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With a UK Tour behind them, Slovenia's Elvis Jackson release This Time as a new single release from their current album Against the Gravity. Described as punk rock, This Time finds Elvis Jackson in an even more reggae influenced style, with the video shot in the Slovenian snow and available to view after the jump.

Having already built a following in their native Ireland, Dublin based pop-punk band East Island City are about to release their debut album Me and What Army? on 30 April 2012. In advance of this release you can have a sneak preview of new single No Tomorrow after the jump.

The Levellers have had a soft spot for many of ex-Cartmel Bar residents of a certain vintage, so of course we were more than happy to bring you news of their newest single release as a prelude to new album Static on the Airwaves which is due out sometime this year. However, in addition to releasing new single Truth Is, the band have also got a little something special planned for Record Store Day, more details and the video for Truth Is are after the jump.

After the jump, Paradise Lost's latest video Honesty in Death. This track is from the forthcoming album Tragic Idol which is out next week.

Definitely some Icon/Draconian Times vibes in this one.

British amplifier manufacturer Laney has announced the new Tony Iommi signature amplifier - the TI100.

This two-channel 100-watt 6L6-powered amp looks suspiciously like the Laney Ironheart, albeit with that amp's clean channel removed. That's not necessarily a bad thing - it's a beautiful sounding amp - but still something of a surprise.

I wonder where I could get a lovely Iommi front-grill to still on my Ironheart.

Anyhoo, all the details of the new amp after the jump.

British advertising bullshitter and sometime amplification manufacturer Blackstar has unveiled its latest state of the art marketing nonsense. The company describes its latest verbal slight of hand and customer misdirection as revolutionary.

"We were a technological innovator with our introduction of the phrase 'Pure Valve' in our mostly transistor-based technology in recent years," said Blackstar CEO Bob Scraggs. "However our world class engineers have been hard at work delivering more powerful state of the art bullshit that's sure to be a big hit with clueless customers and puny editorial lapdogs such as Guitarist Magazine."

"Today Blackstar is proud to unveil our latest product phrase 'True Valve Power' which we will believe will fool even more customers than ever before. With 'True Valve Power' we're extending our previous abilities of not having many valves in our valve products to now having no valves in them instead. Raising our 'no actual valves' to 'valve based marketing bullshit' ratio to 100 percent. I believe Blackstar is the first amplifier manufacturer to completely remove valves from over-hyped valve related products. This will enable us to continue to charge British-built prices for a range of Korean-made tat."

'True Valve Power' marketing bullshit will be available as an expensive range of literature and badges this summer, and will be bundled with a free modelling amplifier that's almost as good a Line 6 Spider for three times the money.

The presence of any valves has yet to be announced.

Full press release follows.

D-jaysea has been wittering on for weeks about Craig Finn's debut solo album Clear Heart Full Eyes, which was released during a break form being the frontman of The Hold Steady. However, despite enjoying Honolulu Blues we've basically ignored D-jaysea, but mention the word beer and we're all ears. Yes Craig has decided to create a beer called Clear Heart and all the news, although technically a drift away from music is available after the jump.

Now it might be that progressive death metal isn't your scene, but if it's just those vocal growls which aren't your cup of tea, then help yourself to the free download from 7 Horns 7 Eyes after the jump, which is an instrumental of forthcoming album track Divine Amnesty.

Well if you were reading Harry's tweet the other day, which read as follows:-

Coming up this week - Veil of Maya reviewed, some guitar nonsense and no doubt some stuff that doesn't rock. :-)

You along with Harry would have been pleasantly surprised with the Black Moth track Chicken Shit featured earlier this week. However, to name drop something that definitely isn't rock come Oxfordshire's Black Hats, who seem to have musical inspiration from the likes of Feeder, Young Knives, Supergrass, Ordinary Boys and The Enemy, for more details on the band, their debut mini album Austerity for the Hoi Polloi and to watch the video for single Kick in the Doors read more after the jump.

In my review of 2011 I noted the emergence of the debut album from Yorkshire based band Black Moth. With the album due out on 7 May 2012, the band currently have single Chicken Shit available to download for free from the Soundcloud widget after the jump and based on both Jimbo and Harry's initial thoughts it is as essential a download as you'll ever find on this site.