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10.16.2008

BIFFY CLYRO - MOUNTAINS NOW POSTED

Biffy Clyro have released a new, non-album track entitled "Mountains." We think it's another beautiful case of songwriting from the band, but want to know what you think. Listen to Biffy Clyro's "Mountains" here. You can leave comments and rate the track, too!

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10.06.2008

NEW SITE CHANGES!

You may have noticed that over the past few months quiet changes have been made to the site. First we gave you new artist pages. Check out your favorite and you'll find widgets, videos, music, and much more. Plus they look great.

A few weeks back we also updated our Artists page. You'll see highlighted artists up top in blue. These change as artists are updated with news, video, and music. This is a great page to make your first port-of-call after the news section!

Today we've relaunched three other pages. Music and Video are all new. You can now embed all of our music and video posted to the site in your blog, web site, or MySpace/Facebook profiles. At the right of these pages you'll see charts driven by what YOU do on our site. You can also leave comments at all songs and videos, rate them, and favorite them in our new profile system (more on that in a sec).

The Releases page has gotten a huge makeover. Every album now has its own home page where you can see the available tracks, rate it, leave a review, or comment on others' reviews. Snazzy huh?

Finally, we just launched our new profile pages. If you're a subscriber to our email newsletters, you can log in, add your own picture, keep track of the latest updates on our site (and partner sites), follow your favorite videos and music, and tell us what bands you want to hear about.

Of course, many of these new features require that you be a member of the site to use them, so please join today!

We are, of course, in a beta phase and need your help to make the site work the best for YOU. If you see any problems or want to suggest changes to the new features, please send an email to webmaster@roadrunnerrecords.com with "NEW SITE REPORT" in the subject line. If you receive an error, please be as detailed as possible, including what page you were on, what browser you are using, and copy any error message you receive into the body of the email.

Please feel free to leave comments here below!

Cheers!

Jeremy Rosen

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03.31.2008

BIFFY CLYRO & SAY ANYTHING - LIVE PERFORMANCE

At their show this past weekend in NY at The Nokia Theatre, Biffy Clyro was joined on stage by Max Bemis, singer of Say Anything. Together they did a killer rendition of Biffy Clyro's "A Whole Child Ago." Check out pictures of Max and Simon here.

The tour hits Norva in Norfolk, VA tomorrow night.

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02.04.2008

BIFFY CLYRO - NEW VIDEO UP NOW!

Check it: the second U.S. video from Biffy Clyro's latest album, Puzzle. One of the best rock bands to come out of the UK in a decade. Period. Watch the video for "Whos Got a Match" up on the video page here now and get your mind blown.

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01.15.2008

BIFFY CLYRO - NEW TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED

Say Anything headlines, Manchester Orchestra, BIFFY CLYRO and Weatherbox
support.

3.13.08 - Avalon - Hollywood, CA
3.14.08- The Fillmore - San Francisco, CA
3.15.08 - Hawthorne Theatre - Portland, OR
3.16.08 - Neumos Crystal Ball Reading Room - Seattle, WA
3.18.08 - In The Venue - Salt Lake City, UT
3.19.08 - Cervantes - Denver, CO
3.20.08 - The Beaumont - Kansas City, MO
3.21.08 - House of Blues - Chicago, IL
3.22.08 - St. Andrew's Hall - Detroit, MI
3.25.08 - Diesel - Pittsburgh, PA
3.26.08 - The Fillmore at The Theater of the Living Arts - Philadelphia, PA
3.27.08 - Toads Place - New Haven, CT
3.28.08 - The Palladium - Worcester, MA
3.29.08 - Nokia Theatre - New York, New York
3.30.08 - Recher Theatre - Towson, MD
4.1.08 - Norva - Norfolk, VA
4.2.08 - Cats Cradle - Carboro, NC
4.3.08 - The Masquerade - Atlanta, GA
4.4.08 - Revolution - Ft Lauderdale, FL
4.5.08 - House of Blues - Lake Buena Vista, FL
4.6.08 - State Theater - St. Petersburg, FL
4.8.08 - Warehouse Live - Houston, TX
4.9.08 - La Zona Rosa - Austin, TX
4.10.08 - Plunkett Park - University of Central Oklahoma - Edmond, OK
4.12.08 - The Clubhouse - Tempe, AZ
4.13.08 - House of Blues - San Diego, CA
4.14.08 - Glasshouse - Pomona, CA

