If October and November are the hot months to tour this year then June and July are the month for giving away freebies!
Gaslight Anthem have offered up an acoustic version of their new single ‘Boxer‘ for their free gift this month. Just head over HERE and follow some simple steps and show that you can speak American Slang in exchange for some top notch music. Get on it…
Rock three-piece from Cleethorpes Orphan Boy are in a generous mood this Summer. Not only are they releasing a single, ‘Pop Boy‘, on July 19th and an album, ‘Passion, Pain and Loyalty‘ on August 2nd but are offering two free downloads for everyone!
Click HERE to get your hands on ‘Grand Piano‘ and ‘Remember‘, and to get an idea of what to expect, here’s what the band have to say about the new album…
‘Passion, Pain & Loyalty was written for all the people who listen to records alone in their bedrooms and stare out of the windows late into the night. It’s still got the energy and imagination of the first record, but the music is bigger this time. It’s sharper, deeper and more accomplished. We like to think that it could become one of the last great rock ‘n’ roll records. Which, for three scruffs from Grimsby, would be pretty good going. But even if no one buys it, this record will always be a success to us, because our aim was to make a great album, and that’s what we did.‘
Jammer will be celebrating his upcoming album launch in style on July 3rd.
The MC, whose Jahmanji album is released on July 12th on Big Dada, will be joined by a whole host of great DJs and MCs at Cable in London. You can grab your tickets here to see the likes of Boy Better Know, Breakage, Newham Generals, Mumdance, Plastician, Toddla T, Redlight and more.
Approved by The Boss himself, The Gaslight Anthem will be taking their New Jersey rock sound to the UK in another must-see tour during October and November.
Tickets for the following dates go on sale on 2nd July.
21st October – London Hammersmith Apollo
22nd October – Southampton Guildhall
23rd October – Bristol Academy
24th October- Wolverhampton Civic Hall
16th November – Nottingham Rock City
17th November – Leeds Academy
18th November – Newcastle Academy
19th November – Edinburgh Picture House
20th November – Manchester Apollo
Against Me! and Fucked Up, two bands who have already established themselves as two of the most exciting punk bands to see live in recent years, have announced that they are visiting our shores again in October and November.
The bands will be joined by Crazy Arms and Japanese Voyeurs and will play the following dates…
24th October – Plymouth University
25th October – Bristol O2 Academy
26th October – Coventry Kasbah
27th October – Glasgow QMU
28th October – Nottingham Rock City
29th October – Leeds Metropolitan University
1st November – Cambridge The Junction
2nd November – Oxford 02 Academy
3rd November – London Camden Electric Ballroom
If you’re having enough trouble keeping up with how fast skateboarding is progressing then refresh your browser now because this clip will only hurt you even more. Vox Footwear posted a ‘teaser‘ clip of their amateur team this week and it’s nothing short of mind-blowing. The video features Dan Nepscha, Bryan Chapo, David Vargas and more names you should probably start taking note of. If you’re ready for it, click the play button below and try to keep up…
There’s nothing meaner than the Deaner. Nothing. The gnarliest downhill skatepark in Bristol will be holding a Hardcore Funday on the 31st July and all you South-West punks are invited. Get down to Dean Lane’s training facility and expect all the usual shenanigans, just don’t turn up to skate the pansy flat-bar; this is an event for real men so it’s wallrides, bonelesses and tree stumps only. Check the flyer below for all your needs. Bring your own booze, dogs, chains, piercings etc.
Want to see how Silas Baxter-Neal got his new signature shoe together for Adidas? Click the video below to find out…
with Chew Lips & The Whigs
Oxford Academy
25.06.2010
We Are Scientists must be kicking themselves slightly. Despite being a great marketing tool around their album release, that World Cup unofficial theme song they so craftily recorded is in danger of becoming the bane of their lives. As the band gear up for their Glastonbury slot by playing to a sold-out Academy in Oxford, the cries from the audience for the band to play ‘Goal! England!’ are unrelenting.
The band toy with the crowd, refusing to give in and standing by a solid set of material spanning their past three albums. You can’t deny the genius of tracks like ‘Nice Guys’, ‘Cash Cow’ and ‘Nobody Move’ and the sweaty crowd amassed tonight (including Gavin and Stacey’s Matthew Horne) are clearly in agreement of this fact as they sing along heartily and laugh along at the band’s jokes. That’s the strange (but undoubtedly brilliant) thing about We Are Scientists. The band write all these earnest songs about life and love, yet in between the rattling off of hits on stage, they joke around like nobody’s business. It’s always funny, as long as you can hear what’s going on. And that’s where they come unstuck slightly as, to some people in the crowd, the words get lost and the band lose the rapt attention of everyone present after a while of rambling between songs.
The band’s set tonight is rounded off nicely by a rousing rendition of ‘After Hours’ that is certainly apt considering the enthusiasm of the crowd tonight and it really makes everyone feel a part of what’s going on as several members of the other bands who played tonight take to the stage to sing along. We thought it was all over but an encore includes the rather excellent ‘Cashcow’ and no one is left doubting that We Are Scientists have given it their all under disgustingly sweaty conditions – they even joke sarcastically about it being chilly on-stage and requiring a hot chocolate to warm up.
Winegums
Australia Hip Hop collective, Hilltop Hoods have announced that their fifth studio album, ‘State Of The Art‘, will be given a worldwide release on August 23.
Released through the crew’s own record label, Golden Era Records, the follow up to 2006’s ARIA Award winning ‘The Hard Road‘, will be celebrated with a series of live dates in July.
The group will be playing T In The Park Festival on July 10, Oxegen Festival on July 11 and a one-off show in London’s KOKO on July 13.