Legendary hardcore band Bad Brains who were recrnly interviewed on Pitchfork have announced that they will visit London for a one off show on October 16th at the Astoria Theatre.
Their new album just released titled ‘Build a Nation‘ sees the band revisit their roots and is well worthy of picking up.
Go to www.badbrains.com for more and book your tickets today from here.
Joe Beats has uploaded a load of free mp3s.
The producer, who produced the Non Prophets album and is one of Abjekt’s favourites is also up on Urb magazine’s top 1000 list, so if you dig what you hear, make sure you get along to this link and vote for him.
The mp3s are:
Joe Beats – Fade
Joe Beats – Sleep Or Bust
Joe Beats – Any Port (Instrumental)
Joe Beats – The Cure (Instrumental)
Joe Beats – Confessions Of A Trump Card
Joe Beats – Someday
Joe Beats – My Girl Was A Groupie
Joe Beats & Blak – Me Talk Pretty
Joe Beats & Blak – Kiss Of Life
Black Heart Procession – When We Reach The Hill (Joe Beats Remix)
Belle & Sebastian – Space Boy Dream (Joe Beats Remix)
Songs: Ohia – Coxcomb Red (Joe Beats Remix)
Cunninlynguists – Hellfire (Joe Beats Remix)
Non-Prophets – Bounce
You lucky people. Save those and enjoy!
Lupe Fiasco is moaning about how much work he has to do.
The rapper has said he’s wearing down because his “whole energy for making hip hop music is slowing down” with reports going on to say he might retire after his 3rd album. Yeah, must be hard making all that money.
In other Lupe news, the “supergroup” [supercrap?] of him, Kanye and Pharrell are deciding whether or not to release an album, as they’ve only done one song, which was on a Kanye mixtape.
Kick, push off mate.
Dance juggernaughts Faithless have announced two London shows.
The group will play the Shepherds Bush Empire on September 10th and Brixton Academy on September 11th. And basically that’s it. Get your glo-sticks and get tranced up.
Pearl Jam will be releasing a new DVD this year.
Immagine In Cornice will be released in September and will feature live footage from the band’s 5 concerts in Italy, which took place on the European tour in 2006.
The film also sees the band interviewed as well as offering a glimpse into the band’s backstage antics and travel footage.
The tracklisting is:
‘Severed Hand’ (Milan)
‘World Wide Suicide’ (Featured clips from all Italian show dates)
‘Life Wasted’ (Torino)
‘Corduroy’ (Verona)
‘State of Love and Trust’ (Milan)
‘Porch’ (Verona)
‘Even Flow’ (Torino)
‘Better Man’ (Verona)
‘Alive’ (Milan)
‘Blood’ (Verona)
‘Comatose’ (Pistoia)
‘Come Back’ (Pistoia)
‘Rockin’ In The Free World’ (Pistoia)
Beirut is releasing a new album and going on tour this year.
The Fly Cub Cup will follow up last year’s Gulag Orkestar and will be released on October 8th. The release will then be supported on a tour which begins on November 6th. The full dates are:
6th – Manchester Club Academy
7th – Glasgow Arches
8th – Leeds Irish Centre
9th – Cardiff The Point
10th – London Roundhouse
Sean P Rogan of Big D and the Kids Table has posted a new solo track onlnie.
The song, Currents Stolen From Stars, was recorded at the start of the 2007 Vans Warped Tour and can be seen on his MySpace, the link for which is below.
Bonde Do Role will be hitting the UK again in November.
The Brazilians have been busy touring lately, and will release their awesome Solta O Frango single on September 3rd. The dates of their new tour are:
15th – Plug, Sheffield
16th – Arches, Glasgow
17th – Kill Em All at Junction, Cambridge
20th – Thekla, Bristol
21st – Concorde 2, Brighton
22nd – Scala, London
23rd – Warehouse Project, Manchester
26th – Academy, Birmingham
27th– Stealth, Nottingham
Live footage of Municipal Waste‘s recently show at The Underworld has appeared online, check the links below for all the carnage:
Headbanger Face Rip ^
Short and sharp now, Will Haven are headlining a UK tour in November, check it:
2nd – Brighton, Freebutt
3rd – Southampton, Joiners
4th – Exeter, Cavern
5th – London, Academy
6th – Club Ibach
7th – Birmingham, Bar Academy
8th – Leeds, Rios
9th – Nottingham, Junktion 7
11th – Liverpool, Barfly
12th – Sheffield, Corporation
13th – Manchester, Music Box
14th – Glasgow, Kingtuts
15th – Leicester, Charlotte