Author: Crossfire

The location that has been described as “the birthplace of Hip Hop” is hoping to be preserved after an application to make it a historic landmark was approved.

The Sedgwick Building hosted parties where DJ Kool Herc played sets which spawned the foundation of the Hip Hop culture and has been namechecked in tracks by the likes of Nas in the recent past. Herc himself called for the preservation of the building, so let’s hope the authorities pay attention and keep the historic building exactly how it should be kept!

The Bled have said their new album will be called Silent Treatment.

The new record will be out in September and follows up Found In The Flood from 2005. The band have also re-issued their debut full length Pass The Flask. The tracklisting for the new album:

1. Shadetree Mechanics
2. You Should Be Ashamed Of Myself
3. Threes Away
4. Asleep On The Frontlines
5. Platonic Sleepover Massacre
6. Starving Artiste
7. The Silver Lining
8. Some Just Vanish
9. Breathing Room Barricades
10. Beheaded My Way
11. My Bitter Half

www.thebledsite.com

Epoxies have posted a new song on their MySpace.

My New World is on the 5 track EP, which is their first release for Metropolis Records. The band, who recently put out an EP through another label, with two 7″s, are currently working on the full length album which is expected to be released later this year.

www.myspace.com/epoxies

They’re hip. They’re cool. They make music that you shouldn’t be ashamed to like. Right, that’ll do for the spiel, pimp the new Chromeo video for Tenderoni.

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The Decemberists have announced a UK tour.

The band, who released The Crane Wife earlier this year, will be playing shows in October, the dates being:

2nd – London, Royal Festival Hall
3rd – Cambridge, Junction
5th – Wolverhampton, Wulfren Hall
6th – Bristol, Anson Rooms
7th – Oxford, Academy
9th – Dublin, Vicar Street
10th – Liverpool, Academy
11th – Newcastle, Academy
12th – Glasgow, Academy
13th – Leeds, Metropolitan University

www.decemberists.com

Del might be signing for Def Jux, according to reports.

When talking in an interview about his new album, 11th Hour, Del said:

“Looks like I’m possibly fucking with El-P you know for the release of this through Def Jux. I’ve known El-P for a long time. That’s my boy man. Looks like it’s going down like that. But 11th Hour is my best work to date.

It’s a Del album so don’t expect to be listening to no crazy space shit or none of that shit. If you want that you got to listen to Deltron. This is strictly about me, how I get down, my real world shit and I how I get through it…”

Blimey.

www.hieroglyphics.com

Grayskul have released a new song taken from their upcoming album Bloody Radio.

The follow up to Deadlivers will feature guest spots from Slug, Aesop Rock, cage and even Pigeon John. The first single will be Scarecrow, a track produced by Aesop Rock and the B-Side will be a remix of the track, produced and featuring Doomtree badman POS.

The album will be out on Rhymesayers on September 11th.

www.rhymesayers.com