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The Family Rain launch competition to design Bad Weather Tour t-shirt

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The Family Rain

The Family Rain will be heading out on a tour of the UK in June and are inviting fans to make their own mark on the tour by designing the exclusive tour t-shirt.

The winning design will be sold as an official tour t-shirt, with the winner receiving five t-shirts of the winning design plus tickets to any date on the tour.

With the winner set to be announced on May 23rd, fans can upload their designs online with the #thefamilyrain and #badweathertshirt hashtags in order to get involved. Fans have creative freedom with the designs to an extent, but they must include the words “The Family Rain” and “Bad Weather Tour”.

You can check out the tour dates for The Family Rain’s Bad Weather Tour below:

04/06/2014 Birmingham, Hare and Hounds
05/06/2014 Leeds, Cockpit
09/06/2014 Manchester, Night and Day
10/06/2014 Glasgow, King Tuts
11/06/2014 Bath, Komedia
12/06/2014 London, Dingwalls

Issues – Never Lose Your Flames Video

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Official video for the Issues single ‘Never Lose Your Flames‘, taken from the band’s début album which is out now on Rise Records. The band have just recently been in the UK supporting their label mates Of Mice & Men and are due back in the UK later this year for the Reading & Leeds Festivals.

Crazytown coming to Europe in June

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Crazytown

Crazytown are back, and the band are hitting Europe this June as they take in a number of festivals as well as performing a few headline shows of their own.

With a full record release in the works for 2014, Crazytown have a busy year ahead as they take in several U.S. tour dates in addition to the tour of Europe.

You can take a look at Crazytown’s full European tour plans below:

JUNE 2014
7th – Solothurn, Switzerland @ Kofmehl
8th – Nürburg, Germany @ Rock AM Ring
9th – Nürnberg, Germany @ Rock I’m Park Festival
10th – Hamburg, Germany @ Knust
11th – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Melkweg
13th – Nickelsdorf, Austria @ Novarock Festival
15th – Donington Park, UK @ Download Festival
16th – Glasgow, UK @ Cathouse
17th – London, UK @ The Garage

Beastmilk to begin tour with Doomriders and Herder

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Beastmilk

Beastmilk will be heading out on tour with Doomriders and Herder as of tomorrow, starting out in France and then hitting the UK before heading back again to mainland Europe for the remainder of the tour.

The Finnish post-punk act have had a good year so far, getting nominated for best underground at at Metal Hammer’s Golden Gods Awards, and in June they’ll follow this up with numerous festival dates including playing alongside Metallica at Sonisphere.

You can take a look at Beastmilk’s tour plans for the next few months below:

Tour with Doomriders and Herder:

02.05. France, Paris @ Glazart
03.05. UK Leeds @ Live at Leeds
04.05. UK Bristol @ Temples Fest
05.05. UK London @ Underworld
06.05. Germany Cologne @ Underground
07.05. Germany Berlin @ Lido
08.05. Czech Rep Prague @ 007
09.05. Germany Leipzig @ Conne Island
10.05. Germany Munich @ Backstage
11.05. Austria Vienna @ Arena

Festival dates:

06.06. UK Knebworth @ Sonisphere
08.06. Germany Leipzig @ Wave Gotik Treffen
28.06. Finland Helsinki @ Tuska Festival
09.06. Germany Pössneck @ Hell’s Pleasure
19.07 Norway Tonsberg @ Slottsfjell Festival

Pokémon announces 2014 International Challenge May

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Pokémon International Challenge May

From today Pokémon fans from around the world can begin limbering-up for the International Challenge May, ready for registration on May 8th.

The 2014 International Challenge May is open to all Pokémon X and Pokémon Y video game players around the world, with registration beginning at 3:00 p.m. BST on May 8th 2014, and going on until 2:59 p.m. BST on May 15th 2014, unless the player cap is reached before then.

The tournament starts at 3:00 p.m. BST on Friday May 16th 2014 and full details can be found on the Pokémon website.

Agent release acoustic recording of ‘Made of Gold’

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Agent

London based progressive rock band Agent have released an acoustic recording of ‘Made of Gold‘, the first single from their recent album ‘Kingdom of Fear‘.

Featuring James Donaldson and Gerald Gill from the band, this is very much a stripped back rendition of the song, with the two of them going at it on acoustic guitar. The sound was recorded by Paul Matthews and the video by Kirill Teslia at IAG studios in June 2013.

You can take a look/listen to Agent’s ‘Made of Gold‘ below:

Forest – Box Video

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Official video for the Forest track ‘Box‘, constructed from 1,323 Post-it notes. ‘Box‘ is taken from the band’s new ‘Wisdom Tusk‘ EP.

Film student Otis Moorman put the video together and had the following to say about it:

It took roughly 1,323 unique sticky notes and an insane amount of hours to complete, as the average frame took 2-5 minutes to draw. I wanted to give the video an up-front, DIY feel, relying on stuff I could do in front of the camera rather than in editing. As a result, the process was as simple as taking photo after photo of sticky notes on my bedroom wall. It’s all about limits being placed on you, and eventually using those limits to escape the box they put you in.

Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes Jamais-Vu and MGS1 Déjà-Vu missions now available on all formats

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Metal Gear Solid V Ground Zeroes

Both the MGS1 Déjà-Vu mission previously exclusive to Playstation and the Jamais-Vu mission previously exclusive to Xbox have now become available for free download across all platforms.

The MGS1 Déjà-Vu mission reproduces the reduced polygon graphical style of the original game for the PS One, the Jamais-Vu mission meanwhile sees you take control of the cyborg ninja, Raiden.

The replay value of Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes has therefore been enhanced with this update then, and when you next load the game up you’ll now have the opportunity to download this free update which adds further depth to the title.

Free Wii U Game When You Buy Mario Kart 8

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Free Wii U Game

For those looking to buy Mario Kart 8 when it launches at the end of May there’s now even more reason to do so than ever with the news that Nintendo will be giving away a free download of one of ten selected games when the pin code from the game is registered with Club Nintendo between May 30th and July 31st.

Full details of how to claim the free download can be found on the official Nintendo website.

The following is a full list of games available as part of this promotion:

– Nintendo Land
– New Super Mario Bros. U
– Game & Wario
– Pikmin 3
– The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD
– Sonic Lost World
– Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games
– Wii Party U
– The Wonderful 101
– Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate

Miss May I’s ‘Rise Of The Lion’ studio album now available for streaming

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Miss May I - Rise Of The Lion

Miss May I have now released their new ‘Rise Of The Lion‘ studio album, and to celebrate the album’s release the band have now made the album available for streaming in its entirety.

‘Rise Of The Lion‘ is the fourth studio album to date from the American metalcore band and the first to be produced by the legendary Terry Date (Pantera, Deftones, White Zombie, Bring Me The Horizon).

You can listen to Miss May I’s ‘Rise Of The Lion‘ studio album below: