Fighting with Wire will be fighting it out with In Case of Fire this year for the Irish rock crown. Check out the video for single ‘Sugar’ below out of March 2nd and decide yourself.
Fighting With Wire – ‘Sugar’ from Smalltown America on Vimeo.
The Kills are back with a new record scheduled for March 23rd titled the Black Balloon EP. The lead track is lifted from the third album Midnight Boom released last year and features extra tracks, watch the video here.
Smutlee has released a new free mix in preparation for hitting Fabric this Friday.
You can see him in Room 1 this Friday [February 6th] alongside Xrabit & DMG$, Toddla T & MC Serocee, The Bug and Sinden with the likes of Tayo, Zombie Disco Squad and Urban Nerds. The tracklist for Smutlee’s dirty beats mix is below and you can get it by clicking here.
01: Mr Vegas, Debonair Samir & Aaron Lacrate – Whining Machine
02: Rod Lee – Latin Groove
03: Busy Signal – Up In Her Belly
04: Dj Mujava – Township Funk (Ashley Beedle Africanz On Marz Re-Edit)
05: Africanism – Block Party
06: Elephant Man – Hot Wuk Dem Want
07: Ghislain Poirier – Go Ballistic (Toddla T & Duckbeats Remix)
08: Cleptomaniacs – All I Do (Bump & Flex Dancehall Dub)
09: Wookie – Galium / MAW – Work (Acapella)
10: Perempay & Dee – Buss It
11: Wiley – No Qualms
12: DVA – Hardhouse
13: Beenie Man Ft. So Solid Crew – Yagga Yo
14: Jammin – Hold On
15: Dizzee Rascal – Ice Rink Freestyle
16: High Rankin – No Money For Guns
17: Buraka Som Sistema – Kalemba (Hot Chip Remix)
18: Buraka Som Sistema Ft. Kano – Skank & Move
New Yorker Mike Bones is in the UK this week and will play the following shows. The single ‘What I Have Left’ can be found his UK solo album, ‘A Fool For Everyone‘ via Vice Records released today 2nd Feb.
3rd Feb Nice & Sleazy Glasgow, Scotland
5th Feb Luminaire w/ Sleepy Doug Shaw and Hush Arbors Kilburn, London
8th Feb Rough Trade Instore, London
Ghostface Killah is confirmed to visit the UK this year. The Wu-Tang member will play 3 dates include shows in London, Bristol and Manchester throughout May. Get your tickets now.
London Scala (May 6)
Bristol Academy (May 9)
Manchester University (May 10)
Porcupine Tree frontman Steven Wilson is launching a competition to find the best remix of his track Abandoners from the upcoming Insurgentes album [released March 9th via KScope]. The winning entry will then be added to an official Steven Wilson release in the coming months.
A new site has gone live with the remix parts available to all which you can visit here.
There are absolutely no restrictions on what genre the remix is, giving fans and music lovers the chance to put their own individual spin on the track perhaps bringing in some Drum n Bass, some metal or some straight up pop. All entries should be sent via You Send It to competitions@kscopemusic.com with Abandoner in the subject, or alternatively email a URL to your zipped mp3.
Funeral For A Friend have announced a new single and UK tour.
The Welsh band will be releasing Rules And Games, taken from their album Memory And Humanity released on Join Us Records. The tour dates are below:
March:
23rd – Pontypridd, Muni Arts Centre
24th – Derby, University
25th – Glasgow, QMU
27th – Leeds, Rios
28th – London, ULU
30th – Sheffield, University Foundry
31st – Northampton, Roadmender
Abjekt Approved rapper P.O.S drops his 3rd solo album Never Better on Rhymesayers on February 3rd.
You can check out the first video from it, Drumroll for a taste of what’s to come:
Bonnie “Prince” Billy will release his new album on March 16th.
Beware will come out on Domino will feature the tracklisting below:
1. Beware Your Only Friend
2. You Can’t Hurt Me Now
3. My Life’s Work
4. Death Final
5. Heart’s Arms
6. You Don’t Love Me
7. You Are Lost
8. I Won’t Ask Again
9. I Don’t Belong to Anyone
10. There Is Something I Have To Say
11. I Am Goodbye
12. Without Work, You Have Nothing
13. Afraid Ain’t Me
N.A.S.A. will hit London’s Cargo on February 6th.
North America South America, who release their new album The Spirit Of Apollo, which features the likes of Method Man, Tom Waits, ODB, Spank Rock, MIA, RZA, Chuck D and Sizzla amongst others, is released on February 17th.
They’ll be ably backed up by Ou Est Le Swimming Pool, Debruit and Medallist live sets as well as Solid Gold and Park Ranger on DJ duties.
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