Mindless Self Indulgence are back in the studio to record their new album.
The band are in Canada with Rhys Fuller of Fear Factory fame’s studio. The band are expected to be working on the album all the way up until they set off on this year’s Projekt Revolution Tour on July 25th. They will also be releasing a live DVD Our Pain, Your Gain, on September 11th.
Pointless chump Avril Lavigne is being sued by a songwriting team.
Tommy Dunbar of The Rubinoos said that the Canadian warbling machine’s track Girlfriend is a rip off of their 1978 track I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend and are suing the co-writer of Girlfriend, Dr. Luke and Avril’s publishing company.
Why anyone would want to admit that their music sounds like her toss is beyond us, but here’s hoping they rinse her for a load of cash anyway.
Comeback Kid and Cancer Bats will be heading to the UK as part of the Never Say Die! Tour.
The tour will hit other European dates with The Warriors, Parkway Drive and This Is Hell also on the bill, but the UK dates are:
November:
5th – Brighton, Concorde 2
6th – London, The Electric Ballroom
7th – Manchester, Jillys Rockworld
8th – Glasgow, King Tuts
9th – Sheffield, Corporation
10th – Yeovil, Ski Lodge
MxPx have posted up a video for the title track of their new album.
Secret Weapon, which follows up Let’s Rock, will be out on July 17th via Tooth & Nail Records and was produced by Aaron Sprinkle who hasn’t worked with the band since their 1994 debut Pokinatcha. Bad Religion’s Brian Baker has contributed to the album.
This comes direct from the UKSA, and is definitely not what you want to be hearing on a Friday morning. Lend a hand, show your support, and don’t let another skatepark fall off the map. Read on:
“The future of Southsea skatepark is looking uncertain. The local council are preparing to close the park in September of this year unless a suitable plan can be made in conjunction with a private party that would need to take over the lease of the facilities. A private party with the full support of current skatepark users has approached the council and their business plan was rejected due to out-dated views expressed by council members as to the usage and potential user groups associated with the park.
The users of the park; skateboarders, bmx and inline have united to form a user group that will hopefully convince the council that these facilities are a necessary part of the local community and that the park is unique and an investment in the future of all active members of the public young and old.
The Southsea Skatepark Users Group will be posting/have posted (by the time this appears in print) an online petition that you can access via the Bored skate shop website at www.boredofsouthsea.co.uk
Please add your support if you use the park, have ever used the park or if you value a genuine piece of British skate heritage and the right to campaign for adequate facilities for the present and future.
There will be various events throughout August which the Southsea Skatepark Users Group will post notice of on the various skate forums but regardless of this there has never been a more important time to visit the park. Go shred…
Cheers,
The United Kingdom Skateboarding Association”
“Skateboarding and rock ‘n’ roll is my religion, and Johnny Thunders is God”
Can’t argue with that really. The man who eats handrails for breakfast and shits out nollie backside kickflips, Jim Greco is on the latest Epicly Later’d.
Check out skating’s equivalent of Cribs with the leather jacketed Jim at www.vbs.tv to get an insight.
Vans unleashed some new footglove collaborations at the Bread & Butter tradeshow on Wednesday including the eagerly anticipated Iron Maiden slip-ons, amazing!
The shoe giants have also hooked up with pool coping scrapers Independent Trucks and artist Dennis Mcnett to produce some really tasty looking appetisers for all you sneaker freaks.
There’s been no official details released yet so these pictures are even more frustrating for anyone wanting to backsmith wearing possibly the most ultimate combo of shoes and trucks. Word on the street says out in 2008!
Brighton-based The Go! Team are back with the follow-up to the quarter million selling ‘Thunder Lightning Strike’ that was nominated for 2004’s Mercury Prize.
‘Grip Like A Vice’ features everything you’d expect from The Go! Team, with electro beats, girl rapping and noisy guitars, as well a cover of Sonic Youth’s Bull In The Heather and is currently being finished in time for the end of the summer.
