Cult power pop/retro band The Silver Seas will make their UK television debut next month when they appear on the popular BBC music programme ‘Later… With Jools Holland’.

The episode airs on October 4th, with a repeat showing on the 7th. During the extended repeat showing, the band will perform an extra song.

Watch a video The Silver Seas performing ‘The Country Life’ below.

Read a review of The Silver Seas’ ‘Chateau Revenge!’ here.
Read a review of frontman Daniel Tashian’s third solo release ‘Arthur’ here.

For their UK tour this autumn, indie-pop band The Maccabees are to visit various small venues to road-test new material from their upcoming third album.

You can see the band at the following venues:

Gloucester Guildhall (October 21)
Coventry Kasbah (23)
Oxford Town Hall (24)
Liverpool Masque (25)
Glasgow Arches (26)
Edinburgh Liquid Rooms (27)
Nottingham Rescue Rooms (29)
Leeds Cockpit (30)
Manchester Sound Control (31)
London Village Underground (November 1)
Bristol Trinity (2)

Another UK indie-rock band, The Young Knives are also visiting low-key venues throughout the autumn. You can check out their tour dates here.

Sometime Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell has already announced solo dates for Australia, New Zealand and South America. It has now been anounced that Cornell will be touring the US with his acoustic ‘Songbook’ shows.

The following dates and venues have been confirmed for November/December:

Nov. 01 – Memphis, TN – Minglewood Hall
Nov. 02 – Nashville, TN – War Memorial Auditorium
Nov. 04 – Orlando, FL – Hard Rock Live
Nov. 05 – Tampa, FL – Tampa Theatre
Nov. 06 – Miami Beach, FL – Fillmore at Jackie Gleason Theater
Nov. 17 – Albany, NY – The Hart Theatre at The Egg
Nov. 18 – Ridgefield, CT – The Ridgefield Playhouse
Nov. 21 – New York, NY – Carnegie Hall
Nov. 22 – Red Bank, NJ – Count Basie Theatre
Nov. 23 – Allentown, PA – Symphony Hall
Nov. 26 – Atlantic City, NJ – Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa
Nov. 29 – Burlington, VT – Flynn Center For The Performing Arts
Nov. 30 – Poughkeepsie, NY – Bardavon
Dec. 03 – Lakewood, OH – Lakewood Civic Center
Dec. 04 – Ann Arbor, MI – Michigan Theater
Dec. 06 – Kalamazoo, MI – Kalamazoo State Theatre
Dec. 10 – Salina, KS – Steifel Theatre For The Performing Arts
Dec. 13 – Mesa, AZ – Mesa Arts Center – Ikeada Theatre
Dec. 15 – San Francisco, CA – Palace of Fine Arts Theatre
Dec. 16 – Los Angeles, CA – Orpheum Theatre
Dec. 17 – San Diego, CA – Balboa Theatre

At present, it is not known whether Cornell will extend the tour to include UK/European dates.

Following early rumours that Faith No More were to play their breakthrough album ‘The Real Thing’ in it’s entirety during their performance in Chile in November, it is reported the band will be playing their 1995 release ‘King For a Day…Fool For a Lifetime’.

The album was the first to be recorded without long-time guitarist Jim Martin and saw the band continuing on an increasingly diverse musical journey.  Mr. Bungle guitarist Trey Spruance replaced Martin for the album sessions and will be appearing once again at the festival appearance.

Faith No More disbanded in 1998 and reformed in 2009.  Since the reformation they have made sporadic live appearances, but have no plans to return to the recording studio.

Guided By Voices are to release a new full-length album in January 2012.

‘Let’s Go Eat The Factory’ will be the band’s first album since 2006’s ‘Half Smiles of the Decomposed’.  The new album features the line-up of Robert Pollard along with Mitch Mitchell, Tobin Sprout, Kevin Fennell and Greg Demos, who have not recorded together since 1996.

The confirmed tracklisting is as follows:
“Laundry and Lasers”
“The Head”
“Doughnut For A Snowman”
“Spiderfighter”
“Hang Mr. Kite”
“God Loves Us”
“The Unsinkable Fats Domino”
“Who Invented the Sun”
“The Big Hat and Toy Show”
“Imperial Racehorsing”
“How I Met My Mother”
“Waves”
“My Europa”
“Chocolate Boy”
“The Things That Never Need”
“Either Nelson”
“Cyclone Utilities (Remember Your Birthday)”
“Old Bones”
“Go Rolling Home”
“The Room Taking Shape”
“We Won’t Apologize For the Human Race”

Following Guided By Voices’ split in 2006, Robert Pollard continued to release material with different bands – Boston Spaceships / Airport 5 / Circus Devils – in addition to an incredibly prolific solo career which has yielded on average two albums a year.