It has been rumored that American rockers, The Strokes will play a warm up gig tomorrow night, June 9th, at London’s Dingwalls venue.
The band posted up a logo on their Twitter page which read the words ‘Venison’, they then later posted a photograph of the venue. The band ‘Venison’ are listed as playing at the Dingwalls venue tomorrow night. The tickets will go on sale from 9.00pm tonight from the venue’s website.
Trunk Muzik
Ghet-O-Vision
www.myspace.com/yelawolf
There isn’t a huge amount that Alabama is famous for musically really. Rich Boy is from the city of Mobile but he’s hardly a name to throw around to big up your States. That’s all changed now though with the emergence of Yelawolf, a half-white, half-Cherokee rapper from Gadsden who dropped his Trunk Muzik this year and has seen his name bandied around by many people in terms of “next awesome rapper”.
Having been signed briefly to a major and been let go without having released anything, it could have been easy for the disillusioned Michael Atha to drop his dream, but his return is a massive mixtape full of bangers and much more. His double-time rapping may be something of an acquired taste but hearing him go on Good To Go, which features the always great Bun B, it’s hard not to bounce along to his flow.
Other highlights of the mixtape include a beat which says “fuck you” throughout the entire song [F.U.], a track called Lick The Cat [I know, right?], a track featuring Raekwon and a brilliant remix of Juelz Santana’s Mixing The Medicine, where he states he’s mixing the medicine, tripping on the mescaline and has moonshine in his bottle. If you were thinking this is some kind of Bubba Sparxxx, you’ve got another thing coming.
Check out the video for Pop The Trunk and try, just try, not to get into it. It’s impossible. With a new mixtape planned and a deal with Interscope signed, this could, and should, be the start of something big for Yeller.
Abjekt.
Immersion
Warners
www.pendulum.com
Since the huge success of their last album ‘In Silico’, Pendulum set themselves a high standard to live up to with this release. Could this be possible, you may ask, and the answer appears to be yes it can. In fact, their new album ‘Immersion’ appears to be their best yet, with the album going straight to number one in the UK charts on its release.
It brings yet more dance and rock infused crowd pleasers, straying even further away from their original roots and is sure to keep the listener on their feet in appreciation and sheer disbelief at how unbelievably good their new music is and just how far they have progressed as a band. Their new album continues with their signature heavy guitar riffs and buzzing bass lines, as well as drawing on inspiration from other genres like dubstep and electro house and combining them with their drum and bass and rock roots to create something magical.
The album kicks off with its opening track ‘Genesis’, which has an immense electro build up before unleashing their full sound in ‘Salt In The Wounds’ which includes a mixture of complex beats and riffs with a strong dubstep breakdown half way through. Other tracks like their single ‘Watercolour’ give the album an element of fun with electronic keyboard sounds and memorable drum beats which mix great with the infamous vocals of lead singer Rob Swire.
The album also features a track with the Prodigy’s Liam Howlett who has recently praised the band on their success and revealed that the band were a huge inspiration on their ‘Invaders Must Die’ album. Howlett appears on the song ‘Immunize’ which is certainly one of the most catchy songs on the album with its Prodigy inspired beats which is sure to be left going round in your head.
All in all, this is definitely among the band’s best material to date, at points you almost feel that, if you close your eyes, you are hearing them live with the sound so crystal clear. ‘Immersion’ certainly leaves you wondering what Pendulum could possibly do next to top it.
Lou Cooper.
Split The Atom
Vision/Divison
www.myspace.com/denoisia
Who would have thought that Dutch, drum and bass trio Noisia had it in them to create such mind altering noise and complex heavy drum beats? Well, they have certainly showed what they can do with their new single, ‘Split the Atom’ which is off their recently released album of the same name.
The band have proved that they are a mark above the rest with this new song and its use of cleverly infused sounds which build up into an epic percussion line consisting of aggressive synths, dark drum beats and reverberating echoes of distant voices; all of which send you into another world. The song completely reflects the band’s personality; it’s loud, intricate and it gives the listener an insight into the creative minds of these Dutch geniuses.
The single release also includes two remixes of the song by Ed Rush & Optical and Bar 9. The Ed Rush remix brings more of a dance element to the music whilst still keeping those strong bass lines and dramatic build-ups. Whereas the Bar 9 track is a lot darker and gives a grimier, dirtier dubstep feel to the music.
All are without doubt great songs and are definitely worth a listen.
Lou Cooper.
Humanpyramids.net has a video interview put together by Philip Evans with Blueprint’s Nick Jensen about his art, skating and much more, watch it here.
If you were skating back in the late 90’s you will appreciate this archived footage from the Skate extreme park in Newport. Just went up today via Tidy Mike, enjoy!
The Acacia Strain have revealed the tracklisting for their new album Wormwood.
