Today the co-creators of last years acclaimed DRILL:BRIGHTON festival, One Inch Badge, have announced their new Mutations Festival for November 28th & 29th across multiple venues throughout the city.
Fans of new noise and experimental dirge will want to get their pre-orders in post-haste as initial billings include the likes of Lightning Bolt, METZ, John Talabot (DJ), Josh T Pearson, Tourist, OM, Chelsea Wolfe, Willis Earl Beal, Ought, Jane Weaver, Natalie Prass, BRNS, Kagoule, Vision Fortune, Blaenavon, All Tvvins, Lowly, Plastic Mermaids, Chastity, Mount Bank, Abi Wade, Sea Bastard, Blacklisters, Foreign Skin and Nature Channel with many more to be announced.
Ticket pre-sale goes live this Wednesday 26th August at 9am through See Tickets, with a general sale going live on Friday 28th August at 9am. Keep an eye on their website for further details.
Yes. The Nirvana front-man and song-writing genius’ death is set to be further capitalised upon this coming November 6th, when the Montage of Heck DVD will be released with an accompanying ‘solo album’ comprised of MORE previously unheard solo material recorded by Cobain some 20+ years ago.
Montage of Heck director Brett Morgen is said to have found the recordings that will make up this album when sifting through the extensive Cobain archives for home demos. Commenting on the album in a recent interview with Bedford & Bowery, Morgen said listeners “will feel like you’re kind of hanging out with Kurt Cobain on a hot summer day in Olympia, Washington as he fiddles about,” adding that “it’s not a Nirvana album, it’s just Kurt, and you’re going to hear him do things you never expected to come out of him.”
As yet untitled, this ‘solo LP’ is due November 6th. Look out for further announcements online and head here for more Cobain controversy, courtesy of Buzz from the Melvins.
If you are too young to have been in the middle of this movement when it blew it up then we’re sorry, it was a blast. Now’s your chance to taste a piece of what went on back in 1988 when N.W.A dropped a bomb on the music world. It resonated through every street in the midst of riots and political unrest tackling racism and police brutality. Yeah, familiar story right? Nothing has changed since but they left history behind that’s worth talking about again.
The new biopic Straight Outta Compton is coming out in cinemas on August 14th and tells the story of that entire period and the change in culture through the rap scene. We literally cannot wait.
Look out for the cinema release and film download.
Despite the thrash titans headline slot at the heavy metal festival, Kerry King is holding back no punches when it comes to ‘critiquing’ the event.
King blames the “shitty bill” and not enough thought having gone into reinventing the festival for Mayhem’s falling ticket sales and loss of two stages. He states “whoever booked this made a gigantic error”.
Whereas King blames the events organisers, they have responded to the backlash by turning the blame around onto the bands themselves – “The bands at the top all demand a certain level of fee to be on tour. Unlike punk rock, metal never knows how to take a step back to move the whole scene forward. That’s how punk rock was. That’s how we nurtured punk rock. Bad Religion would take a little less than they could on their own to bring the whole scene forward, so we could make sure we had a good (touring) package around them. Metal doesn’t seem to have that concern, never has since I was working in the clubs in the 80s. It’s always about a me, me, me thing”.
Swans frontman Michael Gira has revealed via Facebook that September 1st will see the final album, and subsequent tour, from this particular incarnation of the band. The album is set to be preceded by a live LP release, titled The Gate, to fund the production of the impending September release which Gira describes as what’s bound to be an “insatiable beast”.
Read the full statement on Swans’ Facebook Page and keep your eyes peeled for further announcements.
This coming Friday July 31st the Teenage Time Killers super-group, led by Corrosion Of Conformity drummer Reed Mullin, will release their debut album through Reprise Records.
Greatest Hits Vol.1 is set to feature appearances from QOTSA’s Nick Oliveri, Foo Fighters’ Pat Smear and Dave Grohl, Dead Kennedys’ Jello Biafra, Prong’s Tommy Victor and countless other rock veterans. Featuring 20 tracks, a handful of which are covers, including the Rudimentary Peni song that gives the outfit its name, the majority of the LP was tracked at Grohl’s own 606 Studios in Northridge, California.
Check out the full track list below and stream this monster in it’s entirety over on the NY Times website.
