Category: Music News

Lightspeed Champion‘s new single ‘Marlene’ is out on the 25th January on Domino Records. Check out the new video from the man who was in Test Icicles here as it’s Death Valley-tastic

Maluca has posted a new video online.

The track El Tigeraso is produced by Diplo and is on the always brilliant Mad Decent label. Boom!

El Tigeraso

MALUCA | MySpace Music Videos

Pendulum are set to go even bigger in 2010 after announcing their new tour.

The band will play a number of dates including London’s Wembley Arena on the tour in May, the tickets for which go on sale on December 4th. Before that, they will head to London’s superclub Matter on January 22nd to showcase tracks from their new album, which has the working title Immersion. Joining them on the bill are, amongst others, Herve, Sinden, Noisia, Sub Focus, Glitch Mob and Alix Perez.

The full tour dates are:

17th – Ulster Hall, Belfast
18th – Olympia, Dublin
20th – Corn Exchange, Edinburgh
21st – Empress Ballroom, Blackpool
22nd – Dome, Doncaster
25th – Centre, Brighton
26th – Academy, Birmingham
28th – Wembley Arena, London
29th – Arena, Cardiff
30th – Pavillions, Plymouth
31st – Oasis Centre, Swindon

So the legendary far covered Ginuwine’s classic track ‘Pony’ and Bright Antenna are releasing a limited edition picture disc of the track on 14th December. It was a massive hit in the States and has had almost 5 million plays on the band’s MySpace. This edition is limited to a mere 500 copies so get yours quick here – www.brightantenna.com. What a way to herald a comeback!

Check out an acoustic version here –

The latest in a long line of great releases from Rhymesayers is Freeway & Jake One‘s The Stimulus Package.

Coming out in February next year, the Philly rapper has teamed up with Seattle’s producing machine Jake One, the tracklisting is below. The album will come with Freeway and Jake One money with lyrics and notes on the reverse and the digipak [get this!] comes built like a wallet and held together with a treasury style bellyband.

Get hyped by clicking here to download Know What I Mean.

Tracklisting:

1. STIMULUS INTRO feat. Beanie Sigel
2. THROW YOUR HANDS UP
3. ONE FOOT IN
4. SHE MAKES ME FEEL ALRIGHT
5. NEVER GONNA CHANGE
6. ONE THING feat. Raekwon
7. KNOW WHAT I MEAN
8. THE PRODUCT
9. MICROPHONE KILLA feat. Young Chris
10. FOLLOW MY MOVES feat. Birdman
11. SHO’ NUFF feat. Bun B
12. FREEKIN’ THE BEAT feat. Latoiya Williams
13. MONEY feat. Omilio Sparks and Mr. Porter
14. FREE PEOPLE
15. STIMULUS OUTRO

Grammatics have announced a new UK tour.

Fresh from their Bloc Party tour slots, the band will hit the following dates in December:

1st – Boiler Room, Guildford
2nd – Louisiana, Bristol
4th – Drift in the City, Portsmouth
5th – Proud Gallaries, London
6th – The Harley, Sheffield
16th – Bar 1:22, Huddersfield
17th – The Junction, York
19th – The Royal, Derby
20th – Deaf Institute, Manchester

Download a new Holiday song from fun. at the following link. Brilliant.

The video for Between The Buried And Me’s Obfuscation has been unveiled. The track comes from the band’s latest record The Great Misdirect. Check it out. BTBAM also tour with Lamb Of God next year.

The powerful Monster Magnet return to the UK this December for a fresh tour and some big dates. Let’s hope they play some tracks form their first 2 records as they were by far the best the band have ever released. Check Medicine below for proof as Spine of God is arguably one of the best rock records ever made.

5th Dec NOTTINGHAM – Rock City
6th Dec LONDON – Koko
7th Dec GLASGOW – Garage
9th Dec MANCHESTER – Academy 2
10th Dec LEAMINGTON SPA – Assembly
11th Dec WOLVERHAMPTON – Wulfrun Hall
12th Dec LEEDS – Met University

Damon Albarn has named some of the guests on the new Gorillaz album.

The cartoon band’s third album Plastic Beach, is set to feature Snoop, Mos Def, the Syrian National Orchestra and Barry Gibb of Bee Gees fame. If anyone can make that happen, it’s Albarn! The record is set for release sometime next year.