In the mean time, the first single off the album is out now, and you can feast your eyes on the video for ‘Grip Like A Vice’ here.
Go check ’em out on their vast tour, these guys are going to be knackered:
5 Jul 2007 – Electrowerkz – London
6 Jul 2007 – ICA, iTunes Festival – London
10 Jul 2007 – Ibiza Rocks headline show with CSS – San Antonio, Balears
22 Jul 2007 – Benicassim Festival -Spain
28 Jul 2007 – Berlin Festival – Berlin
10 Aug 2007 – Way Out West Festival -Gothenburg
11 Aug 2007 -Oya Festival – Oslo
15 Aug 2007 – La Route Du Rock Festival St Malo, Bretagne
16 Aug 2007 – Pukkelpop – Hasselt
18 Aug 2007 – Loop Festival – Brighton
26 Aug 2007 – Get Loaded Festival – London
31 Aug 2007 – Connect Festival- Loch Fyne, Argyll
2 Sep 2007 – Electric Picnic – Stradbally Hall, Laois
7 Sep 2007 – Bestival – Isle of Wight
12 Sep 2007- Electric Ballroom – London
13 Sep 2007 – Ritz – Manchester
14 Sep 2007 – ABC – Glasgow, Scotland
The rumour mill is working overtime today, but it looks like the stories of Val Halen reforming for a tour with David Lee Roth are finally true.
The band now consisting of David Lee Roth, Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen and Eddie’s son Wolfgang Van Halen have apparently started planning dates for a US tour in September, although nothing official has been said yet.
In February, with huge hype surrounding them, the band called off their previously planned reunion tour and also cancelled their performance at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Only because in true rock ‘n’ roll fashion, Eddie had to go to rehab for a month for his drinking problems.
In a related note, we used to prank call people by playing “Jump” down the phone to them. A friend’s dad once listened to the whole song before saying “Kev, is that you?”
www.van-halen.com
I’ve always been a fan of Enjoi decks, well, as enthusiastic about them as I could be considering I had never actually stepped on one. Enjoi adverts never fail in making me guffaw whole heartedly, and I’m sure you’ll agree that Bag Of Suck was a video that mashed the barrier between pissing around and genuinely epic skateboarding perfectly. Plus I was always overly partial to that Jerry Hsu deck that did the rounds last year, the one with kittens and rainbows on it. If I weren’t so reckless with my money I happily would have indulged in 5 of them. But then, that would be equally as reckless as what I spent my money on instead. Ah well.
One paragraph and 124 words into this review, and I haven’t even mentioned the deck that I had the pleasure to take on a test drive around the newly laid concrete in Essex. No, not Saffron Walden, that’s far too mainstream. In true Enjoi style, I took this deck to a new crete park in Grays, consisting of a quarter pipe with coping the size of a trombone, and this horrid tarmac floor that sucks you in like quicksand. It’s already claimed the lives of four local groms. Probably because they’re abec rating was too low. Anyway. Considering I had put Enjoi on a pedestal, I was really eager to see how the deck played its role. I was stoked to find out that it was more than just a useless wooden toy.
What struck me first is it’s absurdly lightweight construction. Such a contrast from my last two decks, which seemed bulky and soggy, and made skateboarding more of a chore. This beauty put the fun back into zipping around parks, without having to lift the weight of a thousand planets to get onto a ledge. The resin 7 epoxy construction makes it more stable than so solid crew too, and helping it stay as light as it should be.
It has a tidy mellow concave, and keeps a good relationship with your feet throughout your ride. No awkwardness in getting used to a bizarre shape, just hop on and go. Cracking. And while it doesn’t have pictures of kittens and rainbows, the artwork by Todd Bratrud is pretty fucking rad anyway. Well, what’s left of it.
Overall, a great deck that didn’t disappoint at all, and makes the sound of buying 5 of them a lot more sensible that I would have thought. Shame that Jason Adams has done the offs though..
9/10