Category: Music News

Ratatat will be releasing a new album this year.

The follow up to Classics will be called LP3 and is slated for a July 7th release. The new release took only a few weeks to record and was mixed onto 1/4 inch tape. The album will also feature some remix tracks, including Animal Collective who have remixed Mirando into a 10 minute “techno wonder”. The tracklist is:

1. Shiller
2. Falcon Jab
3. Mi Viejo
4. Mirando
5. Flynn
6. Bird Priest
7. Shempi
8. Imperials
9. Dura
10. Brulee
11. Mumtaz Khan
12. Gipsy Threat
13. Black Heroes

www.ratatatmusic.com

The Metros will be releasing a free download.

The Clubhouse Riddim will see the band team up with labelmate Toddla T and you’ll be able to download it on July 14th. The Peckham boys are releasing their new single Last Of The Lookers on June 2nd both digitally and physically. Bashment and wideboy South Londoners? How can it fail?!

www.myspace.com/themetrosband

Although early eighties Boston hardcore heroes and straight-edge pioneers SS Decontrol are booked to play the Camden Underworld in London on August 17th, relationships have exploded among the original bands members resulting in former member Alan Barile posting the below letter regarding singer David Spring’s new version of SSD. Now this is what we call straight edge unity….

There is absolutely no truth to any speculation that SSD will be performing this summer. The fact is original vocalist David Spring “Springa” is assembling a band of hired guns to tour and rip off the public playing under the name SSD. Due to his selfish actions David Spring has officially been terminated from ALL association with the band SSD. His attempt to recreate SSD in 2008 will utterly fail and I hope the public will not attend his performances and if they do they make it as miserable as possible for him to remain on stage safely. I know I personally will make every attempt to make him pay for his corrupt, cheating selfish actions.

SSD will always be a team with integrity. It’s unfortunate that a fat overweight “has been” and “nobody” will try to fool the public under the mighty moniker SSD. His overall contribution to what made SSD such a special band is so far under the radar and almost next to zero. Anybody intimately involved and close to the band understands his contribution. The real fact is that the band had to go out of it’s way to compensate for his talent, work ethic and criminal behavior. I feel bad for those fans who have been waiting for a chance to see the band but attending this Dave Springa performance is a travesty and borderline criminal. He is a terrible human being and I’m not just saying this now. He is basically the reason the band dissolved.

Our relationship has been civil since we stopped playing but clearly after then band dissolved his musical and organizational ability pretty much guaranteed his ability to get to get zero accomplished. He couldn’t write a song if it fell in his lap. Having said that, I have been monitoring this potential SSD rippoff roadshow for sometime and I have done my best to discourage it through various legal and illegal tactics. I have actually held off some royalties and payments to hold over his over his head and help him make the right decision. He is basically following the business model laid out by Cliff from the Freeze, Chris Doherty from Gang Green, Choke from Slapshot, I can only speculate but I believe their motives are clear. I hate to throw anybody under the bus but I’m sure this support system of 40 year old living in the past has helped David Spring organize the tour.

Motives

1) Rip off the public as 40 plus year olds playing music made by kids and capitaize on American Hardcore Movie
2) Make enough money to buy their alcohol, drugs and coke and whatever else
3) Pounce on as many foreign chicks who think these American punk rock stars are special and give them 20 year old pussies . Hopefully they will give them something else as well
4) Escape their miserable lives and US wifes and girlfriends to pursue their sexual fantisies
5) Hopefully come back to US with enough money so they can collect unemployment and continue their life avoiding a disciplined work schedule in which you wake up and go to work. They will repeat the cycle every two tears

If it wasn’t for my efforts, Springa would have justified this plan and pulled this shit sooner. It seems like he might pull it off this time but I am a fucking fighter and I don’t take well to people ripping me off and tarnishing the name of my band. I am assemblng a network of supporters who will help do everything possible to make him uncomfortable and fearful for his safety at each show. If he gets close to the Boston New York area then I will execute the plan. My goal is to make the tour fall apart due to poor attendance, hopefully get the promotors to back off after my legal representative serve papers. I would also appeal to the general public to understand when they are getting ripped off and for them to NOT BELIEVE that this lineup is NOT SSD. It’s just a fat overweight scumbag breaking ranks from the band. He must be stopped.

