Category: Music News

It’s been another big year for the Rizla Invisible Players and to round off this year’s tour, a big night is being plotted in the Capital. On Friday 14th November, ‘The Rizla End of Year Party‘ is set to go off at East Village, Shoreditch, London.

In the main room, getting proceedings underway are much-hyped London pair Heartbreak who’ll be treating us to a rare DJ set. Upstairs, two of London’s legendary record labels go head to head, Autodisco DJ’s and Invisible Player Greg Wilson will provide the soundtrack to this club night.

Friday 14th November, East Village:

Upstairs:

9.00 – 11.30 The Heavenly Jukebox vs. 1965 Soundsystem
11.00 – 1.00 Autodisco DJs (Dicky Trisco & iamelectron)
1.00 – 3.00 Greg Wilson

Downstairs:

9.30 -11.30 Heartbreak DJ set
11.30 – 1.30 Stuart Patterson
1.30 – 4.00 Derrick Carter

Check out this intense video for the brand new single ‘Hope’ from Failsafe, which will be released November 3rd. it was directed by Craig Young and is taken from the album ‘The Truth Is…’ – available on Smalltown Records, Nov 10th.

‘Hope’

Black Market will release their debut album on November 10th.

The Elephant In The Room will be released through No Office Records. The band will be playing a one-off live show at The Metro in London on November 3rd to showcase their new material before heading off to Europe to perform as the main support act for The Subways tour.

The tracklisting is:

1. Magic Tricks
2. Night In Question
3. Sheila
4. Sooner Or Later
5. An Alibi Can’t Give Me A Place To Go
6. White Lie
7. Remote [Control Freak]
8. Bad Call
9. Permanent You
10. Drag Addict
11. Ctrl Alt Del
12. Out Of Order

www.myspace.com/blackmarketaz

Grog-merchant Caspa has put a free mix online.

The mix, which is a promo mix for London’s Fabric superclub, is to celebrate the Dub Police takeover at the club’s Room 3 for Halloween. Click here to get the download, the tracklisting is below:

1. Caspa – My Pet Monster – Digital Sound Boy
2. Klaxtons – Its Not Over – Skream Remix
3. Rusko – Mr Muscle – Sub Soldiers
4. Caspa – Louder VIP – Sub Soldiers
5. Caspa – Floor Them – Digital Sound Boy
6. Emalkay – Explicit – Dub Police
7. Sub Scape – Transaction – Dub Police
8. The Others – Africa VIP – Dub Police
9. Unitz – Wait A Minute – Dub Police
10. Rusko – Jahova – Sub Soldiers
11. Caspa – The Terminator – Sub Soldiers
12. TC – Where’s My Money – Caspa Remix – Dstyle
13. Skream – Fick – Tempa

www.fabriclondon.com / www.myspace.com/caspadubstep

Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster have posted a new video online.

The video, for the track The Day Hell Broke Loose At Sicard Hollow, can be seen by clicking here: www.hurley.com/blog.cfm/aid/25186. The band are planning to release a new album in 2009.

http://www.myspace.com/mayleneandthesonsofdisaster

The Cancer Bats have come to destroy.

Fueled by a burning desire to rage harder, play louder and have more fun than any other band, Cancer Bats mix hardcore, southern metal, and punk rock into a lethal rock and roll explosion.

Hail Destroyer will be in stores and online in April.

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy is set to release a new album titled ‘Is It The Sea?’ with Harem Scarem and Alex Neilson

Is It The Sea? captures, in remarkable clarity, performances from the Bonnie Prince’s sold out tour of Scotland and Ireland (and Newcastle) in the Spring of 2006. The tour found Billy in the company of Edinburgh’s Harem Scarem on close harmonies, fiddle, flute, banjo and accordion and Glasgow’s wunderkind Alex Neilson on drums and percussion

Is It the Sea? is released by Domino this week.

The ‘Pimp My Pak’ competition is Eastpak’s challenge to concert-goers to test their creativity to the max. At each date, special Eastpak representatives will be keeping an eagle eye out for those who’ve made the most effort to customize their own eastpak, they’ll pick one very lucky winner who’ll receive assorted goodies from Eastpak and the bands involved, as well as the chance to meet and get their picture taken with Flogging Molly and Street Dogs after the show! What more could you want?

Tickets are on sale now, bring your pimped out backpack to one of the following UK dates to be in with a chance of winning.

UK Dates:

02-Nov UK Newcasle Academy

03-Nov UK Glasgow Barrowlands

05-Nov UK London Astoria

06-Nov UK Manchester Academy

07-Nov IRL Dublin Ambassador

08-Nov UK Birmingham Academy

09-Nov UK Bristol Academy

Metallica are set to play a full tour of the UK for the first time since October 1996. All the dates will be performed in the round with general admission tickets situated on the floor, with reserved seating off the floor. Tickets go on sale at 9 a.m. on Friday October 24th 2008. Support on all dates will be Machine Head and The Sword.

FEBRUARY 2009

Wed 25 Nottingham Trent FM Arena 08444 124 624 www.nottingham-arena.com

Thurs 26 Manchester Evening News Arena 08448 478 000 www.men-arena.com

Sat 28 Sheffield Arena 0114 256 56 56 www.sheffieldarena.co.uk

Mon 2nd The O2 Arena 0844 856 0202 www.theo2.co.uk

Tues 3rd Newcastle Metro Radio Arena 0844 493 6666 www.metroradioarena.co.uk

Wed 25th Birmingham LG Arena 0121 780 4133 www.necgroup.co.uk

Thurs 26th Glasgow SECC 0870 040 4000 www.secc.co.uk

Bitter Things will headline The Dublin Castle in Camden on 31st October. The night starts at 7pm, there are a host of other good bands, Bitter Things will be headlining, on stage about 9.30pm.

For bookings contact The Dublin Castle.