We're insanely happy to announce that our newest Canadian signings Ten Second Epic have booked in a UK tour. They'll be over to the UK the back of February / beginning of March, so make sure you take the opportunity to check them out. And look at the dates! All in confusing North American style...

2/26 - Newcastle, UK @ Riverside
2/27 - Glasgow, UK @ Classic Grand
2/28 - Leeds, UK @ The Well
2/29 - Birmingham, UK @ Ballroom
3/01 - Southampton, UK @ Joiners
3/04 - London, UK @ The Garage
(all dates supported by LYU)

And to remind you all of just how good TSE are, check out the storming video for 'Young Classics' below.

Along with the world and his wife (or her husband - who are we to decide?), we've been busily putting together our Top 10 Albums of 2011, and we invited our close chums from Trail Of Press to join us too. Check them out below in all their glory. True to form, there's hardly any crossover.

Disclaimer: As always, we've not included any Hassle bands in our own lists, and banned the ToP boys from any of their other acts too. It's easier / fairer.

Chris (Hassle Records)
1. Bobby Long ‘A Winter Tale’
2. Marcus Foster ‘Nameless Path’
3. City and Colour ‘Little Hell’
4. Sharon Van Etten ‘Epic’
5. Thrice ‘Major Minor’
6. Feist ‘Metals’
7. Lower Than Atlantis ‘World Record’
8. Into it. Over it. 'Proper’
9. Mastodon ‘The Hunter’
10. Fucked Up 'David Comes To Life’

Mike (Hassle Records)
1. New Found Glory – Radiosurgery
2. The Wonder Years – Suburbia I’ve Given You All And Now I’m Nothing
3. Doomtree – No Kings
4. Twin Atlantic – Free
5. Thrice – Major/Minor
6. Protest The Hero – Scurrilous
7. Four Year Strong – In Some Way Shape Or Form
8. Fireworks – Gospel
9. The Swellers - Good For Me
10. Misser – Problems, Problems, Problems EP

Ivano (Trail Of Press)
1. Doldrums EP – Empire Sound
2. Defeater - Empty Days & Sleepless Nights
3. Wild Beasts – Smother
4. Trap Them – Darker Handcraft
5. Three Trapped Tigers – Route One Or Die
6. King Krule EP – King Krule
7. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Diamond Mine
8. The Men – Leave Home
9. Ghostpoet – Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam
10. Circle Takes The Square – Decompositions – Vol 1. Chapter 1. Rites Of Initiation

Oli (Trail Of Press)
1. Trap Them – Darker Handcraft
2. Circle Takes The Square – Decompositions Vol.1 Chapter 1. Rites of Initiation
3. Fucked Up – David Comes To Life
4. Bon Iver – Bon Iver
5. Touche Amore – Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me
6. The Weeknd – House of Balloons
7. Metronomy – The English Riviera
8. Low – C’mon
9. Mastodon – The Hunter
10. Feist - Metals

TURBOWOOOOOOOOLF

YES.

...the fifth of MOVEMBER. And throw in a bit of Pop Bubble Rock! for good measure!

You may have seen on Twitter that back in October, we DJ'd the opening night of new London clubnight Pop Bubble Rock!. Well, it was such an overwhelming success that they're doing another one - this time to coincide with the very worthy Movember charity. And as Mike from the Hassle office is taking part in Movember (*cough* sponsor him please *cough*), we thought it only fair that we let you know all about it.

When: 9pm - 3am, Saturday 5th November 2011
Where: The Kingpin Suite, Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes, London
How much: £5adv queue jump @ wegottickets.com, £5 on the door before midnight (£6 after)
And as for 'What', well we'll let them explain that best here.

So please, come on down, join us in having a drink and a dance, and laugh at our pathetic attempt at a moustache. Last month was so much fun, with one of the best and friendliest atmospheres we've ever experienced. And this is set to be even better! Get into it.

Oh, and we'll be back DJing later this month alongside our friends from Everything Sucks, where we'll be pitting some classic Drive-Thru era pop-punk against their gruff punk-rock antics.

Today marks the release of two albums for us here at Hassle - The James Cleaver Quintet's debut 'That Was Then, This Is Now' and the deluxe reissue of We Are The Ocean's storming second record 'Go Now And Live', featuring a bonus disc containing their sold out Live & Unplugged show at London's Bush Hall in August.

Go here to stream 'That Was Then, This Is Now' and click here to purchase.

Go here to stream the Live & Unplugged bonus album and click here to purchase 'Go Now And Live' deluxe.

Feast your eyes on what the mighty Turbowolf have created!

Pre-orders for the self-titled album are available now from the Hassle Records store.

Ok, ok...we know, we've been absolutely appalling at updating the website of late (or at all). Sorry for that. We keep getting distracted by the shiny & social networky temptresses of Twitter and Facebook, which is where all of our news/links/new songs gets posted (along with some cracking banter). HOWEVER, we know we must do better, and from now on, we shall. So here's what's going on right now:

Ten Second Epic - already available on iTunes, the new album 'Better Off' is released in record stores nationwide on Monday 17th October. It's up on Play.com here. Also, our friends over at Punktastic.com are running, throughout this week, exclusive album 'Making Of Better Off' video blogs. Check out, Episode 1, Episode 2, Episode 3, and then head over to Punktastic for this afternoon and tomorrow's installments. We hope to have the band in the UK asap, whereupon rocking out wildly will commence.

We Are The Ocean - the pre-order for the deluxe re-issue of the storming second album 'Go Now And Live', complete with an extra CD featuring the band playing Live & Unplugged for the very first time at London's Bush Hall is now live on our online store. Contains the singles 'What It Feels Like', 'The Waiting Room', 'Run Away' and 'Overtime Is A Crime' (see the new video here).

Turbowolf - before they head out on tour in November, including two dates with the mighty Monster Magnet, we are releasing the debut self-titled album from Bristol's Turbowolf. Check out the stunning video for 'A Rose For The Crows' here, and also check out the frankly astonishing pre-order bundles on the online store.

The James Cleaver Quintet - our newest signings and we're stoked a plenty to be releasing their debut album 'That Was Then, This Is Now' on October 31st. There's a very snazzy pre-order going on too. Check that out here.

Oh, and no big deal, but Blitz Kids today flew to LA to record their second album. HUGE.