The Night Marchers, a new project featuring John Speedo Ries of Rocket From The Crypt will be hitting the UK next month for a selection of London dates and a couple of other shows up North.
June 5th Dirty Boots @ Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes, London
June 6th Dirty Water @ The Boston Arms, London
June 7th Nottingham Bodega
June 8th Manchester Night & Day
June 10th London 100 Club
Their debut album See You In Magic is available digitally and on vinyl now.
Lovenskate have a new selection of tees for the summer months.
Click the count to purchase the new threads and browse their site.
Mark Ronson has confirmed he is producing the new Kaiser Chiefs album.
The producer claimed, tongue-in-cheek, that he tried to get his trademark horns on the album but was told it wasn’t an option. Regarding the new album’s sound, he said it was similiar to the “urgency” of Employment, continuing:
“‘Employment‘ is one of my favourite records of the last ten years. There’s that excitement of getting to work on something you’re such a fan of already…Each one of them in any other band would be the funniest member of that band. It’s almost like The Beatles – that razor sharp wit. Sometimes when I’m in the room recording I feel like I’ve won a competition to be the sixth Kaiser Chief.”
The Hold Steady have announced some new UK tour dates.
You can check them out at the following shows:
May 11th – ATP Festival, Camber Sands
May 13th – Academy, Dublin
May 14th – Spring Airbrake, Belfast
May 16th – The Great Escape Festival, Brighton
We love Justice. And we love their track Stress. Here’s the video for it in all its violence-tinged glory. NOT for the weak at heart.
Spanish skate company Nomad Skateboards have sent us a footage from their recent Russian visit featuring skating from Alberto Polo, Luypa Sin, Raul Navarro, Honza Minol, Julio Arnau and newcomer Sasha Tushev. Watch it below.
The Harmony have opened their doors to more talent this month.
Look out for regular updates on their blog about new flow skater Ali Drummond from Tunbridge Wells whose steez can be found in the new ‘Skateface‘ DVD. The team will also join the fun on this years Big Push so look out for that footage when it drops.
We had the pleasure of watching Steve Reeves at the Bowlriders finals in Malmo a couple of years ago and he was like a mach 10 pinball shot from the hip. Check out recent footage of him movin’ up on the Strangenotes website.
Music can be seen as the crafted language of sound, the distortion of noise to evoke meaning, a blissful assault on the senses summoning an assault with much more power than any intoxicating concoction can create. It is the only true global language, and certainly the most neutral. In the past, Portishead have utilised their musical words, and have filtered through some of those most delectable and haunting melodies as seen on debut, Dummy, and combined them with the unparalleled angelic voice of the awe-inspiring Beth Gibbons.
This long awaited, aptly penned ‘Third‘ album, was most auspicious considering the relentless progression displayed on eponymous second album; I for one was suffering from serious anxiety attacks merely placing the disc into my laptop, unbeknown as to what kind of terrified beauty may leak into my iTunes library. It would appear that not only have the band delved into a musical thesaurus, but they’ve become bilingual and have made up their entire dialect of their own.
While the seductive and concupiscent Glory Box-esque tracks are notably absent from Third, there is still the same mournful grace apparent in Beth’s rich vocal. Amidst the eclectic variety in the musical melee, her voice (I know I’m touching on this too much, but it truly is mind melting) soars through every off beat snare and all spook ridden keys to grasp upon your soul and plunge it into a dark, dank ketamine tunnel, drowning in such vast emotion. It’s absolutely magnificent, I really cannot emphasise this enough. That iconic P stands as strong as ever, manipulating the magic number into one of the finest albums of the millennium thus far. Please, support this wonderful band and indulge yourself into Third and its tragic magic. This is music at its most powerful and out now.
Joe Moynihan
Click these links to watch Portishead video clips:
‘We Carry On’
P Film 2
P Film 1
Foals are releasing a new single in May.