The album is set to be released on July 20th and the tracklisting is:
01 – “Beast”
02 – “The Hills Have Eyes”
03 – “BTM FDR”
04 – “Ramirez”
05 – “Terminated”
06 – “Nightman”
07 – “The Impaler”
08 – “Jonestown”
09 – “Bay Of Pigs”
10 – “The Carpathian”
11 – “Unabomber”
12 – “Tactical Nuke”
Underoath have posted a new studio webisode online.
The video shows the band’s recording sessions for their new album, with, of course, their new drummer after the departure of Aaron Gillespie.
Underoath 2010 Studio Update _ 2
underOATH | MySpace Music Videos
with Gallows, Gogol Bordello & Roots Manuva
Finsbury Park, London
06/06/10
If you’d have told a sixteen year old me that Rage Against The Machine would have not only reformed but beat the X-Factor to a Christmas number one with ‘Killing In The Name’ I’d have called you a bare faced liar. Yet here I stand, ten years on from the initial Rage split at the victory party to end all victory parties! Rage have returned to British soil triumphant and to think that this was all started by a couple on Facebook is simply unbe-fucking-lieveable!
Gallows tear it up!
However, Rage were not alone. What is a victory party without guests? Regardless of the size of the stage or the audience that they are playing to Gallows bring it, 100%, every single time they play. Today was no exception. Kicking off the always visceral set with a cover of the Sex Pistols’ ‘God Save The Queen’ Gallows are unrelenting. Ever the protagonist, front man Frank Carter constantly goads the crowd into human pyramids and walls of death to a soundtrack of his and the bands rabid anthems but today his negativity was forgotten, he was stoked to be here and thanked everyone who was involved, right down to the production crew who he lauded as ‘the real rock-stars‘ on the day and rightly so. Today Gallows really shone and set the bar a little too high for a struggling Roots Manuva who failed to really engage the London crowd.
However, Gogol Bordello didn’t suffer a similar fate, the pure energy the band projected was amazing as their gypsy-folk-punk had everybody moving, shouting and moshing along. Whilst they played Jimmy Page from Led Zepellin was on stage smiling and checking out the lovely Elizabeth Chi-Wei Sun from the band and met her after they played. She has a rock royalty fan right there, that’s for sure! They had a great time and love the UK, was a pleasure as ever to see them rip up the audience here today, they blew it up!
Finally, after a crude and somewhat cheap cartoon of Simon Cowell introducing the band, an air raid siren screams over the PA signaling the arrival of Rage Against The Machine at Finsbury Park. The heroes’ welcome they receive is deafening as Zack de la Rocha proclaims “We are Rage Against The Machine from Los Angeles, California!” before the band launch into opener ‘Testify’.
Rage walking onto the Finsbury Park stage from their dressing room, we were lucky to be able to stay and shoot these as everyone else was moved 50 yds away.
As a die-hard fan it is so good to see the band back together. Zack De La Rocha hasn’t missed a step as he spits his way through some of the most intelligent and provocative lyrics in rap or metal while Tim Commerford’s deep bass lines and Brad Wilk’s drumming really powers this well oiled , killing machine. As always, Tom Morello’s innovative guitar style and solos are crazy to hear on disc let alone witness live. Rage are in their element tonight and are visibly happy to be at such a historical event as they find it nigh on impossible to stop smiling as they smash their way through ‘Bombtrack’, ‘Bulls on Parade’ and ‘Know Your Enemy’ to name a few.
After honoring Facebook group organizers Jon and Tracy Morter, Rage tip their cap to all the musical revolutionaries from the UK name checking Led Zeppelin, The Who, Sex Pistols and finally The Clash are paid dues with a cover of ‘White Riot’. Rage storm through their back catalogue of angst riddled, rebellious jams dishing out ‘Guerilla Radio’, ‘Sleep Now in the Fire’ finishing up with ‘Freedom’.
Before Rage returned to the stage the capacity crowd (now up a few numbers due to fans outside the arena bum-rushing the gates!) were shown another video quoting Simon Cowell and the negative UK press towards the Rage Factor campaign backed by the painfully dull Joe McElderrey track ‘The Climb’. This simply added fuel to an already roaring fire before Rage returned for the inevitable encore.
There is nothing quite like 40,000 people screaming “Fuck you I won’t do what you tell me!”. Finsbury Park erupted as Rage culminated an amazing set with the song that brought us all together, ‘Killing In The Name’.
Today was a reminder to all that you don’t just have to sit there and take whatever the ‘powers that be’ spoon feed the public. You can make a change and in the words of Rage Against The Machine ‘YOU can make history.’ Today we did. This show was a thank you to all people in attendance and everybody who campaigned for change, the people who had had enough, who acted against and finally, who achieved the goal. The times are a-changing, people. The battle rages on.
Tom Lindsey
Just off stage in the dressing room with Gogol Bordello’s Oliver Charles and Eugene Hütz.
Lunchtime backstage with Frank and Steph Carter from a very happy Gallows.
Circle pits are fun!
Rage Against The Machine may record a new album following their free gig in Finsbury Park.
Their last album was in 2000 but Zack de la Rocha said that a new album was “a genuine possibility”. The band are set to play Download festival this weekend to round off their week in the UK.