New additions to Reading and Leeds

A HOST of new acts have been added to the bill for this year's Reading and Leeds Festivals.

Ragga metallers Skindred, Lower Than Atlantis, We Are The In Crowd and Bury Tomorrow all join the line-ups for the Main Stage.

Frightened  Rabbit, FIDLAR, Kodaline, Tribes and AlunaGeorge have meanwhile been added to play the NME/Radio 1 stage.

As well as a host of new artists on the Radio 1 dance stage, details of the New Rock Stage have been announced with Enter Shikari unveiling their alter-ego Shikari Sound System. Funeral For A Friend and Gallows will also play the stage.

Other artists added to the bill across the weekend include Fenech-Soler, Alkaline Trio, King Prawn, And So I Watch You From Afar, Chvrches, British Sea Power, Tim Burgess, Spector, The Jim Jones Review, and loads more.

The festival, which runs across the two sites from 23rd to 25th August is headlined by Green Day, Eminem and Biffy Clyro, with System of a Down, Chase and Status, Nine Inch Nails, Fall Out Boy, Foals and Deftones also due to play.

For a full line up and ticketing details, visit www.readingfestival.com or www.leedsfestival.com

La Roux, Miles Kane join Benicàssim bill

TWENTY new bands have been confirmed for Benicàssim 2013.

La Roux (above), Miles Kane, Everything Everything and Woodkid all join the line up along with the likes of Le Carousel, Childhood, Christian Smith and Chvrches, among others.

They join what is one of the strongest line ups in the Spanish festival's history with The Killers, Queens Of The Stone Age, Arctic Monkeys, Dizzee Rascal, Jake Bugg and the Hurts already confirmed.

  

FIB 2013 will be held in Benicàssim's concert venue on July 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st.

Sir Sly debut single out in March

LA trio Sir Sly are preparing to launch their debut single in the UK through new independent label National Anthem later this year.

Sir Sly – made up of Landon Jacobs, Jason Suwito, and Hayden Coplen – will release ‘Ghost’ as a limited edition 7-inch, backed by ‘Gold’ and ‘Where I’m Going’ (digital only) on March 4.

The single was recorded, mixed and mastered by the band themselves at their home studio. It receives a simultaneous release through Neon Gold in the US.

The band members are now working on their debut album, which is due for release later this year.

National Anthem is a new independent label based in London, which has released the debut EPs of Scottish band Chvrches and BBC Sound of 2013 winner HAIM.

The ‘Ghost’ 7-inch can be purchased here.