In their 25th anniversary year Texas release their brand new studio album ’The Conversation’ through [PIAS] Recordings on May 20th 2013. Following the album release, Texas will return in November with a full UK tour including a headline London show at Hammersmith Apollo and a string of dates around the country. 

Following their appearance on ‘The Big Reunion’ earlier this year, and a recent sold out show at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire on 3rd May, Blue are soon to be back on the road for a full UK tour, visiting Norwich, Manchester, Newcastle, Leeds, Glasgow, Birmingham and London in October. After already announcing further dates to the tour, due to an outstanding response from fans, we are delighted to reveal another seven additional dates have been added to the upcoming Blue tour in order to meet popular demand.

Grammy nominated and multimillion selling Paramore have just confirmed details of a UK and Ireland tour for the autumn. This will follow the band’s appearance at this year’s Radio 1 Big Weekend in Londonderry/Derry at the end of May.

Avenged Sevenfold have revealed they will perform in Manchester, London and Birmingham this winter. This new short tour will see the Orange County band performing songs from their eagerly anticipated new album due to hit stores soon.

Utopia Music are one of our favourite labels here at Stereoboard, and it appears that Ukraine are about to become one of our favourite countries - as two of it’s hottest talents have lined-up a wicked new single that’s dropping later this month.

In recent times there’s been a noticeable increase in the number of talented musicians coming out of West Wales, with singer-songwriter Harry Keyworth the latest to come across Stereoboard’s radar with his debut EP ‘Flux’.

2013 marks the thirteenth anniversary of The Dandy Warhols’ 'Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia'. To celebrate the occasion, the band has overseen a newly remastered and expanded 13th Anniversary Edition of the album, to be released June 11th in 2CD and digital audio packages by Capitol/UMe. The new edition adds ‘Thirteen Tales’ session outtakes, early and alternate mixes, and home demos of songs from the album.

If you know anything about drum and bass, then you’ve likely heard of the mighty LTJ Bukem before - either by listening to his mixes, hearing one of his tracks, seeing him DJ live, or simply through a friend. Unfortunately, the legend hasn’t been as active recently as he was in the 90s, but this year he returns with a brand new compilation - which he’s expertly mixed in his trademark style for our listening pleasure.

This summer Dizzee Rascal will brandish his mark once again on the musical landscape with the release of his new single 'Goin’ Crazy' featuring Robbie Williams.

With their new album 'Cave Rave' set for release in just a few weeks time (May 27th 2013), Crystal Fighters have unveiled an album sampler showcasing clips of all 10 tracks on the record, including the impossibly summery current single 'You & I'. 

Sacramento-based Middle Class Rut have just released the video for their new single 'Aunt Betty', out 13th May. The single is taken from the band's new LP 'Pick Up Your Head', out 24th June through Bright Antenna. 

World famous hip-hop collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All - aka OFWGKTA, or Odd Future - have announced a gig in London.

Black Sabbath are to premiere a brand new song from their forthcoming album '13' on CSI next week. 

We’ve had far too much news of venues closing down recently - we’ve reported on the likes of The Croft in Bristol closing down this month, London’s brilliant Cable nightclub being shut down for train station improvements (shame on you, Network Rail!), and even Cardiff’s iconic Clwb Ifor Bach is looking for new trustees - or it’s current owners may sell.

Sweden’s Dark Tranquillity will release their new album 'Construct' on May 27th in Europe via Century Media Records. In anticipation of this release, the band has now launched the video for the new Single 'Uniformity'. This video-clip was produced and directed by Revolver Film Company and Patric Ullaeus, who previously made the videos for In Flames, Hammerfall and Lacuna Coil.

There’s good news and there’s very good news for Bowling For Soup fans! The London Forum date of the Bowling For Soup ‘UK Farewell’ tour is now sold out. However, the party just got bigger as the venue has been moved up to the Hammersmith Apollo!

Later Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman died from alcohol-related liver failure, it has now been revealed - with doctors pretty much ruling out the spider bite he suffered in 2011.

Organisers of South Wales music festival, Merthyr Rock, have been forced to cancel 2013's event due to "overwhelming economic pressures".

Make no mistake, this is the sound of an artist completely at ease with himself and his muse, unconcerned by expectations and having an absolute blast. Following 2010's 'Black Swans And Wormhole Wizards' - a stylistically diverse journey through time and space - this fourteenth studio album finds guitar wielding deity Joe Satriani return to earth with a sparkling instrumental album that dissects the emotional traumas and triumphs caused by humanity's ceaseless forward motion. It sounds serious, but thanks to Satch delivering his most commercial collection of tunes since 1992's 'The Extremist', the overall feeling is one of unwavering positivity in the face of adversity. Whilst some may be disappointed by the lack of heavy rock numbers and increasingly mature aesthetic, 'Unstoppable Momentum' still boasts a great mixture of astonishing virtuosity, visceral melodies and genre bending passages that are vintage Satriani.

One Direction have filled their millions of fans with excitement this week - after unveiling a countdown timer that leads to what the boys have described as ‘the most exciting 1D news EVER’!