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Music News

New Clockcleaner record

Clockcleaner’s new album is due out in November.

Babylon Rules will be released on November 5th on Load Records and is the band’s second full length release. The album is said to promise “more goth, death and sadness and delivers in big miserable boxes” and Clockcleaner have albelled their style Skull Music.

Babylon Rules is also said to have:

“Stray shards of guitar semen, sex bass and pounding irritations strewn about as tales of used up whores, sad voyages, Mexican women and father issues are played through instruments recorded on tape.”

Nice.

www.myspace.com/clockcleaner

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New High On Fire record

High On Fire are to release their new album on September 24th.

Death Is This Communion is the follow up to Blessed Black Wings and was recorded in Seattle with Jack Endino who has worked with Nirvana and Soundgarden. The band will begin touring the States and will head over to UK in December.

www.myspace.com/highonfireslays

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Film Reviews

The Bourne Ultimatum

Universal Studios
Out Now

I really don’t understand why this film has received such laudatory praise. I mean, it was good, but it was nowhere near perfection, even for its genre.

After the first two dark, thrilling and underrated Bourne films, The Bourne Ultimatum seems like a significant disappointment. Director Paul Greengrass gives the impression that chases, car-crashes and fist fights should go on forever, even if they are tiresomely repetitive. And also given that the plot is paper-thin and rather a total repeat of the first two Bourne films it didn’t take me long before I was wondering if they hadn’t just cut and paste a montage of action from the other films together.

One of the most tediously long parts of the film has Jason Bourne jumping across an endless succession of identical rooftops, as he tries to save the pathetic Nicky Parsons. As Jason Bourne hops from rooftop to rooftop to rooftop, crashes through never-ending windows and doors, I was ready to throw myself down the stairs, in a vain attempt at perhaps breaking the chain of absurdity so far.

Another constant annoyance in the film was that Bourne was either “the source” or was going after “the source”. Only eventually we find out what we already knew before from the first two films, that the narrative (if you can call it that) is of a spy whose makers are ready to kill him and all of their other Jason Bourne spies, in a sort of massive cover-up scheme.

Despite my incessant bitching the film was okay. The innumerable action pieces are exciting and quick; it’s just that they are all so similar. I really like the dark, gritty colouring and, when the film isn’t jolting around on a hand-cam; running, crashing, fighting or shooting, the sharp, droll dialogue seems acceptable.

The Bourne Ultimatum is actually more like a typical roller-coaster ride than a movie; there are tiny moments that leave you exhilarated, but I find going round in an identical loop eventually becomes more than laborious. And if you do decide to see this weakly scripted and repetitive “action thriller”, remember to take your motion sickness pills beforehand.

Emily Paget

www.thebourneultimatum.com

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Music News

De La Rocha solo record complete

Zack De La Rocha has finally completed his solo album.

The Rage Against The Machine frontman has worked with Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore and a source is quoted as saying it sounds like “Led Zep meets Dr Dre”.

De La Rocha has worked with the likes of Trent Reznor and DJ Shadow but it is not known if they will feature on the finished record. As the singer is unsigned, there is no release date as yet.

www.ratm.com

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Music News

3 special Charlatan live dates!

The Charlatans have announced 3 special dates in November.

Tickets for the events go on sale on September 21st at 9.30am, so make sure you get them quickly before they’re snapped up.

November:

3rd – Glasgow ABC
4th – Manchester Ritz
5th – London Shepherds Bush Empire

www.thecharlatans.net

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Music News

QOTSA tour the UK

Queens Of The Stone Age have announced some new UK dates:

November:

23rd – Brighton Dome
24th – Liverpool Carling Academy
25th – Nottingham Rock City
26th – London Brixton Academy
28th – Glasgow Carling Academy
29th – Newcastle Carling Academy

December:

1st – Bristol Carling Academy
2nd – Manchester Apollo
3rd – Birmingham Carling Academy
4th – Reading Rivermead

www.qotsa.com

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Music News

Perry Farrell launches new label

Perry Farrell has launched a new label.

The Jane’s Addiction frontman will release Satellite Party’s Ultra Payloaded album on the Bells Are Ringing label. Farrell formed the label to gain more financial control and artistic freedom and went on to say:

“I’m very excited to become part of this new independent trend where artists will have more creative freedom, make higher profits on the sales of their music and most of all it allows me, the artist, to own my art, my masters.”

www.satelliteparty.com

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Pennie leaves The Automatic

Pennie has left The Automatic.

The keyboard player and backing singer announced his departure earlier this week citing his growing apart from the rest of the band and the last year being “increasingly unenjoyable” as reasons for leaving.

The rest of the band will continue on and plan to fly to the States for the recording of the 2nd album soon.

www.theautomatic.co.uk

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Skateboarding News

Supermodels and Skateboarders

Not sure what the idea behind this Sunday Times fashion photoshoot was, but maybe to make supermodels look even hotter by putting them next to sweaty, smelly skateboarders.

Ari Marcopolous filmed this behind the scene look at the shoot, which made me laugh as it’s always funny seeing girls genuinely shocked that you don’t die if you fall over on your board.

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Skateboarding News

International Talk like a Pirate Day

Yarrrrgh, m’hearties! Shiver me timbers, y’scurvy landlubbers!

Err, yeah it’s International Talk Like A Pirate Day (again) so put on your peg legs, gouge out an eye and patch it up, then go fuck over someone’s boat and steal their jewellery.

www.talklikeapirate.com