The Outline decide to leave Los Angeles at the peak of high summer to tour the rainy UK for two months. They must mean business.

Metal Blade Records, twenty-five year veteran of the European and American heavy music scenes, finally opens up a UK version of their website to the public.

Ida Maria has UK tour dates! Come gloat at your fortune … or console yourself with YouTube goodness in the form of the “Oh My God” video.

While I head out to a live show, why don’t you check out the video for “Is That Lady Sniff?” by Creature With The Atom Brain?

Homegrown prog-stoner outfit End Of Level Boss deploy some live low-end groove on unsuspecting Europeans.

Anton Newcombe and his merry band of loons The Brian Jonestown Massacre are coming to the UK this summer - lock the medicine cabinet!

Post-grunge challengers Slaves To Gravity hit the roads of the UK for the entire month of April in support of their new album Scatter The Crow.

Celebrity-obsessed spazzcore madmen Gay For Johnny Depp release a video for the forthcoming “Belief In God Is So Adorable” single.

Brighton three-piece Elle Milano release the video for their imminent first single “Meanwhile In Hollywood”.

Master architects of historical gloom iLiKETRAiNS release a trailer for their forthcoming stop-motion animated film Elegies To Lessons Learnt.