Sky Valley Mistress release New EP Rival, Hounds and Rebel Sisters

Sky Valley Mistress release New EP Rival, Hounds and Rebel Sisters

After a hugely successful year of touring, including an appearance at last year’s Download Festival and release of their acclaimed debut EP, ‘the best thing you’ve never heard,’Sky Valley Mistress, are now releasing their new EP, ‘Rivals, Hounds and Rebel Sisters’.

‘Rivals, Hounds and Rebel Sisters’ is a short but direct 3 track EP that is filled with riffs, hooks and more riffs. Combined with vocals that ooze sultry sophistication and a thunderous rhythm section, this is a record from a band that has found their sound and is ready for the world to hear it. Set for release 15th December, the record comes both as a digital download and 6 panel digipak CD that can be pre ordered from their Bandcamp page: https://skyvalleymistress.bandcamp.com/album/rivals-hounds-rebel-sisters

With clear influences from legendary rock and roll bands such as Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, the band have applied this classic, mature craftsmanship to their songs with a powerful and assertive edge, giving them a refreshingly familiar sound.

Along with the release of their EP, the band have also released a music video for the lead single, ‘Smoke Fairy’, featuring a masked teenage gang of rebels taking their new member on a journey of initiation, on the back of their pickup truck.

Sky Valley Mistress are heading off on an extensive tour to support their release with many more dates to be added soon.

Sky Valley Mistress are:

Kayley ‘Hell Kitten’ Davies – Vocals

Squire – Guitar

Maxwell Harvey William Newsome III – Drums

Russell ‘Russell’ Russell – Bass

TOUR DATES

November

THU 20 Preston The Ferret

FRI 21 Bury The Flying Shuttle

SAT 22 Preston The Ferret

SAT 29 London Workshop

SUN 30 Burnley Briercliffe Social

December

THU 04 Manchester Thirsty Scholar

SAT   06 Nottingham The Running Horse

SAT 13 Atherton The Spinners Arms

MON 22 Clitheroe The Grand

Facebook: facebook.com/skyvalleymistress

Web: www.skyvalleymistress.com

Bandcamp: skyvalleymistress.bandcamp.com

Missouri punks Radkey to play The Kazimier Liverpool

Missouri punks Radkey will return to Europe this June for a full month of shows following a sell-out UK tour back in April this year. The trio will return to the Download Festival on 13th June, where they played their first UK show last summer, before headlining a show at Esquires in Bedford on the 14th.

Fans will be able to pick up super-limited 10” vinyl copies of the UNKLE Reconstruction (with Romance Dawn on the B-side) at the Meltdown Festival at the Southbank in London on June 17th. Only 100 copies will be available from a one-off pressing at the festival itself. The band were invited as guests of James Lavelle and will be joined by The Amazing Snakeheads in support. 

In related release news, a special limited green vinyl 7” of Feed My Brain will go on sale on June 10th. The B-side will feature the band’s killer cover of Digging The Grave originally written by Faith No More. 

Radkey will also be heading to Ireland for the very first time after a show on the 24th June at the Kazimier in Liverpool. Their debut Irish shows will be played in Belfast and Dublin on the 25th and 26th before flying back to London to play Calling Festival in support of Aerosmith on Clapham Common.

Head to www.radkey.net for ticket info.

UK / Ireland  dates: 

13th June – Download Festival, UK

14th June – Esquires – Bedford, UK

17th June – Meltdown Festival w/ Amazing Snakeheads – Southbank Centre – London, UK

24th June – Kazimiere – Liverpool, UK

25th June – Oh Yeah Music Centre – Belfast, UK

26th June – Academy 2 – Dublin, Ireland

28th June – Calling Festival (with Aerosmith) - Clapham Common, London UK

Find Radkey at: 

www.facebook.com/radkeyband

www.twitter.com/RadkeyRock

www.instagram.com/radkeyrock

Skillet Release new single Not Gonna Die

Two-time Grammy nominated rock band SKILLET release a new single on June 30th to coincide with the band making their Download Festival debut on Sunday June 15th. 

