The Game is to stand trial for 3 felony charges.
The rapper allegedly pulled a gun after punching a player on a basketball team and threatened to shoot him.
He has been ordered to appear in court to face counts of making of making criminal threats, possession of a firearm in a school zone and exhibiting a firearm on the grounds of a facility for minors according to reports.
Naughty boy isn’t he?
Dillinger Escape Plan‘s tour of Europe with Messhugah has been cancelled.
An announcement from DEP said that they were looking forward to the tour but they are leaving it up to Meshuggah to comment on why the tour was cancelled, which seems to say it all.
DEP confirmed they are looking to set up a new tour and will announce the dates as soon as possible.
New Found Glory, who recently tattooed Gallows frontman Frank on stage at Reading, have posted the first video from new album From The Screen To Your Stereo Part II, which is due out in mid-September. Check it:
Thrice have recently spoken about their upcoming 4 EPs. Dustin Kensrue of the band said of the releases:
“I don’t know why anyone would want to listen to a band playing the same thing, album after album, Being in a band is like being in a marriage, you have to work at it to keep it up.”
He went on to say the album would include electronics, rock riffs and “acoustic musings”. Kensrue said that these acoustic parts will be similiar to his recent solo album.
Rhymesayers group Grayskul have released 2 free mp3s from their new album Blood Radio.
The album, out next week, features the likes of Aesop Rock, Slug, Pigeon John and Cage and follows up their Deadlivers album. You can check out the song Dope by clicking here and the upcoming single Scarecrow by clicking here, with the video for Scarecrow coming soon.
Albert Hammond Jr. is set to record his second solo album.
The Strokes guitarist’s solo outing means more rumours of The Strokes having split up, with Hammond scheduling 5 weeks at the Electric Lady studios in New York to record his new album.
In a MySpace blog, Hammond said that some of the recording will be filmed and shown on his page.
Klaxons picked up the Mercury Music Prize last night for their debut album Myths Of The Near Future.
The band beat off competition from Dizzee Rascal, Amy Winehouse and Bat For Lashes among others to pick up the £20,000 prize money. James Righton of the band said of the triumph:
“I’ve never felt this way in my life. This is shock beyond any kind of shock I’ve ever experienced…To win this is beyond and above any expectation we ever had. We thought we made a really strong record and we wanted to win. But realistically we heard everyone talking, we heard what people were saying and we didn’t think we would win. But we kept that belief… This is just ridiculous.”
Details on the new DVD/Live CD by the Briefs have been announced.
The release is due to hit the shops on October 23rd and is called The Greatest Story Ever Told. It was directed by the band alongside Lewis Ingram and will feature Captain Sensible of The Damned, TSOL’s Jack Grisham and Lars Frederiksen of Rancid fame.
The CD features 8 tracks and the DVD will house videos for Stuck On You, Orange Alert, Poor & Weird and Getting Hit on at the Bank.
Fletcher, guitarist of Pennywise has recently spoken on the band’s new album.
He said that the band have around 60 songs recorded and will spend the next few months “arguing” over which 13 will make the new album. They hope to release the new record in early 2008, which will be the follow up to The Fuse which was released in 2005.
3 Inches Of Blood have announced the following UK shows:
November
7th – Wolverhampton, Little Civic
8th – Southampton, The Brook
10th – Minehead, Hard Rock Hell Festival
11th – Swindon, The Furnace (“Remembrance Festival”)
12th – Brighton, The New Free Butt
13th– London, The Barfly