According to NME.com, the new album from The Aliens is called ‘Luna’ and will be released on Monday 29th September 2008
They also report the album will be preceeded by a new single, ‘Magic Man’, on Monday 15th September. Both releases will come out on the band’s own record label, Pet Rock Records.
Read the full news [...]

The Aliens have uploaded a new tune called Bobby’s Song from their forthcoming album to MySpace
Check it out at http://www.myspace.com/thealiens1
Here’s an accompanying image (cover artwork?) for the song, also from MySpace:

The Aliens appeared at the London Rise Festival in Finsbury Park over the weekend (Sunday 13th July 2008). Also on the bill were CSS, Jimmy Cliff, Dub Pistols, Ty and Kitty, Daisy & Lewis.
Here’s a photo of The Aliens performing live courtesy of Elliott Franks

Photo by Elliott Franks / www.elliottfranks.co.uk

Steve Mason is currently on tour as Black Affair. You can check him out at the following dates (according to his MySpace)
25 Jul 2008 - Crawdaddy, Dublin (buy from Ticketmaster)
26 Jul 2008 - BE@ Proud Galleries, London
30 Jul 2008 - Bluecoat, Liverpool
09 Aug 2008 - The Arches, Glasgow
30 Aug 2008 - Bangers and Mash DJ [...]

The NME have reviewed the new album by Black Affair (Steve Mason’s current project) in this week’s issue - scoring it 8/10
Camillia Pia’s review describes the album as “shimmering electro-funk that tells sultry tales of dark obsession and kinky copulation” and “A brilliantly tense and often remarkable record”
You can pre-order Black Affair - Pleasure [...]

This was just posted to The Aliens’ MySpace:
ALIENS TOUR CANCELLED
We regret to announce the cancellation of our tour dates due to an unfortunate episode involving lead singer Gordon Anderson and some overly high jinx.
On Saturday afternoon Gordon fell and broke his clavicle whilst climbing a tree with band mate John. As a result the band [...]

Thanks to roo on The Aliens forum for pointing out these YouTube live videos of The Aliens from last Friday’s (25th Aug 2006) Manchester Night & Day gig (posted by kcrules):
The Aliens - Robot Man live
Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwKQEFUrB9E

The Aliens - Happy Song live
Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4nEqpZMKng

The Aliens - Higher Than The Sun/Robot Man live
Direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO3_h1hfMrQ

The Aliens have put their video for next single ‘The Happy Song’ up on YouTube. Check it out below:

Or if that doesn’t work, use the direct link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YikDJIj9Mo
You can also still watch the last video for ‘Robot Man’ on YouTube (which has received over 11,000 views to date):

Direct URL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-K_f5ErCyTE

The Aliens were in session on the Rob da Bank show on BBC Radio One last night. In case you missed it, you can check it out using the BBC’s listen again player
(thanks to Crewe for this news!)
Update 16th July 2008
The listen again player link no longer works, but here’s the show page (10th August [...]

Listen online to an XFM session The Aliens recorded last week (19th July 2006), which includes ‘Robot Man’, ‘The Happy Song’ and ‘Setting Sun’
(Thanks to theNomad for finding this)
Meanwhile, according to John from the band, an XFM and Radio One session will be broadcast in a couple of weeks time