The Amity Affliction to tour this Autumn

When someone says to you 'Australia' and 'rock band', you'd be inclined to think first of those legends, AC/DC. But there's a bunch of new kids making waves on the scene, and they go by the name of The Amity Affliction.


Signed to Roadrunner Records, their album Youngbloods has already gone Top 10 in their home country of Australia. It's released over here in the UK on the 24th October.


Speaking about their new deal, frontman Joel Birch said: "Signing to Roadrunner worldwide is almost beyond a dream come true, because there's no way any of us would have ever dreamed of being able to achieve something this monumental."


You can catch the band on tour supporting Funeral For A Friend on these dates:

22-Oct              London @ Facedown
23-Oct              Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
24-Oct              Glasgow QMU
25-Oct              Newcastle Academy  
27-Oct              Nottingham Rock City
28-Oct              Manchester Academy
29-Oct              Bristol Academy
30-Oct              London Roundhouse

Zoe Badwi - Freefallin'

As the summer creeps in, you can always count on the dance world to begin hotting up, shuffling their deck of cards and dealing the first hand of records to soundtrack the summer nights. There are changing trends and shifting scenes to bear in mind, but there will always be reliable formulas to stick to when you want a hit record on your hands.

Enter Zoe Badwi. The Australian singer-songwriter started her career in modelling and TV adverts for things like Mars Bars (yum) as well as being part of a girl group. The usual sorts of things you can expect for a trendy popstar.

And so we come to her new single Freefallin', which is already a top 10 hit in her native Australia as well as being certified platinum. Impressive. Anyway, the track is your standard, anthemic, super-uplifting dance-pop fare and sounds a LOT like When Love Takes Over - meaning it sounds very good, if not the most original record on the block. What it does do is showcase Zoe's rather impressive vocals; she can certainly hit all the high notes a track like this demands as well as packing some real power and grit that helps set her up as a proper popstar in her own right rather than just a faceless dance diva.

'It's all good, I'm alright', she sings in the chorus - well, with that platinum accolade under her belt already, things definitely seem to be going more than 'alright' for Zoe at the moment, and if she can translate that success to over here, Freefallin' could very well be the soundtrack to your summer too - the UK single release featuring remixes by MotoBlanco and WAWA.

Freefallin' is released on the 30th May.

Miley, we'd love you to come and tour in the UK!

Amazing popstar and all round awesome person Miley Cyrus has been speaking to American news agency The AP about plans for her new world tour. The chain of gigs in support of her Can't Be Tamed album kicks off in Ecuador at the end of April and includes 13 South American dates before she moves on to 7 dates in Australia in July.

Miley explained she had no immediate plans to tour her home country of the US though, saying: "I just think right now America has gotten to a place where I don't know if they want me to tour or not. Right now I just want to go to the places where I am getting the most love and Australia and South America have done that for me."

Well, can I be the first to say to you Miley, here in the UK we absolutely love you! Miley's 2009 Wonder Word Tour was incredible, and going to see it at one of the five dates she did at London's O2 arena, I can testify that it was one of the best gigs I've ever seen at the venue. Can't Be Tamed was amongst my Top Five favourite albums of last year and to see all the new tracks performed live is a must. Her GAY performance gave a taste of what we might expect and the thought of that transposed up to an arena scale is all very exciting. So yes, Miley, please come and tour in the UK again!

Plus, how fantastic is it that Miley is now back on Twitter? @mileycyrus