Evan Dando has announced the release of an acoustic Lemonheads record in 2012.

‘The Hotel Sessions’ features just Dando and his guitar and was recorded live to cassette in an Australian hotel room prior to the band’s 1994 release ‘Come on Feel the Lemonheads’.

Many of the songs featured on ‘The Hotel Sessions’ were eventually included on ‘Come On Feel’ in their finished versions, but there are still a couple of songs which were left behind: ‘And So The Story Goes’ is previously unheard in any form, while ‘Superhero’ was subsequently recorded by Tom Morgan’s indie pop band Smudge. ‘You Can Take It With You’ – the track which closed the original ‘Come On Feel’ album is presented in two halves.

The confirmed tracklist is as follows:

‘Big Gay Heart’
‘Great Big No’
‘Paid To Smile’
‘It’s About Time’
‘Style’
‘I’ll Do It Anyway’
‘Rest Assured’
‘You Can Take It With You (prt.2)’
‘Down About It’
‘Into Your Arms’
‘Superhero’
‘And So The Story Goes’
‘Being Around’
‘You Can Take It With You (prt.1)’

‘The Hotel Sessions’ is released on January 9th 2012.

It was reported last week that UFO had decided to name their twentieth studio record ‘Last of the Bone Riders’.

The band have had a change of heart and have now decided the upcoming record will be named ‘Seven Deadly’. All other details are unchanged, with song titles yet to surface.

UK progressive metal/tech metal band Aliases are about to undertake their first full tour.

The Manchester-based band are to support Textures and The Ocean as part of a tour sponsored by Terrorizer Magazine.

Catch the band at the following venues and watch a live clip below:

24-11-2011 JOINERS, SOUTHAMPTON
25-11-2011 GARAGE, LONDON
26-11-2011 RESCUE ROOMS, NOTTINGHAM
27-11-2011 ACADEMY 3, MANCHESTER
28-11-2011 CATHOUSE, GLASGOW
29-11-2011 02 ACADEMY 2, NEWCASTLE
01-12-2011 02 ACADEMY 2 , BIRMINGHAM
02-12-2011 THE HAUNT, BRIGHTON

The band’s debut album ‘Safer Than Reality’ was released via Basick Records in the summer of 2011.

Watford hardcore punks Gallows – now fronted by ex-Alexisonfire man Wade MacNeil – will release a new EP at the end of 2011.

The EP, entitled ‘Death Is Birth’ features four new songs and will be the band’s first release since the departure of previous vocalist Frank Carter.

Released on the Thirty Days of Night label on December 13th. According to MacNeil, the EP presents “four songs like a kick in the teeth.”

‘Death Is Birth’ tracklisting:
‘Mondo Chaos’
‘True Colours’
‘Hate! Hate! Hate!’
‘Death Is Birth’

You can watch a video of one of the new tracks, ‘True Colours’, by clicking here.

The band also play two shows to coincide with the release: XOYO on December 13th and Kingston Peel on the 14th.

Sometime Queens of the Stone Age member and former Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan is to release a new solo album early next year.

‘Blues Funeral’ – Lanegan’s first solo work since 2004’s ‘Bubblegum’ will be released on February 6th.  The album was recorded with renowned Seattle musician/producer Alain Johannes and features a guest performance from Joshua Homme.

No official track listing has been announced at this time.

Lanegan will follow the album’s release with the following UK/Ireland live dates in March:
Bristol O2 Academy (March 4)
Manchester Academy 2 (5)
Dublin Academy (7)
Belfast Mandela Hall (8)
Glasgow ABC (9)
Leeds Cockpit (10)
Birmingham Library (12)
London O2 Shepherds Bush Empire (13)

Lanegan’s former band Screaming Trees released an album of their final sessions entitled ‘Last Words’ on November 14th.