TV On The Radio have just announced the tracklisting of their forthcoming album, ‘Dear Science‘.
The long awaited follow up to ‘Return To Cookie Mountain‘ will be released in the UK on the 22nd September.
Have a peep at the exclusive tracklisting below.
‘Halfway Home’
‘Crying’
‘Dancing Choose’
‘Stork & Owl’
‘Golden Age’
‘Family Tree’
‘Red Dress’
‘Love Dog’
‘Shout Me Out’
‘DLZ’
‘Lover’s Day’
Overlords of sampling, The Avalanches have announced that their long awaited second album is on the way!
Not much is given away, but the band stated on their myspace that they were “putting the finishing touches on album 2!“.
We can’t wait.
Awadh may have just late shoved his way to the throne of this Canada Water handrail.
Seq: Styley.
Dennis Busenitz – Kickflip
Shaun Witherup – Mudchute Manuals
Joey Brezinsky – Nose Manual 360 Shove
Tyler Brick – Kickflip
Boris Proust – Nosemanual
Kenny Anderson – Back Smith Grind
Top 5 Fresh Product Reviews
1) Independent Haslam Stage 10s
2) Creature Death Card Deck
3) Emerica Jerry Hsu
4) Vans AVE Sk8 Low
5) Nike SB Dunk Mid
Top 5 Eavesdroppings in Portobello Road this week
1) “You wouldn’t even need to put much effort into running away, zombies are really quite slow.”
2) “I would appreciate if you were not to look at me like that sir, for I am neither murderer nor thief.”
3) “Your post office! It’s… it’s….rubbish!”
4) “Does anyone know whose baby this is?”
5) “Why so seriousssss?”
Pic of the week
One of the enigmatic 10:30 Warriors, Nick Jones ignores the abundance of Dark Knight references and knocks out this astonishing gap in Barcelona without even considering to warm up. Look out for more from these Hologram boyos in the ‘No Shame In Spain‘ video feature next week!
Photo taken by Trix.
The Underage Festival will tearing up Victoria Park on the 8th August, here’s the confirmed line up.
THE CONVERSE CENTURY STAGE
BOMBAY BICYCLE CLUB
CARE BEARS ON FIRE
DIZZEE RASCAL
GALLOWS
MYSTERY JETS
THE MACCABEES
TIM BURGESS (DJ SET)
PLUS – BBC INTRODUCING BAND
NME STAGE
FOALS
FRYARS
GLASVEGAS
POLLY SCATTERGOOD
POPPY AND THE JEZEBELS
S.C.U.M
THOSE DANCING DAYS
XX TEENS
TOPMAN NEW MUSIC STAGE
CHEEKY CHEEKY & THE NOSEBLEEDS
FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE
IPSO FACTO
NICK HARRISON
PULL IN EMERGENCY
TEAM WATERPOLO
THE RASCALS
THE RIFLES
DOMINO 15TH ANNIVERSARY STAGE
BONDE DO ROLE
COUNT & SINDEN
DOMINO DJS
EUGENE MCGUINNESS
FOUR TET
SONS AND DAUGHTERS
WHITE WILLIAMS
WILD BEASTS
THE REDBULL BEDROOM JAM STAGE
FURTHEST DRIVE HOME
GLAMOUR FOR BETTER
KASMS
MAGISTRATES
NONE THE LESS
OX EAGLE LION MAN
SLEEPERCURVE
THE DYKEENIES
THE MUSIC SPACE STAGE
ALEX STARLING
DIRECTIVE
FIFTH ELEMENT
FLIPRON
GOLDIELOCKS
LO-FI CULTURE SCENE
RISE OF THE SCORNED
TEMPORARILY BLANK
TOY TOY
THE PURPLE SOCKS
UNDERGROUND HEROES
WHY WHISKEY WHY
HABBO DJ TENT
DJ SETS FROM –
FARIS ROTTER
FREDERICK BLOOD-ROYALE (OX.EAGLE.LION.MAN)
GOOD SHOES
KID HARPOON
MYSTERY JETS
YOUNG TURKS
Hot hot indie band from Tennessee, Be Your Own Pet, will be touring the UK during the hot hot summer this August. The group will be hitting up Reading/Leeds Festival first and then off to play two headline shows straight after.
Check out the dates below and go get some tickets!
Friday 22nd August – Reading Festival (NME/Radio 1 Stage)
Saturday 23rd August – Leeds Festival (NME/Radio 1 Stage)
Monday 25th August – Liverpool Carling Academy
Tuesday 26th August – London Dingwalls
Jack’s Mannequin has set 30th September as the release date for their sophomore effort The Glass Passenger. The album, co-produced by lead vocalist Andrew McMahon and Jim Wirt (Incubus, Hoobastank), is the follow-up to the band’s 2005 debut Everything in Transit.
