Category: Music News

Dinosaur Pile-Up‘s very own broadcast channel ‘What’s Happenin’ Heavy Metal‘ posted an emergency news bulletin this morning:

Nirvana‘s Bleach will get a re-release on Sub Pop to mark its 20th anniversary.

A remastered and expanded double CD is being put together that will include an unreleased live recording of the band’s gig in Portland in February 1990, which includes a cover of Molly’s Lips. There will also be a 16 page booklet with unreleased photos. The tracklisting is:

‘Blew’
‘Floyd The Barber’
‘About a Girl’
‘School’
‘Love Buzz’
‘Paper Cuts’
‘Negative’
‘Creep’
‘Scoff’
‘Swap Meet’
‘Mr. Moustache’
‘Sifting’
‘Big Cheese’
‘Downer’

Live at Pine Street Theatre:

‘Intro’
‘School’
‘Floyd The Barber’
‘Dive’
‘Love Buzz’
‘Spank Thru’
‘Molly’s Lips’
‘Sappy’
‘Scoff’
‘About A Girl’
‘Been A Son’
‘Blew’

Andy Hull, frontman of Manchesta Orchestra, will play a solo show in London.

Hull will showcase tracks from his Right Away, Great Captain side project at the Water Rats on August 27th which leads in nicely to the band’s Reading and Leeds performances in the following days. Check out how much he loves 50 Cent:

Rumours in circulating that Radiohead will release a new EP this week.

A track was leaked recently and fans of the band noticed that source files showed Wall Of Ice was down as the title with a release date for August 17th. The fansite claims there may be four tracks on the EP and linked to the online store though as yet there is no listing on the shop.

The week of waiting is over, Felt [Murs and Slug] have revealed the mystery producer.

The man on the beats will be none other than Aesop Rock and a track was made available and you will be hear it in our Buzz Chart very, very soon. More details will be revealed soon, such as who it is a tribute to and the release date, but until then remind yourself why Felt 2 was so good:

Jello Biafra is back in the vocal hotseat with new band. The infamous Dead Kennedy’s singer has put together many different music projects over the years and now he has returned with a new band called Jello and the Guantanamo School of Medicine. Keeping the gritty punk rock riffs and politically driven lyrical content on 11, Biafra has carved out a full album featuring players Andrew Weiss (Rollins Band,Ween,Butthole Surfers), Jon Weiss, Ralph Spight, Billy Gould and Kimo Ball. Look out for a full album in October and get a taste of what’s to come from this show in SF below. Jello will also be visiting London on the following dates with this band. Get your tickets now.

Mon 07 Sep 2009 – O2 Academy Bristol
Tue 08 Sep 2009 – O2 Academy Islington
Wed 09 Sep 2009 – O2 Academy Sheffield

Ghostface has announced he is to record an album with Method Mad and Raekwon.

The prolific rapper hasn’t got a title for the album but said in an interview that production is likely to begin within the next few months. He added:

“Everybody goes in — [Raekwon] gets four songs, I get four songs, [Meth] gets four. Start coming around like that and seeing what we can do. Make a little phat, tight one. I told Meth the other day, ‘It’s gotta be phat and tight. We don’t need 16, 19 joints on there. Nah, nah, nah — 12 phat bullets. We do it like that, and that’s it.’ That’s gonna happen soon. It will probably be out by the end of the year or January, and that’s that.”

Phat bullets. That’s realness right there.

Weezer have announced they will release their new album on October 27.

The band made the announcement on their official site though have kept the title and tracklisting a mystery but promised that there would be more to come soon. You can hear one of the new tracks below, performed live in Korea earlier this year:

Broadway Calls have unveiled their new video for single ‘Be All That You Can’t Be’ which is out this week. The band’s second album ‘Good Views, Bad News‘ is released next week and the band will be playing some dates with The Offspring this month as well as Reading and Leeds!

Live dates

August 2009:
25th London Brixton Academy with the Offspring
26th Manchester Academy with the Offspring
27th Newport – Le Pub with Save Your Breath and The Arteries
29th Leeds Festival
30th Reading Festival

September 2009:
4th Southampton Joiners with Polar Bear Club
5th Album launch show @ The Fighting Cocks, Kingston

Jack White’s latest side project, The Dead Weather, are returning to the UK to deliver a full tour after the handful of sold out shows and secret shows they recently played on this side of the Atlantic.

The full list of planned UK dates are as follows:

Monday 19th October – Manchester Academy
Wednesday 21st October – Newcastle 02 Academy
Thursday 22nd October – Edinburgh Picture House
Friday 23rd October – Leeds 02 Academy
Sunday 25th October – Bristol 02 Academy
Monday 26th October – Birmingham 02 Academy
Thursday 29th October – London 02 Brixton Academy

Here’s the video for “Treat Me Like Your Mother“: