The Pixies are one of the most unique and creative bands to have graced our generation, whose lives will now hopefully be depicted in a new book called ‘A Visual History’. It’s a Kickstarter project right now set up by Pixies fansite owner Sean T. Rayburn who has rare vintage photos and much more waiting to be published, but it needs funding. Watch this and see if you want to get involved.
UK hardcore heads Gallows recently played the 100 Club and shot some footage for a new documentary. Watch this.
A documentary highlighting the disappearance of Roxy Music’s bass player Graham Simpson is in working progress right now. The band’s co founder went missing shortly after the first album was recorded and passed away on 16th April 2012.
After receiving royalties from Roxy Music’s first album, Simpson left UK to study various cultures and religions that took him to Greece, Mexico, India and Africa and six month jail term for safe cracking in Morocco. He never returned to the band.
The mystery of his chosen path has been documented by friend and neighbour Sara Cook, who alongside BadLittleCook Films partner Miranda Little have released this short teaser below for what they are cooking up. A full length film is meant to be in the works and should be well worth the wait. Watch this and hope that this intriguing project all comes together.
It is said that Ol’ Dirty Bastard will reunite with the Wu-Tang Clan and Eazy-E will re-join Bone Thugs-n-Harmony after both crews have decided to resurrected them as holograms for the 2013 Rock the Bells festival in the US.
This news though has upset Ol Dirty Bastard’s widow, who is trying to block the use of his hologram. Icelene Jones, controls the rapper’s estate and copyrights is not impressed with this news and says: “I am disappointed that Rock The Bells would not contact me directly about the use of my husband’s image. I am looking forward to talking to Wu-Tang about this matter and coming up with a positive solution”.
Tupac’s hologram performed at the Coachella Festival recently, watch his performance here with Snoop Dogg and others. Hear the new WU TANG track here.
The battle of the Blag Flag’s continues. Watch this new footage of FLAG, which is the non-Ginn party playing My War at Redondo Beach where it all started back in the day.
Bar room brawls get spookily crafted in Queens of the Stone Age’s animated video for new song “Keep Your Eyes Peeled”. Yet another Brit is behind the amazing work in this new flick, none other than UK artist Boneface (who also designed the album cover) with animation by Liam Brazier.
We have heard the new album Like Clockwork, scheduled for a June rd release and we are stoked on it. Get ready for another killer record from these desert stoners.
Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja (aka 3D) has a solo art exhibition coming up titled: Fire Sale. The show will take place at the Lazarides art gallery in London exhibiting a career spanning showcase of Robert Del Naja’s artwork from his early 1980′s graffiti on the streets of Bristol to his more recent screen prints from the Heligoland album and everything else in between.
Fire Sale will be a unique retrospective of paintings and designs that have helped define Massive Attack over the past 20 years, covering the pages of sketchbooks to 12 million record sleeves.
Check out his last gallery exhibition that we covered five years ago when his assorted paintings for UNKLE’s War Stories album were put up on display there.
The exhibition runs between 24th May–20th June at the Lazarides Gallery and is free admission. Put it in your dairy.
If you are fan of video editing and nerding out on the internet, then you will probably love this mash up. I never personally thought i would see the Beatles play ‘Smack My Bitch Up’ but someone else had the vision to knock it up. You know the score…
The autopsy results of Slayer guitarist/founder Jeff Hanneman came back with alcohol related issues from a statement that the band released overnight. The band are also currently planning to issue a public celebration of Jeff’s life “sometime later this month”.
“We’ve just learned that the official cause of Jeff’s death was alcohol related cirrhosis. While he had his health struggles over the years, including the recent Necrotizing fasciitis infection that devastated his well-being, Jeff and those close to him were not aware of the true extent of his liver condition until the last days of his life. Contrary to some reports, Jeff was not on a transplant list at the time of his passing, or at any time prior to that. In fact, by all accounts, it appeared that he had been improving – he was excited and looking forward to working on a new record.”
The full statement with personal tributes from all of the Slayer family can be found here
As I Lay Dying vocalist Tim Lambesis has been arrested this week after allegedly trying to hire an undercover detective he believed was a hit man to take out his estranged wife Meggan Lambesis. The Christian lead singer had filed for divorce back in September.
The band made a statement overnight on what must be a very difficult situation.
“To our fans,
As we post this, the legal process is taking its course and we have no more information than you do. There are many unanswered questions, and the situation will become clearer in the coming days and weeks. We’ll keep you informed as best we can.
Our thoughts right now are with Tim, his family, and with everyone else affected by this terrible situation – and with our fans, whom we love and draw strength from.
Thank you for understanding, and as always, for your support of As I Lay Dying.
– Jordan, Nick, Phil, and Josh”
