Category: Music News

Taken from their forthcoming album, Man It Feels Like Space Again, POND enter the year with a hilarious new music video for the album’s second single, ‘Zond’.

Watch the Perth four-piece quench their thirst for the futuristic, the mind bending and the downright daft as they ride a time traveling sofa, appear as inflatable monsters and make a psychedelic mess in this hilarious new music video below.

Man It Feels Like Space Again is due January 26th 2015 via Caroline Records.

A decade ago, (after eating three giant baked potatoes) Brian Harvey from East 17 accidentally ran himself over in his own car. Today, he wants to avenge the music industry that gave him his notoriety and has smashed up his gold discs in a rant saying:

“This is what I think of you all. Fuck your record industry, and fuck your weird pedophile world. Fuck you.”

2015 is proving to be Armageddon.

A new book covering golden skateboarding and punk rock history in LA is about to be released by the in-house producer for SST records back in the 80s. SPOT was at the right place at the right time at the beginning of Black Flag forming and was around many other hardcore bands starting out in the Californian scene before taking up his own project.

The book, Sounds of Two Eyes Opening covers unseen black and white photos of the bands that came through Media Art Recording Studio in Hermosa Beach in the mid 70s and the emergence of the American skate scene that inspired the planet.

It’s said that Toy Machine’s Ed Templeton has designed 7″ sleeve art found in editions of the book bought in record stores featuring SPOT’s song “Too Wise to Crack”. It comes as a hardbound, 272 page book, printed on matte art paper, with 4-color black-and-white printing, a lay flat binding. Scout it out on Sinecure books.

Following the announcement of their February EP, Sunne, London ‘gazers Cheatahs have shared a new music video to accompany the lead track, ‘Controller’.

Directed by Federico Urdaneta, of the All Too Human film collective, and co-written by guitarist James Wignall, the video holds a darkly amusing subtitled narrative. Stream it below.

Sunne is due for release on February 23rd 2015 via Wichita Records.

OFF! and Jack Black return for part two of their Jimmy Hayward-directed music video epic, Grizzly King, with ‘Meet Your God’.

The new video follows last weeks ‘Over Our Heads’, which saw more acid fuelled mayhem and violence than a Hunter S Thompson trip, and picks up right where the carnage left off with Gary Steele risking it all to save Keith’s bacon. Stream part two below.

The Alabama blues rockers have announced their first UK gig since 2013 will take place at London’s Islington Assembly Hall on February 19, 2015. Tickets will be on sale from 10am on Friday, December 12th here.

The four-piece released their debut album Boys & Girls in April 2012 to widespread acclaim, and commercial success, charting at number three in the UK album chart.

Plans for a second album are well under way but a release date has still not yet been announced.

Otto Schimmelpenninck, bassist in Dutch goth rock band Delain, has revealed the full gory details of an unfortunate incident involving a streamer cannon connecting with his groin.

Whilst Delain performed in Birmingham last month, they were joined by an additional band member, Merel Bechtold, causing their usual stage positions to be jumbled. Little did he know, Otto was now standing in front of a large streamer cannon, cued up to blow during their song ‘The Gathering’. Lost in the moment, Otto failed to stand clear as the cannon fired, feeling a small explosion connecting with the back of his crotch at point blank range. In a detailed Facebook post, Otto reveals the nitty gritty of this sorry situation, and how he managed to finish the gig.

“Having Merel on stage with us meant everyone just had to pay attention at the moment the streamers would shoot. In my enthusiasm, I did not pay attention, and happened to be VERY close when the streamer fired. It hit me from the back, in my genitals. Although pain was pretty bad right away, I was merely pissed off at myself for not paying attention. During the next song, pain got worse though, and I had the feeling I was bleeding. Pretty soon pain got to the point where I could barely stay conscious anymore, but for some reason I did manage to finish the show and even squeeze out some grunts!”

Upon retiring back stage to take a closer look, Schimmelpennick discovered his “scrotum was the size of a big grapefruit” and was in a great deal of pain. “I was taken to the nearest hospital where I was finally operated around 8:30 in the morning.” He was then informed his left testicle had been ruptured, as well as some arteries, and lost more than 500 ml of blood from his scrotum during the operation.

Otto hopes to be fully recovered within six weeks to join Sabaton on their European tour. Their new album The Human Contradiction is out now on Napalm Records.