Category: Music News

Machine Head have lashed out at fans of Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance following their victory at the Kerrang awards. The statement said:

“[Our win] has apparently cut deep with fans of both bands, prompting a flood of angry whining and sad-faced emoticons on the Kerrang! message boards. Machine Head’s upset victory over the multi-platinum softcore acts sent their inherently sensitive fans into an emotional frenzy, building into a tizzy of unparalleled proportions.

Wrought with dismay, polished fingernails the world over lashed out at the band and metal as a whole with diatribes the likes of “MCR really should have won!!! I’m mad now!!!!”, “what a load of shit, who the fuck listens to them?” and “Stupid Machine Head!!”, at times stooping so low as to say the competition was fixed, and often gravely endangering the integrity of their carefully sideswept hair with posts like “I H8 METAL, I H8 METAL, I H8 METAL, I H8 METAL, I H8 METAL, I H8 METAL, I H8 METAL”.

We love you Machine Head.

www.machinehead1.com

The 2007 DMC Championship is taking place at the brand new Indig02 venue in London.

The World DJ Championships will see turntablists from all over the world battle it out for the chance to become the overall champion and winning $10,000 and Golden Technics Turntable.

The event will be broken up over two days – the first will see the Battle For World Supremacy, a head-to-head knock out competition, then the World Team Championships where two or more DJs combine their skills.

The comes the Individual Event where each contest busts their thing over 6 minutes to prove they are the greatest DJ on the planet. With 26 contenders attempting to win the title, it’s going to be hard for UK Champ JFB to be the first Brit to win since 2001.

Check out www.dmcworld.com for more.

Electric Eel Shock will be hitting the UK to support their new album Transworld Ultra Rock, which is due out on October 1st. The dates are:

November:

22nd – London, Islington Academy
23rd – Mansfield, The Mill
24th – York, Fibbers
25th – Glasgow, Barfly
26th – Inverness, Iron Works
28th – Manchester, Roadhouse
29th – Bristol, The Fleece
30th – Birmingham, Barfly

December:

1st – Cardiff, Ifor Bach
2nd – Portsmouth, Wedgwood Rooms

Pimp their new video too:

www.electriceelshock.com

Protest The Hero have announced details of their new album.

Fortress will be out in November and will feature 10 tracks which singer Rody Walker said is a natural progression for the band. He went on to say:

“I am of the belief a lot of the people who work for us were hoping for a stab at a more commercially viable album, however we wrote what we wanted without linear boundaries and created something less commercial than ever. Some fans of the band will hate it. And some people who hate the band will love it. All others can rot.”

www.protestthehero.com

Dropkick Murphys have posted a trailer for thei new album, The Meanest Of Times, which is out in September. Ch-check it out:

Thurston Moore has collaborated on a book of photographs called Punk House.

The Sonic Youth frontman worked alongside photographer Abby Banks documenting the “punk house”:

“[A house where] like-minded punks cram into a house usually intended to accommodate two or three people, resulting in low rent and, thus, extended hours of leisure for the residents to pursue their true interests.

[It] features anarchist warehouses, feminist collectives, tree houses, workshops, artists’ studios, self-sufficient farms, hobo squats, community centers, basement bike shops, speakeasies, and all varieties of communal living spaces.”

The book is due out in October.

www.hnabooks.com

Hilly Kristal, the founder of CBGC has died this week.

The man behind the legendary venue that spawned the likes of the Ramones, Patti Smith, Blondie, the Talking Heads and Television died due to complications from lung cancer.

Many musicians have paid tribute to him and contributions are being asked to go to the American Cancer Society or Hilly Kristal Foundation for Musicians and Artists.

RIP.

Frank Carter from Gallows was tattoed live on stage at their Reading Festival performance and caught on camera here.

As if MTV hadn’t made rap shit already, they’re doing their best to go one step further.

Celebrity Rap Superstar is debuting on MTV tomorrow [30th] and sees celebrities[!] like Perez Hilton try and turn themselves into capable rappers. Warren G, Tone Loc and Paul Wall are among the mentors for the show which basically shows you what a steaming heap of shit it’s going to be.

Tell you what, why not sign 50 Cent up to teach kids how to count, Eminem to hold seminars on loving your wife and Nelly opening fashion boutiques too? Muppets.

www.mtv.com