Category: Music News

Our friends at new DIY label Beach Community have launched their first release ‘Life’s A Beach’, a cassette compilation featuring tracks from 18 bands that define the current punk and hardcore scene. Over the space of an hour this compilation plays through the likes of Balance & Composure, Make Do And Mend, The Story So Far, Defeater, The Wonder Years, Real Friends, Joyce Manor, Gnarwolves, Citizen and many more.

The tape is limited to just 250 copies (50 bi-colour blue/yellow, 100 metallic gold and 100 metallic red) and features artwork from James Callahan of www.barfcomics.com. You can pre-order it from www.ilovebeachcommunity.com.

Stream ‘Life’s a Beach’ below!

The new Melvins album that is underway will reunite the band’s original drummer Mike Dillard with Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover. Crover will move from drum duties to bass as a result. Look out for ‘Tres Cabrones’ scheduled for releae on Ipecac on November 5th.

Reminisce with the band’s first album here.

Black Flag’s henchman Greg Ginn is said to have filed a lawsuit against Keith Morris and co from FLAG as the battlke of Black Flag reaches boiling point. Both Ginn’s Black Flag and Flag have taken to the road to share their 6 packs in the last few months, but it looks as though Ginn has had enough and has decided to look further into copyright infringement as an ender to the situation.

Ginn claims he and his label, SST Records, exclusively own the rights to the Black Flag name (and “Flag” variation) and the bars logo, which Flag use on tour. View the documents here. Even Rollins has been named as a defendant, so he is definitely out to make sure that none of his ex band mates are out there to make a few quid off the back of his hard work. This is a fraud claim against the use of the logo and name and also an injunction against the FLAG tour. We await the outcome of what comes next but all of this sucks.

In good Black Flag news though, a new documentary on the infamous art of Raymond Pettibon is out there and needs to be watched. The Art of the State video discusses everything you need to know about the ‘bars’ and more. Do it.

Dear Dischord Records,

We have have been proud supporters of your record label here in the UK since 1986, bought most of your releases, attended all the shows, bought the vinyl, then the CD’s but today, seeing Urban Outfitters selling Minor Threat t-shirts upsets us as much as watching skateboarders who whore themselves to fashion brands and mainstream sports companies.

This is an open letter to ask you guys if you could let us know if this clone store have permission to sell this stuff? If not, please sue them. If so, we will be forever sickened. I’m sure it’s the latter as you are one of the only labels who have never sold their souls out there but please let us know.

Yours

Crossfire

Californian garage punks Fidlar have returned with a brand new video for their track ‘Cocaine‘ this week and fully take the piss throughout. This NSFW video leaks into the wind and leaves the band looking as silly as the plastic cock that is finally pushed into this guys pants. Fun times.

This is just a heads up about The Rap Board dot com. Hours wasted, so much fun. Hit your fave rapper’s head for fun.

Armed with a new much anticipated album album titled ‘Defend Yourself’, Sebadoh have returned with their first video in yonks for their track ‘All Kinds’ that can be found off their last EP.

Have a taste of their studio sessions and more for this selfie here and await the new full length on September 16th via Domino. Look out for them live at Manchester’s Academy 3 (October 15th) and London’s Scala (16th) and take in this new track that leads the album called ‘I Will’.

20 years back this album crashed through speakers all over the world with venom in its blood. It was Nirvana‘s last call, one that was filled to the brim with hatred, disgust and anxiety that all stemmed from Kurt Cobain’s distrust of people around him, fueled by his decision to wade into the mainstream with Nevermind which blew a bigger hole in the arse of the soft rock scene that was ruining radio airwaves in every city.

In Utero, produced by the one and only Steve Albini will be re-issued in September and remastered for the masses. It’s said to have never before heard demo’s, B-sides, compilation tracks, and live material featuring the final touring lineup of Cobain, Novoselic, Grohl, and Pat Smear…including the long-awaited release of the complete “Live and Loud” show from Seattle’s Pier 48 on December 13, 1993.

But the question is, will this boxset have music that has never been previously released? We will have to wait until September 23rd to find out but until then the legacy of Nirvana still rolls forward and this reissue should be something worth shouting about.

The PIL boxset that has just been released pulled up a rather interesting interview with John Lydon. Allegedly this was recorded by the BBC but never aired back in 1978 when the interview was broadcast, where the Sex Pistols frontman discusses his take on how Jimmy Savile was a total wrong-un and was on his personal hit list.

It seems that Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger was also on Lydon’s kill list. This interview is a must listen. Press play.

We all know that YouTube’s annotations are generally a pain in the arse, but UK band Moones decided to use it to their own alcoholic advantage in their new promo video for new song ‘Better Energy’. They have built in buttons that allow the viewer to choose how drunk they play. You watch them play in usual pre-pub time, and then have 3 other options until they are hammered.

London band Moones are made up of three members. Lags Barnard who you may know from his work in Gallows on guitar, Tariq Khan, whose sister is Bat For Lashes and Ollie Kristian, ex-member of The Leisure Society. the trio have definitely found a great way to entertain their audience.

Go through the motions with them here and hope that in phase 2 that there’s a sick button.