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The Big Feature

START OF YEAR SHENANIGANS 2010

Welcome to the new decade. Just like the last one, but with tighter jeans? THE RM GUIDE TO 2010 is here to make sure you don't miss a thing - from the return of Deftones, Rival Schools and Soundgraden, to what you can expect from the fall out from Fall Out Boy and These Arms Are Snakes; the music-based film you'll want to book seats for, to exactly which labels we're expecting to see great things from this year. And of course, there's our celebrated BEST OF THE NEW BREED 2010 feature - 20 UK bands you need to start following now, including Straight Lines, Bastions, Wounds and more. In the past, we've tipped the likes of Gallows, Rolo Tomassi and Twin Atlantic before the buzz, so we reckon it's worth a glance...

Elsewhere on the site... FAR's Jonah Matranga tells us about how Chi Cheng inspired part of the upcoming album... THE RESURRECTION SORROW talk about their surprise gem of a debut Hour Of The Wolf... THE SAFETY FIRE tell us about gigs that lead to free stripper shows... and there's the second part of our DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT INTERVIEWS, on Addicted, Anneke van Giersbergen and more...

We've also got ENTER SHIKARI: BRINGING DOWN THE BALLROOM, Shirlaine Forrest's photojournal on the gig that made cracks in the ceiling of the Blackpool venue, our AT THE GATES PREVIEW from the upcoming 3 disc DVD set, NICK KLECZWESKI tells us about his experiences making the recent THE SNAKE THE CROSS THE CROWN documentary... we examine RYAN BARTEK's new book on the underbelly of US counterculture... and there's the latest column from Jack of Alcopop! VIEW FROM THE POP #5 on the implications of Alan McGee's perplexing Twitter activity...

In our CD Reviews, there's our verdict on the latest from FEAR FACTORY, TONY SLY, FAR, BUILT TO SPILL, THROATS, WE ARE THE OCEAN, ROB ZOMBIE, FUCKED UP, IHSAHN, LOSTPROPHETS, MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK, TINDERSTICKS, GODZILLA BLACK, BACKYARD BABIES, SHAPES STARS MAKE, PAPERPLAIN, BARN BURNER, FYFE DANGERFIELD, AGNOSTIC FRONT, MAMMA CADELA, FLIES ARE SPIES FROM HELL, AND THEY WILL RIOT, BRACE, WILSON FISK, BASTIONS... There's also Live Reviews of THRICE, RUMBLE ROUND 2 with DEAD SWANS, TRC and more, ORANGE GOBLIN, MARILYN MANSON, TELLISON, DEVIL SOLD HIS SOUL, LORDS (US) and more... …more»

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News

Drama Weekend #1: Far vs J-Lo 1:27am, 9 Mar 2010

It's been a bit of a mad weekend in the world of music. First up, a little dispute between Jonah Matranga and J-Lo.

For years, Jonah Matranga has been using the heart? logo for projects both under his own name and the One Line Drawing moniker. Now take a look at the drumkit in that live photo. See anything familiar?

With Jennifer Lopez planning on releasing new album Love? soon, Matranga is talking with lawyers to put together a case against Ms Lopez should the logo resurface.

"Here's where you come in: I've also been told that you can help out by sending photos of ways you've used the image in your life, after you found it through my music. So, if you have a tattoo of it, or you've made drawings of it, or you have anything at all that shows the many ways the little heartquestion has gotten out there, I'd love to see it, and so would the lawyers. You can post your pics (or links to them) here, or send them via any number of internetty ways, or just mail 'em to me."

To help out Jonah's case, click here.

In more positive news (depending on how much you like Filter), Richard Patrick and Far's Shaun Lopez have apparently met up to discuss an upcoming project:

"Met with Richard Patrick from Filter today. Hopefully going to make some music together soon. Hope so, dude can definitely SAAANGGG," he tweets.

Far's new album At Night We Live is out through Vagrant in May.

Click here to watch 'At Night We Live' acoustic

…posted by Ruth Midget

Drama Weekend #2: Killswitch Engage vs the porn star 1:15am, 9 Mar 2010

Next in our weekend of madness, what is rumoured to be the reason for Howard Jones' absence from the current Killswitch Engage US tour.

According to The PRP (dated 6th March), Jones' absence was a result of the frontman allegedly getting pornstar Allie Foster pregnant. A number of rather vicious tweets from Foster alleged that she was four months pregnant with his child, and that he insisted she had an abortion.

Things took an interesting twist the following day, when tweets seemed to indicate first she had been lying, and then afterwards that she had been hacked. Since then, Foster's account has disappeared from Twitter.

Rather admirably in the face of all of this, Jones has remained silent on the matter, and has yet to issue a statement explaining his departure. If this does turn out to be the reason, then the dude deserves some respect for dealing with it with such dignity.

In the meantime, All That Remains frontman Phil Labonte has been filling in for a series of well-received 'Philswitch' dates.

…posted by Ruth Midget

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