right now... Interviews with two of TIPS FOR 2008 - first up, KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES on what it's like being a pop punk band on a metal label working with indie managers and stadium bookers... Then we head to the underground for a chat with SSS about their recent recordings and namedropping Frank Sidebottom... And then there's one of our Tips for 2007 THE GHOST OF A THOUSAND on the last 12 hectic months... There's also FOUR YEAR STRONG on their promising debut Rise Or Die Trying... And the indominatable DR SLAGGLEBERRY on freaking out naive young indie kids...

From the moshpit, we bring you reports on GALLOWS, THE GHOST OF A THOUSAND, PARAMORE and MORE. There's Reviews of THRICE, CANCER BATS, TEXTURES, FORWARD RUSSIA, JACOBS STORIES and more... There's also Goodies from UNDEROATH, CANCER BATS, and LAND OF TALK...

Last but by no means least, the latest Competitions: win a year's free entry to Caged Asylum in Manchester - and more to come...

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Elsewhere in features
THE TRUTH ABOUT COMETS… STAPLETON… KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES… FOUR YEAR STRONG… DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN…
The Bluffer's Guide to NICK CAVE… Designer Label: XTRA MILE … ROCK MIDGETS TIPS FOR 2008…

News

Frank Gives Reasons Not To Be An Idiot 8:32pm, 13 May 2008

Rock Midgets favourite Frank Turner will release new single 'Reasons Not To Be An Idiot' on 23rd June through Xtra Mile Recordings.

Meanwhile the hat bothering troubadour plays the following shows over the next couple of months:

13 May - Uni Stanley Theatre, Liverpool with The Holloways
15 May - University Union Mine, Leeds with The Holloways
16 May - University Union Asylum, Hull with The Holloways
18 May - Brunel Students Union, Uxbridge with The Holloways

03 June - Party On The Pier, Southsea
07 June – Jam By The Lake, Durham University
13 June - Rock Against Racism at Brighton's Komedia - Glastonbury warm-up
19 June - London Calling
21 June - Fete De La Musique @ Mécanique Ondulatoire, Paris, France
22 June - JH de Choke, Herselt, Belgium
26 June - Locaux Scouts, Ecaussinnes, Belgium
26 - 29 June - Avalon Stage, and Rock Against Racism on the Left Field Stage at GLASTONBURY
29 June - Boring By The Sea, Weymouth

01 July - Le Tapas, Nice, France
03 July - Peniche Trempée, Toulouse, France
11 July – 2000 Tress Festival – solo show
12 July - 2000 Trees Festival – band show
25 July - Perfect Day Festival
31 July – Cambridge Folk Festival

01 August - Y-Not Festival, Derbyshire
17 August - Beautiful Day Festival, Devon
22 August – Reading Festival (Lock Up Stage)
23 August – Leeds Festival (Lock Up Stage)

'Reasons Not To Be An Idiot' is taken from Turner's recent second studio album Love Ire & Song.

…posted by Dan Jones

I Was A Cover - Cub Scout Do Cure 8:27pm, 13 May 2008

I Was A Cub Scout have recorded a cover of The Cure's classic 'Close To Me'.

The track can be heard over at www.goodweatherforairstrikes.com.

I Was A Cub Scout hit the road later in the month and can be seen at the following dates:

May
30 Liverpool, Korova

June
03 Cambridge, Barfly
04 Leicester, Charlotte
05 London, Dingwalls
06 Sheffield, Plug
07 Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
08 Manchester, Academy 3
09 Leeds, Cockpit
10 Barfly, Brighton
11 Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms

Support comes from Data.Select.Party, SportsDay Megaphone and ExLovers.

…posted by Dan Jones

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