Category: Music News

First London, then Seatlle and now the Wire curated DRILL: FESTIVAL is headed for Brighton. December 4th – 7th will see a huge selection of incredible bands, film makers and artists doing their thing across 14 of Brighton’s music venues.

The event will feature a one-off collaboration between WIRE and SWANS, uniting to perform an extended rendition of the infamous Wire track, ‘Drill’. As well as an appearence from the ‘Pinkflag Guitar Orchestra’ which sees Wire joined onstage by collaborators old and new to play an extended and improvised version of ‘Pink flag’ at ear splitting volume. In addition to these exciting prospects, DRILL: BRIGHTON will also host performances from Courtney Barnet, Toy, The Wytches, Savages, Telegram, God Damn and many others soon to be announced.

Tickets go on sale from Friday September 19th here.

Nightmare Festival is where Camden High Street comes alive. Saturday November 1st will see Camdens iconic stretch of music venues taken over by the likes of Blood Red Shoes, Howling Bells, InMe, The Hell, Hawk Eyes, Guy McNight and many others for a raucous Halloween celebration. Check out the line up below.

Organiser Chris McCormack says “Camden goes mad for Halloween. People really get into the spirit of it. We recently sold over 7000 tickets for our sister event Camden Rocks in May and imagined how much fun it would be if we got everybody, including the bands, to dress up and party the day and night away at the biggest Halloween party London has ever seen!”

Head to www.nightmarecamden.com to get your early bird tickets while they’re cheap.

London trio White Sands have revealed a new track from their upcoming 7″.

‘Expect Nothing’ follows suit with the same fuzzy thickness as debut track ‘The Wait’, whilst fusing in a marvelously monotonous bassline that wouldn’t sound out of place in a track by fellow three-pieceTense Men.

Stream ‘Expect Nothing’ below and purchase their debut 7″ form October 6th via Art Is Hard.

U2 invaded your iTunes library last week with their ironically titled new record Songs Of Innocence. The 11 track album crept inside your computer overnight without warning. How would you notice? How many other bands begin with “U” apart from UB40? And who in their right mind has UB40 on their iTunes? The next time you’re scrolling down, making you way to The Velvet Undergound, you’ll be greeted by Bono & Co, waving their innocence right in your face. Don’t you wish you’d read those terms and conditions when you signed up for iTunes now?

Unsuprisingly, these actions caused quite a stir with, well, everyone that doesn’t like U2. Which happens to be quite a lot of people. Tyler, The Creator is but one of many who chose to voice their opinions on the matter through Twitter. See his reactions below.

There’s been a significant rise in the amount of pensioners turning to Facebook in recent years. With the ever expanding world of smartphones and 4G internet, everyone’s online. Even your Nan. And look at the fuss she’s caused for hip hop’s favourite messenger, Grandmaster Flash.

The auto-fill function when posting statuses has unfortunately screwed over a large ammount of Grandmothers across the globe, causing them to accidently tag themselves as the Grandmaster himself when signing off a status update. Naturally, there’s a tumblr page dedicated to this tom-foolery, check out the aptly titled Love, Grampa and Grandmaster Flash.

Head to Flash’s own Facebook page to watch his video response to the grandparents of the world.

Have you ever longed to see Bill Murray, Mel Gibson and Colin Firth pay homage to the verse of Ol’ Dirty, Method Man and Raekwon? Then look no further, for an internet whizz has trawled through movie archives old and new to build one of the most jam packed edits you’ll ever see.

Stream ‘Wu-Tang Clan Ain’t Nuthing Ta Fuck Wit’ below. 10 points if you spot C-3PO.

Following the well deserved hype and acclaim that Gengahr‘s debut track ‘Fill My Gums With Blood’ received, it is with great excitement that we find the North London four piece set to drop their new single ‘Powder’ on October 27th via Transgressive Records.

Keeping in check with their delicate dream-boat melodies, ‘Powder’ adds a little grit to their sun soaked appeal, with a Screamadelica-esque guitar riff landing straight on the bullseye. Stream this fantastic single below.

After 20 years as an integral part of the music scene in Leeds and the North of England, The Cockpit announced yesterday that it has been forced to shut it’s doors permanently due to severe maintenance work the building requires.

Having temporarily closed back in July to carry out maintenance, yesterday the venue published this statement on their official website “It is with great regret that we have to announce the permanent closure of the Cockpit. After 20 great years as an integral pillar of the Leeds music scene we have decided that it is no longer viable to deliver you the level of service you deserve with the building in it’s current condition.”

Despite this sad news, the current resident promoters at the venue will continue to book and promote artists in and around Leeds. In addition, The Cockpit are in the process of relocating all upcoming gigs to alternative venues with any tickets already purchased remaining valid.

Ahead of their forthcoming headline slot at the Invictus Games, the Foo Fighters have announced they will play an additional show whilst in the UK at Brighton’s Concorde.

Taking to the stage tonight under the guise of The Holy Shits, it will come as no suprise that tickets for this highly exclusive show are already sold out. However, according to the Foo Fighters Twitter account there are two more club gigs to follow. Times and locations have not yet been disclosed, keep your eye on Grohl’s tweets for updates.