The band recently embarked on a tour with Paramore.
www.jacksmannequin.com
Camden Underworld, London
23.07.2008
So, finally, but as promised, The Adolescents made it to London. And they looked pretty knackered… almost six weeks on the road is pretty hard going by anyone’s standards, especially for a bunch of old guys, ha!
The Underworld is not my most favourite venue, and for much of the proceedings tonight it was lacking in atmosphere, a very morgue like state. The main fault here was the three less than average support bands that actually got worse as the night progressed. Go figure. Plenty of wiser punters had stayed away until the main attraction… you clever people.
By the time The Adolescents hit the stage there is a very respectable and charged crowd gathered, yelling out requests, and in generally high spirits. Which in essence is what The Adolescents music does… lifts you, gets you singing along… slamming in the pit… shaking your limbs… and still connecting with 28 year old songs about teenage angst, suburban alienation, government lies and.. err… amoeba’s!!
The set was very similar to the one I saw them play last year in Geneva, with a stack of essential sounds from the seminal ‘Blue‘ album, ‘Welcome to Reality‘ EP, plus select cuts from 2nd album “Brats in Battalions” and then some bang up to date numbers from the very respectable comeback record “O.C. Confidential“… the very Clash-inspired “Guns of September” particularly highlighting the vast influence the UK ’77 Punk explosion had on these guys… they sure took their time to get over here and pay the dues!
After two encores the band, especially singer Tony, are spent, and depart to a great reception from the battered and satisfied crowd. Good night, glad I made the trip up… just a shame the promoter couldn’t have managed to get some decent support bands on the bill… grunt, roan… rant… rave…
Pete Craven
The SonnyJim mixtape will be released in September.
Released on Dented Records: the highly anticipated CD, “Trading Standards“, will feature all never-before heard material from the likes of Jehst and some of those Foreign Beggars. Recipe for groggy excellence that.
For a taste of what’s in store, have a sip from these heavenly juices below. Jehst never disappoints.
SonnyJim ft. Jehst and Cappo – The God Complex (Produced by Beat Butcha)
http://www.zshare.net/audio/16197357f731f4d6/
SonnyJim ft. Verb T and Metropolis (Foreign Beggars) – Dynamite
Looking for some new threads for the summer months? The Harmony have a bunch of new shirts for you at your local SOS, have a peek at them here.
Yeah, I know what you’re thinking… “when, what, how did he get hold of these?“, well, if you want to get with the times, do what TK said in the last Baker video and ‘speak to the nigga negotiating your deal!’
Independent has been making low trucks for some time now, but this is different, this is new, this is STAGE 10! That’s right, they are up to double figures in experience and now bringing you a combination of new blood mixed with years of making skater preferred trucks, the end result speaks for itself!
After trying to find out what changes they’ve gone through to come up with a new stage, I could only conclude the following; it’s a new baseplate from an older stage. Disappointed? Don’t be, here’s the score:
When working on the stage 9 Low’s, they created a truck that has a kingpin sitting at more of an angle to compensate for the lower hanger, but whilst doing this, they kept the pivot angle the same as before so that the original axle remains relative to the mounting holes which will provide true wheel base and keeps the weight of the baseplate to enhance tricks off the nose and tail. They also gave it a rounder inside hanger for extra meat on smithies and feebles, but the real clincher for me, was the all new light weight hollow bodied aluminium used to make the low truck about 10% lighter than any other Independent truck on the market. Stage 9 also came with a modified baseplate, it has the hole cut out in the middle, between the pivot cup and the bushings, which I guess had problems with breaking. So, by going back to a reliable baseplate, this meant they’ve created a lower truck that is lighter than ever before and it comes with a stronger base plate…NICE!!!
Some say, why didn’t they call it 9.5, but I think 10 is spot on, it’s a new chapter, so it deserves a new stage, not a half stage! The baseplate, unlike the original stage 8, has only 4 holes where as the previous stage 8’s had 6, making it even stronger than the original stage 8 plate. I should also add that they’ve been running grade 8 kingpins throughout stage 9; it’s a shorter kingpin and is knurled instead of hexed, which shaves a bit off the weight too. The shorter kingpin also lessens the chances of hanging up on a smiths and busting your front teeth on the coping.
These come in custom Haslam colours, copper and black and are in 129 and 139 sizes, good for 7.75″ and 8.00″ boards. The rubbers fucked me around for about 2 hours on the first skate, but they softened up so quickly, I never changed them and that in itself is one mammoth feat! I have to say, the truck responds very well to your skateboarding needs and as for grinding, well, it’s like they claim in their campaign, ‘built to grind‘.
Independent trucks are good, they are solid and now lighter than most of their competitors, they come in all sizes for different types of riding, trust me, the time to convert is now, don’t get left with a bent hanger.
10/10
Live FAST, Ride FAST
2P