The Shield - June Release Date
The final season of the Shield – The Final Act finished airing in December last year. The American TV crime-drama features a close unit of detectives in an experimental unit of the LAPD, called Strike Team – loosely based on the Rampart Police scandal and the corruption of police officers.
The series included many big name actors including Glen Close, Anthony Anderson and Forest Whittaker. Season 7 consisted of 13 hour long episodes concluding with a 90-minute season and series finale. This final season one an AFI award for best TV series and the series as a whole was critically acclaimed for it’s realism and portrayal of gang crime.
The Shield, Season 7 – The Final Act is released though Sony Video on 8th June.
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Chickenfoot Release Date
Rock supergroup, Chickenfoot release their debut self-titled album in June this year. The band comprises former Van Halen and Montrose vocalist Sammy Hagar, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, former Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony and world genius electric guitarist Joe Satriani.
They first performed together in February 2008 at a Sammy Hagar concert in Las Vegas and are hailed as one of the most exciting rock and roll band for years.
Joe Satriani says of their music: “The material is really slamming, and anybody who has ever been around Chad knows that he is a very huge personality, a very high-energy guy and his drumming in person is explosive.”
The tracklisting includes the singles “Soap On A Rope” and “Down The Drain” which were released through the band’s official website in March 2009 and “Oh Yeah” which was released to US Radio on 13th April.
The debut album will be released on ltd edition, heat sensitive CD format as well as a standard CD on 8th June 2009.
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Top Gear Release Date
Award-winning and hugely popular BBC2 motoring series, Top Gear, has released a number of DVD products including Great Adventures (Botswana, Polar & Vietnam Specials among others), Richard Hammonds Top Gear Stunt Challenge, Jeremy Clarkson’s Thriller, Winter Olympics and Back in the Fast Lane: The Best of Top Gear.
Top Gear:Challenges 3 centres around the team’s eccentric, often fool-hardy experiments with high performance cars, budget vehicles, trucks and vans of all descriptions, testing them to their limits in a hilarious variety of ways. Building their own aquacars and trying to cross the channel, Jeremy racing James and Richard from Heathrow to Oslo in a Mercedes SLR, Jeremy, James and Richard each buy a white van for under £1,000 and race the Stig in a police car are just a few of the 3 hours of escapades and daring challenges invented by the boys with their toys.
Top Gear:Challenges 3 is released on BBCVideo on 8th June.
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Placebo Release Date
Placebo return this June with not only a new studio album, but a new line-up and a more optimistic and evolved sound. ”Battle for the Sun” will be their 6th studio album and their first with new drummer, Steve Forrest.
Brian Molko, frontman of Placebo said of the album: ”We’ve made a record about choosing life, about choosing to live, about stepping out of the darkness and into the light. Not necessarily turning your back on the darkness because it’s there, it’s essential; it’s a part of who you are, but more about the choice of standing in the sunlight instead.”
He also went on to say: ”I wanted to make a record which was very colourful…sonically massive”.
The band play a handful of UK dates in Sheffield (9th May), Bournemouth (10th May) and London (12th May) in the warm up to the album release as well as playing mainstage at the Reading/Leeds Festivals in August and RockNess in Scotland on Sunday, June 14.
“Battle for the Sun” is released via PIAS/Warners on 8th June.
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Valkyrie DVD Release Date
‘Valkyrie’ has a release date of 8/6/09 on DVD. Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy and Eddie Izzard star in the film that captures the events around the 20th July 1944 when a plot was initiated to assassinate Hitler in his own bunker.
Tom Cruise plays Claus von Stauffenberg who was one of the main plotters against Hitler in 1944. He along with several others hatch a plan to use ‘Operation Valkyrie’ against Hitler and his barbaric regime. The group are determined that it be known that not all Germans are like Hitler.
They plan to kill Hitler with a bomb which isn’t successful. ‘Valkyrie’ is initiated but eventually fails. The plotters are arrested and most of them are executed or commit suicide. ‘Valkyrie’ is a dramatic reconstruction of the historical events of the time and will be released on 8/6/09.
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button DVD Release Date
‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ is released to DVD on 8/6/09. The film stars the greats Brad Pitt and Kate Blanchett.
Pitt is the lead character Benjamin Button in this somewhat unique story that was adapted from the F. Scott Fitzgerald classic of the same name. The day a huge hurricane hits town is that day that Benjamin Button is born. He is no ordinary baby in that he has many of the diseases of on old man. Instead of growing old Button grows young!
Button is befriended by Daisy and therein begins a lifetime friendship. The only time the pair are of a similar age is in their forties! This is a tale of love and love lost, of living for the now and coping with the inevitable end! ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ is a fascinating tale that will be released to DVD on 8/6/09.
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Kasabian New Album
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Album Artwork TBC
Originally scheduled for early 2008, Kasabian finally release their third studio album on 8th June. The Leicester indie-rockers have often been compared to Primal Scream, Oasis and The Stone Roses and their success has given them two top 5 albums, including number one for the 2006 “Empire” which went double platinum selling over 895,000 copies.
When asked about the direction of the album, frontman Tom Meighan explained, “It all joins together which is beautiful, there’s no gaps in it, it’s very psychedelic, there’s very much elements of the first but it’s a more distant sounding Kasabian than we have been with the last two albums.” He also talks about the title, “It’s a loony title, but we …picked one that has lots of words, it’s a tongue twister!”
Kasabian recently announced a 20-date UK summer tour to coincide with the release of their new album beginning on 29th May in Leicester and continuing until 17th July where it finishes at London’s Brixton O2 Academy.
“West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum” is released on Ltd Edition CD/DVD and standard CD on 8th June.
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