Music fans and casual readers, ladies and gentlemen, I, the Editor-In-Chief for Rockfreaks.net, present you a comprehensive guide to 2009, the most detailed all-around guide to everything important that happened in the rock and metal music scenes in the past year. How many other sites are able to walk you through more or less every single genre relevant to rock music, starting from indie rock and pop punk and ending in hardcore and extreme metal, and do so with a tongue-in-cheek attitude (as often as we can) and in a manner that's pretty damn close to as user-friendly as it gets? That's right,...
One of the awesome people of last year's Rockfreaks.net Roskilde camp now has a band, it's called My Vancouver and you should check it out here, especially if you're not put off by the concept of 'melodic, melancholic rock'.
Secret And Whisper have uploaded a new song to their MySpace. It's titled "Warrior (Southern Arrowwood)" and is taken from their upcoming album "Teenage Fantasy", which will be out April 6th.
Foals are touring Europe later this Spring, with the following dates and venues announced:
April 12th - Columbia, Berlin, GER
April 14th - Paradiso, Amsterdam, NET
April 15th - Trabendo, Paris, FRA
April 17th - Printemps, Bourges, FRA
April 29th - Kazimier, Liverpool, UK
April 30th - University, Newcastle, UK
May 2nd - ABC, Glasgow, UK
May 3rd - Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK
May 4th - Ritz, Manchester, UK
May 6th - Junction, Cambridge, UK
May 7th - Trent University, Nottingham, UK
May 8th - Anson Rooms, Bristol, UK
May 10th - Electric Ballroom, London, UK
May 12th - Academy, Oxford, UK
May 14th - Academy, Dublin, IRE
Alkaline Trio will tour across the UK in May, hitting the following venues:
May 21st - Academy, Birmingham, UK
May 23rd - Academy, Manchester, UK
May 24th - ABC, Glasgow, UK
May 25th - Academy, Newcastle, UK
May 26th - Academy, Bristol, UK
May 28th - Pyramids, Portsmouth, UK
June 1st - Roundhouse, London, UK
June 2nd - Rock City, Nottingham, UK
Japanese post-hardcore outfit Fact has been added as support to Breathe Carolina's UK headlining run in May. Dates for that are, as follows:
May 27th - Cathouse, Glasgow, UK
May 28th - Rock City, Nottingham, UK
May 29th - Slam Dunk Festival, Hatfield, UK
May 30th - Slam Dunk Festival, Leeds, UK
June 1st - Joiners, Southampton, UK
June 2nd - Engine Rooms, Brighton, UK
June 3rd - Facebar, Reading, UK
June 4th - Arts Centre, Colchester, UK
Fact will also play a one-off headlining show at the Islington Academy in London on May 24th.
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