White Stripes frontman has a new project about to hit the shores of the UK. Teaming up with Brendan Benson, the group are called The Raconteurs and will showcase their talent with a release of Steady, As She Goes on April 24th.
The album, slated for a May release will be called Broken Boy Soldiers and the band are starting a UK tour which takes in Liverpool, Glasgow, Newcastle and London.
For an awesome 80s style website, have a butchers at www.theraconteurs.com
Legendary indie royalty The Pixies have had a film made about their reformation with exclusive behind the scenes footage filmed by Steven Cantor and Matthew Galkin.
The film includes footage from live shows and also interviews with the band members, and is getting its debut at the South By South West [SXSW] festival this weekend in Texas.
Unfortunately for fans not at the festival, there is no release date for the film, entitled “loudQuietloud” though there are plans to show it around various film festivals.
Check out www.4ad.com for more.
The famous NME New Music tour, which continually showcases new talent and unearths gems, is back for 2006 with Boy Kill Boy announced as the headliners. Backing them up will be The Automatic, Forward Russia and The Long Blondes.
The tour dates are:
May 6th – Bristol University
May 7th – Cardiff University
May 8th – Wolverhampton Wulfrun
May 10th – Glasgow QMU
May 11th – Middlesbrough Empire
May 12th – Manchester University
May 14th – Portsmouth Pyramid
May 15th – Leicester University
May 16th – Cambridge Junction
May 18th – Norwich UEA
May 19th – Sheffield Leadmill (No Forward Russia)
May 20th – Liverpool Carling Academy
May 23rd – Oxford Brookes University
May 24th – London Electric Ballroom
For more info go to: www.nme.com
Brit Rockers Hundred Reasons will be bringing out a new album, Kill Your Own, on March 20th, and will be doing a number of in-store dates to support the upcoming release.
Those instore dates are:
1. Monday 20th March – Midnight opening signing only
The Rockbox
151 London Road
Camberley
Surrey
GU15 3JY
01276 27500
2. Tuesday 21st March – 5pm performance & signing
Fopp
Units 22-24 Ground Floor
Marlands Centre
Southampton
SO14 7SJ
0238 082 1950
3. Wednesday 22nd March – 5pm performance & signing
Banquet
52 Eden Street
Kingston
KT1 1EE
020 8549 5871
4. Thursday 23rd March – 5pm performance & signing
Fopp
The Frontage
Queens Street
Nottingham
NG1 2BL
0115 941 7602
More details can be found at: www.hundredreasons.com
Whilst surfing the cyber wave, we stumbled across this soundtrack to the concrete wave.
Skaterdater is an award winning movie from the 60’s whose soundtrack encapsulated the easyrider living of our ancestors.
The soundtrack was scored by Mike Curb (Pun intended..?) and is available if you click the image here.
The Drum & Bass world is set to explode with a tour featuring heavyweights Andy C, Roni Size, DJ Zinc and DJ Marky for six dates across the nation. Each DJ is going to play an extended set to wow the crowds and showcase their obvious talents and will be joined by various major MCs.
Before they hit the road for the first date of the tour in Brighton, the DJs will jump into the studio for an exclusive track for the tour.
The tour dates are:
Friday 26th May
Beach Club, Brighton
Sunday 28th May
Ministry of Sound, London
Saturday 3rd June
Leeds Stylus
Thursday 8th June
Warwick University
Friday 9th June
Pull the Plug, Sheffield
Saturday 10th June
Bristol Academy
This years Girls Skate Jam UK has had a change of date and it has been brought forward to SATURDAY 27th MAY . This date is set in stone and won’t be moved again.
It will run between 12-5pm at Pioneer Skate Park, St Albans (20 mins north of London) with skate for everyone and party afterwards.
Email jen and jen at girlskatejamuk@btinternet.com for any more info.
Daddy Fresh Music, a Brighton based company, have come up with a fantastic forward thinking idea which is aimed at helping all music makers online. It offers musicians a choice of releasing the music through the label or even release it themselves if they pay an administration fee.
The site will also offer its own chart, which will be printed in the music industry’s holy grai Music Week. With a massively experienced A&R team ready to pick up potential singings [including Ivor Novello winning Robbie Craig and Tim Palmer, founder of XL Recordings], music will be reviewed with contructive opinions.
In addition, the site will be able to provide campaigns to promote the music submitted, again for a fee, and music will be able to be purchased through the digital store on the site. Advertising through the high profile music channels, will ensure a massive audience, and plans for a quarterly compilation album will help that too.
If you have any further questions please feel free to contact one of the A&R Executives at anr@daddyfreshmusic.com
The website can be found at www.daddyfreshmusic.com
Eastpak are stoked to be bringing out some special bags this summer, with designs by Ozzy, Lemmy & Slash.
Working with original artwork designed by each artist they have produced some bags which definitely kick arse and they are supporting a good cause as well with 10% of the retail price donated a charity chosen by the artists themselves.
Ozzy rocks in with his “Wank For Peace” design, Lemmy is responsible for the “Blind Faith” bag and Guns N Roses axeman Slash is the creator of the “Rock N Fuckin’ Roll” backpack.
Be on the lookout for these designs this coming June.
Visit www.whateverittakes.org for more info.
One of the original supergroup crews in rap, The Juice Crew, which was home to the likes of MC Shan, Biz Markie, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane and Roxanne Shante, is reportedly set to be brought back to life with a new look crew for 2006.
Shan and Shante have stated they want to continue the crew’s legacy but with new talent. Shan said that it will be “something different; not the “I slang drugs, I got jewellery” rhymes”. Whether or not anything will come of this is yet to be seen, but it’s certain to cause a lot of conversation and arguments from old skool fans.
Watch this space.