Love Music Like Belle & Sebastian, The Subways And Emily Haines

If you're in the London, UK area on April 29th you might be interested to hear that you have to opportunity to hear some great music and it's all free. If your timing is right, between 2-7pm on Saturday you may catch the likes of artists such as Belle & Sebastian, Roll Deep, Boy Kill Boy, Kray Twinz, The Paddingtons, Heartless Crew, Metro Riots or a number of other acts who have dedicated themselves to the Love Music Hate Racism rally & music. Even if you are not into the music, which brings us to think you should check to see if you have a pulse, then maybe you would be more interested in hearing that the concert is to help discourage support for the British National Party during the election there. :: more :: Belle & Sebastian Another Sunny Day

The Subways have announced via their website that their North American tour this spring has been cancelled due to frontman Billy Lunn having nodules on his vocal chords. He is currently getting treatment from his doctor and expects to be fully recovered in approximately six weeks. We were looking forward to seeing the guys on stage here in Toronto, Canada in May but they 'promise' to return again to those cities missed sometime this summer. We will keep our fingers crossed. According to Chart Attack magazine, Yellowcard is also being forced to cancel some shows in North America do to there lead vocalist Ryan Key's continuing problems with chords, vocal chords that is. :: more :: Metric lead singer Emily Haines has been venturing out into a small solo career lately and has even been sighted playing a number of shows opening for Amy Millan. Recently Emily has announced to the world that she will be releasing a solo ablum which will be available by September 26th. The disc will be called Knives Don't Have Your Back and will be released on Last Gang Records. The album is described as a collection of piano-driven songs backed with soft strings and horns. Don't worry Metric fans, Emily has been stated that Metric is number one on her list and has no plans to split.

What A Way To Go - Death By Sexy!

With a frontman named Jesse "The Devil" Hughes, you would expect to be listening to a hardcore death metal band from the deep desert of Arizona. Eagles of Death Metal may have started from the desert, Palm Desert, California, but they are about as close to death metal as "Hotel California" is to being classified as a Heavy Punk track. Needless to say, you shouldn't judge a band by its name. You may know the drummer of the band as Queen of the Stone Age member Josh Homme and dEUS member Tim Vanhamel. With the success of their performance in SXSW and mass media that has been flowing out from the festival, many around the country have been looking extra forward to the new release by the Eagle of Death Metal. The album entitled "Death By Sexy" was released today (April 11th) and was worth the wait. With opening tracks such as "I Want You So Hard (Boy's Bad News)" will give you a jolting taste of exactly what this band is all about - pure energy (no not techno energy). Now we all look foward to seeing the day that they take their act on the road for the reason of North America to bring the energy to a concert hall near you. If you have not heard anything by Eagles of Death Metal OR just haven't heard any tracks from their latest album "Death By Sexy" then have a listen to some samples on their MySpace site. The guys do not have any plans in the near future to jump into their rusty old tour van for a cross country adventure, hitting every major city with at least two 10 story office builds along the way to give local kids something to get excited about. However, if you live in one of the following locations you can grab your boots and join Jesse Hughes in the movement. :: April 11, 2006 - Minneapolis, MN :: April 21, 2006 - Philadelphia, PA :: April 22, 3006 - Washington, DC :: April 23, 2006 - New York, NY :: April 24, 2006 - Boston, MA :: April 29, 2006 - Indio, CA

Frontman Billy Lunn of The Subways has lost his voice and was forced to cancel some shows in England over the last couple of days. Lets hope that he gets well before making the trip over the pond to North America in the near future. :: more ::

Zach Hoskins of Modern Pea Pod sits own with Jesse Hughes of Eagles of Death Metal to discuss "movement and phenomenon" that EODM have become. He also gets the opportunity to discuss the Eagles' spring tour with the Strokes, as well as touching on everything from groupies to girl-phobic indie kids and Rick Springfield. :: more :: Skratch Magazine also got a hold of Jesse "Boots Electric" Hughes to talk about SXSW. :: more :: Andy Smythe of Zero Magazine talks with Jesse Hughes about the upcoming release of "Death By Sexy". :: more ::

They may have started as just another side project in Josh Homme's Desert sessions, but eight years later, the Eagles of Death Metal are really making a name for themselves. With their second proper studio album hitting store shelves today we can guarantee that you won't have another album like this in your collection. The latest album "Death By Sexy" is well worth the additional to your collection, but don't take our word for it, here are some others with a thought or two. :: Jennifer Kelly, PopMatters :: Christian Hoard, Rolling Stone :: Phil Villeneuve, ChartAttack :: Kamran Rouzpay, Decoy :: Jason Crock, Pitchfork