Angels and Airwaves will be recording their new album in January.
The band confirmed the work would begin on the follow up to I-Empire and Tom Delonge also addressed the possibility of a Blink-182 reunion saying:
“Poppy music is coming back again. When everybody [originally in blink-182] is out of work long enough, we may see them get back together.”
GZA has announced 3 UK dates in November.
The Wu Tang member, who will showcase his new Pro Tools album, will be supported on all dates by Skinnyman and Cool Ninja Sound featuring Buggsy and Mr Bang On with additional supports for each date. Here are the details:
November 12th – Glasgow, ABC
November 13th– London, Electric Ballroom [with Stig and Syntax]
November 14th – K.Ners
Supra rider Albert Madrid loves a slam and rips when he gets up. His footage from the Toast skate video has been uploaded to YouTube this week alongside others that include bangers from Koki Kasai, Clair Chang, Thomas Bonilla, Jonathan Yanez, James Juarez, Matt Gallardo and Tony Cervantes.
If you want more toast, click here.
Baker Skateboards have just unleashed their brand new deck designs for Autumn. The Meurtos Series has been designed by Fos and should be in your local SOS this month.
Baker have also launched an all new www.bakerskateboards.com as well, go check it out.
Shephard Fairey was recently arrested at the Democratic National Convention in Denver where he and many of the country’s most prominent visual artists, including Ron English, Sam Flores and more, are showing work inspired by the current political climate for the Manifest Hope gallery art exhibition. Watch the video below for the full story.
The House Skatepark will be holding their annual comp this Saturday 13th September.
Getting in costs a mere five pounds, but if you want to compete then that’s covered in the entry fee! You may want to get in training because the prize is a stonking ten year free pass to the House Skatepark. FREE skateboarding (without getting chucked out!) for a decade!
With the likes of Blueprint, Death, Shit Skateboards, Unabomber, The Harmony, Karma, Stereo, A Third Foot amongst others supporting this, you really can’t miss out. Especially when there’s curry involved.
Head over to www.thehouseskatepark.co.uk for more info.
Bay Sixty 6 Skatepark will host the annual Nandos Xperimental Skate Jam on Saturday 20th September at 66-67 Ladbroke Grove in West London.
There are free start up lessons if you haven’t tried before with equipment and instruction provided for anyone under 16, best trick competitions with great prizes for under 16’s comps on the mini ramp and demos from pro riders from DVS, Girl, Element, Bones, Krux and Matix that include Lucien Clarke (Both DVS & Element), Kristian Bomholt (Denmark), Danny Brady, Jak Pietriga, John Tanner, Louis Cooper and Shaun Witherupp.
Expect giveaways and freebies including skate stuff from the events skate sponsors, T-shirts, skate mags and special limited edition Xperimental decks stickers, free drinks provided by Suso and of course the killer free Nando’s BBQ. Click here for some footage.
Witchita Recordings has released a free digital sampler.
The sampler contains new signings to the label [such as Lovvers and Sky Larkin] as well as older artists [ The Bronx, Peter Bjorn & John and Her Space Holiday]. The tracklisting is below and you can grab it by clicking the link at the bottom.
The tracklisting is:
01. Tasty Boy – Those Dancing Days
02. Human Hair – Lovvers
03. Molten – Sky Larkin
04. How I Taught Myself to Scream – Los Campesinos!
05. Knifeman – The Bronx
06. Meet Me in the Dollar Bin – Les Savy Fav
07. I Dont Want To Die (In The Hospital) – Conor Oberst
08. Tell Me In Time – Peter Moren
09. Burn The Margins – Greg Weeks
10. Saving Up To Get Married – Euros Childs
11. Maiden in the Moor Lay – Meg Baird
12. Paint The Rust – The Dodos
13. Inland Empire – Peter Bjorn & John
14. I Got This Down (Invisible Conga People Mix) – Simian Mobile Disco
15. The Year In Review – Her Space Holiday
Muse have told fans they shouldn’t expect a new album soon.
The band had previously announced they would travelling to Italy to reocrd the songs, of which there were many, but the latest news is that the songs are still “very young”. Bassist Chris Wolstenholme told 6Music that:
“I don’t think there’s anything that we’re ready to record yet. We just wanted to get started this year, to get the ball rolling a little bit rather than wait for a year doing nothing then get in the studio, and go, ‘What do we do now?’. Sometimes you can suffer from having too much time off.”
Metric have announced they will be staying indie for the next album.
The Canadians have agreed to continue to put their music on Last Gang Records and their manager Mathieu Drouin said:
“We’ve wrestled with our situation over the course of the last three albums, trying to find the right deal. We found ourselves in a position where the majors were interested, but we knew we had the ability to roll the dice and do it ourselves. ‘Long tail’ artists like Metric that have been able to develop a following and career without major help are in the best position to take things into their own hands right now .”