Iggy Pop has recently spoken about the track Trollin’ on his album which features the line “my dick is turning into a tree”.
He said to Rolling Stone magazine:
“You write about things of importance to you. And it’s gotta be for real. Do I think about my dick? All the time. I got a right to sing about it. If I thought, ‘It’s time to write a rock song, I’d better mention my dick,’ then I wouldn’t even be able to say ‘dick’ right. But it’s nature-oriented”.
Got it? Good.
The US version of the Download Festival will be kicking off in August.
The festival will be a tour, with four dates having been confirmed so far. Two bands who will be playing it are Modest Mouse and The Shins with more bands to be announced very soon.
A compilation of pop covers has been recorded with the likes of Will Oldham and Devendra Banhart taking part.
Oldham has put his own spin on Mariah Carey’s Can’t Take That Away with Oasis, Cher, Journey, Take That and Destiny’s Child all get sonic makeovers. The full tracklisting for Guilt By Association is:
Petra Haden: ‘Don’t Stop Believin” (Journey)
Devendra Banhart: ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’ (Oasis)
Mark Mulcahy: ‘From This Moment On’ (Shania Twain)
Luna: ‘Straight Up’ (Paula Abdul)
The Concretes: ‘Back For Good’ (Take That)
Jim O’Rourke: ‘Viva Forever’ Spice Girls)
Goat: ‘Sugar We’re Going Down’ (Fall Out Boy)
Will Oldham/ Bonnie Prince Billy ‘Can’t Take That Away’ (Mariah Carey)
Woody Jackson Orchestra featuring Money Mark: Love’s Theme (Love Unlimited Orchestra)
Porter Block: ‘Breaking Free’ (High School Musical)
Mooney Suzuki: ‘Just Like Jesse James’ (Cher)
Geoff Farina: ‘Two Tickets To Paradise’ (Eddie Money)
Casey Shea: ‘Chop Suey’ (System of a Down)
Superchunk: ‘Say My Name’ (Destiny’s Child)
Mike Watt: ‘Burning For You’ (Blue Oyster Cult)
Mark Ronson has been confirmed for this year’s V Festival.
The multi-talented producer/DJ, who recently saw both his single and album hit the number 2 spot, will be joined on the bill by The Killers, Foo Fighters, Larrikin Love and more for the festival in Chelmsford on August 18-19th.
The Meanwhile Gap Jam sponsored by Globe Shoes was a major success this weekend!
Some footage has just surfaced on YouTube so click here to check it out!
Almost rider Greg Lutzka and Blind Skateboards’ Chris Oliver came joint first over the gap with German Globe rider Kilian Heuberger taking the game of S.K.A.T.E, Lutzka in second place. Torey Pudwill’s team won the LovenSkate Pie Eating comp which was a real mess leaving Porno Paul to clean up an even bigger mess!
Thank you if you managed to join the hundreds of people down at Meanwhile 2 this weekend, it was an incredible event fuelled by 1664 and all butter pies courtesy of Laura and Mark who actually drove them down from up North.
Big thanks to the UK skate companies that showed up, Globe, Almost, French, Stu at LovenSkate, Pete Correy for art, Badger and Hugo at The Side Effects of Urethane, Laura and Mark, Ben Powell at Sidewalk Magazine, Kevin Parrott and Si Skipp at the UKSA, Alan, Niall, Andy, Guido and Tim for filming and helpers that put this event together. We salute you.
If you took pics at this event please send them to us at info@caughtinthecrossfire.com as they will be used to present to the council to kep the skate park open for longer…
Enjoy your weekend.
Yes, horrid though it is to say, another one of England’s finest and well-known skate spots has met its denouement.
Probably the most acknowledged natural quarter in England, a great place to meet for a session and all around a haven for skateboarding. It was the last remaining spot in Liverpool that’s not a bust. Not a nice day for skateboarding, but the memories live on and that!
Here she lies, in a bright yellow waste receptacle.
For footage of how pumped this spot got sessions going, go here.
R.I.P
You want to know what pain really is?
Duffs and Creature beast Mark Munson earned this beauty from a back smith grind-to-lipslide-to-coping-to-flat bottom for the cause on a recent Spanish Basque Country trip with Styley, Carl Wilson, Ben Raemers and French. Mark is reported to have contunued skating and even hucked out an invert after this went down!
Styley supposedly took some killer photo’s of the trip so you never know, you may even see them in a forthcoming feature in a mag soon.
Visit French’s blog for more..
The new single from Warp’s !!!, Must Be The Moon, is out on 14th May and the video for it has just been released. The single comes with remixes from Hot Chip and Emperor Machine and cant be purchased on download or 12″.
J Mascis and the gang can do no wrong in my opinion. I love them. So do you. If you don’t then you’ve probably got something wrong with you. They make me think of summertime and having fun. The original line-up of Mascis, Lou Barlow, and Murph have reunited to record together again for the first time since 1988’s “Bug”.
The new single “Been There All The Time“, taken from the new album “Beyond”, is going to get you throwing yourself about, air-guitaring all over the place and yelling along to J’s distinctive voice. Pure, classic Dinosaur Jr. again, showing how they got themselves to the fore-front of the indie scene in the Eighties, and still have the energy, passion and talent to carry it on in 2007.
Oh come on. It’s Dinosaur Jr! What more do I have to say? This is amazing!
Tim Mogridge
C-Mon and Kypski have recently been on a jaunt across the USA and have recorded a short tour diary on each day. Click