Swans frontman Michael Gira has revealed via Facebook that September 1st will see the final album, and subsequent tour, from this particular incarnation of the band. The album is set to be preceded by a live LP release, titled The Gate, to fund the production of the impending September release which Gira describes as what’s bound to be an “insatiable beast”.
Read the full statement on Swans’ Facebook Page and keep your eyes peeled for further announcements.
This coming Friday July 31st the Teenage Time Killers super-group, led by Corrosion Of Conformity drummer Reed Mullin, will release their debut album through Reprise Records.
Greatest Hits Vol.1 is set to feature appearances from QOTSA’s Nick Oliveri, Foo Fighters’ Pat Smear and Dave Grohl, Dead Kennedys’ Jello Biafra, Prong’s Tommy Victor and countless other rock veterans. Featuring 20 tracks, a handful of which are covers, including the Rudimentary Peni song that gives the outfit its name, the majority of the LP was tracked at Grohl’s own 606 Studios in Northridge, California.
Check out the full track list below and stream this monster in it’s entirety over on the NY Times website.
Greatest Hits Vol.1 Track-list:
1. Exploder
Vocals: Reed Mullin
Featuring Pat Hoed (Bass), London May (Drums)
2. Crowned by the Light of the Sun
Vocals: Neil Fallon
Featuring Jim Rota (Guitar), Dave Grohl (Bass)
3. Hung Out to Dry
Vocals: Randy Blythe
Featuring Mike Schaefer (Guitar), Dave Grohl (Bass)
4. Power Outage
Vocals: Clifford Dinsmore
Featuring Dave Grohl (Bass)
5. Ode to Hannity
Vocals: Jello Biafra
Featuring Mike Dean (Bass)
6. Barrio
Vocals: Matt Skiba
Featuring Brian Baker (Guitar)
7. The Dead Hand
Vocals: Reed Mullin
Featuring Woody Weatherman (Guitar), Dave Grohl (Bass)
8. Egobomb
Vocals: Corey Taylor
Featuring Dave Grohl (Bass)
9. Plank Walk
Vocals: Pete Stahl
Featuring Greg Anderson (Guitar), Dave Grohl (Bass)
10. Time to Die
Vocals: Mike IX Williams
Featuring Greg Anderson (Guitar)
11. Days of Degradation
Vocals: Tommy Victor
Featuring Dave Grohl (Bass)
12. Clawhoof
Vocals: Tairrie B. Murphy
Featuring Dave Grohl (Bass)
13. Big Money
Vocals: Lee Ving
Featuring Pat Smear (Guitar & Bass), London May (Drums)
14. Devil in this House
Vocals: Karl Agell
Featuring Dave Grohl (Bass)
15. Say Goodnight to the Acolyte
Vocals: Phil Rind
Featuring Jason Browning (Guitar), Dave Grohl (Bass)
16. Ignorant People
Vocals: Tony Foresta
Featuring Greg Anderson (Guitar), Nick Oliveri (Bass)
17. Son of an Immigrant
Vocals: Johnny Weber
Featuring Brian Baker (Guitar)
18. Your Empty Soul
Vocals: Aaron Beam
19. Bleeding to Death
Vocals: Vic Bondi
Featuring Dave Grohl (Bass)
20. Teenage Time Killer
Vocals: Trenton Rogers
Featuring Greg Anderson (Guitar), Pat Hoed (Bass)
Can a 90s alt-rock icon not enjoy a day out at Disneyland in peace these days? No! As last week, poor old Billy Corgan was snapped by paparazzi riding a roller-coaster and the internet has gone bananas about it. Shameless celebrity snapping aside, the US Weekly came up with the best (worst?) tagline you could ever imagine.
“From a rat in a cage to the House of Mouse! Smashing Pumpkins rocker Billy Corgan took his Mellon Collie self to the Happiest Place on Earth, aka Disneyland, where he traveled back in time to the Wild, Wild West of the 19th century.”
King of post shoegaze guitar haze, Kurt Vile has announced a brand new album for September 25th. B’lieve i’m goin down is set to follow 2013’s masterpiece Wakin’ On A Pretty Daze with gusto as first cut, ‘Pretty Pimpin’, see’s Vile pick up an acoustic to peddle his familiar, dazed guitar across five blissed-out minutes.