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Drive for an hour so outside Glasgow, you'll find an unassuming little town called Ayr. It's a pretty but unremarkable place; certainly not the sort of place you expect revolutions to start. But then, if we know anything about revolutions, it's that they never happen quite when or where you expect.

You'll have heard of biffy clyro before of course. About how Simon Neil and schoolfriend twins James and Ben Johnston formed their first band as young teenagers at school in the nearby town of Kilmarnock in 1995 over a shared love of experimental rock and hardcore. You'll know something of how they earned an army of rabidly devotional fans - christened Team Biffy - who followed them across the country and beyond, their hearts swelling with the searing emotion; their minds expanded by the threesome's inventive rock that somehow managed to hit them in the gut at the same time. And you'll probably know about their three albums; 'Blackened Sky', 'The Vertigo Of Bliss' and 'Infinity Land', which slowly - and on their own terms - saw them notch up higher and higher chart positions.

What you might not know is that in the two-and-a-half years since 'Infinity Land', they've been hard at work making what could just be the next truly, historically, important rock record to come out of the British Isles. It's called Puzzle and it's

coming your way. Of course, Simon Neil, James and Ben never actually stopped. During biffy's brief hiatus, all three have been kept bust with extra-curricular underground work. And the experience of making some of the most 'out-there' music of their careers only fuelled their desire that when they did come back, it would be their biggest, best - but also strangest - yet.

To help them make Puzzle, they chose Canadian producer Garth Richardson, inspired by his work with Rage Against The Machine and Kerbdog, and an innate sense of his "great vibe." The venture saw them fly to Vancouver, then to Richardson's stunning ranch studio in the forests of Gibson to record their masterwork. The collaboration bore exceptional fruit, but the band admit it took time - after recording their previous three albums on a budget and at speed - to adapt to recording in the same way as their heroes.

Explains Simon: "For the first week we had to really slow down how we were doing things. We're used to a hundred miles an hour, but we would have burnt out after a week. We needed a lot more patience about it, but the results are worth it. It took Garth a few days to realise how headstrong we were. We're up for collaborating, but this is our record and we very much are doing what we want to do. It took him a few days to realise that we were going to reject some of his ideas as much as we would collaborate."

From Vancouver, they decamped to New York to mix the album with Andy Wallace - who also handled 'Nevermind'. Artwork, meanwhile, has been handled by Storm Thorgerson; the man behind Classic Rock records both old (Pink Floyd) and new (Muse).

From the apocalyptic opener 'Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies', its clear that they have out-biffed the biff. 2001 A Space Odyssey by way of Wagner and Rage Against The Machine, it boasts a stunning baroque choral arrangement and strings by Hollywood arranger Graeme Revell (‘Sin City', ‘The Crow', ‘From Dusk Til Dawn'). It's a gigantic, ostentatious raising of their game.

"We've always been very ambitious in the music we wanted to make," says Simon. "It was never just about guitars bass and drums, even though we're a three-piece. On our records we've always tried to use as much weird shit as possible."

Puzzle has seen the band finally realise the sound in their heads, it also sees them anchor some of their most outlandish ideas (check the staggering '9/15ths' for evidence that they've done anything but gone soft) with the sort of clear and crisp

melodies that this three-headed powerhouse have been hinting at since the days of 'Justboy' and '27'. From soaring download single 'semi-mental' through to the bludgeoning punch of 'Saturday Superhouse' through the swollen intensity of the slow-burning 'As Dust Dances' to the glorious foot-stomping live favourite 'Who's Got A Match?', Puzzle packs an emotional punch with 24-carat choruses shot through with biffy's trademark sideways approach to songwriting.

