Category: Music News

French has paidhomage to his love of noise in the form of a Monday Mixtape for LoDown Magazine this week. From Bolt Thrower to Venom, stream these 40 minutes of carnage below.

Track List
Bolt Thrower – ‘No Guts, No Glory’
Bulldozer – ‘Mad Man’
Disgorge – ‘Compost Devourment’
Sodom – ‘Conjuration’
Nuclear Hammer – ‘Blasphemous Command’
Doom – ‘Police Bastard’
Exhumed – ‘Open The Abscess’
Sanctum – ‘Scepter Of Pestilence’
Nihilist – ‘Morbid Devourment’
Sadistic Execution – ‘Mathematikus’
Inhume – ‘Sodomizing Encounter’
Waco Jesus – ‘A Butt Plug In Your Pussy My Fist Up Your Ass’
Tank – ‘Blood, Guts & Beer’
Venom – ‘Countess Bathory’

The Vaselines have announced three UK dates for the Autumn to accompany the release of their third album, V For Vaselines, due September 29th.

Featuring musical contributions from Michael McGaughrin (1990s), Frank Macdonald (Teenage Fanclub), Stevie Jackson (Belle & Sebastian), Graeme Smillie (Olympic Swimmers), Paul Foley (Mandrake Shepherd) and Scott Patterson (Sons & Daughters), the album was self-produced and recorded at Mogwai’s Castle Of Doom studio in Glasgow.

Live Dates
September
29th – Edinburgh – Caves
30th – Leeds – Brudenell Social Club
October
1st – London – Hoxton Bar & Kitchen

Stream album track ‘One Lost Year’ below.

Zach Braff, a man respected for drawing the attention of the masses to The Shins with his 2004 flick, Garden State, has again championed the bands music in his latest film Wish I Was Here, due for release July 18th. ‘So Now What’ is the first offering of new music from The Shins since their 2012 album Point Of Morrow and it sounds fantastic, stream the track below.

Prepare for total carnage as it looks like Poison Idea are heading our way this August for a bunch of shows.

Former guitarist Tom ‘Pig Champion’ Roberts passed back in 2006 after drug and drink issues so Eric ‘Vegetable’ Olson takes his place in the line up alongside bass player Chris ‘Spider’ Carey.

The most memorable show this lot played was at ULU back in 1991. Let’s hope they feel the darkness.

August 2014 tour:

10th – Blackpool, Rebellion Punk Music Festival
11th – Norwich, Waterfront
12th – Manchester, Star & Garter
13th – Newcastle, Think Tank
14th – Glasgow, Audio
15th – Dublin, Fibber McGees
16th – Bristol, Exchange
17th – London, Pipeline

Tense Men have shared a new music video for ‘Stages Of Boredom’, the opening track of their debut mini LP Where Dull Care Is Forgotten.

Credit due to film maker Maria Cecilia Tedemalm and art director Milo LirenWatch for crafting this mesmerisingly mundane clip. Watch below and click here to see what we made of their debut LP.

Where Dull Care Is Forgotten is out now on Faux Discx.

Seminal art-punks Wire have announced that their 1981 live album Document & Eyewitness, is due for reissue August 18th via Pink Flag Records.

The album documents a particularly eventful night and period of Wire’s enigmatic career. The fateful night at Camden’s Electric Ballroom saw their set accompanied by demonstrative performance art. Highlights include such acts as an individual beating a gas cooker with a hammer, a woman pulling two bound men across the stage, an illuminated goose and masked percussionists sporting newspaper headdresses. One band member donned an exaggerated beekeeper’s veil, while others wore morris-dancing bells. Veering back and forth between the playful and the profane, this was a combination of performance art and absurdist farce.

Document & Eyewitness will be released on double LP, double CD and as a legal bootleg series featuring the unedited gig recordings. Hit play below for a preview of the madness.

Copenhagen post-punks Lower have been smashing some serious support slots all over the UK this month. An ATP date with Merchandise on the 9th, and a run in with Fucked Up at the Scala on the 18th saw the four-piece prove their worth in tow with their debut album release Seek Warmer Climes, out this week on Matador Records.

Showing no sign of slowing, Lower have just announced a run of headline UK shows in August, as well as joining Chelsea Wolfe on tour in Europe. Check the UK dates below.

August
2nd – Visions Festival, London
3rd – Bermuda Triangle, Brighton
4th – Sunflower, Birmingham
5th – Broadcast, Glasgow
6th – Castle, Manchester

photo by Bryan Bruchman

Brooklyn bad boys Clouder have dropped a new music video for ‘All The Royal Years Are Gone’. One of the many footstompers featured on Clouder‘s fantastic sophomore album, Sister Raygun, out now on Fleeting Youth Records. Filmed at Pianos in Brooklyn, this music video see’s frontman Eric Gilstrap commanding the venue like a general. Hit play below for a taste of Clouder’s raucous live show.

Stay tuned, Clouder are currently working on new material for an upcoming 4-way split with Slippertails, Hippy, and Pow Wow! due later this year on Fleeting Youth Records.

The Wu Tang‘s momumental wind up continues this week with a writer for Forbes being sent out to Morocco to open the box. Hear 51 seconds of new music from Once Upon a Time in Shaolin with the album’s producer, Tarik “Cilvaringz” Azzougarh in between a tonne of top grade bullshit. Even Cher is in the mix…

Read our analogy of this entire concept once you have waded through this mud.