‘Not Gonna Die’ is the second single from Skillet’s new album Rise.

Rise also features the previous single ‘Sick Of It” and follows the band's 2009 blockbuster, Awake, which was certified platinum for sales in excess of one million copies in the U.S. It’s worth noting that Skillet was the only active rock band to achieve platinum certification last year, and one of only three rock bands (the other two being Mumford and Sons and the Black Keys) to strike platinum that year. 

The band maintains momentum with Rise, a gripping coming-of-age narrative that stands as their first concept album—though lead singer/bassist John Cooper says it wasn’t premeditated. The album tells the story of a typical American teen coming into adulthood and trying to figure out who he is in a world riddled with problems both within and outside his control.

“The narrative idea happened after we had 10 or 11 of the songs chosen,” he says. “As we recorded them, we started to realize that there was something going on—that the album was really telling a story. Realizing that, I knew we needed to make it as powerful as we could.” 

The result is a wildly ambitious work as heady as it is visceral. Sonically, the disc sees the band expanding their musical palette, integrating natural, acoustic instruments like accordion, mandolin, dulcimer, harp, tympani and bells to their trademark slashing electric guitars, strings, churning synths and pummeling drums. 

Skillet (Cooper, guitarist/keyboardist Korey Cooper, drummer/vocalist Jen Ledger and guitarist Seth Morrison) recorded the album in Los Angeles, where they re-teamed with producer Howard Benson (My Chemical Romance, All American Rejects), who helmed Awake.

Awake debuted at No. 2 on Billboard's Top 200 Album Chart and No. 1 on the magazine's Top Modern Rock/Alternative Albums Chart. In addition, the record hit No. 1 on iTunes' Top Album Chart, garnered 3 Billboard Music Awards and spawned four hit singles including the No. 1 Active Rock smash and gold-certified “Awake & Alive,” the gold-certified "Hero," "It's Not Me It's You" and the platinum-certified "Monster." "Monster" lived up to its name, selling more than a million copies and hitting Top 5 at Active Rock radio (the first in a string of multiple Top 5 active rock hits), while its companion video has generated over 47 million YouTube views. Skillet over the course of the past few years have sold more than two million units in the U.S. alone, racked up more than 150 million YouTube views and amassed a diehard following (dubbed Panheads) whose members number in the millions. Skillet are now set to conquer the UK. 

Download appearance 

Sun June 15th 

Zippo Encore Stage -  onstage 12.40 - 13.05

www.skillet.com

www.facebook.com/skillet

@skilletmusic

Page 44 Added To Download Festival 2014 And Release Free Single

PAGE 44 are pleased to announce that they have been added to this year's Download Festival line up. They will join the likes of Linkin Park, Limp Bizkit and Aerosmith, and head to Donington Park this June. 

This is the bands fourth consecutive year of playing at Download, something that is pretty much unheard of. 

Band member Adam Vygus comments on the news: "I can't believe we are playing again for the fourth year in a row. It's still the best feeling ever, just as good as the first time we were announced. We are so excited and proud to be playing such a prestigious festival."

Hailing from Birmingham this quartet have never quit in their pursuit to get their music out there.

2011 saw them beat thousands of applicants in the esteemed Red Bull Bedroom Jam competition leading to an impressive run of UK festival dates. Early 2013 saw the release of the pop rockers hotly anticipated debut album 'All That Changes Stays The Same', which was funded by the band's avid fan base through PledgeMusic. They then went on a headline run of the UK and ended last year by playing at Vans Warped Tour UK at Alexandra Palace.

2014 will see some new music from the quintet along with more great announcements in the next few months. 

To coincide with the announcement the band have released single 'Growing Pains' as a free download. The single is taken from the bands debut album 'All That Changes, Stays The Same' which is available now.

Download 'Growing Pains' for FREE here: https://www.musicglue.com/page-44/

Download Festival is at Donington Park on the 13th - 15th June 2014. Get your tickets now directly from the Download Festival official website.

Sky Valley Mistress announce Winter Tour and release video The Day Of The Lion

SKY VALLEY MISTRESS are a female fronted three piece who play Rock and Roll the way it should be, with fuzz, feedback and turned up fucking loud. And to kick start 2014 Sky Valley Mistress are set to embark on their biggest UK tour to date taking in places across the UK including Manchester, Newcastle, Liverpool and  London.

2014 promises to see Sky Valley Mistress become one of the hottest bands in the UK. 

Last year Sky Valley Mistress made their debut at  the ‘Download Festival’ and released their acclaimed debut EP “The best thing you’ve never heard.”, featuring  “The Day Of The Lion” 

Directed and filmed by Sky Valley Mistress and Aaron Dunleavy. The video sees 3 bad ass girls inspired by the quote ‘It’s better to live one day as a lion than a thousand years as a lamb’, doing whatever they find that fuels their adrenaline, ultimately leading them all almost to their deaths.

Sky Valley Mistress  Tour dates:

January 

24th London The Underbelly

25th London The Cavendish Arms 

26th Manchester The Rebeillion Bar

27th Liverpool Lomax

February 

2nd Blackburn Reidy’s

6th Newcastle The Cluny

8th Bradford The Gasworks 

14th London The Enterprise

22nd Clitheroe The Grand

March 

8th Salford The Eagle

22nd Liverpool Zanzibar

April 

9th Burnley Talbot Hotel 

12th Manchester The Castle  

Sky Valley Mistress is 

Kayley "Hell Kitten" Davies - Vocals

Maxwell Harvey William Newsome III - Drums

Squire - Guitar

Contact Information

Facebook: facebook.com/skyvalleymistress

Twitter: @SkyValleyHQ

Web: www.skyvalleymistress.com

Instagram: @skyvalleymistress

Bandcamp: skyvalleymistress.bandcamp.com

The Wild Lies release free track and tour dates

Hot on the tail of their storming set on Download Festival’s Red Bull Stage last month, glam/sleaze metal-infused hard-rocking Wycombe 5 piece THE WILD LIES have released ‘Relive The Ride’ from the new EP ‘Jacks Out The Box’ free to their fans via their facebook page in celebration of the announcement of a host of new live summer tour dates.

Head here to download ‘Relive The Ride’:

http://www.facebook.com/TheWildLies/app_178091127385


The band have been hitting the gig scene hard this year in support of their debut EP, already having supported the likes of Jettblack and Reckless Love at London’s famous Barfly venue, as well as their appearance at Download Festival.

Comprising of vocalist Matt James, guitarists Zak Muller and Andre Ruffell, drummer Tom Miles and bassist Dylan Smith (son of Iron Maiden guitarist Arian Smith), THE WILD LIES take their influences from the metal of the 80's and early 90's as well as the heavier music of today, to deliver a sound that is indisputably their own, whilst giving a classic style a new lease of life.

 ‘Jacks Out The Box’, produced by Mikee Goodman (Sikth, Primal Rock Rebellion) and mixed by Simon Hanhart (Asia, Saxon, Waysted), was released earlier this year garnering critical acclaim from rock press.

Tour Dates:

July 03  Underworld, London (with Faster Pussycat)

July 19  The George, Andover (with Motherload)

July 25  The Barfly, London (with Motherload)

Aug 02  Hobfest, Maidenhead

Aug 17  Hard Rock Rising, High Wycombe



For further information head to:

http://www.facebook.com/TheWildLies

Fahran to play Download Festival and Bloodstock Open Air

Energetic young melodic hard rock upstarts FAHRAN have confirmed they are gearing up for appearances at two of the UK’s most prestigious rock and metal festivals this summer: Download Festival and Bloodstock Open Air.

As well as appearing on Download Festival’s Jägermeister stage on Saturday 15th June, the Derby-based five-piece are honored to have been awarded the headline slot on the influential New Blood stage at Bloodstock Open Air on Friday 9th August.

