Marty Crandall of The Shins has been arrested.
The keyboard player for the band was taken into custody on Friday after an incident with his girlfriend, Elyse Sewell. Sewell posted a blog on her Live Journal saying he was intoxicated and assaulted, calling it a “blitzkrieg of violence”.
Crandall is set to appear in court on January 8th.
Crown City Rockers have updated via MySpace.
The hip hop crew stated in a bulletin that they are currently finishing up their new album, and announced two new projects. Kat Ouano has a solo record called Natural Phenomenons and Headnodic is working on The Mighty Underdogs with Lateef and Gift Of Gab who will release an EP featuring CCR’s Raashan Ahmad, DJ Shadow and MF Doom amongst others.
Check out www.myspace.com/crowncity for previews of what is to come!
Stars have announced their return to the UK.
The band will be touring from the end of the month and will be supporting the release of their next single Midnight Coward. You can check them out at the following dates:
January
26 – Moshulu, Aberdeen
27 – Oran Mor, Glasgow
28 – Barfly, Birmingham
29 – Koko, London
30 – Thekla Social, Bristol
31 – Academy 3, Manchester
February
02 – Rescue Room, Nottingham
03 – Leadmill, Sheffield
04 – Concorde 2, Brighton
2007 has been a good year for skate videos. The season ended with more blockbuster titles than your local multiplex, and every need was catered for. Steering the way for independent cinema and rooted street skating was Josh Stewart and his third installment to the already acclaimed series, Static III.
Now, I know working independently is very risky business, and judging by how Josh has voiced his position regarding the matter, skateboard cinematography is a hard nut to crack and prosper from. However, I don’t want to turn this review into another charity case plea because you should all know already that skaters need to support one another if we really want our passion to thrive properly. In fact, it’s rather ironic that Static III should even be accompanied by a charity-style PR campaign because the product sells itself. Static III is a diamond in the rough. A well thought out cast of talented yet discreet skaters (Pat Steiner, Soy Panday, Tony Manfre, Jahmal Williams, Olly Todd, Steve Durante, Danny Renaud and Nate Broussard to name the highlights), filmed flowing endlessly through their local back streets, and edited to a smooth soundtrack.
If skating through the city gets your juices flowing then Static III is your pacemaker. Stunt aficionados need to look elsewhere for their entertainment. This screening provides plenty of quick footed trickery and beautifully shot photography for your viewing pleasure. I think Josh really worked hard on making sure the video could be watched from start to finish without needing to reach for the fast forward button- It clocks in just past the half hour mark. A method to keep attention levels live was to mix digital and film and spread and merge skaters parts together. Josh also worked on refining a few new filming angles notably the side to side swing and pan out ride-aways on lines. These techniques can lead to a lot of camera movement and may induce queeziness in some viewers, but after two watches, you get over it. In fact, you must get over it because Static III induces multiple viewing.
To end this promotional text, do go out and buy this DVD because Josh Stewart has worked very hard and actually outdone himself. Static III stands in its own genre and smashes the cinematic curse that the third part of a trilogy sucks balls. Good job Josh!
8/10
RL-D
Goldfinger have posted a new song online.
The track, One More Time, is set to be on their as-yet untitled album which is slated for a late April release. The album will be their debut on SideOnedDummy and you can check out the track by clicking the link below.
Foals will not be including their fan favourite singles on their debut album.
Hummer and Mathletics have been ommitted from Antidotes, due out in March. The band have defended the decision by saying that the songs had already been released, so there was no point in releasing them again. Frontman Yannis Philippakis continued by saying:
“We took a lot of care over the way the album was sequenced and we just thought, ‘Fuck it, let’s do the 11 tracks we want to. With a few albums, you’ve already heard a lot of the songs on there. We didn’t want an album where some of the tracks aren’t as good as others. If people want to kill us, they should take solace in the fact that there will be a Japanese version of the album with a separate disc of extra tracks including the singles. But hopefully they won’t want to kill us.”
Mike Skinner has killed his label.
The Beats, which was gome to Example, Professor Green and The Mitchell Brothers, was closed at the end of last year, with Skinner holding a funeral for it on December 19th. Explaining the drastic measure, the frontman of The Streets said:
“It just comes down to the fact that the traditional record label is dead. “The Beats represents me growing up, spectating was more nerve-wracking than performing. What I’m doing now is looking for the thing you can create that embraces the next generation,I’m really into what you can do online and I’d rather be at the centre of it.”
Correcto have a new track, Do It Better, out soon.
Check the video to see what all the fuss is about.
Crossfire favourite Kelly Stoltz is headlining an Uncut night.
The magazine is launching a series of monthly gigs in London and the San Francisco native will be hitting the Borderline on February 15th.
The singer will be joined by Jaymay who was described by the magazine as having “a crystal clear warble to match Norah Jones”. Tickets go on sale on January 6th.
Eels are set to release their Best Of compilation this month.
Meet The Eels: Essential Eels Volume 1, 1996-2006 is out on January 21st and covers the band’s first ten years over 24 tracks. The package also comes with a 2CD compilation called ‘Useless Trinkets’ , featuring B-sides, soundtrack material, rarities and unreleased material, as well as a DVD collection of the band’s videos. The tracklisting is:
‘Novocaine For The Soul’
‘Susan’s House’
‘My Beloved Monster’
‘Your Lucky Day In Hell’
‘3 Speed’
‘Last Stop: This Town’
‘Climbing To The Moon’ (Jon Brion remix)
‘Flyswatter’
‘I Like Birds’
‘Mr E’s Beautiful Blues’
‘It’s A Motherfucker’
‘Souljacker Part 1’
‘That’s Not Really Funny’
‘Fresh Feeling’
‘Get Ur Freak On’
‘Saturday Morning’
‘Love Of The Loveless’
‘Dirty Girl (Live At Town Hall)’
‘I Need Some Sleep’
‘Hey Man (Now You’re Really Living)’
‘I’m Going To Stop Pretending That I Didn’t Break Your Heart’
‘Trouble With Dreams’
‘Railroad Man’
‘Losing Streak’