Five-time Grammy Award winner LADY GAGA is set to make her triumphant return to the stage this Spring with THE BORN THIS WAY BALL. In this brand new tour, Lady Gaga will perform her latest album Born This Way as well as music from both The Fame and The Fame Monster. The Born This Way Ball, produced globally by Live Nation, will begin on April 27th, 2012 in Seoul, South Korea.
The Born This Way Ball announces performances in 21 European [...]
“Glorious” 8/10 NME
‘Anthemic, direct and intimate’ 5/5 Artrocker
“Tracks are reimagined with quadratic complexity, with polyphonic rhythms weaving in and out of time, and piercingly tight multi-tracked vocals… brilliant.” Drowned in Sound.
“Wonderful” 5* The Independent
“It’s a gripping ride: a four-man one-man-band.” BBC
To celebrate ‘Rant’ - The Futureheads fifth offering – hitting shelves today, they’ve recorded a video of them performing old sea shanty ‘Hanging Johnny’, the album’s hidden track, and it can be watched below. Their 10-date acoustic and a cappella UK tour also kicks off today in Brighton.
Watch ‘Hanging Johnny‘, filmed by Ian [...]
New Tour Showcasing Debut Album Emergence
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Heavy rock quintet The Sun Explodes are going on tour to celebrate and display their forthcoming debut albumEmergence - a genre-defying mix of crushing riffs, sweeping melody and pulsating electronica
The band have already showcased their epic and frenetic live performances across Britain in their early days as a group. These gigs, aggressive and energetic though they were, demonstrated a level of technical quality matched by few new bands. It was these gigs that garnered them a [...]
Jack White has announced his first UK solo headline date at London’s Hammersmith Apollo on June 22.
The new date is scheduled before White will play Radio 1′s Hackney Weekend, which takes place on June 23-24. Prior to coming to the UK, White will be touring extensively across the US.
The ex-White Stripes man kicks off his tour in the home of his Third Man Records label, Nashville, on May 15, before heading out across the country. The tour finishes in Los [...]
Radiohead have announced a UK arena tour for later this year.
The Oxford band, who are currently touring North America in support of their new album ‘The King Of Limbs’, will play three shows on the tour.
The band will first play a show at Manchester’s Evening News Arena on October 6 before playing two shows at London’s O2 Arena on October 8 and 9.
Radiohead have been playing two new songs ‘Identikit’ and ‘Cut A Hole’ as part of their recent live [...]
LOSTPROPHETS have announced the release of their fifth and brand new album ‘Weapons’ and their first headline UK tour in two years.
The new album is released on April 2nd and is followed by a 14 date tour of the UK and Ireland culminating with a show at London’s O2 Academy Brixton.
The Welsh six-piece will be performing at the following venues -
16-Apr-12 Belfast Ulster Hall
18-Apr-12 Liverpool O2 Academy
19-Apr-12 Liverpool O2 Academy
20-Apr-12 Manchester O2 Academy
21-Apr-12 Leeds O2 Academy
23-Apr-12 Birmingham O2 Academy
24-Apr-12 Aberdeen Music [...]
VERONICA FALLS
New UK/EU tour dates for Spring 2012 announced
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“A gloriously morose blend of melancholia, gothic gloom and a set of tuneful, snarling post punk pop nuggets” – Rough Trade #6 Albums of the Year
“Completely inescapable” – Loud and Quiet, #13 Albums of the Year
“Veronica Falls (are) among the best of ‘em” – The Fly, #19, Albums of the Year
October saw the long-awaited release of Veronica Falls’ self-titled debut album on Bella Union, and very special it was too [...]
‘Leave It’ is the third single to be taken from their critically-acclaimed album ‘A Different Kind of Fix’. It follows recent singles ‘Shuffle’ & ‘Lights Out, Words Gone’ and is released on the 1st January 2012.
Having finished their sold out UK album tour with a monumental show at Brixton Academy last month, the band have recently announced their biggest UK headline tour to date for April 2012, and in doing so confirmed their graduation from bright, young hopefuls to one [...]
Having made their debut in Japan earlier this month and playing a string of UK dates last week including a sold out show at London’s Shacklewell Arms, which had the audience ecstatic with joy, Casiokids are pleased to announce a new UK tour in January 2012!
‘Aabenbaringen Over Aaskammen’ is the eagerly anticipated debut album from Casiokids. Due for release on January 16th 2012 through Moshi Moshi Records, it follows the recent single ‘Det Haster!’ and marks a welcome and refreshing [...]
Reading folk-punkers Smokey Bastard will be on tour with Crazy Arm and Great Cynics at various dates around the UK this December:
SMOKEY BASTARD DECEMBER TOUR:
10th – London, Underworld (with Random Hand, Dirty Revolution)
14th – Southampton, Joiners Arms (with Crazy Arm, Great Cynics)
15th – Manchester , Star & Garter (with Crazy Arm, Great Cynics)
16th – Bradford, 1 in 12, (with Random Hand, Crazy Arm, Great Cynics)
17th – Reading, Blagrave Arms
18th – London, The Windmill (with Crazy Arm, Great Cynics, Above [...]
Debut EP released 7th November 2011 on Full Time Hobby
Available on super ltd. edition heavyweight 12″ vinyl + digital download
Following a triumphant performance at the latest Full Time Hobby night in London, the label’s latest signing, Pinkunoizu, released their debut EP PEEP. Named after the Japanese word for “pink noise”, the amorphous, Copenhagen-based band play an exotic mixture of lo-fi, high-life, shoegaze, Krautrock, nu-folklore, ’60s Asian pop and post-apocalyptic future rock. Their mission? “To never come full circle. To move [...]
If you ask your average man on the street what his favourite 7 piece folk-punk band from Reading with a drummer named “Buttons” is, he would almost certainly say Smokey Bastard.
Their irreverent, raucous live shows have earned them a cult following in the UK and Europe since the release of their first album Propping Up The Floor last year.
The new album Tales From The Wasteland was released on November 7th on Bomber Music with the single “Yuppie Dracula” out since [...]
Milan, 20th November 2011
Kasabian kicked off their European tour to promote Velociraptor!, their critically acclaimed fourth album, definitely a milestone for the band success.
They got into Milan on a cold Sunday, but they set the crowd on fire in 30 seconds.
The Alcatraz sold out 40 days before the gig, clear sign that Italian people eager for them (in fact two dates were added a couple of days ago, Rome and Padova on 24th e 25th February 2012), the band felt [...]
‘The Octopus’ is the grand benchmark against which all British prog rock albums will be judged this year - Classic Rock Presents Prog
There is something heroic about Amplifier’s embrace – The Times
‘The Octopus’ is a beast of kraken-esque size and magnificence – Kerrang!
A sprawling double album of epic soundscapes. A hugely impressive triumph of self-belief – Metal Hammer
‘The Octopus’ is an album for others’ material to be compared to not only in 2011, but for many more years to come – [...]
Wretch 32 is about to embark on a massive UK tour and to celebrate has decided to give 2 lucky winners a signed copy of his masterpiece Black and White.
Want to try your luck and grab one?
All you have to do is emailing your name and address to win@aaamusic.co.uk
Hurry Up! Entries close on October 30th. And don’t miss him on tour!
UK residents only.
