Check out these designs for a new splash of fresh concrete getting poured by none other than the esteemed Dreamland boys in Saffron Walden, Essex.
The Oneminetpark should begin construction on the 12th March with plans for a full on cradle on the horizon!
Blur frontman Damon Albarn is to perform a new track at an anti-nuclear weapons gig tonight.
The track, 5 Minutes To Midnight, will be performed on the Greenpeace boat Arctic Sunrise and will be backed by a 50-piece choir.
The show will also feature visual designs from Massive Attack’s 3D and will be streamed live on Greenpeace’s site from 7pm.
Flogging Molly are to celebrate St Patrick’s Day by releasing an iTunes exclusive digital EP.
The group were in LA last month and stopped off at the Complete Control Radio studio which hosts a Punk show hosted by Joe Sib from SideOneDummy Records.
The group set up and played an acoustic set to a small crowd of competition winners. The performance was recorded and features four old songs and two brand new tracks. The release date is set for March 13th.
Mortiis has made some of his upcoming album available via myspace.
The tracks come from the Some Kind Of Heroin remix album which features reconstructions of tracks from The Grudge featuring the likes of Girls Under Glass, Kovenant, PIG and more. The album will be released in Europe in April. Speaking about the album, Mortiis said:
“I had remixed several of these artists for their releases earlier so it was really only a matter of bringing out the baseball bat and start yelling “payback time!” – others I would contact direct and work out deals with.
This album mostly came together through mutual contacts, sending Outemails or calling up and asking if they wanted to be part of it. Bands like Girls Under Glass and Gothminister I had met and am friends with so we knew that would work out great.”
Darkest Hour are working with Devin Townsend on their upcoming album.
The record, Deliver Us, is the follow up to Undoing Ruin which came out in 2005. Guitarist Mike Schleibaum stated that the band’s hands, legs and bodies hurt from playing so much, but that they are very happy to be working with Townsend and are also happy with the music that’s come out of it. He said:
“It is some of our most complex, melodic, brutal, and aggressive songs to date. There’s some punk, metal, thrash, shred, prog, and even a little of Devin Townsend’s special sauce mixed in this metal gumbo.”
The band have also jumped on the video recording bandwagon and present their recording process here.
The Living End will be recording their new album soon.
The band, who released State Of Emergency last year, are looking to make a new album this year.According to reports, bassist Scott Owen has said:
“we’re going to start making a new album at some point this year, so we’ll stop and start thinking about that very shortly.”
Death Metal progressionists Akercocke have been recording video footage of their current album sessions.
The band, who are putting the finishing touches to their as-yet-unnamed album, due out on May 14th, will go out on the road with Cephalic Carnage in May. The group will also play two headline shows to debut their new material this month, the dates are:
29th – Colchester Arts Centre
31st – London Water Rats
Their dates with Cephalic Carnage are:
May:
16th – Nottingham Rock City
17th – The Music Box Manchester
18th – Belfast Sping And Airbrake
19th – Dublin Voodoo Lounge
20th – The Cathouse Glasgow
21st – Rio’s in Leeds
22nd – The Park in Peterborough
23rd – The Academy Birmingham
24th – Sheffield Corp
26th – The Nexus Southampton
27th – The Underworld London
You can check out the videos of their recording progression by clicking here and here.
Seattle’s Blue Scholars and their label Massline will team up with Rawkus for the new release.
Sabzi and Geologic, who have made many waves over on the West Coast, will follow in the footsteps of Company Flow and Mos Def by signing to the label.
Their new album, Bayani, which follows their self titled album and The Long March EP will be released in June of this year.
You can read more about their community acitivist organisation Massline here.
Index7 have announced the launch of the first online service to provide information about upcoming 7″ single releases.
With 7″s being limited editions a lot of the time, information on the new releases are hard to find. Index7 will offer a news and information resource for 7″s and provide a platform for labels to promote their new releases.
With Moshi Moshi, White Heat, City Rockers, Transgressive and Loog already joining the revolution, information is being gathered at a fast rate.
Head on over to www.index7.co.uk for all the trimmings.
If skateboarding is an illness, I don’t want to see a doctor. Luc Kampfen and his homies at Safari Clothing know just how infectious it can get, and Malaria is proof. You probably recognize Luc as Guy’s brother, and with that in mind you’re probably thinking about old issues of Puzzle video magazine and a few too many noseslide nollie heelflip variations, right?
Well, you’re right that they are brothers, and you’re right in remembering Puzzle because Malaria watches like a high school reunion of some of Puzzle’s finest alumni, but you’re wrong to pigeon hole these Swiss street technicians as being obsessed with noseslide nollie heelflips. There isn’t one in the whole video!
There are a whole lot of shit-hot ledge combos though. There’s some street tranny and a long list of manuals to get excited about too. If you’re a rag-doll who loves nothing more than a double-sets and rails in the double figures, then you’re vaccinated against malaria. The same goes for anyone with a boner for backyard pools and brews with the barnies. So, malaria caters solely for those who like to skate street and see it pushed forward by some fine-tuned technicians.
Just watch as Sebastien Hepp slides bigspin frontside bluntslides in lines, or Sven Kilchemann imitate Tupac Shafurr (Shakur with an accent!) for life as he balances long frontside nollie heelflip nosemanuals and blasts switch 360 flips down lots of stairs. It isn’t all street stee-lo though, there’s Daryl Hefti blasting sweet switch ollies off bumps, Stefan Bircher skating so smoothly both ways, and Luc Kampfen sticking something ridiculous into an empty pool. No spoilers, sorry.
I think the video MVP is a toss up though between OG street wizard, Guy Kampfen, and the ender, Christian Zemp. Guy has kept up the technical front and employs many a trick with smooth sophistication. Apart from abusing one variation of the noseslide, I never really understood why he gets hated on? Can you bust out a backside 180 fakie nosegrind switch bigspin heelflip on a ledge?
Or maybe, an 11 trick line with nothing but above average ledge and flatground tricks? Nah, didn’t think so. As for Christian, he skates everything, and fast. Intricate lines, the longest and smoothest switch crooked grinds this side of the Alps, and a Daewon-esque assault on various manual pads will definitely get you stoked on the Zemp.
Add to all this street precision an audio soundtrack ranging from the White Stripes to Ertha Kitt, a good selection of bonus material including a trip to the States back at the turn of the century, and Malaga getting served something sweet. This skate strain of Malaria is pretty infectious and can cause immediate adrenalin rushes resulting in getting out your door and trying to see how tech and smooth you can skate it in the streets.
Ralph L-D
23.02.07
Watch the trailer for Malaria here and you can buy this DVD here.