Category: Music News

The World DJ Championships happened in London this past weekend and the results are in:

DJ Rafik of Germany beat off competition from 24 others, picking up the World DJ Championship along with $10,000, Japan’s Kireek grabbed the World Team prize and American DJ Shiftee picked up the coveted Battle For Supremacy title. The full results were:

World DJ Championship:

1. DJ Rafik [GER]
2. DJ Yasa [JPN]
3. DJ Fly [FRA]

World Team Championship:

1. Kireek [JPN]
2. Exodus [GER]
3. Trauma Team [FRA]

World Battle For Supremacy:

1. DJ Shiftee [USA]
2. DJ Or D’Oeuvre [FRA]

www.dmcworld.com

Mac Lethal‘s debut album 11:11 is now out and 2 mp3s have been made available.

The Kansas City rapper has released the album on Rhymesayers Entertainment and is available worldwide.

To check out a little sample of what to expect from the record, you can listen to two songs from it, Pound That Beer and Rotten Apple Pie. Can’t beat a bit of freeness!

www.rhymesayers.com

Coheed & Cambria have posted another song from their upcoming album on their MySpace page.

Gravemakers And Gunslingers is the new track featured and will be on their Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Vol. 2: No World For Tomorrow album, which is released in the UK on October 22nd. Make sure you hit up their website for regular updates:

www.noworldfortomorrow.com

Mike Patton is to release a DVD in November.

The film will feature the singer’s collaboration with Kaada at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark from 2005 and will be called Live. There will also be footage of the rehearsal for the performance and a photo gallery.

www.ipecac.com

If you didn’t like Porky, what would you do? Destroy him of course! Check out Pig Destroyer‘s Loathsome video below for all the crackling carnage…

www.myspace.com/therealpigdestroyer

Cat Power has revealed the name of her forthcoming covers album.

Chan Marshall was originally planning to call her new record Covers Record 2 but has since decided to change the name of it to Jukebox.

The tracklist hasn’t been finalised by will feature an updated version of her own song Metal Heart as well as her homage to Dylan called Song To Bobby.

www.catpowermusic.com

Get ready to piss yourself laughing and dance like George Formby (not the lean mean grill guy), as the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain are touring the UK with 4 very special dates. Catch them live at:

Sun 25 Nov Oxford Academy
Fri 7 Dec Salford, Lowry Center
Sat 19 Jan Canterbury, Gulbenkian Theatre
Fri 11 Apr Harrogate Theatre

I’ll be at the Oxford one for sure, rocking it out to Nirvana covers.

Blood Red Shoes have released the video for their new single I Wish I Was Someone Better.

The single is to be released on October 22nd and their un-named debut album will hit the shops in early 2008. We love it. So should you. Click the links below to check the video:

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www.bloodredshoes.co.uk

Nine Inch Nails have left their record label.

In an unsurprising turn of events, the band are now “free agents” and Reznor commented on having seen the music business “radically mutate from one thing to something inherently very different”.

He said he was looking forward to having a direct relationship with the audience, which comes only a week after Radiohead allowed fans to decide how much they want to pay for the album themselves. Reznor will post further announcements regarding the band soon.

www.nin.com

The Decemberists have cancelled their European tour, due to illness.

The band released a statement stating that one of the band is ill and has had to go home immediately to recover. They continued by apologising to the fans who have been forced to miss out and stated that they wouldn’t be coming back to Europe at any point soon. Fans who do have tickets should seek refunds from the point of purchase.

www.decemberists.com