Headline Shows Added For Summer!

Zebrahead have announced 6 new headline shows, literally taking place days after the band has played the UK's Sonisphere Festival this August. 2 of the shows will take place in the UK, with the 3rd being in Austria and the 4th being in the Czech Republic! See below for the four new additions!

August 3rd - Met Lounge - Peterborough, England
August 4th - Rock City Basement - Nottingham, England
August 5th - Wedgewood Rooms - Portsmouth, England
August 6th - Furnace - Swindon, England
August 12th - B72 - Vienna, Austria
August 13th - Modra Vopice - Prague Punk Fest - Prague, Czech Republic


Thanks to MFZB.com's Scott for the heads up on the above image! Keep checking back for any additions to the Summer tour.

Cover Of The Month: usfgeek - Anthem

This month's COTM winner is usfgeek who has done an awesome drum cover of "Anthem"! The video below shows of his skills which may even give Ed a run for his money! As always we'll be searching the highs and lows of YouTube to find a winner for next month, so feel free to hook us up with a video link if your in a band or have done a solo cover. And with that said, enjoy this month's winner:

European Festivals & October UK Tour Dates!

UPDATE: According to some sources the UK tour dates could be changing so bear that in mind, and expect any confirmed changes to be announced right here!
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SPV's official website has finally unveiled all the of upcoming Zebrahead dates for the next few months, starting with some festivals in Europe and UK this August and ending with a UK tour in October. You can check out the full list of dates below:

SUMMER FESTIVALS:
2 Aug 2009 - Knebworth, UK @ Sonisphere Festival
8 Aug 2009 - Eschwege, Germany @ Open Flair Festival
9 Aug 2009 - Rothenburg, Germany @ Taubertal Festival
14 Aug 2009 - Horb, Germany @ Mini Rock Festival
15 Aug 2009 - Püttlingen, Germany - Köllerbach @ Rocco Del Schlacko Festival
20 Aug 2009 - Hasselt, Belgium @ Pukklepop Festival
21 Aug 2009 - Lüdinghausen, Germany @ Area 4 Festival
22 Aug 2009 - Lierop, Netherlands @ Nirwana Tuinfeest Festival
23 Aug 2009 - Erfurt, Germany - Hohenfelden @ Highfield Festival
28 Aug 2009 - Wirges, Germany @ spAck! Festival

UK TOUR:
2 Oct 2009 - Oxford, UK @ Academy 2
3 Oct 2009 - Swindon, UK @ Furnace
4 Oct 2009 - Birmingham, UK @ Academy 2
5 Oct 2009 - Stoke, UK @ Sugarmill
6 Oct 2009 - Norwich, UK @ Waterfront UEA
8 Oct 2009 - Northampton, UK @ Roadmender
9 Oct 2009 - Newcastle, UK @ Academy 2
10 Oct 2009 - Glasgow, UK @ Garage G2
11 Oct 2009 - Leeds, UK @ The Cockpit
12 Oct 2009 - Sheffield, UK @ Academy 2
13 Oct 2009 - Manchester, UK @ Academy 3
14 Oct 2009 - Newport, UK @ T.J´s
16 Oct 2009 - Islington, UK @ Islington Academy
17 Oct 2009 - Brighton, UK @ Concorde 2
18 Oct 2009 - Portsmouth, UK @ Wedgewood Rooms

And there you have it! If any more dates get added we'll be sure to let you know!

Zebrahead Gets Twitter!

Hurrah! You may be happy to learn that now there is another official Zebrahead site for you to know all the latest happenings direct from the band themselves - this time in the form of the Official Zebrahead Twitter Profile! For anyone not familiar with Twitter, it is essentially a microblogging site where short 140 character updates can be posted informing anyone following your feed, exactly what you are up to!

This will certainly be handy during studio time and touring, so keep an eye for any interesting tid-bits. PFH has added a twitter badge on the right hand side, just above the Mobile Stream so you can be in the know without even leaving this page!

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Nirwana Tuinfeest Confirmation!

Zebrahead are now confirmed to play the Netherlands this summer as part of the Nirwana Tuinfeest happening on August 22nd! This is the second European festival Zebrahead currently have lined up. Check back for more tour news as we get it!

Zebrahead To Play Spack!

Zebrahead have been added to the bill for this year's Spack Festival! Good news for all German fans, as the band are set to take the stage there on the 28th August 2009. Ben also hints on the band's MySpace blog that we should expect more really cool things this summer!"

So as always, stay tuned!

Zebrahead On Summer Sonic Poster!

While they may not be playing the monster festival this summer in Japan, Zebrahead are certainly still on the minds of the Summer Sonic organisers! The band can be seen mid-performance on the official Summer Sonic '09 lineup poster which can be seen here (scroll down!). Pretty neat!

Zebrahead still hold the impressive title of being the band to play Summer Sonic the most times, despite not making an appearance this year!

Cover Of The Month: GoodBettrBest - Veils & Visions

Well it's that time again folks. You know it's been a slow month for Zebrahead news when the last COTM is just a few posts down from this one!

Anyway moving shiftly on, this month's winner is non other than MFZB.com's very own GoodBettrBest! The video below allows you to see his awesome guitar skills while covering Veils & Visions from the band's Waste Of MFZB CD. As always we'll be searching the highs and lows of YouTube to find a winner for next month, so feel free to hook us up with a video link if your in a band or have done a solo cover. And with that said, enjoy this month's winner:

Panty Raid!

