Lou Barlow has released a free mp3.
The Sebadoh and Dinosaur Jr. man will be releasing his new album Goodbye Unknown in October and you can check out Gravitate by grabbing it from the widget below.
Check Lou out playing at SXSW this year:
Reports are appearing online that Brooklyn’s MGMT will be featuring on the new Jigga album.
The Blueprint 3, due out on September 11, and Jay-Z hasn’t confirmed or denied the duo’s involvement but has said that Rihanna will guest on the record and said:
“The time gave me a chance to step back, touch it, step back, touch it, rework it,” he explained. “Then I had to keep motivating myself because of the current state of music. My album is a single album, but it’s part of a collective – the collectiveness of hip-hop.”
Meantime, let’s have that moment of silence of Auto-tune…
A track that didn’t make the final cut of Nas‘ last album has surfaced online.
Produced by DJ Khalil, who recently blew the party out with his beat for Slaughterhouse, it’s a nice way to ease into the weekend. Check it out below:
DJ Khalil and Nas in the studio recording “Colors” from DJ KHALIL on Vimeo.
Not content with being one of the best rappers out there, Wu Tang’s Ghostface is set to release a graphic novel called Cell Block Z.
Check out the trailer below and get your nerd-game on!
Ignominious Incarceration drummer Sam Bailey split his head open skating a ramp whilst trashed. He said, “I was super, super wasted. I’d been drinking too much vodka, went down a 10-foot ramp, fell down and blacked out. I woke up with a bleeding head and was rushed to hospital. That’s pretty much all I remember!”
The melodic death metal band are currently making their way around the UK on the Masters of Metal tour with labelmates The Boy Will Drown, as well as Bleed From Within and The Argent Dawn. Catch them live at the following remaining shows and watch the video blog of them on the road and footage of the injury below.
23 July 2009 – Nottingham, UK – Rock City
24 July 2009 – Birmingham, UK – Eddie’s
25 July 2009 – London, UK – The Underworld
Dinosaur Pile-Up are poised to release their brand new EP! The band returned to the studio with Leeds based knob twiddler James Kenosha (Pulled Apart By Horses, Grammatics) in May, to record the songs that would make up their debut EP, the modestly titled ‘THE MOST POWERFUL EP IN THE UNIVERSE!’.
Out on August 17, the EP is led by ‘Summer Hit Single‘, which debuted by Zane Lowe on Radio One. The EP also features a new version of the live favourite ‘Opposites Attract’, which features in its original form on the new Huw Stephen’s Wichita compilation, ‘Music Sounds Better With Huw’.
Sticking with their independent outlook, the EP will be released on the bands own Big Brain Records label in conjunction with small indie, Friends Vs Records. Other tracks on the EP are ‘Beach Bug’, ‘Opposites Attract’, ‘Melanin’ and ‘Cat Attack’.
LIVE DATES:
Jul 30 London Water Rats
Jul 31 Manchester Deaf Institute
Aug 7 Newquay Boardmasters Festival
Aug 28 Leeds Festival
Aug 29 Reading Festival
Sept 11 Bestival
Here’s a video of DPU performing their last single, ‘My Rock’n’Roll’:
Beastie Boys rapper Adam Yauch has announced via video this week that he is unfortunately suffering from a form of throat cancer. The band who are about to jet out across the world to promote new album ‘Hot Sauce Committee’ says that his swollen glands on a recent trip to Europe had alarm bells ringing and tests from a specialist revealed sickness.
Talking on YouTube (below) he says “I have a form of cancer in a gland that’s over here (points to his left cheek). It’s in a gland called the parotid gland and it’s also in the lymph node in that area. I’m going to have to have surgery, probably next week (beginning July 27), and then after that have some radiation done in that localised area“. We wish him a speedy and successful recovery.
Here’s the Monday Funny. This could be one of the best mash up’s yet! You should know what’s coming, Nirvana vs Rick Astley, click it for confirmation.
Pendulum‘s live mash up of Calvin Harris’ ‘I’m Not Alone’ was one of the highlights from the Glastonbury festival. Check this footage posted this week.
