With only a couple of weeks to go until the big event, six more acts have been added to the UK Sonisphere Festival line-up.

The new additions include five up and coming acts: Feed The Rhino (Red Bull Bedroom Jam Stage, Sunday); James Cleaver Quintet (Jagermeister Stage, Sunday); Mad Dog (Jagermeister Stage, Sunday); Spy Catcher (Jagermeister Stage, Saturday); Witchsorrow (Jagermeister Stage, Friday).

The big news is that Ginger (of cult UK band The Wildhearts) will appear on the Bohemia Stage to play a solo set on Saturday.

This year’s Sonisphere Festival (UK) takes place at Knebworth between 8th-10th July.  Headline acts are Metallica, Biffy Clyro and Slipknot.  Also appearing are Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer, Limp Bizkit, Motörhead, Bad Religion, Opeth, Sisters of Mercy, The Mars Volta, Airbourne, Paradise Lost and Bill Bailey.

Read a review of Limp Bizkit’s ‘Gold Cobra’ here.
Read a review of The Wildhearts’ ‘Earth Vs The Wildhearts’ here.
Read a review of Motörhead’s ‘The World Is Yours’ here.

SAN CISCO
Golden Revolver EP
SELF-RELEASED
RELEASE DATE: OUT NOW

“If this song was brought to me as the next Vampire Weekend single, I would not be disappointed” – Mike Walsh, XFM London

San Cisco are the latest indie act to emerge from Fremantle in sunny Western Australia. On the weekends they go skateboarding, play Nintendo 64 and make a bit of indie pop on the side. Scarlett bangs the drums, Nick plays bass and Jordi & Josh are the guys that play the guitars, write the songs and sing them.

San Cisco have spent the past year or so graduating high school, performing at festivals (including Big Day Out and Laneway) and playing round town pretty much every weekend. But don’t let their youth fool you. They have also produced their debut EP called Golden Revolver, which has just hit stores and already found a home on Triple J and community radio around Australia. Confident with stage presence and strong with vocals San Cisco continue to impress with their brand of upbeat summer pop.

Produced by Matthew Chequer (Little Birdy) & Steven Schram (Little Red, Cat Empire, Little Birday), the EP is an eclectic mix of indie pop with folk undertones, slashes of synth and influences ranging from Bright Eyes to Vampire Weekend.

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On August 23rd, Disney will release ‘The Green Album’, an album of Muppets-related songs covered by a whole host of alternative rock acts, including Weezer, OK Go and My Morning Jacket.

Obviously ‘Mahna Mahna’ pre-dates any association with Jim Henson’s loveable creations, having been recorded by Italian Piero Umilaini in 1968 (some seven years before it’s first Muppet Show appearance’ but even so, seems to have a stronger connection with The Muppets than with anything else.

The confirmed track listing is as follows:

01 OK Go: “Muppet Show Theme”
02 Weezer and Paramore’s Hayley Williams: “Rainbow Connection”
03 The Fray: “Mahna Mahna”
04 Alkaline Trio: “Moving Right Along”
05 My Morning Jacket: “Our World”
06 Amy Lee: “Halfway Down the Stairs”
07 Sondre Lerche: “Mr. Bassman”
08 The Airborne Toxic Event: “Wishing Song”
09 Atreyu’s Brandon Saller and Good Charlotte’s Billy Martin: “Night Life”
10 Andrew Bird: “Bein’ Green”
11 Matt Nathanson: “I Hope That Something Better Comes Along”
12 Rachael Yamagata: “I’m Going to Go Back There Someday”

A new single from alt-country heroes Wilco has been leaked online.  The first release from the band’s own DBpm record label, the single – entitled ‘I Might’ can be pre-ordered as a limited 7″ single from the Wilco website here.  The b-side is a cover of the Nick Lowe song ‘I Love My Label’, originally recorded by Lowe in 1977.

‘I Might’ is taken from the fortcoming Wilco album, ‘The Whole Love’ scheduled for release in September.

Hear ‘I Might’ by clicking below.

US punks Rise Against have announced details of an autumn tour of the UK.

Following appearances at the Reading & Leeds festival, between 26th – 29th August, the band will return to the UK in November to play their own shows to support the release of their 2011 album ‘Endgame’.

The dates are as follows:

2nd Nottingham Rock City
3rd Leeds O2 Academy
4th Glasgow O2 Academy
5th Manchester O2 Apollo
7th Birmingham O2 Academy
8th Newcastle O2 Academy
9th London O2 Brixton Academy
12th Bristol O2 Academy
13th Southampton Guildhall

Support comes courtesy of Polar Bear Club and Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello, playing a solo show as The Nightwatchman.

Tickets are on sale now.