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With less than two weeks to go until the start of the fest­ival, we bring you this week’s Spot­light On: Szi­get 2010, focus­sing on the Israeli psy­che­delic trance group, Infec­ted Mush­room. The band star­ted out with only two mem­bers, Erez Eisen (I.Zen) and Amit Dudevani (Dudev) in 1998 in north­ern Israel. Since then, they have been joined by three oth­ers to form the most recent line-up, that used for “Legend of the Black Shawarma”.
Their first for­ays into the world of music together were made in 1998, and they looked to …

Anber­lin have brought for­ward the release date of their new album to Septem­ber 7^th. The first track from it, Impossible is avail­able as of today.
Less Than Jake have announced some tour dates in the UK in Novem­ber. For more details, you can check out where they’ll be play­ing here.
Watch a video here of Kid Cudi under attack by a man at a con­cert in Clev­e­land (US).
Sta­cey DuPree and Dar­ren King (of Eis­ley and MUTEMATH respect­ively) have tied the knot, you can see a photo on Sherri’s twit­pic.
The Fire, Senses Fail’s new album …

Click here to hear some of the main reas­ons we’re excited about Szi­get — a first for JBT — an art­icle with a soundtrack!
Szi­get is a music fest­ival held annu­ally in Bud­apest, Hun­gary. Szi­get lit­er­ally means island (and is pro­nounce “see-get”), and it’s called that because it’s held on an island in the middle of the Danube. Its first incarn­a­tion was as a mainly student-run fest­ival in 1993, and the second, in 1994, was a Wood­stock re-union fest­ival in Europe. Dur­ing the four years since its incep­tion, they must have …

A day late, a buck short…
Beau of Saosin has pos­ted on their mes­sage board, telling us that the band have par­ted ways with Cove, their lead singer, but they have not yet found a replace­ment for him.
Sub­lime with Rome (Sub­lime with Rome Ramirez instead of Brad­ley Now­ell) will hit the stu­dio in Octo­ber to record a new album, accord­ing to Rome on the band’s offi­cial web­site.
Band­camp have announced that they will begin char­ging a 15% trans­ac­tion fee on all sales made on their web­site, up to $5000 per band, at which point …

This week’s Spot­light on: Szi­get will be focus­sing on the massive UK dance act, Faith­less. Formed in 1995 by Sis­ter Bliss, she recruited Maxi Jazz, Jamie Catto and Rollo Arm­strong to join her. The four­some released Salva Mea later on that year. They have released six albums of ori­ginal mater­ial, Rev­er­ence, Sunday 8PM, Out­ro­spect­ive, No Roots, To All New Arrivals and The Dance. They describe their sound as a blend of trip-hop and techno, and they have undoubtedly influ­enced thou­sands and thou­sands of today’s dance acts.
The suc­cess­ful artist Dido, is Rollo …