Category: Music News

The new Modest Mouse video has been posted online.

The video was made by a fan, who won a contest set up by the band which recieved a huge number of entries:

www.modestmouse.com

Marilyn Manson’s former keyboardist is suing the singer, claiming that the gothic darklord owes him more than £9million.

Stephen Bier, who went under the stage name Madonna Wayne Gacy, says he was not properly paid for nearly two decades. The ongoing dispute has revealed that Manson may have spent a lot of the bands profits on luxury, drug treatment and Nazi paraphernalia, claims which Manson has said were “ridiculous”.

And if Manson still seems a bit of an odball buying Adolf Hitler’s coat hangers, then legal documents have also shown that he bought African masks made of human skin, the full skeleton of a four-year-old Chinese girl and the full skeleton of a 17th Century male in a wheelchair.

Gnarly, but still not as gnarly as Emperor.

In support of their re-issue series and to get people excited for the upcoming new studio album Dead Meadow will be playing a number of UK dates in August:

8th – Brighton Audio
9th – London Cargo
10th – Norwich Norwich Arts Centre
11th – Newcastle The Cluny
12th – Leeds The Faversham
13th – Nottingham The Maze
14th – Nice ‘n’ Sleazy Glasgow
15th – Thekla Bristol
16th – The Point Cardiff
17th – Powys Greenman festival
18th – Oxford The Cellar

www.deadmeadow.com

The first video off the new Bad Brains “Build A Nation” album has just been unleashed. Shavo (from System Of A Down) directed the effort, which is a video combination of two songs, “Give Thanks And Praises” and “Jah Love.” Get in there and feel the love!

The King Blues video for ‘Come Fi Di Youth‘ has just arrived for you to view below. The single is released Monday 6th August as a limited 7″ only, get one before they all go and look out for them on the road in September and go to their Myspace for a sneak preview of new tracks.

Superstar rapper and producer Kanye West has asked Crossfire favourites Peter, Bjorn and John to play as his backing band when he gigs in Sweden next month.

Kanye is set to play the Way Out West on August 11th and has worked his magic on the Swedish trio’s huge hit Young Folks, which they are re-releasing in the UK this September.

Meanwhile, Peter, Bjorn and John have just kicked off their US tour, ending on the 24th.

Epitaph Records have uploaded footage of the band live from the Warped Tour in the US that the band have been on for the last 3 weeks.

The UK riot have walked onto the hottest tour ever with shows in car parks in front of hundreds of American punks in extreme heat! Gallows next single ‘Belly of a Shark‘ will be released in September with a new video recorded in California during the first week of the Warped Tour.

Click the image for the footage of the Epitaph interview and go to www.gallows.co.uk for more.

One of New York Citiest finest bands Les Savy Fav have recorded one of the best albums of the year to date, scheduled for release in October in the UK on Wichita.

‘Let’s Stay Friends’ is their 4th full length release and packs everything you need into the perfect indie rock album – seriously this new record we have here is stunning!

Singer Tim Harrington excels his vocals sharing them with the back up from heaven and the rest of the band have pushed themselves to another league due to the sheer audacity of the uniquely flared production and the genius songwriting.

This record will be one of the best this year, click below to pick up on their last release and get up to speed. Go to the Les Savy Fav myspace for new tracks.

Ween are back with a brand new 5 track CD called ‘The Friends EP‘ and it’s nothing short of hilarious!

Dean and Gene Ween have added EuroPop to their multi-genre record releases and hooked up with Reinhard Raith, the man behind the Crazy Frog song! Yeah! Think about it?! The result is a cheese fest the size of a German sausage festival with 4 other tracks in tow for your aural pleasure that cover squelchy dub, latino and a love song. The EP is available as a limited edition picture disc 180 gram LP and as a digi pack CD with a special full colour yellow CD inside and is out now.

This EP fuels the release of the new Ween full length album “La Cucaracha“. Here is Dean Ween’s take on it: “The album kicks ass, I’m not really sure what else to say about it other than I really can’t wait for it’s release. There’s not a wasted minute of music on there. We wrote and recorded a ton of material before we whittled it down to it’s present state. We recorded the album to two inch 24 track tape and it sounds amazing. As always, it was produced and mixed by Andrew Weiss.”

Expect this record to bug you. Out soon on Schnitzel Records.

The King Blues will be playing the following dates:

August:

6th – Camden Purple Turtle, London
9th – Ripcurl Boardmasters Festival, Newquay
11th – Rebellion Festival, Blackpool
15th – Barfly, Birmingham
24th – Festival, Reading
25th – Festival, Leeds

www.myspace.com/thekingblues