Zebrahead's forthcoming covers album has officially been named as 'Panty Raid'! Hmmm we have a feeling this title offers a big hint on what kind of songs will be featured (think about it!). Full tracklisting and other details should be announced soon. In the mean time check out the official announcement below, taken from the band's MySpace blog:

"Yes..the news section has been super super calm lately...that is about to change....big things coming up in the world of zebrahead....FIRST off...a new album of covers....(for those confused...covers are when you play other peoples songs...you would be suprised on how many people are confused by that!)....lots of them....This album will be titled PANTY RAID!

Lets play and lame and ridiculous game and make some guesses as to why it will be named that???..and maybe even some songs you think could be on it based on the album TITLE!!!...Next news blog will have the tracklisting for ya to see!!!....this is coming sooner than you think!!..Lets get this party started!

MFZB"

Cover Of The Month: BlackStage - The Set-Up

This month's winner comes from Portuguese band BlackStage who have a number of live Zebrahead cover performances uploaded to YouTube, however we think their cover of 'The Set-Up' is probably their best! You can check it out below, it even includes the new ending to the song. Good job guys!


Think you can do better? Link us to you or your band and maybe you'll be featured next month!

Zebrahead Nominated For OC Award!

Congratulations to Zebrahead who have been nominated for Best Punk Act in this years OC Awards! The guys are up against Ignite, Sederra, TSOL and The Vandals. You can check out the full nominee press release, including the other categories right here.

Big thanks to Neil from MFZB.com for the heads up on this!

My Own Worst Enemy

Kevin Baldes, best known for playing with alternative band Lit managed to snap some awesome photos of the band last August when they played the House Of Blues, CA. You can check out all the photos on his Flickr page here!

Hockey Anyone?

So readers of this blog may already be aware that when not caught up with Zebrahead, Matty tends to enjoy playing baseball, well as it turns out his sporting activities don't just stop there. Matty enjoys playing a bit of Hockey on the side as well! Ben mentions a short story in a new MySpace blog:

So I forgot to post this a couple weeks ago....Matty plays Hockey at a League where he lives...and they have games where anyone can come in and play....a couple weeks ago Melvin from NOFX walked in to play...and ends up on the opposing team to Matty....and YES Melvin scored on Matty...end of story.....thought it was funny...apparently Melvin is really good...or does matty just suck at playing GOALIE???
MFZB

Cover Of The Month: Nice Price - Mental Health

It's a new year... so here's a new feature for PFH. Starting from now, on the last day of every month (assuming I remember) PFH will bring you our new feature 'Cover Of The Month'. Essentially we'll search the high and lows of YouTube for a Zebrahead cover that we feel earns the title (one way or another) of 'Cover Of The Month'.

January's 'winner' comes from Italian band Nice Price who did an acoustic cover of Mental Health. You can check it out below!


Bravo! Think you (or your band) can do a better Zebrahead cover? Link us and maybe you'll be featured next month!

Geki Rock Live Report

Japanese based Geki Rock have posted a 'Live Report' summing up the Nov 28th show on the recent Zebrahead/illScarlett Japanese tour.



You can check it out in full, including the setlist and more pictures, here and if you want a rough translation of the page then click here.

Cover Album In The Works...

Since completing their gigantic UK/European/Japanese tour things have quietened down considerably in the land of Zebrahead, however fear not! Everyone will be pleased to know that the guys are currently hard finishing up a Cover Song album!

As posted by Ben recently in a ReverbNation e-mail, he states that the guys "have been really busy.............tat tat ta da............working on a covers record...yes a covers record.....I will unfold more details soon...but it is almost done!!!.......we are excited...."

PFH can let you know the covers album has a particular theme but we'll leave that for an official announcement, as it really is worth the wait! We are possibly looking at a March/April release for this one but we'll bring you all the details as soon as they are confirmed!

More Pre-Zebrahead Malarky!

Chris DiCarlo, the former singer for late 90s La Habra based band 3-Ply has set up a MySpace music profile for the band, which I'm pretty sure some people may want to check out! 'Why?' I hear you ask. Well, before becoming the Zebrahead bassist we all know and love, our very own Ben Osmundson played bass in the aforementioned band (as well as occassionally singing!).

Head on over the 3-Ply MySpace Profile and you can listen to some of the old songs (check out LMD in particular) as well as see a few pictures of album/vinyl covers and so forth. Well who'd have thought it eh? Keep an eye on the profile as it's sure to grow once Chris digs out more stuff, and if you're still needing a pre-Zebrahead fix, then head on over to listen to Matty's old band Jank 1000.

Well I look forward to Ben sending me a threatening e-mail. Enjoy!

Move Over Charlie Brown...

If you've been wondering the reason why Ben has been taking numerous pictures around the world with a Snoopy stuffed toy (and haven't we all?), then you should thank Zebrahead German Support who decided to get to the bottom of the matter once and for all...

Click on the image below to read the full 'interview'.

Zebrahead On Guitar Hero: World Tour!... Kinda

While this is by no means an official additional of Zebrahead to the Guitar Hero franchise (though we all know it's long overdue), thanks to one of the awesome new features in Guitar Hero: World Tour, known as GH Tunes, you can now play along to a Zebrahead song! GH Tunes essentially lets users create their own songs for others to also download for free, and a very clever guy who goes by the name of "The Startled" has created Zebrahead's "Wake Me Up" which you can download for free.

If you have a copy of the game for the Nintendo Wii platform, then head on over to GH Tunes and you'll find the tune slowly clibming it's way up the Top 20 All Time Rated tunes!

Or if you simply want to hear what it's like then head on over to the GH Tunes website where you can stream it in your browser! Good job indeed! Can anyone else do better? Let us know!