Middlesbrough Music Live festival – which is free! – takes place on Sunday 18th June, with loads of great bands and more.The 96.6TFM Main Stage has headliners Ocean Colour Scene, as well as Morning Runner, The Fratellis, Paolo Nutini, Little Man Tate, The Modern, The On Offs, Lorraine, and This Is Seb Clarke.Middlesbrough Town Hall […]

Former Foo Fighters guitarist Pat Smear is to re-join the band for a two-month US tour, when the Foos will do an all-acoustic set. Also linking up with Dave Grohl are violinist Petra Haden, Wallflowers keyboardist Rami Jaffee and percussionist Drew Hester.

Isis are to perform their seminal ‘Oceanic’ album in its entirety at the Camden Koko in London on July 23. This is part of the ‘Don’t Look Back’ series of shows under the umbrella of All Tomorrow’s Parties.

Tiger Army will release a new single on May 29. It’s called ‘Rose Of The Devil’s Garden’.

Reel Big Fish are to release a three disc live CD/DVD this Summer. It’s to be called ‘Our Live Album Is Better Than Your Live Album’, and will have two CDs plus the DVD. The ska punks will initially put this out digitally through Rock Ridge Music on July 18. Two weeks later, it’s due […]

Newfoundland stoner crew Sheavy have expanded their line-up. They’ve added second guitarist Tommy Boland.

Aerosmith are to work with producer Steve Lillywhite on their new, as yet untitled album. Work should start imminently.

Queensryche are to have the classic ‘Operation: Mindcrime’ album re-issued by EMI on June. This will be available as both a two-CD set (with the original album, plus a live, 1990 recording from the Hammersmith Odeon in London), or in a deluxe set, with the aforementioned CDs and a DVD, with the ‘Video: Mindcrime’ set.

Zao have posted new song ‘Physician Heal Thyself’ online. This comes from the album ‘The Fear Is What Keeps Us Here’, due out next month through Ferret.

Allhelluja, the Danish/Italian project featuring Hatesphere frontman Jacob Bredahl and Stefano Longhi from Scarlet Records, will release their sophomore album, “Pain is the Game”, in September via Scarlet. Songtitles seto to appear on the CD include “Superhero Motherfucker Superman”, “The Devil, Me, Myself & I” and “Hell On Earth”.