The Dead Weather have announced details of two upcoming UK shows.
The band will be showcasing material from their Sea Of Cowards album and will play the following dates, as well as a set at Glastonbury:
June 27th – Glasgow, ABC
June 28th – London, Roundhouse
Circa Survive have posted the new video online.
The track is Imaginary Enemy which is taken from their album, Blue Sky Noise and here it is:
Circa Survive – Imaginary Enemy
Circa Survive | MySpace Music Videos
Bad Religion have posted an update about their new record online.
The band, who will release a live album soon too, wrote:
“First week of recording at Joe’s house of compression and Brooks gets the medal for superasskicking. Brian has finished 14 basics… a couple more to go. I (Jay Bentley) started getting some good bass sounds late, late last night, the liver wins the shootout again. Brett is playing late night tracks on his birthday, some way to celebrate!”
The Gaff
London
12.05.10
London’s rock venues in the lead up to the Great Escape Festival are packed with underground bands this week and The Gaff in Holloway Rd in North London played host to 2 of the loudest and most talked about upcoming artists bubbling away under the radar.
Tonight the venue may only have 80 people stood inside but those who have made the effort must have felt lucky when Chickenhawk came on stage to spread their evil dose of hardcore and metal.
The Leeds 4-piece have been living off the road for most of the year so far, clocking up the miles for the cause and generally getting amongst it. Tonight singer/guitarist Paul Astick leads the assault but by his own standards admits that he’s knackered and although their set is rampant from the off with team Hawk tighter than ever, even he concedes that the road is starting to rule them. No one cared though and as the set rolled out the beastly riffs of the mighty Kerosene and the stomping crunch of Scorpio, Astick found friends in the pit after slamming his mic stand down in the middle of it like he had landed on the moon and then slumped into the carpet like a lesbian on MDMA.
This evening’s show is all about the drummers as both bands have proper tech thumpers on board- Matthew Reid’s monstrous battery got Chickenhawk to the end of a cracking 30 minute set that finished on the catchy I hate this, do you like it..single… a track that has over 40,000 youtube views so far. Miss this lot at your peril. Once again, Chickenhawk proved even with a half empty tank they can still whip your butt in the live stakes. Look out for them on your travels as they will be pumping this shit out for miles yet ahead of their release planned for August this year.
It doesn’t take long for Tweak Bird to set up shop and fire out their blend of melodic vocals and heavy, sludge rock riffs for they are just a 2 piece with drums, guitar and one of those amazing theramins. Those in the know would remember their last visit to London where the brothers Bird blew a hole in the new Volcom store in Covent Garden when it opened last year. Since then they have moved over to Berlin based label Souterrain Transmissions ahead of their self titled LP release which on first listen should be one of the finest releases since Death From Above 1979’s debut. Its production is as heavy as Sabbath thanks the assistance of Melvins’ Dale Crover and Big Business’ Toshi Kasai pulling the strings on the sound in the studio and the result hucks in at only 25 mins in length but is a record you will no doubt have on repeat as a result when it drops this August.
2 of rock’s best drummers rip it up!
Tonight Tweak Bird kick off their set with new 7″ single ‘A Sun/Ahh Ahh’, a stoner rock classic that slowly builds allowing drummer/vocalist Ashton Bird to get his forearms pumped up for a drum thumping assault of the highest proportions throughout new tracks such as The Future and the wonderful vibes of Lights In Lines. His Brother Caleb has a baritone guitar so that he can tune to a lower range and delivers that drone of doom you crave to hear from a rock band at all times. His ability to actually see what he is doing through a mass of dark, greasy hair though is a feat on its own- yet he also manages to pull off in-tune twangs from a theramin that sits on his amp head which sounds fucking awesome! Shame that Caleb was not born with 3 arms because if he could blow down a saxophone at the same time this show tonight would have been complete sound wise, let’s hope they manage to find guests to join them on the road to add this to their set or at least bring a backing tape for the future as it’s the last piece of the live jigsaw missing for the Illinois duo’s perfect set which received thumbs up from a baying crowd.
If you dig the sound of Morphine and Kyuss then this is for you as the Brothers Bird have something unique to bring to the rock table this year and will be visiting these shores enough to reel you in. Look out for them with Pulled Apart By Horses at the Stag and Dagger festival in London on 21 May, it will be well worth it on this evidence.
Word and photos: Seb Adoh
Birdhouse have released a tour video covering their latest East Coast visit to NYC, Philly and many other cities. Click below for footage of demos and street skating with Tony Hawk, Willy Santos, Kevin Staab, Matt Ball, Derek “Ghost” Burdette, Randy Ploesser, Riley Hawk, David Loy, Aaron “Jaws” Homoki, John Rob Moore, Alan Young, Shaun Gregoire, Jesse Fritsch, Lyn-z Adams Hawkins, Drew Etzkorn, Fritz, and Sean Eaton.
Birdhouse Skateboards East Coast Tour from Birdhouse on Vimeo.
Antwuan Dixon tells all in this latest web documentary about his skateboarding life with the Death Wish crew, tattoos, perceptions, jail, the success of his Supra pro shoe and much much more. Enjoy the first part of this story about one of skateboarding’s most animated characters right here.
iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch
ngmoco
With social gaming on platforms like Facebook taking huge portions from our online activity (just look at Farmville). it’s a little gem like We Rule that goes slightly against the grain of the mass of recent social gaming titles and takes the plaudits.
Imagine a medieval zen garden, place your farm land plots, earn gold, buy structures like stables, schools, houses, mines, earn more gold from players placing orders at these structures, move your structures around in your own design and increase land size as you level up- and repeat.
Simply put, We Rule has limited social interaction but still relies on other users to purchase goods and services from your own kingdom for it to make any sense. Strangely, this works really well and is just enough to draw you back to your own kingdom (if you ensure you have your push notifications active) allowing minimal fuss and short bursts of time spent in the game.
ngmoco could look to develop We Rule with additional social interaction elements as there’s no chat or messaging system in place but without developing more to the gameplay itself there maybe no needed to do so. With We Rule you get a free social gaming experience that almost forgets to add the ‘interaction’ into the mix. Strangely endearing, less has made this fairly light but pretty game, more.
6/10
David Osbon
Adidas Skateboarding team riders Nestor Judkins, Benny Fairfax, Tim OConnor and Klaus Bohms were in London this year filming a TV commercial for the 3 Stripes and took some time out to cruise the streets and hit up the Big Smoke’s main attractions including a match at Stamford Bridge to see a match against the filth. Enjoy their shenanigans here.
Wake up and smell the concrete with Chad Tim Tim in the first part of this 3 part series brought to you by Element Skateboards today. This edit is packed with tech wizardry and after watching it a couple of times it could well go down as edit of the week here.
The Status Quo is left uncredited and I guess down to you to find out via Pictures Of Matchstick Men on the interweb but enjoy this footage of Chad, it’s fantastic. Look out for more from him scheduled to be unleashed on May 14th, whilst Levi Brown’s footage will be live on May 21st and Darrell Stanton’s part will drop online on May 28th.
Korn will be releasing a new album in July and have posted some clips online.
Korn III: Remember Who You Are will featured the tracks Pop A Pill, Let The Guilt Go and The Past and you can check out those tracks on the video below.