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From Wednesday 08 July 2015

Baby Godzilla forced to change name to HECK

Baby Godzilla have been legally required to change their name, following a dispute with the Japanese cinema giant. “This may seem abrupt but following some fairly conclusive and forceful instructions it is time we instigated a change,” the band announced in their statement. “We; the collective of Matt Reynolds,

Jim Adkins Announces Europoean Solo Tour & Presale

Jim Adkins of emo godfathers Jimmy Eat World has announced a solo tour of Europe later in the year. Full dates below, and a pre-sale is live via Adkins’ website here. August 2015 17 NURNBERG, GERMANY Serenadenhof Open Air 18 HAMBURG, GERMANY Nochtspeicher 20 STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN Bar Brooklyn 21 OSLO, NORWAY Parktheater Bar 22 COPENHAGEN, DENMARK

No Devotion reveal new track, ‘Addition’

No Devotion are streaming their latest track to be taken from their forthcoming ‘Permanence’ LP, ‘Addition’. The band, formed of Thursday frontman Geoff Rickly and former members of Lostprophets, will be releasing their debut full-length on the 25th September via Rickly’s own Collect Records label.

METZ announce UK Autumn tour dates

METZ will be returning the UK in late October and early November for a series of live dates. The distorted noise-makers will be joined by Protomartyr. Tickets for the tour go on sale today (8th July) at 10AM. OCTOBER 30 BIRMINGHAM Hare and Hounds* 31 LEEDS Brudenell Social Club NOVEMBER 01 LONDON Scala 03 BRISTOL

Panic! At The Disco get religious in ‘Hallelujah’ video

Panic! At The Disco have revealed their new video for latest single, ‘Hallelujah’. The video sees frontman Brendon Urie take on two personas; that of the preacher and that of the confessor, in a world where Monument Valley video game comes to life. ‘Hallelujah’ is available now via Fueled By

MewithoutYou stream Audiotree session

MewithoutYou are streaming their recent session for Audiotree. The band recorded five tracks during the session, and are all taken from their stunning new album ‘Pale Horses’, which is available now via Run For Cover Records. You can read our recent review of the album

Tom Delonge Is Releasing A Trilogy Of Novels, Because Of Course He Is

Back in March, Angels & Airwaves frontman and erstwhile Blink-182 guitarist Tom Delonge threatened to release 15 novels. The first of those novels, ‘Poet Anderson…Of Nightmares’ is coming later this year. The first in a Poet Anderson Trilogy, all of which have been co-written with Actual Proper Author

Good Riddance announce ridiculously good North American tour line-up

In an apparent attempt to make foreign fans emigrate, Good Riddance have announced a ludicrously good line-up for their North American tour later this year. Main Support comes from Off With Their Heads, and (depending on your city) Iron Chic, Western Addiction or Fire Next Time. Full information below. AUGUST 2015 23

Watch the new video from Real Friends

Real Friends have posted the official video for ‘Sixteen’. It may be less than two and a half minutes long, but it does feature bowling and cake.

Love vinyl? So does Fat Mike…and Forbes

Business website Forbes, perhaps better known for being the go-to news source for and about Wall Street banker types, have posted a video on the resurgence of vinyl featuring several Punktastic types including NOFX’s ‘Fat’ Mike Burkett. Focussed around the ‘vinyl revival’ and the resilience of the format (from a business