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Parkway Drive Record new album!

PARKWAY DRIVE TO START RECORDING THIRD ALBUM IN MARCH

Australia’s biggest hardcore-metal band Parkway Drive has announced plans to return to the studio to record their third studio album, which is expected to be released later this summer via Epitaph Records. The long-awaited follow-up to 2007’s hard-hitting breakout album Horizons was written in the band’s hometown of Byron Bay over the past six months and will be recorded in Los Angeles with celebrated producer Joe Barresi (Queens of the Stone Age, Bad Religion) over the coming weeks.

Determined to surpass previous efforts, Parkway Drive have gone all out in creating a complete listening experience. While maintaining the band’s trademark sound at its core, their forthcoming album will weave music, lyrics and artwork together into a dense concept that flows from beginning to end. “Writing with a concept in mind has given us more direction,” explains Parkway Drive frontman Winston McCall. “Every song on this album was created with a definite purpose, as opposed to just writing a riff and building on that.”

While McCall concedes the album’s basic narrative – the tale of a man lacking direction in life who goes looking for answers at the bottom of the sea – is “kind of bizarre,” he says the concept was flexible enough to open itself up to many far-reaching ideas. “The ocean is where I find the most clarity,” says the former bodyboard champion. “To go to the beach and sink into the water, the sound cuts out and you can just forget about everything. So I guess the concept is about cutting out everything and focusing on what’s inside yourself.”

Parkway Drive’s achievements are unmatched in Australian heavy music circles. After two huge-selling albums, 2004’s Killing With A Smile and 2007’s Horizons (the latter achieving Top 6 chart success in Oz), last year’s Parkway Drive: The DVD was met with a typically rabid response. It debuted at #2 on the ARIA chart and achieved Platinum status within weeks. By year’s end it was Australia’s biggest selling local artist DVD and was crowned ‘Best Music DVD’ at the 2009 Rolling Stone Awards. Their constant global touring has helped cement Parkway Drive’s reputation as one of the most dominant exponents of heavy hardcore in the world today.

Having recorded their first two albums with Adam Dutkiewicz (Killswitch Engage), the forthcoming album finds Parkway Drive turning to seasoned veteran Joe Barresi. Known for his work with big-league rock acts including Queens of the Stone Age, Bad Religion and Tool, Barresi will handle the recording and mix at his home studio, JHOC (Joe’s House of Compression) in Los Angeles, before renowned mastering engineer Brian Gardner (Avenged Sevenfold, Lamb of God, Nine Inch Nails) applies the finishing touches in Hollywood.

By that time Parkway Drive should be back on the road again. First stop is Europe and the UK throughout April and May, where they’ll play their biggest headlining dates so far, before their anticipated appearance at Vans Warped Tour in the US this summer.

Already top of the most hotly anticipated heavy releases of 2010, their forthcoming album promises to be a new and exciting chapter in the story of Australia’s most successful metal-hardcore band.

“This is the heaviest thing we’ve written, and at the same time the catchiest,” McCall warns. “And while we always want to keep the definitive Parkway Drive sound, there are a couple of things that will hopefully add another dimension to what we do.”

Parkway Drive European Tour Dates:

23-APR Stuttgart Zapata DE
24-APR Meerhout Groezrock BE
25-APR London HMV Forum UK
26-APR Manchester Academy UK
27-APR Bristol Academy UK
28-APR Paris Glazart FR
29-APR Saarbrucken Garage DE
30-APR Hamburg Markthalle DE
1-MAY Koln Essigfabrik DE
2-MAY Amsterdam Melkweg NL
3-MAY Copenhagen The Rock DK
4-MAY Gothenburg Brew House SWE
5-MAY Stockholm Klubben SWE
7-MAY Turku Klubi FIN
8-MAY Helsinki Tavastia FIN
9-MAY Tallinn Tapper EST
10-MAY Riga Melna Piektdiena LV
11-MAY Warsaw Proxima PL
12-MAY Bratislava Majectic Music Club SK
13-MAY Bologna Estragon IT
14-MAY Mining am Inn Metalfest Open Air AT
15-MAY Dresden Reithalle DE

The Boys Are Back In Town!

“an album chock full of anthems that will have your fist punching the air” – Kerrang!

Story Of The Year Rescheduled Dates Announced

New album “The Constant” available now on
Epitaph Records

As promised, the postponed shows from earlier this year have now been rescheduled. The new dates are as follows: (original tickets remain valid):

April 2010:

25th Oxford, O2 Academy
Price: £10 Available from www.tctmusic.co.uk / www.kililive.com
0871 230 5595 / 0844 477 2000

26th Norwich, Waterfront
Price: £10 Available from www.ueaticketbookings.co.uk / 01603 508050

27th Leeds, Cockpit
Price: £10 Available from www.lunatickets.co.uk / 01132454650

28th London, Relentless Garage
Price: £ Available from: www.gigsandtours.com /0844 847 1678

29th Stoke-on-Trent, Sugarmill
Price: £10 Available from: www.kililive.com www.thesugarmill.co.uk/tickets.php 0115 9454 593 / 01782 206000


After a decade of world-wide touring, charting singles and three fan-cherished albums selling over a million copies to date, Story of the Year have returned with an explosive new album, The Constant, available now on Epitaph Records

Spending the best part of 2009 at home, Story of the Year focused on stripping the excesses, getting back to basics and re-energizing the music that initially brought them together, before hitting the studio with producer Elvis Baskette (Chevelle, Cold, Escape The Fate) for their fourth studio album and follow-up to 2008’s The Black Swan. Holed up in a secluded studio, the band proceeded to craft some of the best music of their career.

