The Gaslight Anthem provided the music for a rousing singalong at Reading festival a couple of weeks back and you can check out a portion of their moving performance in the form of this live footage of ‘The ’59 Sound‘…
The Gaslight Anthem release single ‘The Backseat‘ on 21st September
Foreign Beggars are gearing up for the release of their new album by taking people on a tour of their studio.
Check out the video below to see how Orifice Vulgatron, Metropolis and DJ Nonames run things whilst working on a beat from their upcoming album United Colours Of Beggattron, released on October 19th.
Ghostface has revealed the tracklist for his new solo album The Wizard of Poetry.
The album is the Wu Tang member’s “mature” album and features a number of RnB singers with only Fabolous rapping as a guest. The album is released on September 29th and the tracklist is:
01 Not Your Average Girl [ft. Shareefa]
02 Do Over [ft. Raheem “Radio” DeVaughn]
03 Baby [ft. Raheem “Radio” DeVaughn]
04 Lonely [ft. Jack Knight]
05 Stapleton Sex
06 Stay
07 Paragraphs of Love [ft. Vaughn Anthony and Estelle]
08 Guest House [ft. Fabolous and Shareefa]
09 Let’s Stop Playin’ [ft. John Legend]
10 Forever
11 I’ll Be That [ft. Adrienne Bailon]
12 Goner [ft. Lloyd]
John Lydon will bring back Public Image Ltd.
The difference to most of the reunions happening over the past couple of years is that this version of PiL won’t feature any other original members, including Jah Wobble and Keith Levene. The former Sex Pistol has instread brought in Lu Edmonds, Bruce Smith and Scott Firth.
They will play the following dates in December:
15 Birmingham, O2 Academy
16 Leeds, O2 Academy
18 Glasgow, O2 Academy
19 Manchester, Academy
21 London, O2 Academy
Evile have finished the video from their new album.
The album, Infected Nations, is set for release on September 21st and the band will play a gig at Islington Academy on September 25th to celebrate the release. Check out the video for Infected Nation below:
Chocolate Skateboards Kenny Anderson has more 5’s for the Tap this week here…
Nike have unleashed 5 more minutes of extras from the likes of Theotis Beasley, Shane O’Neill, Grant Taylor and Justin Brock. Watch it below but also check out the new Zoom Stefan Janoski for September release here. They look dope.
Lou Barlow is to release a single on September 28th.
The Right is taken from his second album Goodnight Unknown which will be released on October 5th. Check out the video to the single below, oh and by the way, the new album is awesome!
If someones mentions the golden words front blunt, I think of nothing but Daewon Song. He no doubt makes them look easy but Hawk lays down some green to see how hard they really are in this week’s clip from Shred Or Die.
It used to be a given that a pro skate shoe would be the business. Like way back in the days you got a pair of cabs, or half cabs – you knew that Steve Caballero wouldn’t just ride anything, and they were tough as hell would last. These days it’s not about making a durable shoe in many cases, it’s sales. I saw some crazy glittery-ass super-high-tops the other day, and I can’t imagine wearing them, let alone trying to skate in them, where as the kids in Hoxton would find them perfect for prancing around on street corners which is a result for the manufacturers back pocket and a fail for skaters.
Thankfully, two names in skating you can trust are DVS and Daewon. So when I came across this collab with Almost I thought I’d step out from the 20 year shadow of skating in Es Accels and Vans and give my feet a treat.
First off, you open the box and instantly get stoked off the 10″ long mini Almost deck with accompanying donut theme to match in with the colour way. This tops a sticker any day! The second thing you get stoked on is the instant “I don’t need breaking in” feel the sole gives you, these bad boys are session ready like donuts hot out the box!
The sole is really soft, but has so far (a month in) showed zero signs of wear. The Ollie area is pretty wide and that allows the stitching to be away from the contact area as much as possible. The suede again is really soft and flexible so you get a really sharp response and so far has scuffed up from Jessops abuse, but no hole.
I guess this shoe reflects Daewon’s skating, fast and responsive. If you are a hammer skater, you might want a little more protection, but for the street tech heads these shoes are perfect. Peep the matching hat and hoodie too for the style gurus out on the grind – these shoes are the business.
9/10
PP
Check out some behind the scenes footage and some clowin’ by Daewon below.