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Arto’s new backyard pool
Alien Workshop’s Arto Saari joins the healthy list of pro skaters with backyard pools. Watch a clip of the concrete being shot onto his new construction here.
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Jamie Morley fuels the Fog
Fog returned to South London today as another filthy dose of death metal was sprayed over the interweb courtesy of French’s roadtrip army. Funeral Fog pirate Jamie Morley features in their latest edit, watch it here.
It’s fair to say any record on Warp comes with a fair amount of expectation. These may be expectations of quality, sure, but also expectations for music that will push the boundaries of genre. Queue the debut record from Gonjasufi; a sprawling psychedelic voyage backed by hip hop beats.
With production credits from Flying Lotus, Gaslamp Killer and Mainframe it sure comes with some credibility, but it’s difficult at first to work out its audience. There are definitely some catchy beats, but the instrumentation is mostly fuzzy and abrasive with a strong eastern presence. As ever with Warp, then, you’re probably best off throwing genres out the window and digging the sounds for what they are.
Somehow A Sufi and A Killer manages to house folk, acid rock and hip hop sounds cohesively under one roof; as the acoustic bliss of Sheep successfully shares a record with the comparatively clean cut production on Holidays and Candylane.
Gonjasufi’s vocals are reminiscent of freak folk songwriter Devendra Banhart, and while potentially divisive, work well in my humble opinion. Check out the suitably psychedelic video for dedNd below, which should offer some insight into what this record is all about.
Sleekly Lion.
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Mike Anderson edit
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The Dangerous Summer UK dates
The Dangerous Summer have announced a string of tour dates throughout April and May.
The band will be touring in support of their debut record, Reach For The Sun, which will be released in the UK on april 12th.
The Dangerous Summer will play;
April
26th – Sugarmill, Stoke
27th – Academy 2, Birmingham
28th – Academy 2, Bristol
29th – Club Ifor Bach, Cardiff
30th – Academy 2, Liverpool
May
1st – Academy 3, Manchester
2nd – King Tuts, Glasgow
3rd – Academy 2, Newcastle
6th – Kings College, London
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Latitude headliners announced
Florence and the Machine, Belle and Sebastien and Vampire Weekend will play headline slots at this year’s Latitude festival, it has been announced.
The band’s will play on July 16th, 17th and 18th respectively, and will be joined by the likes of The National, The xx, The Horrors and Grizzly Bear.
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The Bronx expand UK tour
The Bronx have expanded their upcoming tour of the UK to include further headline shows.
The band is set to support Gogol Bordello on a run of dates in May, but have now added solo shows in April. This is in addition to the band’s solo show at The Barbican, where they will perform as Mexican alter-egos Mariachi El Bronx.
The Bronx will stop at;
April
26th – London The Barbican (Mariachi El Bronx only)
27th – Nottingham Rock City
28th – Liverpool Masque Theatre
29th – Newcastle Academy
May
1st – Leeds, Live @ Leeds Festival
2nd – Cardiff Solus
3rd – Bristol Thekla
4th – Brighton Concorde
5th – Oxford Academy
7th – London Hammersmith Apollo*
8th – Manchester Academy*
9th – Academy Glasgow*
10th – Norwich UEA*
11th – Birmingham Academy*
12th – Cambridge Junction
*Supporting Gogol Bordello
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John Bell ‘Keeps Keen’
Manchester’s John Bell features in these fresh offcuts from the Keep Keen local scene video that is currently being sown together by Phil Harvey.
Ben Grove also has a couple of tricks in here too, click here if you want more of this goodness and scroll down for more John Bell footage shot for an Adio promo.
John Bell: Keep Keen Offcutts from PhilH on Vimeo.
John Bell Adio Edit from PhilH on Vimeo.
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New Big Boi video!
Big Boi has released his new video.
Fo Yo Sorrows is taken from his upcoming solo album Sir Lucious Left Foot, which has been in the works for what seems like years. It’s due to drop this year and if this track, which features Too $hort and George Clinton, is anything to go by, it’ll definitely be worth the wait.
Fo Yo Sorrows VIDEO Big Boi Ft. Too Short and George Clinton from SNORT THIS TV on Vimeo.