Watch below and pre-order the album from Matador Records here.
Sonic Youth lynch-pin, and creative force in his own right Lee Ranaldo is set to feature as the subject of a new documentary titled In Doubt, Shadow Him!.
Directed by Arnaud Maguet, the film is due for release this coming December via Hifiklub and features a soundtrack recorded by Ranaldo himself at Sonic Youth’s studio. Other contributors and members of the cast include Nels Cline, Raymond Pettibon, Alan Licht, Don Fleming and more.
The documentary will be available in DVD format accompanied by a double 10″ vinyl soundtrack. Watch the trailer below.
It is now illegal again for the good people of Britain to copy CD’s for their personal use. Back in October 2014, the Government deemed the action of transferring CD’s into your computer’s music library a perfectly legal practice, but as of last week that rule has been overturned by the High Court.
The case was won by the Musicians Union, UK Music and the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, who rule that the Government was wrong when it did not introduce a compensation scheme to accompany the law for songwriters, and other rights holders, who could face a loss as a result of their copyright being shared unethically.
UK Music estimated that the 2014 regulations, without a compensation scheme, would result in loss of revenues for rights owners in the creative sector of up to £58m a year. With CEO Jo Dipple adding: “My members’ music defines this country. It is only right that government gives us the standard of legislation our music deserves. We want to work with government so this can be achieved.”
It is currently unclear how the change will be enforced.
Gang
‘Eye Garden’
We first crossed swords with Brighton via Canterbury trio Gang earlier this year after they dropped their sledgehammer of a single,’ Silverback’, in January. Since then they’ve whirled through London peddling a fine set of sludge jams to a growing audience, so it’s with great pleasure we find live favourite ‘Eye Garden’ as their next move.
Showcasing the song writing talents of drummer Jimi, as his other-worldly vocal spook entwines with his brother and guitarist Eric’s, ‘Eye Garden’ creeps and crawls deep into your musical psyche via unhinged harmonies and dark, warbled guitar tones.
Dublin’s finest purveyors of noise, Girl Band, have finally announced details of their highly anticipated debut album. Holding Hands With Jamie is due for release on September 25th, almost a year on from their December 2014 signing with Rough Trade back in December, and will feature nine previously unrecorded tracks.
Since blowing our heads off at the Old Blue Last back at the start of 2014, Girl Band have consistently delivered some of the most creative and exicting sounds we’ve heard throughout the year, and this debut is sure to be nothing short of a smash. Get your pre-order in here for a chance to grab one of 250 limited edition yellow presses, each coming with a photo book to match.
Holding Hands with Jamie Tracklist:
1. Umbongo
2. Pears For Lunch
3. Baloo
4. In Plastic
5. Paul
6. The Last Riddler
7. Texting An Alien
8. Fucking Butter
9. The Witch Doctor
Forthcoming UK & IE Tour Dates:
3/11 Patterns w/ Prom, Brighton
4/11 Soup Kitchen w/ Prom, Manchester
5/11 Nation of Shopkeepers w/ Prom, Leeds
7/11 Button Factory w/Paddy Hanna, Dublin
6/10 100 Club w/Prom, London
25/09 Bar Sub w/Paddy Hanna, Belfast
Enigmatic NYC trio Sunflower Bean have today revealed the B-side to their forthcoming debut single ‘I Hear Voices’, due for release on July 24th via Fat Possum.
‘The Stalker’ arrives dripping in phased-out sludge and ethereal new-psych charm, with some coven-esque artwork harking back to the glory days of Sabbath and Hawkwind to match. Having blown us away at SXSW this year and turning heads across the music press both state-side and in the UK, this lot are undoubtedly going to craft a sensational debut album.
Fans of internet lols & trolls look no further. Picture the scene, a packed out club, sweaty limbs flying everywhere, the atmosphere is fizzing with pills and pints. Everyone is building to that climactic moment known to many as ‘the drop’, but said drop is not the dirty, skanking drum n bass your ear craves, it’s everyone’s favourite new romantic, Tony Hadley, and his band Spandau Ballet’s 1983 ballad, ‘True’.
Watch Australian DJ duo Mashd N Kutcher take a throng of gurning teenagers for a ride at their recent festival set in Brisbane on the clip below.