Please share this letter to anybody or punk rock news outlet. It’s time to put a stop to these rogue motherfuckers who have no integrity. Anyone who can help make David Springs life miserable will be on my list of close friends who I will be entirely indebted to and hopefully I can repay the favor somehow

thanks

Alan Barile
Leader SSD

Nas has spoken out about his new album.

The Queensbridge rapper, who recently shocked his label by revealing he wants to call his new album Nigger, has stated that he wanted to work with MF Doom. Nas said of the masked villain:

“I’ve also been wanting to get with MF DOOM; I don’t know what that’s gonna take take, trying to get with him before the album is done. Doom might be my favorite.”

Of course, MF Doom used to be in the group KMD who brought out their own controversially titled album in Black Bastards, featuring the track What A Niggy Know? which was finally released by Big Juss [of Company Flow]’s Sub Verse Music label. So, Nas and Doom? Could be huge…

www.myspace.com/mfdoom

Norma Jean have entered the studio with producer Ross Robinson.

The band are working on their fourth album The Anti-Mother, which is set for a summer 2008 release and will feature collaborations with Page Hamilton and Chino Moreno. Speaking on the collaborations, the band said:

“We were able to work with Page and Chino on two separate occasions, and as two of our biggest influences musically, it was definitely a moment having them here in the studio. Page came to our practice space and for the first hour he was just showing us cool guitar chords, teaching us new things technically. The song we wrote with him is heavy as crap and full of energy – you’ll notice his influence. Many bands have guest vocalists on their records, but we were inspired by the idea of collaborative songwriting with some of our favorite musicians. In a collaboration, no one is beyond reproach, and there is always something we can learn and someone to learn it from.”

www.myspace.com/normajean

Jay Z has hit back at Noel Gallagher.

The Oasis frontman recently said that Jay Z and hip hop had no place at Glastonbury but the New York rapper took the argument to the monobrowed peanut saying:

“We don’t play guitars, Noel, but hip-hop has put in its work like any other form of music. This headline show is just a natural progression. Rap music is still evolving…From Afrika Bambaataa DJ-ing in the Bronx and Run DMC going platinum, to Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince winning the first rap Grammy, I’m just next in the line. We have to respect each others’ genre of music and move forward.”

Go back to making Definitely Maybe for the 10th time in a row Noel, there’s a good boy.

www.jay-z.com

Blood Red Shoes have announced details of a fresh UK tour.

The band, who release a new single ‘This Is Not For You‘ on June 30, will hit the road in October on the following dates:

13th – Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
15th – Leeds Cockpit
16th – Manchester Academy
18th – Aberdeen Drummonds
19th – Glasgow King Tut’s
20th – Newcastle Academy
21st – Norwich Waterfront
23rd – Birmingham Academy
24th – London Astoria

www.bloodredshoes.co.uk

Weezer have announced that they are pushing up the US release date of their sixth studio album by three weeks.

The band will now be releasing their new self-titled album, which will also be known as the Red Album, on June 3rd instead of the planned June 24th release date. The band took the decision after their first single from the record, Pork And Beans, went to number 1 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart.

www.weezer.com

French producer Wax Tailor will release his new album in June.

Hope & Sorrow is released on Decon Records on June 2nd and has been compared to the likes of DJ Shadow and RJD2. The producer got over 60,000 sales of his previous album and his single was featured as a single of the year in Playboy. Check out the video below for a taste of what he’s about:

www.myspace.com/waxtailor

Gama Bomb are touring the UK in June.

You can check out the band playing their Citizen Brain album and more at the following dates:

June:

8th – Scala, London
9th – Underworld, London
11th – Studio 24, Edinburgh
13th – White Rabbit, Plymouth
14th – The Pitz, Milton Keynes.

www.myspace.com/gamabomb