Category: Music News

UK hip hop wildmen Foreign Beggars announced their UK tour this week.

The group, who release their new album United Colours Of Beggattron on October 19th, will be hitting a number of towns around the country including their mammoth launch party at London’s Fabric nightclub. If past gigs are anything to go by, it’s going to be a wild night!

September

29th – White Rabbit, Plymouth

October

7th – Mojo, Newport
9th – Fabric, London – ALBUM LAUNCH PARTY
15th – Digital 4 Vagabonds, Brighton
16th – Cox’s Yard, Stratford on Avon
16th – O2 Academy, Oxford
21st – Rainbow Warehouse, Birmingham
23rd – Supa Fly, Leicester
31st – Leeds Urban Festival at Beaver Works, Leeds

November

10th – Tuesday Club, Sheffield
13th – Thekla, Bristol
27th – Po Na Na, Norwich
28th – Student Union, Cardiff

December

4th – The Rock House, Derby

Dr. Dre has launched his new headphones.

The Beats headphones were the invention of Dr. Dre and Interscope Chairman Jimmy Iovine with both men wanting to deliver normal headphones that could deliver sound replicated from the studio. Dre has said of the headphones:

“Artists and producers work hard in the studio perfecting their sound, but people can’t really hear it with normal headphones. With Beats, people are going to hear what the artists hear and listen to the music the way they should – the way I do.”

Check out more here.

Groove Armada have announced their Black Light tour dates.

The band will play the following dates in October:

9th – Motion Skatepark, Bristol
10th – Victoria Works, Leeds
11th – Corn Exchange, Edinburgh
15th – The Coronet, London
17th – The Custard Factory, Birmingham
18th – Warehouse Project, Manchester

Cancer Bats have announced details on their new album.

The band will name the record Bears, Mayors, Scraps And Bones and have said it will be released in early 2010. Liam Cormier said that the album will sound like “Glenn Danzig going on a camping trip with Black Flag’s Greg Ginn, a reanimated Vincent Price and the Beastie Boys.”

Devendra Banhart has put a new track online.

Banhart, who will release his new album What Will We Be on October 27th, has put the track Baby on his MySpace for you to listen to. Click here to check it out.

Remind yourself of his older material below:

Thrash kingpins Slayer have announced a UK tour.

The band, who release World Painted Blood on November 2nd, will play the following dates:

Sunday 18th November – Rock City, Nottingham
Monday 19th November – 02 Academy, Birmingham
Tuesday 20th November – Manchester University
Thursday 22nd November – Barrowlands, Glasgow
Friday 23rd November – 02 Academy, Leeds
Sunday 25th November – HMV Forum, London
Monday 26th November – HMV Forum, London

We Are The Ocean have put up first track from their debut full length ‘Cutting Our Teeth’. Track is called ‘These Days I Have Nothing‘. Album currently doesn’t have a release date.

Their headline tour dates are as follows;

16 Nov – Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
18 Nov – White Rabbit, Plymouth
19 Nov – TJ’s, Newport
20 Nov – The Pitz, Milton Keynes
21 Nov – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
23 Nov – O2 Academy 2, Birmingham
24 Nov – Academy 3, Manchester
25 Nov – King Tuts, Glasgow
26 Nov – The Cockpit, Leeds
29 Nov – Arts Centre, Colchester
30 Nov – Concorde 2, Brighton
1 Dec – Electric Ballroom, London

More Fake Problems action for you this morning featuring Cobra Skulls, Chuck Ragan, Gunnar Christianson, Jon Gauntand more!

Dizzee releases Tongue N Cheek today and this is definitely the way to sell it!

You DUN know.

This weekend saw the passing of yet another musical great.

DJ Roc Raida, of the X-Ecutioners, passed away after losing a battle against a spinal injury he had been suffering from. Raida was a pioneer and an incredible turntablist and will be missed by all.

R.I.P.