Category: Music News

Like your hardcore? Then get stoked on the 2nd compilation from Relapse Records that is released on 22nd June 2010 on CD and download. Enjoy this teaser for the ‘This Comp Kills Fascists Vol. 2‘ compilation featuring music by Social Infestation…

Protest The Hero have started pre-production on their next album.

The group plan to start recording in August but have already posted some footage from the writing sessions, which you can see below.

PreProduction Crepe from Luke Hoskin on Vimeo.

30 Seconds To Mars have announced details of an upcoming UK tour.

The band will be hitting the following dates, with tickets going on sale this Friday [June 18th].

November:

29th – Brighton Brighton Centre
30th – London O2 Arena

December:

1st – Birmingham NIA
3rd – Aberdeen Exhibition Centre
4th – Manchester Central

Mark Ronson is releasing a new single before his new album, The Record Collection, drops.

Bang Bang Bang, featuring Q-Tip and MNDR is out on July 11th and the video is below. Summer banger.

Gorillaz have unveiled the latest video from their latest album Plastic Beach, which shall accompany the mellow standout track “Melancholy Hill”.

As ever with Gorillaz, the track is enhanced by the band’s visual aspect – watch out for a cartoon versions of Mick Jones, Snoop Dogg and others

Following a recent UK tour and the release of their debut album Aim and Ignite, fun. recently recorded a series of acoustic videos from a London apartment.

Check out the band’s Youtube channel for more in the series, but for now check out the latest for their track “At Least I’m Not As Sad (As I Used To Be)”

This coming Saturday will see some of London’s most exciting rising DJs cramming into a Shoreditch warehouse space for the London heats of the DMC DJ Championship.

Hosted by Urban Nerds, the event will also see huge bass, garage and funky sets from the likes of Redlight, Geeneus ft. Katy B and MC Tippa, as well as Tomb Crew.

The event will take place in the Scrutton Street Warehouse.

Klaxons have named their second album Surfing The Void.

The album, their first since 2007, will be released on August 23rd with the single Echoes coming a week beforehand. The album was produced by Ross Robinson and the tracklisting is:

‘Echoes’
‘Same Space’
‘Surfing The Void’
‘Valley Of The Calm Trees’
‘Venusia’
‘Extra Astronomical’
‘Twin Flames’
‘Flashover’
‘Future Memories’
‘Cypher Speed’

As if we weren’t already excited about the upcoming Big Boi album Sir Lucious Leftfoot: The Son of Chico Dusty, he goes and drops this video for General Patton.

Top 10 of 2010 incoming, surely:

Today marks the release of Pulled Apart by Horses latest single “Back to the Fuck Yeah”, as the band also embarks on their latest tour of the UK.

The band are set to release their self-titled debut album on June 21st, and will play the following dates to coincide with the release;

June

14th – Manchester, Deaf Institute
15th – London, 100 Club
16th – Nottingham, Bodega Social Club
17th – Glasgow, King Tuts
19th – Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
26th – Glastonbury Festival

July

16th – 2000 Trees festival
24th – Off The Cuff festival
25th – Truck festival
30th – Kendal Calling

August

7th – Hevy festival
20th -Pukkelpop

September

4th – Manchester, LCCC supporting Muse
12th – End of the Road festival