GZA has announced 3 UK dates in November.
The Wu Tang member, who will showcase his new Pro Tools album, will be supported on all dates by Skinnyman and Cool Ninja Sound featuring Buggsy and Mr Bang On with additional supports for each date. Here are the details:
November 12th – Glasgow, ABC
November 13th– London, Electric Ballroom [with Stig and Syntax]
November 14th – K.Ners
Witchita Recordings has released a free digital sampler.
The sampler contains new signings to the label [such as Lovvers and Sky Larkin] as well as older artists [ The Bronx, Peter Bjorn & John and Her Space Holiday]. The tracklisting is below and you can grab it by clicking the link at the bottom.
The tracklisting is:
01. Tasty Boy – Those Dancing Days
02. Human Hair – Lovvers
03. Molten – Sky Larkin
04. How I Taught Myself to Scream – Los Campesinos!
05. Knifeman – The Bronx
06. Meet Me in the Dollar Bin – Les Savy Fav
07. I Dont Want To Die (In The Hospital) – Conor Oberst
08. Tell Me In Time – Peter Moren
09. Burn The Margins – Greg Weeks
10. Saving Up To Get Married – Euros Childs
11. Maiden in the Moor Lay – Meg Baird
12. Paint The Rust – The Dodos
13. Inland Empire – Peter Bjorn & John
14. I Got This Down (Invisible Conga People Mix) – Simian Mobile Disco
15. The Year In Review – Her Space Holiday
Muse have told fans they shouldn’t expect a new album soon.
The band had previously announced they would travelling to Italy to reocrd the songs, of which there were many, but the latest news is that the songs are still “very young”. Bassist Chris Wolstenholme told 6Music that:
“I don’t think there’s anything that we’re ready to record yet. We just wanted to get started this year, to get the ball rolling a little bit rather than wait for a year doing nothing then get in the studio, and go, ‘What do we do now?’. Sometimes you can suffer from having too much time off.”
Metric have announced they will be staying indie for the next album.
The Canadians have agreed to continue to put their music on Last Gang Records and their manager Mathieu Drouin said:
“We’ve wrestled with our situation over the course of the last three albums, trying to find the right deal. We found ourselves in a position where the majors were interested, but we knew we had the ability to roll the dice and do it ourselves. ‘Long tail’ artists like Metric that have been able to develop a following and career without major help are in the best position to take things into their own hands right now .”
Magazine have reformed to play live for the first time since 1980.
The influential British band will play London’s Forum on February 13th and Manchester’s Academy on February 15th. Tickets go on sale on September 15th. The original members, Howard Devoto, Dave Formula, Barry Adamson and John Doyle will be joined by an as yet unnamed guest guitarist, who will fill in for the deceased John McGeoch.
Oasis recently played in Toronto and got a little more than they bargained for. A fan ran onstage and gave Noel a shove, what is the world coming to.
Underoath have posted a video online for their track Desperate Times Desperate Measures, taken from their album Lost In The Sound Of Separation, which was released this week.
They begin their UK tour on Saturday and will play the following gigs:
6 Sep – Manchester Academy 2, Manchester
7 Sep – Glasgow Garage, Glasgow
8 Sep – Birmingham Academy 2, Birmingham
10 Sep – Cardiff University Solus Room, Cardiff
11 Sep – Norwich Waterfront, Norwich
12 Sep – London Astoria, London
13 Sep – Leeds Cockpit, Leeds
14 Sep – Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth
Qwel is continuing his rapid release rate with a new single.
Heliocentric is produced by Kip Killagain and they have been made available for download, so click one of the links below and check it out:
Can’t beat a bit of Friday freeness!
Iglu & Hartly will be giving a song away for free.
The track is called Jump Out Of Your Car is free to download from the web site below and comes from their upcoming album & Then Boom which is due out on September 29th as well as the single In This City on September 15th.
M.I.A. will be releasing Paper Planes as a single in the UK.
The singer, who had claimed she was finished with music, has seen the track become a success in the States thanks to being used on the trailer for the new film Pineapple Express. The track, which samples The Clash and has since been sampled by TI will be released on October 13.