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By Tom, February 1, 2010

out now!

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By Tom, January 31, 2010

Chickenhawk are very pleased to announce their first full on power rock tour of the new decade. They will playing Rock Concerts with none other than The Computers (Fierce Panda) & Outcry Collective (Visible Noise) for your aural & visual pleasure in March.

Chickenhawk will also have limited new full on rock merchandise available for the first time on this tour. New T-Shirts / Tote Bags and Badges for your Rocking pleasure. Plus the possibility of some new rock hits from their forth-coming 2nd album due to be released later this year….wait and see!

There are limited numbers of A. Or Not? EPs left so head over to the Brew Shop to grab a copy!

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By admin, January 26, 2010

I LIKE TRAINS are having a Recording Blog Week starting on Monday 1st February. They promise photos a plenty and video clips from their new album.

They are also asking for fans to ask questions on their forum and will attempt to answer them all via a video blog. That sounds like a POWER idea!

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By Tom, January 24, 2010

Here’s the music video for the album title track ‘Call Me Dragon’. Written, produced and directed by drummer Tommy Davidson, with Adam Conlon taking on cinematography duties (Funeral for a Friend, Gallows, Fightstar, and Grammatics etc). Feel free to embed on your website !

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By Tom, January 17, 2010

Morning!

The long awaited debut album from These Monsters ‘Call Me Dragon’ will officially be release on the 1st March in the UK and 10th May throughout Europe on UK Label Brew. Recorded at Foel Studios, Wales with Chris Fielding (Electric Wizard, The Klaxons, Napalm Death) the album demonstrates the freaked out, riff driven prog-force that the respected four-piece have become. With their love of large vintage amplifiers, big drums and high energy, passionate performances, These Monsters deliver a huge live sound and are developing a reputation as one of the loudest and most exciting underground bands in the UK. This is also our tenth release & our first collaboration between ourselves & Function Records !

So far These Monsters have impressed whilst supporting bands such as Russian Circles, These Arms Are Snakes, Oceansize, 65 Days of Static, Mono, Envy, Health, The Whip, Foals, Youthmovies, ilikeTrains, Broken Records and The Fall. Sets at Leeds/Reading Festivals in 2008 and ZXZW in Holland saw These Monsters take to bigger stages. The band also played a mammoth 70-minute set at this years EXIT Festival in Serbia.

The band have recently finished filming a music video for the album title track ‘Call Me Dragon’. Written, produced and directed by drummer Tommy Davidson, with Adam Conlon taking on cinematography duties (Funeral for a Friend, Gallows, Fightstar, and Grammatics). Release of this video will coincide with the pre-order date of the album of Monday 18th January. Below is a couple of video stills, it really is shaping up amazing !

These Monsters ‘Call Me Dragon’ track listing:

1) Call Me Dragon (4m43)
2) Dirty Messages (8m05)
3) Who Is This Tall Sick Man (5m20)
4) Biggie and Tupac (1m04)
5) Harry Patton (6m08)
6) Space Ritual (6m32)
7) Deaf Machine (6m39)

Please head over to the bands myspace to grab a free MP3 of Call Me Dragon

The album launch for the release is destined for Saturday 13th February at The Cockpit, Leeds as part of the St Valentine’s Massacre feat: These Monsters with supports from Kong, That Fucking Tank, Hot Club de Paris, Blacklisters, Blakfish, Humanfly + more/ Tickets are £6.00 and available from here

These Monsters will then begin a huge tour across the UK and Europe probably lasting til next year! For more information about dates please visit the bands myspace.

“This Leeds quatet will kick off 2010 with shitloads of idiosyncratic style. Creating largely instrumental, frequently cacophonous and consistently transfixing songs, they rock like proper nutjobs in a manner that’s wilfully experimental but never pretentious. Their growing reputation for putting on one hell of a live show is richly deserved, too” Rocksound one’s to watch – December 2009

“One of the most interesting and engaging acts I’ve heard from the UK in a long fucking time – no word of a lie.” Collective-zine

“Time has frozen as witnesses halt in their tracks, intoxicated by the heady miasma of post-rock resonance. Both comforting and devastating.” The Fly Magazine

Thanks for looking!

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By admin, December 23, 2009

So 2009 saw the birth of I Like Press (in the later months) and we are shaping 2010 to be an immense first full year.  Things to look forward to; Album’s from I Like Trains, These Monsters, Castrovalva and Kong, all due in 2010 aswell as EP’s by Club Smith. Massive tours from all the acts too and potential new acts in the pipeline.  Watch this space!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! x

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By admin, December 6, 2009

We are pleased to announce the newest arrival to the I Like Press family; Club Smith. We will be bringing you some very hot news on their release front and also some even hotter Tour news. Watch this space.

Also keep your eyes and ears open for These Monster’s debut LP and tour news.

Thanks x

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By admin, December 6, 2009

After more than 2 years since the arrival of their debut album, ‘Elegies to Lessons Learnt,’ I Like Trains  finally hit the studio to record the much anticipated follow up.

Title: He Who Saw the Deep
Studio:  A small cottage in the north of Yorkshire.
Producer: I Like Trains
Confirmed Tracks: Sea of Regrets
Working track titles: Sirens, We Saw the Deep, A Divorce Before Marriage, A Father’s Son.
Due Date: 2010

Quote from David Martin “Whilst  the previous EPs and album concerned themselves with the darker aspects of human history, this new record takes a tentative look towards our future.  Sonically there is greater contrast than previous recordings with rays of light puncturing the gloom.  At the beginning of the writing stage we made an effort to stay away from the reverbs and delays we have become known for.  As we went on more reverb has made its way onto tracks, but its no longer all encompassing.  It will make for a cleaner open sounding record.”