“This was the fastest recording and writing experience for us ever and it was cool because we didn’t overthink everything,” explains the band’s vocalist Dan Marsala—who alongside guitarists Ryan Phillips and Philip Sneed, bassist Adam “The Skull” Russell and drummer Josh Willis make up Story Of The Year. “Writing and recording The Black Swan was a long, grueling process and this time we wanted to do the opposite: just have fun, be spontaneous and make it exciting—and it worked out better,” he continues. “Everyone is so happy with the end product and it was a great time.”

Fans of Story of the Year’s beloved debut album Page Avenue as well as their most recent release The Black Swan will be pleased to know The Constant has something for everyone. The Constant’s anthemic rock tracks and emotional ballads will strike a familiar chord with long time fans while newer converts will embrace the band’s notorious raw energy and fresh songwriting. Showcasing their musicianship and songwriting skills with radio-ready tracks like the first single “I’m Alive,” the snarling metal of “To The Burial,” driving, post-hardcore masterpiece “The Dream Is Over,” the soon-to-be fan favorite sing along “The Ghost of You and I” and the heartfelt piano ballad “Holding On To You,” The Constant sees Story of the Year sonically stretching to create their most diverse and accomplished collection of songs yet.

The album’s title embodies the band’s work ethic and commitment to both themselves and their fans. “Music is the constant thing in life for us,” Marsala explains. “When I go to bed I think about music and when I wake up it’s the first thing on my mind,” he continues. “The Constant can mean anything; hopefully our band will go on forever and we want music to remain a constant thing in our lives no matter what.”

Fans are encouraged to follow the band’s Twitter/ Facebook pages for news, updates, contests, free tickets and more.

www.twitter.com/storyoftheyear
www.myspace.com/storyoftheyear
www.facebook.com/storyoftheyear
www.epitaph.com

For further information and interview opportunities please email Em@publiccitypr.com or call on 07949554666

Audra Mae UK Tour and Debut Album!

Audra Mae announces London Shows
Debut album “The Happiest Lamb” out May 17th
On SideOneDummy Records

Phenomenal singer-songwriter Audra Mae has announced a series of intimate London shows this April. Be sure to catch her incredible live show at one of the following venues this spring:

April

13th London, The Underbelly
14th London, Flowerpot
15th London, Water Rats
17th London, Westminster Reference Library

Audra Mae is a natural treasure. Once the Oklahoma native opens her mouth and lets loose with that voice, pure and strong, with a hint of country twang and a twinkle of good humor, you realize this is what she’s meant to do… Stand in front of an audience and entertain, not just with her singing, but a distinctive songwriting voice, one that’s capable of relating fully developed characters and stories, all of which can be heard on her debut, “The Happiest Lamb” out May 17th on SideOneDummy Records.

Signed to L.A.-based label SideOneDummy, known more for punk-rock groups like Flogging Molly, Gaslight Anthem and Gogol Bordello than Americana roots singer-songwriters, Audra Mae is not as out of place as it would seem. After five years working her way through the local L.A. club scene, Audra found exactly what she was looking for in the fiercely independent record company.

Growing up, show business was in Audra Mae’s blood going back to Vaudeville. Her great grandmother, Virginia, was a member of The Gumm Sisters, who’s youngest member, Francis Ethel Gumm, grew up to be Judy Garland. Her paternal grandmother turned her on to country and folk artists like Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton and Woody Guthrie, while her maternal grandfather introduced her to jazz.

By the time she was 17, Audra Mae had taught herself to play guitar and piano. She went to Middle Tennessee State University for a year, flunked out, and moved to California, arriving January 8, 2004, Elvis Presley’s birthday, with $20 in her pocket.
In five years Audra Mae has landed publishing deal with Warner Chappell, a TV placement singing Bob Dylan’s “Forever Young” on the FX series Sons of Anarchy, a deal with Side OneDummy and in late 2009, wrote the lyrics to “Who I Was Born to Be”, (music by Swedish songwriter trio, Play Production) the only original track on Susan Boyle’s chart-topping, 9 million-selling “I Dreamed a Dream album”, and it has turned out to be a dream come true for the 25-year-old singer-songwriter.
“I had no idea that it would be like this,” she says. “It’s a crazy twist of fate.”

After finishing up “The Happiest Lamb”, Audra Mae is set to do what she does best—perform and entertain people in person.
For further press information and and interview opportunities please contact Emma Van Duyts at Public City on +447949554666 or Em@publiccitypr.com

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