The album, which is the follow up to their 2009 debut, was produced by Flood and mixed by Alan Moulder and features tracks The Body, Too Tough and Heart In Your Heartbreak. The full tracklisting is below and the band will hit King’s College on March 3rd.
1. Belong
2. Heaven’s Gonna Happen Now
3. Heart In Your Heartbreak
4. The Body
5. Anne With An E
6. Even in Dreams
7. My Terrible Friend
8. Girl of 1000 Dreams
9. Too Tough
10. Strange
DMC, who are known the world over as the legendary DJ Champs have opened a competition to any DJ across the world in their Online DJ Competition. The competition will get filmed footage online and the winner of the global vote will compete against the heavyweights in the World DJ Champs later this year.
The voting will begin on March 3rd and will see a vote every two weeks with the top 10 being decided who will in turn by judged by Champion DJs. Each winning DJ and the runner-up go through to the August final where all DJs will be required to upload their six minute filmed performance.
Once again the public will vote for their favourites, and the top 10 will then be judged by DMC World DJ Champions. On September 5th one DJ will be crowned the world’s first DMC Online DJ Champion.
We featured on of their videos recently to tip you off about this duo and they’re back with another to get your head nodding.
TiRon and Ayomari dropped the Good Food video over the weekend and it immediately made us think of summer and, well, eating. If you’re down with all sorts of chow, this is definitely the song and video for you. Get involved and let’s get cooking!
Title Fight’s new album is called Shed and it’s coming out May 2nd, 2011 on SideOneDummy Records. There’s a free download of one of the tracks – 27.
It’s kind of different, slower than the Title Fight you may be familiar with (if you’re familiar with them at all) but the band are assuring us that there are plenty of hard and fast songs on the album too.
The Odd Future rapper has been getting serious hype of late and this track, taken from his upcoming album Goblin, proves why. Lines like “threesomes with a fucking Triceratops” mean you need to listen, straight up. And with a video that includes eating a bug, throwing up and hanging yourself, there’s no way you can really ignore it is there?
British rocksters Lower Than Atlantis will be releasing new single Deadliest Catch prior to their album release in April and they’re asking fans to help out with the concept for the music video that will accompany said track.
The guys over at Earnest Endeavours have done it again. Their latest event has been announced and it’s a banger, no question about it.
Taking place on February 23rd at a secret venue in Hoxton, East London, the event will feature sets from Patchwork Pirates and Crossfire favourite Starkey as well as live sets from Tokimonsta [who is in our Albums of 2010], Lazer Sword and Ninja Tune’s Daedelus. All this for just 10 quid, we’re really being spoiled on this one.
Make sure you grab your tickets from here before they all go and you spend your Wednesday evening watching the traffic lights change colour at the bottom of your road, rather than brocking out to the inevitably huge tunes dropped in Hoxton.
The release of Funeral For A Friend’s fifth (yes, fifth!) album is creeping ever closer and the band have just unveiled a kick-ass new music video for forthcoming single from the record Sixteen which you can see below.
The album Welcome Home Armageddon is out on 14th March and pre-orders and all that malarkey can be checked out at www.ffaf.co.uk.
The Get Up Kids
There Are Rules
Quality Hill Records
The Get Up Kids are legends. That’s what puts them in somewhat of a difficult position now they’re back on the scene and creating new music. The fans of the band the first time around are very much stuck in the albums released way back when. So any reaction to the band’s new material is going to be somewhat coloured by this bias toward their past releases. The best thing to do with the band’s new album – There Are Rules – is to forget they existed back then. Listen with fresh ears and make your mind up about it on the music’s merits alone.
It’s a different sound for the band but one that is equally honest and certainly true to where The Get Up Kids are right now. There are echoes of On A Wire and Guilt Show present as dark undertones abound from opener Tithe, with its reverberating bassline and scuzzy guitars as Matt Pryor’s vocal tops off the texture with a yearning insistence alongside its characteristic lilting melodiousness.
The Get Up Kids are playing with different sound qualities and textures constantly on this record. Automatic has an off-kilter, roving bassline interspersed with synth chords and The Widow Paris has a haunting, irregular keyboard line juxtaposed against a repetitive bass riff. The prominence of bass is a theme throughout this album with the guitars almost taking a backseat in many of the songs as bass and keys hold their own and Pryor’s vocal rounds it all off. An interesting direction and one which may throw existing fans of the band off-guard but ultimately this is an album well worth your time and a fantastic body of music in its own right.
The Warriors are one of those unsung-heroes-of-the-hardcore-scene type of bands. This latest album will be released to little/no fanfare, yet it is undoubtedly top notch heavy music. 2007’s Genuine Sense of Outrage was full of crunching riffs and guttural vocals married together with a certain groove that was unmistakably The Warriors.
First impressions of this latest album are that it’s not quite so obviously beefy in sound. There’s a bit more variety here and an intriguing approach to guitar riffs that’s less straight-up to the band’s previous work. The jagged guitar work often takes unexpected turns whereas the band may have taken a more predictable route in the past.
The Warriors are definitely one of those bands who straddle the two genres of Metal and Hardcore. But referring to them as ‘Metalcore’ just seems wrong, seeing as the term has been sullied by so many poor quality efforts from bands who warp both genres and water them down with no regard for their potential power. The Warriors seem to get it just about right with the pummeling hardcore drumbeats and gruff vocals coupled with some pure metal goodness in the guitar inventions. Another genre that springs to mind when listening to See How You Are but also seems somewhat wrong to apply here is nu-metal. Don’t let that put you off. It’s just a tinge in the band’s sound that is perceptible every now and again but actually makes for an interesting facet amongst the technical guitar riffs and raging vocals.
The production on this record is infinitely more raw than it was on Genuine Sense of Outrage giving the impression that the band are really getting back to their roots and are intent on kicking out rough and ready anthems rather than polishing every element of production.
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart are releasing their new album, Belong, on March 28th.
