Category: Music News

Head honcho of rap collective OFWGKTA, Tyler, The Creator has dropped a preview of what appears to be a full length movie. Wolf is the first full length project Tyler has undertaken aside an array of music videos for his rap collective, Odd Future.

Directed by ‘Wolf Haley’ – Tyler’s go to pseudonym when practicing the cinematic arts – the short clip below offers an insight to the film, ever the enigma, he hasn’t exactly revealed a release date yet. With little to go on from this clip all we can assume is that with the ‘R’ rating that closes this trailer, it’s going to be grisly. Or it could all just be a big hoax!

Today Real Estate gave us a sneaky peek at what they’ve been up to over the summer in the form of this 24 second teaser. Hidden away in the studio, it looks like they’ve invested summer ’13 into crafting another dreamy album for us to soak up.

A highly anticipated follow up to ‘Days’ is on its way, click play to watch the teaser video for ‘LP3’ and ponder over the 24 seconds of music they’ve laid out to whet your appetite.

Fire Records will be reissuing Lemonheads’ first three albums in October.

Hate Your Friends (1987), Creator (1988) and Lick (1989) showcase the band’s early roots in punk rock and how this paved the way to them becoming such an influential band in indie rock. Each album reissue will come with added extra tracks from a variety of sessions, radio appearances and rare EPs.

Below is a sampler put together in spirit of this re-issue, capturing the song writing partnership between Evan Dando and Ben Deily who formed the band when they were both still in school. Crafting their songwriting skills as brothers in arms, these three albums demonstrate how Lemonheads evolved from punk to pop.

Lemonheads reissues will be available from October 7th.

“You put the cock in cocktail”. Yep, the Pixies are back with yet another new track from their much anticipated long player. It’s the first new video they have released in years so sit back and take in the masters at work on Indie Cindy.

This is being released as a 4-track 5000 only printed 10″ vinyl with a tee from here.

Deathgrips have released a new track called ‘Birds’ that they posted overnight. Filled with metallic vocal stabs intense synth parts and dreamscape melodies their new nightmare soundtrack is an example of what the band have been working on in advance of 2014’s new album on their own imprint label.

It’s been a crazy Nirvana week. Firstly Dave Grohl reminisced the unheard demo’s on the forthcoming ‘In Utero’ 20th Anniversary boxset on XFM, Krist Novoselic did the same, you can find those streams below.

Producer Steve Albini then dropped a completely open recollection of how In Utero was recorded, slagged off the ‘Parasites’ that gave the album bad reviews and refused to discuss anything to do with Courtney Love. You can hear that here. It’s a killer interview. Sub Pop also posted their original contract with the band as you can see above. $600 well spent as they say.

To end this 3 days of Nirvana goodness, Anton Corbijn’s ‘director’s cut’ of ‘Heart Shaped Box‘ has just been released for the very first time to the web. Seedy, dark and desperately relevant, it certainly takes you back some.

Steve Albini has been interviewed about recording Nirvana’s ‘In Utero’ album this week and opens up on the making of it across the board. From the recording sessions, pop mixes, record company wars, and much more are discussed with Vish Khanna from Kreative Kontrol.

He calls the critics from this record ‘Parasites‘ and also refuses to discuss anything in relation to Courtney Love amongst much more. It’s a fantastic insight into what went on 20 years back plus he discusses his appreciation of Fugazi and new Shellac record in the works.

Listen to it on iTunes here.

A new book featuring the history of Dinosaur Jr is apparently due for release this year. The glossy photo book is said to feature a plethora of old flyers, dairy pages from roadie Jon Fetler, rare unseen photography and exclusive interviews from the band and friends under the title ‘Dinosaur Jr by Dinosaur Jr’.

Look out for it this November via Rocket 88 Books and click here for the full monty.

Dinosaur Jr. official book trailer from Rocket 88 on Vimeo.

So there it is, a historical week for Hip Hop comes to an end, or does it? Kendrick Lamar’s most recent lyrical bomb drop on Big Sean’s track calling out Jermaine Cole, Big KRIT, Wale/Pusha T, Meek Mill, A$AP Rocky, Drake/Big Sean, Jay Electron’, Tyler and Mac Miller has kept the internet burning daily. It’s been fun to watch, sad in some cases.

Run The Jewels duo El-P and Killer Mike (who were interviewed this week over at Clash) responded to the outburst, who bring sense to the matter rather than loosing their cool. Watch this video and take home their new album here, it’s been on our stereo daily.

Papoose got some good shit in there too this week. Streaming below too.

Splashh have put out a brand new as yet unheard tune. ‘Somethings Here’ is business as usual, sun soaked jingle jangle fuzzy pop, and at just under three minutes this catchy little ditty is well worth a spin. Don’t hesitate as this one’s not on their upcoming album.

Splashh will release their long awaited debut album Comfort on September 2nd through Luv Luv Luv Records, coming with bonus tracks unheard on the previous US and Aus/NZ releasees. Catch them on tour in the UK in October!