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Weezer set to tour Pinkerton?

One thing is for certain, American geek rockers Weezer will be releasing a re-issue of their most challenging, personal and critically acclaimed album ‘Pinkerton’ on October 5th.

There have also been hints at a retrospective style tour in which the band will tour the album playing songs exclusively off an album that rarely fits in the live performance sets in more recent years.

Bassist Brian Bell has stated, “I’m praying a ‘Pinkerton’ tour, where we’ll play all the songs off ‘Pinkerton’, soon.

Fingers crossed…

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Skateboarding News

Skate and Create with Fallen

The Fallen team have risen and are the next team to be featured in this year’s TWS Skate and Create.

Fallen have taken the route of optical illusions and have constructed a lot of mind-bending perspective messing obstacles that the likes of Chris Cole, Tommy Sandoval, Billy Marks, Garrett Hill, Tom Hasty and James Hardy.

There’s some genuinely mind-bending skating too, ollie one foot smith grind anyone? Backside noseblunts on a tilted hubba?

Check it out here.

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Alex Olson on the Crail Couch

Just like Mike Mo not so long ago, Alex Olson hops on the Crail Couch with his little brother to get the usual inappropriate Q&A treatment while that Belle and Sebastian track plays.

Consistency, chaps. You know what’s coming…

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The Game

Brake Lights
(Free Download)

myspace.com/thegame

In this day and age, mixtapes get dropped left, right and centre. Every day some rapper from the back-end of nowhere throws another diamond-encrusted photoshopped digital mixtape on the blogs trying to make a name for himself to follow in the footsteps of Fiddy. As a result, mixtapes have become fairly pointless for the most part, but when someone like The Game drops one, clearly it’s worth a listen. Brake Lights has been put out for free online to get the hype machine going for the release of the upcoming full-length The R.E.D. Album and if this is anything to go by, his fourth album is going to be huge.

The Game is a great rapper, but has often found himself come under criticism for changing his style up too often to fit the guest rapper and simply name-checking famous rappers every other line. This mixtape is sure to put an end to all that as Jayceon Taylor goes in hard from the very start, with the opening track bombing in following an intro from Busta and breezing into a track featuring Snoop on the guest spot on Trading Places. With Snoop going in with more pronounced energy than his typically laid-back style, it’s a mixtape that feels a lot more like an album proper, which says a lot about the quality on show.

Production from Cool & Dre is more or less always a gold star award and their heavy drums over suitably large vocal samples prove to be the perfect backdrop to the vocals. Cold Blood has Game rapping about the perils of being either a Crip or a Blood, Ecstacy shows their understated side and Street Riders, which features Nas and a somehow not-at-all-annoying sung chorus by Akon gives Game the chance to be the G that we all know he is, on a track that apparently was originally a diss against Pharrell and 50 Cent.

There are times when the production seems to be the total opposite of what Game would normally rap over, such as the folk-sampling You Are The Blood and the standout track on the album Hustlin’ [Champions’ Anthem] but that shows that he’s certainly matured and gained a versatility he hasn’t shown in his previous releases. In short, The Game has released a free mixtape that stands alongside his studio albums, if not edges past them – get involved in this by grabbing the mixtape from here.

Abjekt

You can stream or download Hustlin‘ below. Schweet.

The Game – Hustlin’ (Champions Anthem) by Crossfire Music

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The Count & Sinden

Mega Mega Mega
Domino Records

myspace.com/countandsinden

As separate producers, Hervé and Sinden have only danced around trends when the bandwagon booty shakes and wobbles its cumbersome way  into the fray of their own personal tastes. It just so happens that both Joshua Harvey (The Count/Hervé) and Graeme Sinden have a diverse selection of influences from sounds old, new and never-even-heard-before that simply work wonders in the ears of both music-lovers and relentless blog DJs alike.

The foreshadowing began when the hypegeist caught on to the visceral bass jam ‘Beeper‘: a fine enough introduction to provoke mass anticipation for a debut. Said debut is – on first listen – as varied as everyone hoped it would be. Furthermore, it’s very, very clever; not so much intelligent as naturally blooming with distinction, personal experience and inherited club knowledge.

Rather than following the roads signposted by the blogosphere, Count and Sinden very much lay their own, and opener Do You Really Want It fuzzes and bubbles out of shaking sub-woofers cements just that as Trackademicks boldly announces ‘It’s something that you know exists, but you’ve never really seen‘. Following is the ultimate pop cross-over After Dark that re-contextualises the twingly indie club sound into something bulging with tropical lukewarm euphoria, friendly for radio playlists and free parties alike.

The beats are constantly in the foreground, beginning with Mujava-inspired funk meets baltimore club in Desert Rhythm before descending a whippy yet seamless transition into a minimal kick snare beeper beeper SMD-style jam, Hardcore Girls. The track features Rye Rye snarling and glowing in between rolling pseudo-drops and more delicious bass. Katy B continues to confirm her reputation as female of the NOW. Rinse’s similarly underground to chart-stomping singer-songwriter gives the listener a little harmony before title-ish track ‘MEGA‘ absolutely saws its way through your ear drums. Crossfire’s beat-connoisseur Abjekt just declared that this (Mega) was the stand-out track. So it is settled.

A superb, thoroughly rewarding debut that’s as mega as the unequivocal title suggests.

Stanley

Check out the video for ‘After Dark‘ below, and keep scrolling for remixes of the track including a free download from recent Crossfader subjects C.R.S.T. and more. Banging.

The Count & Sinden – After Dark (Remixes) by DominoRecordCo

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A.V.E rips for Vans

Mindfield director Greg Hunt has took his trained eye to Anthony Van Engelen in this VansIn The Cut‘ commercial.

As expected, it’s rad. A.V.E. straight up shreds, check it out below.

A.V.E. “In the Cut” Commercial from OFF THE WALL SINCE 66 on Vimeo.

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New Evidence video!

We gave you a teaser last week, but now we have the finished product – the new Evidence video.

To Be Continued… sees the Dilated Peoples MC rap his track word for badboy word whilst zipping around a rollercoaster. Doesn’t really get much better than that does it? The beat bumps too.

Watch out for his album Cats & Dogs out on Rhymesayers coming soooooooon(ish)

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P-Rod + Nas = Awesome

Nike SB have announced the release of the P-Rod 4 in the raddest possible way, by filming P-Rod destroy NYC streets to a personalised song penned by hip hop legend Nas.

Expect switch backtails on benches that are too high to sit on and a f/s shove heel nosegrind nollie heelflip out…in a commercial. Sit back and watch those standards rise up.

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Public Enemy announce UK live show

Public Enemy need no introduction; one of the most important hip-hop acts to walk the earth are playing the London Indig02 on November 14th.

The original line-up of Chuck D, Flavour Flav and Professor Griff will be coming to the UK to play a one-off set of tracks that have played their part in shaping pop culture and influencing countless artists regardless of what kind of music they play.

Tickets go on sale on Friday 20th August at 9am from Ticket Master.

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Behemoth post new video

The Polish death metal warlocks Behemoth have posted the new videoclip for ‘Alas, The Lord Is Upon Me‘.

We were given the choice of posting the censored and the uncensored video. Guess what one we haven’t embedded?

Click the above if you’re a wimp. Watch below for the gnarly stuff…