Category: Music News

Biffy Clyro will be playing 4 nights in Scotland on their upcoming UK tour.

The band will also be releasing new single Folding Stars on July 16th, which is taken from their new album Puzzle, out now. The dates are:

November:

6th – Dundee Fat Sams Live
7th & 8th – Glasgow Barrowland
9th – Edinburgh Corn Exchange
11th – Newcastle Academy
12th – Manchester Academy
13th – Birmingham Academy
14th – Nottingham Rock City
15th – Sheffield Octagon
17th – Cardiff University
18th – Bristol Academy
20th – Southampton Guildhall
21st – London Brixton Academy
22nd – Norwich UEA

www.biffyclyro.com

Bedouin Soundclash‘s new album, Street Gospels, will be out this August.

The album, recorded in Toronto and New York, was produced by Darryl Jenifer of Bad Brains and will feature Money Mark and Wade MacNeil of Alexisonfire as well as The Maytones’ vocalist Vernon Buckley.

Check out two tracks from the album by clicking here.

www.bedouinsoundclash.com

Davey Havok and Jade Puget’s new project Blaqk Audio, will release their debut album this year.

CexCells will be released on August 7th and is an electonic style album, produced by Dave Bascombe who worked with Depeche Mode and Tears For Fears. The track listing for the album is:

1. Stiff Kittens
2. Between Breaths (An XX Perspective)
3. Snuff On Digital
4. Bitter For Sweet
5. Where Would You Like Them Left?
6. The Fear of Being Found
7. On A Friday
8. The Love Letter
9. Girls and Boys
10. Cities of Night
11. Again, Again, and Again
12. Wake Up, Open the Door, and Escape to the Sea

www.myspace.com/blaqkaudio

Not one for ever obeying rules, Velvet Revolver’s axe-wielder Slash may be fined after smoking onstage at a gig in Cardiff on Thursday.

Chain-smoking through the gig at the International Arena, he may face a £50 fine because of the ban on smoking in enclosed spaces that has been in place in Wales since April. The venue is also liable for £2,500 fine for not stopping Slash from lighting up.

Cardiff city council has confirmed that it is investigating the matter, which should probably look into who the hell is going to tell Slash to not spark up.

www.velvetrevolver.com

El-P has courted all sorts of trouble Stateside with the video to Smithereens. Banned by a number of stations in America, the video sees El dressed in a Guantanamo Bay jumpsuit, being subjected to violence from camouflaged villains.

Fuck censorship, here’s the video:

And on the subject of El-P, check out this interview and footage from his recent show in London that wowed both Abjekt and Z-Ed by clicking here.

www.definitivejux.net

Mr J Medeiros from the Procussions is to release a solo record next month.

The rapper-cum-producer has lined up 15 tracks for Of Gods And Girls and has production from the likes of Hocus Pocus’ 20syl, Stro the 89th Key of the Procussions, Headnodic of Crown City Rockers and the ever brilliant Joe Beats. The tracklisting is:

1. Amelie feat. 20Syl of Hocus Pocus
2. Silent Earth
3. Strangers
4. Constance
5. Change feat. Strange Fruit and Rez of The Procussions
6. King of Rock Bottom feat. DJ Vajra
7. Half A Dream feat. Marty James of One Block Radius
8. Keep Pace
9. Money feat. Pigeon John and DJ Vajra
10. Her Wings
11. Apathy feat. DJ Vajra
12. Call You

Remixes

13. Constance RMX
14. Silent Earth RMX
15. Half A Dream RMX feat. DJ Destro

www.myspace.com/mrjmedeiros

Dave Navarro and Perry Farrell have been hitting out at one another in the press.

Talking of the band’s third split [in 2002], Farrell said that the band fell apart after Navarro started to front the reality show Rock Star on TV. Navarro’s reply came on his blog saying that this couldn’t be the case as he only got the call about hosting the show after Navarro’s side project had begun recording a demo.

Farrell then countered that he [Farrell] “brought Jane’s Addiction to life, it is only fitting that I am the one to bury her” which Navarro recently replied to by saying:

“OK. So which is it? “‘Rock Star’? He broke it up? We did? Either way it was four years ago so I think it’s about time to let it go.”

Apparently we all care.

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MIA has released the tracklisting for her new album.

Kala will be released in August as the follow up to Arula in 2005. The album will feature 12 tracks, including the single Boyz which was released this week. The album will also feature Timbaland on the closing track. The tracklist is:

‘Bamboo Banga’
‘BirdFlu’
‘Boyz’
‘Jimmy’
‘Hussel’ (featuring Afrikan Boy)
‘Mango Pickle Down River’ (with The Wilcannia Mob)
’20 Dollar’
‘World Town’
‘The Turn’
‘XR2’
‘Paper Planes’
‘Come Around’ (featuring Timbaland)

www.miauk.com

Timbaland has been arrested following a fight in a bar.

The super-producer was apparently involved in the fight after the man known only as Robert F, objected to his girlfriend talking to the rapper.

Reports say that racist slurs were shouted and this enraged Timbaland. He was taken to jail and released on bail early on Monday morning.

www.timbalandmusic.com

Machine Head are teaming up with Trivium, Dragonforce and Arch Enemy on a rampage through the UK.

The Black Crusade Tour will also feature another special guest act and looks set to dominate the country when it comes over at the end of the year. Rob Flynn said of the tour:

“We’re so goddamned jacked-up to do this! It’s going to be completely fucking sick! We cannot wait to plunder all of the vodka in all your towns and see our beer-breathed brethren pillaging along side us. We’re stoked to be sharing stages and brown-eyes with our boys in Trivium once again and are looking forward to hanging out with all the other bands.”

The dates are:

November:
20th – Glasgow SECC – 0870 040 4000
21st – Manchester MEN Arena – 0870 190 8000
23rd – Birmingham NE – 0870 909 4133
24th – London Brixton Academy – 0870 771 2000
25th – London Brixton Academy – 0870 771 2000
26th – Cardiff CIA Arena – 029 2022 4488

www.machinehead1.com