Category: Music News

After taking on Daft Punk’s ‘Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger‘ a few months ago, the audacious Son of Dave has put his harmonica and vocal skills to the test again, transforming Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden’s hit ‘Bonkers‘ .

By way of explanation, here’s a note from the man himself:

“My Dearest Audience,

The publicists and admen will be circulating a little film of me, Son of Dave, performing a zippy new song by Dizzee Rascal. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. It’s quite an amusing tune, though it has too many words for my taste.

Some of you from the Grime scene may stumble in to watch by accident. I hope you aren’t affronted. Please don’t send hate mail or stab me in the bum. I’m just a musician, and a family man. I’m not the enemy!

If there are any cats from Radio One, watching, it’s my distinct pleasure to distract you from your daily Grime. Now play the Son of Dave singles that have been sitting on your desks, and I’ll send you some free clean undershirts.

Please read the Stool Pigeon for my latest column on the G20 Demo, visit the Myspace site which I’m told is quite good, and the Blog where all sorts of nerds hang out. And kids, pay for your downloads, or we musicians aren’t going to bother entertaining you anymore. You’re getting on our nerves, frankly.”

Amazing Baby have released the uncensored version of the video for ‘Headdress‘, which was the recent single released in June this year from the band’s debut album, ‘Rewild’.

Amazing Baby – Headdress – Uncensored from Shangri-La Music on Vimeo.

Everyone’s favourite North-of-England Emo/Punk/Hardcore/Ska clubnight is coming to London on 24th July at the newly re-opened Garage in Highbury and Islington. Refurbished venue + good tunes = brilliant times!

Make sure you head down to join in the fun and hopefully make this a regular night. If you’ve ever been to Slam Dunk festival in Leeds which is organized by the same people, you’ll have some idea of the debauchery you’re in for…

St Albans’ favourite sons, Enter Shikari, have announced details on their new single.

The single, which comes from their recently released album Common Dreads, is entitled No Sleep Tonight and will be released on August 17th.

To get you warmed up for it, here is the video for previous single Juggernauts:

Three more bands have been added to the 10 years of ATP this December.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Modest Mouse and The Breeders will join the likes of Explosions In The Sky, Shellac, Tortoise, Fuck Buttons, Sunn O))), Battles and more at Butlins in Minehead from December 11th to 13th this year.

Scottish quartet The Twilight Sad have announced details of their second album. To be called ‘Forget The Night Ahead‘, the new album will be released in the UK on 5th October.

The full track list runs as follows:

1. Reflection Of The Television
2. I Became A Prostitute
3. Seven Years of Letters
4. Made To Disappear
5. Scissors
6. The Room
7. That Birthday Present
8. Floorboards Under The Bed
9. Interrupted
10. The Neighbours Can’t Breathe
11. At The Burnside

Guitarist Andy MacFarlane explained the recording process “We made a point of staying home to write. Writing on tour is a bad idea, so we stayed in Scotland for the full process. It let us go home after sessions – if we weren’t getting snowed-in the studio – and we had more time to experiment and develop the ideas we had.”

He continues “There are no big, long delayed guitars, just a lot more noisy ones and there were a few songs that maxed out the desk because of the amount that’s on there!”

Here’s the video for their forthcoming single ‘I Became A Prostitute‘, which is out on August 3rd through FatCat Records:

Yo La Tengo have confirmed they will return to Europe for a month long tour of the continent this November, including a handful of UK dates. The trio will be airing tracks from new album Popular Songs for the first time in the UK.

The tour will look like this…

November:

5th – Tripod, Dublin
6th – ABC, Glasgow
7th – Academy 2, Manchester
8th – The Roundhouse, London

Popular Songs is released on September 7th via Matador Records.

Here’s a video from a few years ago, to track ‘The Summer‘:

Anti-Pop Consortium have announced the tracklisting for their new album Fluorescent Black.

The tracklisting is:

Tracklist
1) Lay Me Down
2) New Jack Exterminator
3) Reflections
4) Shine
5) C Thru U
6) Volcano
7) Timpani
8) The Solution
9) Get Lite
10) NY to Tokyo feat Roots Manuva
11) Superunfrontable
12) Born Electric
13) Apparently
14) End Game
15) Capricorn One
16) Dragunov
17) Fluorescent Black

UK tour dates will be announced soon, but until then, watch them in all their wonky glory:

New York garage-turned-indie-chicsters Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced plans to follow up on their summer festival appearances with a tour of the UK this winter.

Tickets go on sale 9am July 10th, priced at £20 (plus booking fee) for all dates except London, which is £21.50. The tour takes in most of England and Scotland, with dates as follows:

November
29 Leeds, 02 Academy
30 Brixton, London, 02 Academy

December
1 Brixton, London, 02 Academy
3 Newcastle, 02 Academy
4 Glasgow, 02 Academy
6 Manchester, Apollo
9 Birmingham, 02 Academy
10 Bournemouth, Opera House

To whet your appetite, here are the band performing their latest single, ‘Heads Will Roll‘:

Ohio natives Times New Viking return with a brand new record Born Again Revisited, due for release on September 21st.

Known for shrouding their three-cornered pop constructions in clouds of tape hiss and buzzing noise, the trio of Adam Elliott, Beth Murphy and Jared Phillips delivered the Born Again Revisited recordings to label 4AD on a Video Home System cassette.

Times New Viking will also tour Europe this Autumn – details to be announced soon.

Check out the video to last year’s single ‘The End of All Things‘: