Issue 10 of Nude Magazine has just hit the stores.
The issue features the likes of Mark Ryden, The Decemberists, a feature on Jon Langford, an interview with Lydia Lunch and a 5 page spread on an Abjekt favourite – the french street artist Space Invader.
You can find issue 10 in such establishments as Borders and Forbidden Planet.
Head on over to www.nudemagazine.co.uk for all the details.
Highly respected US hardcore heavyweight Converge will be hitting the UK this July. Check them out at:
July:
2nd – Brighton Concorde 2
3rd – Newport TJs
4th – Nottingham Rock City
5th – Dublin Voodoo Lounge
6th – Edinburgh Exchange
7th – Sheffield Corporation
8th – Reading Fez Club
9th – Stoke On Trent Sugarmill
10th – Manchester Music Box (Jillys Rock World)
11th – London The Electric Ballroom
12th – Kingston The Peel
DJ Food and DK will be hitting the next Ninja Tune You Don’t Know night at The Big Chill House on April 7th.
The duo, who will using the night as a launch party for their latest Solid Steel mix Now, Listen Again, will be supported by the Qemists, Sparky and Jon Moore from Coldcut, amongst others.
The night is free is you get there before 9pm [get there early, its always popular] and then from 9pm onwards its a fiver.
We’ve just heard the mix at HQ and trust us, you’ll want to be there!
Two new videos have been made to celebrate Napalm Death’s 20th anniversary of releasing Scum.
The two videos have been put together for You Suffer and The Kill as a promo video was never made at the time of the album so these new videos represent “visual explosions” of the tracks. The video for You Suffer sees a world record get shattered as it lasts just one second!
To watch the You Suffer video, click here and to see the video for The Kill, click here.
Jello Biafra has never been one to sit back and let stuff happen and he has recently issued a public statement against his former Dead Kennedys bandmates.
The band have licensed their song Too Drunk To Fuck for the Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez film Grindhouse. Jello clearly wasn’t happy about this and said:
“Some people will do anything for money. I can’t help but think back to how prudish Klaus Flouride was when he objected to H.R. Giger’s painting on the “Frankenchrist” poster, saying he couldn’t bear to show it to his parents. I’d sure love to be a fly on the wall when he tries to explain putting a song in a rape scene for money to his teenage daughter. ”
Sub Pop have just launched a new imprint called Hardly Art Records.
The imprint’s first signing is Arthur & Yu from Seattle and will see their album released in June of this year. Their sound has been described as “hazy, layered vocals that float over textural acoustics and draws inspiration from the Velvet Underground as well as the studio experimentation of Lee Hazlewood”.
This is definitely one everyone should be keeping their eye on in the future.
We often wonder what the world is coming to, and sometimes we don’t know whether to laugh or cry, and this is just one of those occassions.
Topshop has recently had to pull a colouring book from its shelves – Nothing particularly weird about that, but then you find out that it’s a Gangsta Rap colouring book, depicting gun toting, knife wielding maniac rappers.
Mothers Against Guns had launched a campaign describing the book as “sick” and copies were removed very quickly indeed.
Don’t colour over the lines or we’ll cap your sorry ass!
The Gym Class Heroes drummer has been arrested for unknown reasons.
Matt McGinley was arrested in Mexico on March 12th though it is not known why. The band released a statement stating that he was last seen in a club with the rest of the band in Mexico, where the band were due to film for a television taping.
A fill in drummer was put in place whilst the management tried to get Matt out.
Arctic Monkeys are back with a new album and have recently announced an 11 date UK tour.
The Sheffield band, who saw their debut album become the biggest selling UK debut, will be releasing their new album Favourite Worst Nightmare on April 23rd with the first single taken from it, Brianstorm, released the week before on the 16th.
The tour dates are:
April:
9th – Southampton Guildhall
10th – Exeter University Great Hall
12th – London Astoria
13th – London Astoria
14th – Liverpool Academy
16th – Newcastle Academy
17th – Dundee Caird Hall
18th – Glasgow Barrowlands
20th – Birmingham Academy
21st – Sheffield Leadmill
22nd – Sheffield Leadmill
You can also check out the video for Brianstorm by clicking here.
For all the trimmings go to www.arcticmonkeys.com
Another rapper in trouble, Snoop has been arrested in Sweden on drug charges.
The rapper was due to play in Norway yesterday but was detained by police until gone 1am, being released four hours later. Snoop had appeared at the Globe Arena in Stockholm only a few hours before he was arrested whilst travelling in a car.
Sergeant Mats Brannlund. “It’s illegal in Sweden to use them, even to have it in your system. You can see that a person indicates that he has used narcotics in looking at his eyes or his movements. (Police) suspected that he had taken drugs.”