Brooklyn space-psych rockers The Mad Doctors released their EP ‘Fuzz Tonic!’ via Doctor Gone Records in the spring of 2013; its five echo drenched numbers gave an insight into their hybrid sound of garage rock/hard psych and surf music, but its limited recording budget hampered listening enjoyment to a degree. A year on, their first full-length ‘Snake Oil Superscience’ shows a great improvement.
Cancer Bats announce dates for 2015 tour
Hardcore punk/metalcore band Cancer Bats have confirmed a huge run of dates for a 2015 tour. Stretching from March until May, the Canadian band will visit various countries with Until She Sleeps and Exalt. All confirmed dates are listed below.
Corrosion of Conformity: UK tour dates
Following the return of vocalist/guitarist Pepper Keenan, Corrosion of Conformity went back into the studio. A new album is due at some point this year.
Before that, the band return to the UK for a short run of dates in March:
March 07 Manchester, UK Academy 2
March 08 Glasgow, UK Garage
March 09 Nottingham, UK Rescue Rooms
March 11 Bristol, UK Bierkeller
March 12 Colchester, UK Arts Centre
March 13 London, UK Electric Ballroom
The band’s last studio album, ‘IX’, was released in 2014.
ADOLESCENTS / SVETLANAS – Hot War split EP
This 2015 split brings together four previously released tracks from a couple of great punk bands. Like most great splits, each band represents a different country and in the case of Hot War, the US and Russia come together in a full throttle punk face off, clawing chunks from each other in a ten minute bout.
Awake & Dreaming: Real Gone meets Mick Terry
In 2010, London based singer-songwriter Mick Terry released ‘The Grown Ups’, a debut album with a personal quality. Its creation came as a surprise, since Terry wasn’t especially planning on recording an album after returning to music after a family-raising break. Since 2012, he’s been working on a follow-up. Real Gone caught up with him in January 2015 to find out if it’s almost finished…
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