Greatest Hits Vol.1 Track-list:
1. Exploder
Vocals: Reed Mullin
Featuring Pat Hoed (Bass), London May (Drums)
2. Crowned by the Light of the Sun
Vocals: Neil Fallon
Featuring Jim Rota (Guitar), Dave Grohl (Bass)
3. Hung Out to Dry
Vocals: Randy Blythe
Featuring Mike Schaefer (Guitar), Dave Grohl (Bass)
4. Power Outage
Vocals: Clifford Dinsmore
Featuring Dave Grohl (Bass)
5. Ode to Hannity
Vocals: Jello Biafra
Featuring Mike Dean (Bass)
6. Barrio
Vocals: Matt Skiba
Featuring Brian Baker (Guitar)
7. The Dead Hand
Vocals: Reed Mullin
Featuring Woody Weatherman (Guitar), Dave Grohl (Bass)
8. Egobomb
Vocals: Corey Taylor
Featuring Dave Grohl (Bass)
9. Plank Walk
Vocals: Pete Stahl
Featuring Greg Anderson (Guitar), Dave Grohl (Bass)
10. Time to Die
Vocals: Mike IX Williams
Featuring Greg Anderson (Guitar)
11. Days of Degradation
Vocals: Tommy Victor
Featuring Dave Grohl (Bass)
12. Clawhoof
Vocals: Tairrie B. Murphy
Featuring Dave Grohl (Bass)
13. Big Money
Vocals: Lee Ving
Featuring Pat Smear (Guitar & Bass), London May (Drums)
14. Devil in this House
Vocals: Karl Agell
Featuring Dave Grohl (Bass)
15. Say Goodnight to the Acolyte
Vocals: Phil Rind
Featuring Jason Browning (Guitar), Dave Grohl (Bass)
16. Ignorant People
Vocals: Tony Foresta
Featuring Greg Anderson (Guitar), Nick Oliveri (Bass)
17. Son of an Immigrant
Vocals: Johnny Weber
Featuring Brian Baker (Guitar)
18. Your Empty Soul
Vocals: Aaron Beam
19. Bleeding to Death
Vocals: Vic Bondi
Featuring Dave Grohl (Bass)
20. Teenage Time Killer
Vocals: Trenton Rogers
Featuring Greg Anderson (Guitar), Pat Hoed (Bass)
Can a 90s alt-rock icon not enjoy a day out at Disneyland in peace these days? No! As last week, poor old Billy Corgan was snapped by paparazzi riding a roller-coaster and the internet has gone bananas about it. Shameless celebrity snapping aside, the US Weekly came up with the best (worst?) tagline you could ever imagine.
“From a rat in a cage to the House of Mouse! Smashing Pumpkins rocker Billy Corgan took his Mellon Collie self to the Happiest Place on Earth, aka Disneyland, where he traveled back in time to the Wild, Wild West of the 19th century.”
King of post shoegaze guitar haze, Kurt Vile has announced a brand new album for September 25th. B’lieve i’m goin down is set to follow 2013’s masterpiece Wakin’ On A Pretty Daze with gusto as first cut, ‘Pretty Pimpin’, see’s Vile pick up an acoustic to peddle his familiar, dazed guitar across five blissed-out minutes.
Watch below and pre-order the album from Matador Records here.
Sonic Youth lynch-pin, and creative force in his own right Lee Ranaldo is set to feature as the subject of a new documentary titled In Doubt, Shadow Him!.
Directed by Arnaud Maguet, the film is due for release this coming December via Hifiklub and features a soundtrack recorded by Ranaldo himself at Sonic Youth’s studio. Other contributors and members of the cast include Nels Cline, Raymond Pettibon, Alan Licht, Don Fleming and more.
The documentary will be available in DVD format accompanied by a double 10″ vinyl soundtrack. Watch the trailer below.
It is now illegal again for the good people of Britain to copy CD’s for their personal use. Back in October 2014, the Government deemed the action of transferring CD’s into your computer’s music library a perfectly legal practice, but as of last week that rule has been overturned by the High Court.
The case was won by the Musicians Union, UK Music and the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, who rule that the Government was wrong when it did not introduce a compensation scheme to accompany the law for songwriters, and other rights holders, who could face a loss as a result of their copyright being shared unethically.
UK Music estimated that the 2014 regulations, without a compensation scheme, would result in loss of revenues for rights owners in the creative sector of up to £58m a year. With CEO Jo Dipple adding: “My members’ music defines this country. It is only right that government gives us the standard of legislation our music deserves. We want to work with government so this can be achieved.”
It is currently unclear how the change will be enforced.
