El-P has courted all sorts of trouble Stateside with the video to Smithereens. Banned by a number of stations in America, the video sees El dressed in a Guantanamo Bay jumpsuit, being subjected to violence from camouflaged villains.
Fuck censorship, here’s the video:
And on the subject of El-P, check out this interview and footage from his recent show in London that wowed both Abjekt and Z-Ed by clicking here.
Mr J Medeiros from the Procussions is to release a solo record next month.
The rapper-cum-producer has lined up 15 tracks for Of Gods And Girls and has production from the likes of Hocus Pocus’ 20syl, Stro the 89th Key of the Procussions, Headnodic of Crown City Rockers and the ever brilliant Joe Beats. The tracklisting is:
1. Amelie feat. 20Syl of Hocus Pocus
2. Silent Earth
3. Strangers
4. Constance
5. Change feat. Strange Fruit and Rez of The Procussions
6. King of Rock Bottom feat. DJ Vajra
7. Half A Dream feat. Marty James of One Block Radius
8. Keep Pace
9. Money feat. Pigeon John and DJ Vajra
10. Her Wings
11. Apathy feat. DJ Vajra
12. Call You
Remixes
13. Constance RMX
14. Silent Earth RMX
15. Half A Dream RMX feat. DJ Destro
Dave Navarro and Perry Farrell have been hitting out at one another in the press.
Talking of the band’s third split [in 2002], Farrell said that the band fell apart after Navarro started to front the reality show Rock Star on TV. Navarro’s reply came on his blog saying that this couldn’t be the case as he only got the call about hosting the show after Navarro’s side project had begun recording a demo.
Farrell then countered that he [Farrell] “brought Jane’s Addiction to life, it is only fitting that I am the one to bury her” which Navarro recently replied to by saying:
“OK. So which is it? “‘Rock Star’? He broke it up? We did? Either way it was four years ago so I think it’s about time to let it go.”
Apparently we all care.
MIA has released the tracklisting for her new album.
Kala will be released in August as the follow up to Arula in 2005. The album will feature 12 tracks, including the single Boyz which was released this week. The album will also feature Timbaland on the closing track. The tracklist is:
‘Bamboo Banga’
‘BirdFlu’
‘Boyz’
‘Jimmy’
‘Hussel’ (featuring Afrikan Boy)
‘Mango Pickle Down River’ (with The Wilcannia Mob)
’20 Dollar’
‘World Town’
‘The Turn’
‘XR2’
‘Paper Planes’
‘Come Around’ (featuring Timbaland)
Timbaland has been arrested following a fight in a bar.
The super-producer was apparently involved in the fight after the man known only as Robert F, objected to his girlfriend talking to the rapper.
Reports say that racist slurs were shouted and this enraged Timbaland. He was taken to jail and released on bail early on Monday morning.
Machine Head are teaming up with Trivium, Dragonforce and Arch Enemy on a rampage through the UK.
The Black Crusade Tour will also feature another special guest act and looks set to dominate the country when it comes over at the end of the year. Rob Flynn said of the tour:
“We’re so goddamned jacked-up to do this! It’s going to be completely fucking sick! We cannot wait to plunder all of the vodka in all your towns and see our beer-breathed brethren pillaging along side us. We’re stoked to be sharing stages and brown-eyes with our boys in Trivium once again and are looking forward to hanging out with all the other bands.”
The dates are:
November:
20th – Glasgow SECC – 0870 040 4000
21st – Manchester MEN Arena – 0870 190 8000
23rd – Birmingham NE – 0870 909 4133
24th – London Brixton Academy – 0870 771 2000
25th – London Brixton Academy – 0870 771 2000
26th – Cardiff CIA Arena – 029 2022 4488
Science Skateboards have added two new skaters to their team.
Paul Regan is the first and has just done some filming for his section for the forthcoming Sidewalk and for a Story Store vid as well as getting some photos done for his Haunts interview in Sidewalk – Busy boy!
The second is Joe Sivell, who you might have seen on Curb Surfers on Sky not long ago. If you don’t know, then you’d better get to know by clicking the image on the right. He came third in last year’s DVS “Sponsor Me” comp and has just shot a First Light for Sidewalk. Not too shabby that!
Rune Glifberg claimed the 2007 Quiksilver Bowlriders title this past weekend.
The Danish ripper took the crown in an all-European final, beating off competition from John Magnuson, Mattias Nylen, Nicky Guerrero, Alain Goikoetxea and our very own Ross McGouran.
Glifberg added the title his vast mantelpiece and proved a huge favourite with the 4,000 people around the skatepark in Malmo. The final results were:
1. Rune Glifberg [DEN]
2. John Magnuson [SWE]
3. Alain Goikoetxea [SPA]
4. Ross McGouran [UK]
5. Nicky Guerrero [DEN]
6. Mattias Nylen [SWE]
Hit up www.bowlriders.com for all the carnage.
The Flip team won big a the recent Transworld Skateboarding Awards in LA.
After turning up in a limo, the team saw Mark Appleyard win Best Street Skater, Bob Burnquist getting the award for Best Vert Skater and Lance Mountain received the honour of the Transworld Skateboarding Legend Award.
Pepe Deluxe are returning with a new album on June 25th.
To celebrate this release, the band are making tracks from their second album Beatitude available for free download via AOL.
If you want to get a piece of the action, which you should, then head over to the link below and grab, grab, grab!