Weekly News Roundup: 10th April 2009

Nine Black Alps, the four-piece grunge rock outfit from Manchester, are back this year with a new album and a new tour. The third album, as yet untitled, will be released sometime in the summer and the band made a taster, Buy Nothing, available for free download on the NME website. The band are also releasing this album independently after parting ways with Island.

Placebo will be playing some warm up shows in May as they prepare for a busy summer of festival action (including Reading and Leeds). The band, who release new album Battle For The Sun in a couple of months, will be playing their first live shows of 2009 in Sheffield, Bournemouth and London as they preview new material. The tour dates in full are all on their website.

Trent Reznor has been taking part in the Digg Dialog series of interviews. The Nine Inch Nails leader answered the ten most popular interview questions voted for by users of popular social bookmarking site Digg and the interview can be seen here. Want to know what the most embarassing song is on his iPod? This might be your lucky day.

Kylesa and Torche will be coming to Europe in the summer, in order to deafen everyone within a five mile radius.

Finally, the entirety of The Beatles‘ back catalogue will be re-released worldwide in a remastered format on the 9th September (incidentally, also the same day when The Beatles edition of Rock Band also hits stores).

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