Nickelback have released a new video clip for ‘Trying Not To Love You’, the fifth single from their double-platinum 2011 release ‘Here & Now’.

The clip stars ‘Seinfeld’ actor Jason Alexander and Baywatch’s Brooke Burns in a clip that has attracted some very negative criticism, much like everything else featuring Nickelback. In the video, Alexander works at a coffee shop and fantasises about Burns rolling about in coffee beans, in a scene which parodies the iconic dream sequence from the 1999 movie ‘American Beauty’.

You can watch the clip below.

…And then, to make up for it, you can also view a clip of ‘This Means War’, a vastly superior track from the same album, just below that.

To read a review of ‘Here & Now’, click here.

As a founding member of The Posies, Ken needs no introduction to power pop fans. In October 2012, he releases a new solo album, ‘Danzig In The Moonlight’. If you can’t wait that long, you can hear a track from it below.

In addition to work with The Posies, Stringfellow has also been a member of the latter day Big Star, as well as performing session work with Neil Young and Death Cab For Cutie.

‘Danzig In The Moonlight’ is released on Lojinx Records on October 1st.

Following last week’s announcement that Metallica would be headlining the 2013 Soundwave Festival, a few more notable acts have also been added to the ever-growing bill.

Slayer, Cypress Hill, Gallows, Bullet For My Valentine and Bring Me The Horizon have all been confirmed for next year’s event.

The popular Australian touring festival makes five stops across the country between the end of February and beginning of March, on the following dates:

Sat 23 Feb | Brisbane
Sun 24 Feb | Sydney
Fri 1 Mar | Melbourne
Sat 2 Mar | Adelaide
Mon 4 Mar | Perth

So far, the confirmed acts appearing are:

Metallica / Linkin Park / Blink-182 / A Perfect Circle / The Offspring / Paramore / Garbage / Tomahawk / Slayer / Cypress Hill / Bullet For My Valentine / Bring Me The Horizon / Billy Talent / Stone Sour / Kyuss Lives! / Anthrax / Sum 41 / Duff McKagan’s Loaded / Dragonforce / Lawrence Arms / Flogging Molly / Gallows / All Time Low / Ghost / Madball / Vision of Disorder / Motion City Soundtrack / Sick Of It All / The Blackout / Periphery / Danko Jones / Fucked Up / Cancer Bats / Mindless Self Indulgence / Amity Affliction / Cerebral Ballzy / Six Feet Under / Deaf Havana / This Is Hell / Fozzy / Sleeping With Sirens / Pierce the Veil / Polar Bear Club / The Early November / Miss May I / Blood On The Dancefloor / Verus The World / Shai Halud / Of Mice & Men / The Dear Hunter / Woe Is Me / The Wonder Years / While She Sleeps / Such Gold / Lucero / Sylosis / Confession / Kingdom Of Sorrow / Red Fang / Chunk! No Captain Chunk! / Memphis May Fire!

Battle metal stalwarts Manowar will release a “retail version” of their new studio album, ‘The Lord of Steel’ on September 28th.

The band’s twelfth studio release, ‘Lords’ was originally issued as a “fanpack” edition in conjunction with Metal Hammer Magazine back in June 2012. According to bassist Joey DeMaio, the new retail version is very different to the version issued previously, a “director’s cut” and “even more brutal”.

You can read a review of Manowar’s 1992 release ‘The Triumph of Steel’ here.

UK prog rockers Big Big Train have a new release on the horizon.

The new release, entitled ‘English Electric (Part One)’, follows 2010’s lengthy EP ‘Far Skies, Deep Time’.

Before the album’s release on September 3rd, a full length stream of new track ‘Judas Unrepentant’ can be heard below.