Rock legend Alice Cooper has been confirmed for the line-up of next year’s Bloodstock Festival.

Following live shows to promote his 2011 release ‘Welcome 2 My Nightmare’, Alice will appear as one of the headline acts at the UK festival next August.

So far, the confirmed bill features the following:
ALICE COOPER
ANVIL
CORROSION OF CONFORMITY
DIMMU BORGIR
HATEBREED
PARADISE LOST
WATAIN
ANAAL NATHRAKH
ORANGE GOBLIN

More acts to be confirmed.

The Bloodstock Festival 2012 takes place between August 10-12 at Catton Hall in Walton On Trent, Derbyshire, England.

Read a review of Alice’s ‘Welcome 2 My Nightmare’ here.

Australian progressive metal band Circles have released a video for their track ‘Eye Embedded’, which can be seen below.

The track comes from the band’s debut EP ‘The Compass’ which was released on Basick Records in June 2011.
In addition to the final video clip, the band have also issued a “making of” video, which can be viewed here.

Following their October/November tour of small venues to road-test new material, indie-pop band The Maccabees have announced their first dates for 2012.

Following the release of the band’s third album ‘Gone To The Wild’ on January 9th, the band take to the road once again and have been confirmed to appear at the following venues at the end of that month:

Glasgow Queen Margaret’s Union (23rd)
O2 Academy? Newcastle (24)
O2 Academy Brixton (26)
HMV Birmingham Institute (27)
Manchester HMV Ritz (28)

In support of her new album ‘Metals’, Leslie Feist is to return to the UK in 2012.

The Canadian singer-songwriter (and sometime member of Broken Social Scene) will play the following dates:

Royal Albert Hall, London – March 25th
02 Apollo, Manchester – March 26th

‘Metals’ is Feist’s first new work in four years. It was a commercial success reaching #2 in Canada and the top ten in France, Belgium, Germany and the US.

Northern Irish indie rockers Two Door Cinema Club are to headline the 1012 NME Awards Tour. Other bands and artists set to appear include Metrimony, Tribes and Azealia Banks.

The tour takes in the following dates and venues next February:

O2 Academy Glasgow (8)
O2 Academy Newcastle (9)
Manchester Academy (10)
Nottingham Rock City (14)
O2 Academy Leeds (15)
Norwich UEA (17)
O2 Academy Birmingham (18)
Cardiff University (19)
O2 Academy Bristol (20)
O2 Academy Bournemouth (22)
Brighton Dome (23)
O2 Academy Brixton London (25)