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SWOUND! Cheeky rockers Swound! have given music fans the chance to download their debut album ‘Hello Future, Our Name Is Swound!’ for free or by a pay-what-you-like and set Swound! a challenge scheme. The quartet have also confirmed an appearance on the Rock Sound Cave at GuilFest in July. More details on Challenge Swound! at www.challengeswound.com / www.myspace.com/swound

ROCKED OUT 5 Aldershot’s West End Centre plays host to Rocked Out 5 in August. The event is all about giving youngsters the chance to improve their live performance and is led by tutors including members of A / The Bloodhound Gang, Graham Coxon / Charlotte Hatherley’s band and Reuben. Tickets are available now via the West End Centre box office on 01252 330040 or online via www.rocked-out.co.uk

MUSE Muse have announced they will call their new album ‘The Resistance’. Rock Sound is excited. www.muse.mu

CBGBS Proud Gallery in Camden, London, is to host a special photo exhibition dedicated to the legendary New York club. This runs until August 09 and will include previously unseen photos. www.proud.co.uk

PLACEBO Fresh off the back of new album ‘Battle For The Sun’, Placebo have announced that they are to play their first, full UK arena tour in December. See gig guide for dates. www.placeboworld.co.uk

THE CUMSHOTS Rock Sound staffer Faye Lewis recently stood up to The Cumshots’ frontman Max Cargo while the band visited London. Watch what the Norwegian Grammy nominees had to say at www.rocksound.tv / www.thecumshots.org

IN THIS MOMENT Maria Brink and company get all acoustic and perform an exclusive version of ‘Forever’ at the Gibson Studios in London.

DEVIN TOWNSEND The Strapping Young Lad frontman and metal producer gets pretty damn real with Rock Sound as he talks drugs, sperm and dodgy bands at the Gibson Studios in London. TWIN ATLANTIC Rock Sound documents the Glasgow rockers as they record their debut mini-album in sunny Los Angeles. Want to see the band in bed? Well, neither did we, but they sent us the footage so…

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BEST OF THE WEB We’ve barely had chance to breathe this month on www. rocksound.tv, one second GERARD WAY and LYN-Z are announcing to the world the safe arrival of new baby Bandit Lee Way (stop laughing at the back), next EVERY TIME I DIE are telling us their new record is a “legit punk record” and then THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN tell the world that they have left their record label and formed their own imprint. Frankly, it’s been mental! Despite the chaos, we were right there when YOU ME AT SIX wanted to talk about new material, when PARAMORE wanted to announce new song titles, when GREEN DAY told us they had hit a creative high and when THE GHOST OF A THOUSAND confi rmed that we were sponsoring their UK headline tour. Incredibly, we even found time to sponsor a stage at TRUCK FESTIVAL, tweet with THE BLACKOUT’s vocalist Sean Smith and talk with PLACEBO about festival boobs, both literally and fi guratively.

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BITCHFIRE ‘BITCHFIRE’ (SELF-RELEASE) It’s more about the chuckle factor

this month. BitchFire have been making us laugh a lot in RS HQ with

their frankly ludicrous hard rock attack and artwork. For Dokken

fans only! www.myspace.com/bitchfi re

CAN’T COOK, WON’T COOK Don’t let We Are The Ocean cook you burgers

London rockers We Are The Ocean nearly burnt Brian McTernan’s Baltimore studio down to the ground after letting their guitarist lose in the kitchen! The quintet have been busy recording their debut opus with the famed producer (Thrice, Converge) at his Salad Days Studio, but Alfi e Scully’s burger cooking nearly ended in disaster. “It was Alfi e’s turn to cook one night and we found out that it was the fi rst time he had ever cooked!” laughed frontman Dan Brown. “He did burgers, on a baking tray and set the oven to broil not bake. All of the grease was dripping into the fl ames and the whole thing could have blown up. He was

like, ‘Oh sorry, it’s the fi rst time I’ve cooked’ – the fi re alarms went off and there was smoke everywhere! Brian went mental. We didn’t realise how severe it was but he was like, ‘You could have quite easily burned the whole place down’.” The album, ‘Cutting Teeth’, will be released later this year on an as-yet-confi rmed label. Cooking aside, WATO worked closely with Brian to produce their most mature work to date. “We learnt so much from him. He’d just do little changes, and we were like, ‘Fuck, how did we not think of that?’ We’re really happy with it.” WATO play Rock Sound’s Cave at GuilFest in July; see gig guide for dates. www.myspace.com/wearetheoceanuk