Slipknot have pulled out of this weekend’s Reading And Leeds Festivals.
Drummer Joey Jordison has broken his ankle and has been advised to rest it for 4-6 weeks meaning the band will miss the aforementioned festivals this weekend as well as festivals in Austria and Germany. However, the band’s UK tour with Machine Head in December, is still on. They release new album All Hope Is Gone is released on August 25th.
The Stereo Sound Agency have been at the heart of style in the skateboarding industry since 92, when a couple of the best skateboarders around started showing us all how it’s done. Rocking that sort of raw swagger and naming themselves a sound agency has thus since led them to be probably the coolest company today. Sure, I may sound a twat but it’s true and you know it.
So when Earl decided to start making wheels, you were excited; don’t lie and say that you wern’t. This bro can flick one of the finest tre flips in slippers for crying out loud, and pull it off with a charmingly smug grin. We simply must have his wheels. And the fact with these wheels is that they are designed for a skateboarder’s skateboarder; there’s no gimmick, no sly tricks involved – these wheels are 100% urethane. So leave those super-amazing, mega-deluxe, allegedly-make-you-have-more-pop-than-Wainwright air core wheels for the wannabes with all the gear and no idea.
The density of the Hi-Fi urethrane blends well enough to skate anything tough or the smoothest marble and after a good dozen sessions they’ve shown no sign of giving up. Basically they tick all your boxes and were made to be skated. Chris Pastras and Jason Lee know what they’re doing and it’s ok to trust ’em, so leave them 51mm spinning air core rims at the skate shop, and sort yourself out with some proper shit son!
Warren G – ‘Gonna Regulate’
Not sure if we covered this yet, but it’s fun as. Click below for slide action featuring the likes of Daewon Song, Rune Glifberg, Dennis Busenitz, Omar Hassan, Remy Stratton, Andrew Allen and the Wray Bros.
Slam City Skates have raised the bar in websight trickery with their new lookbook, unveiled this week on the shop’s website. Following in the style of online webzine page turners such as Tweakerzine and others, the lookbook serves as a catalogue for the shop’s products. Slick produce as always from Slam, including flicks of Jensen amongst other familiar faces getting their
handsome-boy-modelling-school face on.
As an added bonus, the lookbook includes an unsurprisingly styled out promo from the Covent Garden skate rats. Grainy footage that compliments that Neal’s Yard atmosphere perfectly, and of course, the usual bangers from Snowy, Lucien Clarke, Blueprint and the Hold Tight London crowd.
Have a look and brighten up your day why don’t you?
San Francisco’s Jello Biafra is set to be one in a panel of judges at the finals of the US Air Guitar Championship. The winners will go forward to represent the US in the world championships in Finland.
Founding member of hugely influential Jamaican ska and reggae group, The Skatalites, Johnny ‘Dizzy’ Moore, has passed away. He died at home in Kingston last weekend after being treated for colon cancer.
Our deepest sympathy for his family and friends, and may he rest in peace.
Rise Against have posted a new song on their MySpace
ReEducation [Through Labor] will be the first single taken from their upcoming album Appear To Reason which is set for an October release. The full tracklisting is:
1. Collapse (Post-Amerika)
2. Long Forgotten Sons
3. Re-Education (Through Labor)
4. The Dirt Whispered
5. Kotov Syndrome
6. From Heads Unworthy
7. The Strength To Go On
8. Audience Of One
9. Entertainment
10. Hero Of War
11. Savior
12. Hairline Fracture
13. Whereabouts Unknown
14. Electic Amnesia (iTunes exclusive)
15. Prayer of a Refugee (Live) (iTunes exclusive)
Underoath have announce the tracklisting for their new album.
Lost In The Sound Of Separation is being released on September 1st as the follow up to 2006’s Define The Great Line. The tracklisting is:
1. Breathing In A New Mentality
2. Anyone Can Dig A Hole But It Takes A Real Man To Call It Home
3. A Fault Line. A Fault Of Mine
4. Emergency Broadcas
5. The Only Survivor Was Miraculously Unharmed
6. We Are The Involuntary
7. The Created Void
8. Coming Down Is Calming Down
9. Desperate Times, Desperate Measures
10. Too Bright To See, Too Loud To Hear
11. Desolate Eart
Jared Leto has responded to the news of Virgin suing 30 Seconds To Mars.
The band have been taken to court by the label for not releasing an album which they were contracted to. However, the singer countered:
“We had been signed to our record contract for 9 years. Basically, under California law, where we live and signed our deal, one cannot be bound to a contract for more than 7 years. […] It is a law that protects people from lengthy, unfair, career-spanning contracts. […] We have been sued because roughly 45 days ago we exercised our legal right to terminate our old, out of date contract, which, according to the law is null and void.
If you think the fact that we have sold in excess of 2 million records and have never been paid a penny is pretty unbelievable, well, so do we. And the fact that EMI informed us that not only aren’t they going to pay us AT ALL but that we are still 1.4 million dollars in debt to them is even crazier.
We have lost many of the people that were near and dear to us at Virgin/EMI and crucial to the success of 30 Seconds to Mars. There is not a single employee at Virgin Records who was working at the company when we signed.”
Any decent record collection should have sounds to fit any mood that the owner might happen to be in. Nick Drake for when you want to chill out. Andrew WK for when you want to party. The Smiths for when you’re feeling depressed. Well, how about something for when you feel like smashing someone’s face in with a brick and you just want to feel the warm blood from their pulverized face running across your knuckles and down your arm? Then may I recommend ‘Violent Reprisal‘ by grindcore ‘Supergroup’ Lock-Up? Feeling angry sir? This is the perfect soundtrack to your violence.
Featuring an all-star grindcore cast of Tomas Linberg (At The Gates), Shane Embury (Napalm Death), Nick Barker (Bimmu Borgir) and Peter Taggren from Hypocrisy, ‘Violent Reprisal‘ features thirty tracks of screaming hyper-fast grindcore that harks back to the early says of ‘Scum‘ era Napalm Death and genre defining bands such as Terrorizer and Siege. Every track is as tight and vicious as you’d expect from a bunch of musicians who have played so much extreme metal over the years they can probably drop blastbeats in their sleep. Their enthusiasm for the music, however, seeps out of every bloody pore of this record and you can’t help but get swept up in the aural riot. Fucking hostile.
James Sherry