Rise Against – UK tour in November

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.

Anthrax’s long-awaited ‘Worship Music’ lands in September – free download of new track!

Anthrax’s long-awaited tenth studio disc, ‘Worship Music’ will finally be released on 10th September.

The album has had a long and somewhat troubled creation. Initially the release was to feature vocals by Dan Nelson, the fourth Anthrax frontman. Copies of ‘Worship Songs’ featuring Nelson had supposedly made it out to a few select people close to the band, although this is not 100% confirmed. It was later rumoured that former vocalist John Bush would re-record Nelson’s vocals for the subsequent official release of the album.

After touring with the band once again in the summer and autumn of 2010, Anthrax’s second – and arguably most famous – vocalist Joey Belladonna officially rejoined the band. The completed version of ‘Worship Music’ will feature the line-up of Joey Belladonna (vocals), Scott Ian (guitars), Rob Caggiano (guitars), Frank Bello (bass), Charlie Benante (drums).

‘Worship Music’ is the first Anthrax studio album to feature Belladonna since 1990’s classic ‘Persistence of Time’.

Confirmed track listing: Fight ’em ’til You Can’t / I’m Alive / Judas Priest / Crawl / Earth on Hell / The Devil You Know / In The End / The Giant / Down Goes The Sun

It is not yet known whether there will be a special edition of the album containing bonus materials.

If you can’t wait until September, Anthrax have made the lead track ‘Fight ’em ’til You Can’t’ available as a free download from the button below!

New Angels and Airwaves album released in November

Angels and Airwaves, the all-star rock/emo band featuring sometime Tom DeLonge (Blink-182), David Kennedy (Box Car Racer), Atom Willard (The Offspring) and Matt Wachter (ex-Thirty Seconds To Mars) will be releasing their fourth album in November.

According to a statement made by DeLonge on the band’s official facebook page, the album, entitled ‘Love Part 2’ “...will be the best Angels album release yet….. 20 songs and film in 5.1. I feel like a 16 year old having missionary position for the first time. LOVE part 2 is our best album yet.

A planned double album, ‘Love Part 2’ has a sceduled release date for November 11th.

Incubus live at 2011 Hurricane Festival, Germany

Alternative rock heroes Incubus played a storming set during their 55 minute appearance at the Hurricane Festival in Germany on Saturday June 18th. The set, prior to the release of ‘If Not Now, When?’, marks an early appearance of the track ‘In The Company of Wolves’.

Setlist:
Anna Molly
Are You In?
Nice To Know You
Drive
Pistola
Love Hurts
Circles
In The Company of Wolves
Punch Drunk
Quicksand
Wish You Were Here
Megalomaniac

Watch the complete performance by hitting the play button below!

Mike Portnoy to make in-store appearance for charity

Ex Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy will be appearing at Daddy’s Music in West Springfield, Massachusetts on Sunday July 10th. It is to be a meet and greet appearance to raise money for the victims of the 2011 Massachusetts tornado. Proceeds will go to the Red Cross. It is asked that all those wishing to meet Mike make a $10 donation.

Mr Portnoy will be appearing at 5pm.

Daddy’s Music is located here:
935 Riverdale St.
West Springfield MA

Portnoy also made a live debut with his new band, Adrenalin Mob on June 24th. His old band Dream Theater, meanwhile, are working on new material and will be appearing at the High Voltage festival in the UK on July 24th.