August 9th, 2012

Who: Mark Alberici, Oliver Alberici, Marco Argiro, Chris Bunatta

Where: London / New York City

When: Fontanas, NYC, August 9th. 10pm sharp.

The artist and short-lived former manager of The Clash, Caroline Coon, has said one of the reasons the legendary punk pioneers never reformed after their disintegration in the early Eighties was because the Sex Pistols always got there first.

Speaking to NME this week shortly before what would have been Joe Strummer’s 60th birthday, Coon claims the former Clash frontman’s per-occupation with the press’ thoughts on his band proved to a stumbling block in any emotional reformation before his sad death in 2002.

“On some level, Joe was too dependent on what the press thought about him,” she has said. “They always said that rock’n'roll was for the young, and that The Clash should never reform. And just when Joe would get his confidence together together and say, ‘Fuck the press, we’re going to get together again!’, do you know what happened? The Sex Pistols would reform!”

“It happened a number of times. Joe – insecure as he was – had quite a big ego, and he just couldn’t reform The Clash on the tail of the Sex Pistols.”

A classic mid-80s single from Camper Van Beethoven

New single released 03/09/12

Shot by Georgia Hudson, the track which is due for release on September 10th

Toro Y Moi played Lollapalooza 2012, where they premiered five new songs.

“After falling through a hole into a psychedelic, animated, one-eyed dimension in space, My Morning Jacket share their new video for ‘Outta My System’”

Anthony and the Johnsons’ new live album features a previously unreleased track called ‘Cut the World’

Graham Coxon has revealed Blur‘s tracks ‘Under The Westway‘ and ‘The Puritan‘, recently issued as a double A-side to mark their headline gig at London’s Hyde Park this coming Sunday (August 12th), are not the tip of the iceberg, and that the band instead have no further completed songs ready for release.

Gallows will head out on a tour of North America with their new frontman Wade MacNeil in support of the new self-titled album.