Lead guitarist Jake Graham comments:

“Being confirmed for both festivals in the same year is just amazing, it’s still taking time to sink in! We all can't wait to get out there and show the crowd Fahran's live show, especially when we headline the New Blood stage at BOA.”

The news comes after a busy year for FAHRAN during which they have released self-titled debut album ‘FAHRAN’ after just six months of the band being formed to critical acclaim from rock press worldwide.  Their impressive debut offering won them tour supports with UK rock troubadours Heaven’s Basement and ex-Dragonforce vocalist ZP Theart’s new project I AM I, as well as a prolific slot at BT London Live in Hyde Park as part of the London 2012 celebrations.

The band are currently in the studio writing and recording their second album and look forward to headlining the Fethiye Rocks Festival in Turkey at the end of May before returning to their native UK to continue their summer of festival appearances.

To mark the occasion, the band are offering fans the chance to win a pair VIP day tickets to Download Festival on Saturday 15th June. 

“We want to give something back to all the great people who have supported us this year, and what better way than to offer fans the chance to come and join in the fun with us at Download this year?” explains Fahran guitarist Chris Byrne.

For full details of the competition, head to the band's official Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/Fahranmusic

For further info visit:
http://www.fahran.com

Hounds release new EP and play Download Festival this June

Hounds release new EP The Wicked and play Download Festival this June

“Top tunes, Fan The Flames being one of my favourites, big up!”

Liam Howlett (The Prodigy)

“A Molotov cocktail of dirty rock, sneering vocals and pulsing electro dance beats”

Big Cheese Magazine

“We need more bands like this!”

James Rushent (Does It Offend You, Yeah?)

Hailing from Essex, UK, and already gaining a huge reputation for their explosive live performances and an experimental sound that merges punk rock with a unique dance edge, HOUNDS are set to release their brand new EP ‘The Wicked’ on June 4^th 2012.

Recently added to the stellar line up of Download Festival this June, the four-piece of Olly Burden, Chas Langston, Adam Hammond and Chris Wallace deliver distinctive anarchic vocals with intense drumming, big synths and dirty bass lines, influenced by a range of iconic groups, from The Clash to Nine Inch Nails, Refused to The Prodigy.

2010 saw Hounds hand-picked by The Prodigy to play Warrior’s Dance Festival at Milton Keynes Bowl and also dubbed as a BBC ‘One to Watch’ following an ‘Introducing’ live session. “Hounds are f*kin great live, that’s why we put them on our festival” said Liam Howlett of The Prodigy. 

The band went on to play Sonisphere festival in 2011 before supporting Does It Offend You Yeah? on their UK tour, playing all over the UK to huge crowds, as well as headlining Manchester’s Studio venue for 'In The City' that same year.

The crossover in the band’s sound has seen breakbeat and dance DJs queuing up to work with Hounds and remix their tracks, including Belarus acts 4Kuba and Access Denied as well as UK drum n bass favourite Spor. It has also led to legendary Swedish producers Pelle Henricsson and Eskli Lovstrom, most famous for their work on Refused's seminal album 'The Shape Of Punk To Come', co-producing and mixing 'In Your Eyes' for Hounds.

Confirmation of the group's ever-burgeoning success came this year when they were selected by O2 to work with them on their recent Fair Share music initiative, featuring in their new campaign for priority booking for gigs. 

 “This EP is just a taster of what’s to come. It’s a snap shot of where we are at right now and just enough to whet the appetite whilst we cook up the next release.”

Olly Burden - Hounds

With a seriously infectious sound and not-to-be-missed live performances, 2012 is the year to watch out for Hounds.

‘The Wicked’ EP is released on June 4^th 2012 from www.houndsmusic.com and all good digital stores.

LIVE:

31^st May – LONDON – Sebright Arms (EP Launch Show)

8^th June – DONNINGTON PARK – Download Festival

WEBSITE / SOCIAL NETWORKS:

http://www.houndsmusic.com

http://www.facebook.com/houndsofficial

http://www.youtube.com/houndstelevision

http://www.soundcloud.com/hounds_uk

http://www.twitter.com/hounds_official

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