The band admit that this new directness is the result of their searing five-year apprenticeship, working through their ideas and growing into a truly world-beating band.

"We'd normally have maybe hidden moments like that before," admits Simon. "Maybe because the lyrics are a bit more personal this time, it felt as though the music should breathe a bit more. A song like 'As Dust Dances', we'd just kind of played it and were hypnotising ourselves by playing it; rather than trying to rock it up or anything it just felt right, the song's hardly changed since you first heard it. We maybe wouldn't have enjoyed playing that song five years ago, we'd have been so restless we wouldn't have felt comfortable, but now we feel as though we can do that, and it works. Rather than trying to cram maybe 100 ideas into ten seconds, leaving them out it can sometimes make things better."

Puzzle might be crammed with glorious rock songs designed to unite as many people as possible in the power of hard rock; but lyrically it's been an altogether more traumatic process. Written in the shadow of the loss of Simon's mother, the album in many ways charts the process of Simon coming to terms with his feelings, and finding ways to move forward. And this is never more extreme than on the album's devastating climax, 'Machines'.

Says Simon: "It's about how your mind works after having a serious grievance in your life; how at some points you're really angry at yourself and everybody, at other points you just feel so sad and then you start imagining what death's like and you

suddenly get these vivid pictures of what you think they're gonna be, and then doubting yourself and feeling better and then having a bit of hope. The album's not in that order, but that's what's going on."

Above all, Puzzle is the definitive statement - so far - from a band that believers have always known would take on the world one day. The band themselves are far too humble to take notice of the increasing number of voices calling them "the British

Nirvana". What it does do is set a watermark, and usher in a new age of British hard rock in the same way 'Nevermind' did all those years ago. We just want to make records that people can listen to in 20 years and think they're good fucking records," says Simon in conclusion. "We believe that if we follow what we want to do, which is very much our own take on things, that things will sound honest and real in 20 years time because there's gonna be no schtick associated with it. We're not dressed crazily, people stood up and took notice because we were making great music, and people had to stand up and pay attention, so I think if that can apply over three or four years, then I just hope that in 20 years it still applies. That's what we want to do; we want to be an important band. And we think we are."

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Release Date: 09.18.2007

Puzzle

Comprised of twin brothers Ben and James Johnston and their high school mate Simon Neil, Biffy Clyro formed when they were teenagers, in Glasgow, Scotland, and already have 3 albums under their belts. But its their&nbsp4th and most&nbspprolific release yet, Puzzle, which has critics hearalding Biffy Clyro as &quotthe new Nirvana," and&nbsptherefore Roadrunner is extremely proud to be releasing it in America.&nbspA mix of Nirvana meets Muse meets Fugazi, its SONGS encompass a masterful combination of power chords, sweet melodies, insightful lyrics crushing riffs, marching beats, even some orchestral elements, too.

Tracks:

1. Intro
2. Living Is A Problem Because Everything Dies
3. Saturday Superhouse [ listen/comment ]
4. Who's Got A Match?
5. As Dust Dances
6. A Whole Child Ago
7. The Conversation Is...
8. Now I'm Everyone
9. Semi-Mental
10. Love Has A Diameter
11. Get Fucked Stud [ listen/comment ]
12. Folding Stars
13. 9/15ths
14. Machines

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Release Date: 07.24.2007

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Living is a Problem Because Everything Dies [Digi-Maxi-Single]

Can't wait for Biffy Clyro's&nbspfirst single from&nbsptheir forthcoming CD - the UK #2 charting, Puzzle? Well, we're making it available for download in advance of the album, on July 24th.

Tracks:

Track Listing:
1. Living is a Problem Because Everything Dies [ listen/comment ]
2. Semi-Mental
3. Living is a Problem Because Everything Dies [ listen/comment ] [Video] *

* iTunes only

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