Jay Electronica, who may well be the next name to blow up the underground, has posted a new video.
The track, produced by Just Blaze, features a beautiful video of Nepal and the audio snippet at the end comes from the track is titled Dear Moleskin.
As if having The Game on his case wasn’t enough, Jay-Z now has another person dissing him.
DJ Whoo Kid took offence to use of the word “kid” in Jigga’s D.O.A. track and decided to compare Jay to a camel. Kinda ridiculous, but pretty funny, as camels always are:
Spotify has submitted an application to Apple’s iTunes App Store to launch its first mobile service.
If Apple approve the app, it will allow users to store playlists away frmo their computer, to play music even when there is no internet connection. It is likely to be free to download, though users will need to have a premium Spotify playlist to sign in, costing £9.99 am month.
Check out the demo below:
OG Z-Boy ‘Baby’ Paul Cullen unfortunately passed away on the 23rd July this year. The Skate and Annoy website say that the ’cause of death has not been officially made known, but there has been some obvious speculation due to a history of substance abuse.’
Paul was the youngest of the infamous Z-Boy crew back in the day and has been described as a “present and future terrorist,” by friends and that his skate activities constantly blow out the unprepared and the unaware.R.I.P.
Photo from Glen E Friedman’s blog.
New Yorker’s Alberta Cross have today unveiled a brand new track from their long awaited debut LP. Entitled ‘Leave us and Forgive Us‘, the track is available to download for FREE from the band’s web site, www.albertacross.net.
Following ‘ATX‘ being posted on their myspace earlier this month, this is the second glimpse of Alberta Cross’ fantastic new album ‘Broken Side of Time‘, which is to be released on September 21st through Ark Recordings.
You can download it by clicking here:
This Thursday July 30th July there will be a demonstration from local skateboarders from 2pm at the Oval Basin (Roald Dahl Pass) in front of the Millennium Centre in Cardiff Bay.
Skaters are asked to join others in the cause to raise awareness of the need for an indoor skatepark to be built in Cardiff. Join the petition here.
The AmsterDamn Am comp that went down at the weekend was won by Ricardo Paterno. Watch the video below from the first day and Paterno’s winning run, the bowl session and peep the top 10 here:
1. Ricardo Paterno
2. Adrien Bulard
3. Youness Amrani
4. Axel Cruysberghs
5. Louie Lopez
6. Eniz Fazilov
7. Peter Molek
8. Bas Janssen
9. Douwe Macare
10. Rachid Addou
Yes! Slayer are back with a new album called World Painted Blood produced by Greg Fidelman (Metallica, Slipknot). Look out for the track Hate Worldwide premiered exclusively on www.shockhound.com this coming Monday and their MySpace page. Check this 5-minute video with Slayer talking about their upcoming album here.
Reading Festival will be bigger and louder than last year.
Reading Borough Council approved the expansion of the festival, with 3,500 extra tickets available to those who live in Reading. The festival will grow by 3,500 again next year and 3,000 more in 2011.
The sound will also incerase from 65db to 68db during the day, with the last two acts of the evening allowed to his 70db.
Pop-punk aficionados Broadway Calls will be returning to UK shores and releasing their SideOneDummy album ‘Good Views, Bad News‘ in August.
The album is out 17th August with single ‘Be All That You Can’t Be‘ preceding on 10th. Live dates, including a support slot with The Offspring and Reading and Leeds festival performances, are as follows –
25 August 2009 London, Brixton Academy w/ THE OFFSPRING, RIVAL SCHOOLS
26 August 2009 Manchester, Manchester Academy w/ THE OFFSPRING, RIVAL SCHOOLS
29 August 2009 Leeds, Leeds Festival – NME/Radio 1 Stage
30 August 2009 Reading, Reading Festival – NME/Radio 1 Stage
04 September 2009 Southampton, Joiners w/ POLAR BEAR CLUB
05 September 2009 London, The Fighting Cocks – RECORD RELEASE PARTY