Portishead played some new material as they shocked fans at the weekend.
The group turned up at the small Mr Wolfs bar in Bristol under the name Grumpy Man DJs, surprising both venue staff and crowd alike.
Geoff Barrow, Adrian Uttley and Beth Gibbons played a short set which included classics like Wandering Star as well as debuting some new material.The group haven’t released an album since Portishead in 1997. Let’s hope the new one gets to us this year!
The Circle Jerks will be releasing a new album this year according to reports.
The band have released a new song on their myspace, which is their first since 1995’s Oddities, Abnormalities and Curiosities.
The track, I’m Gonna Live, lasts a mere 1 minute and 17 seconds but the band are hugely pleased with it and told people to pass it on!
Nekromantix have announced the tracklisting for their new album Life Is A Grave & I Dig It!
The album, which is the band’s first since 2004, will feature a new line up and will be showcased on their Hellcat Tour. The record is set for a March 10th release, with America getting it a whole month later.
You can download the track NekroHigh here. The tracklisting is:
NekroHigh
Horny In a Hearse
Life Is a Grave & I Dig it!
My Girl
Rot In Hell!
Voodoo Shop Hog
Cave Canem
Flowers Are Slow
B.E.A.S.T.
Anaheim After Dark
Fantazma
Panic at the Morgue
Out Comes the Batz
Definitive Jux have teamed up with Adult Swim to provide Definitive Swim.
The totally downloadable free album is the sort of line up we’re used to on Def Jux Presents… records and this one features the likes of Tame One, Cage, Aesop Rock, El-P, Mr Lif and more.
If you go to the link at the bottom of this article, you’ll be able to grab it yourself. Make sure you keep your eyes peeled for more Def Jux related action on the site soon!
Machine Head have posted their third installment of in-studio videos up.
The video, which will be the last part, documents the making of their forthcoming album The Blackening. The album is due for a March 27th release and you can see what Ryan Bird made of it in this month’s Pit.
If you want to check out the video, then hit the link below.
V Festival have announced its headliners for this year’s festival.
Snow Patrol, Foo Fighters and The Killers will top the bill with the likes of James, The Kooks, Manic Street Preachers, Amy Winehouse, Kasabian, Babyshambles, The Fratellis and KT Tunstall also confirmed to play under them.
V will take place at Weston Park in Stafford and Hyland Park in Chelmsford on August 18th and 19th, with tickets going on sale on March 1st.
The Camden Crawl 2007 will feature a slot for an unsigned band.
Indie Idle will give bands a chance to send their demos in, where they will be reviewed by a panel of industry bods. The top 30 demos heard will be put up on the Camden Crawl website where people will have the chance to listen the tracks and vote for their favourite. Then, the top 10 will go through to the semi final, which will happens at the Crawl itself.
The semi final will take place at 1pm on April 19th, with the crowd deciding the top 3 acts who will go on to perform in the final the next day, where once again the public will vote for the winner who will then get a 30 minute set and a day’s recording at Miloco Studios to put a professional demo together.
Check the competition at the link below, the deadline for entrants is March 16th.
The Only Ones have confirmed they will play the ATP weekend in April.
The event, curated by the Dirty Three, will see the band’s first show in 22 years, which came as a surprise after the band’s founding member Peter Perret said that they would reunite over his dead body.
However they have agreed to get back together and can currently be heard on Vodafone’s ads with their single Another Girl, Another Planet and rumours are they could also be playing this year’s Glastonbury.
A former Test Icicle has repped Crossfire in his latest interview with Vice Magazine.
Dev Hynes, who is now musically sound as Lightspeed Champion talks about his new record, which will be coming out on Domino Records, comic books and the content of his blog. But when asked what his proudest moment was, Dev gave a nod to Crossfire who made the bright pink custom Test Icicles decks.
We are stoked to have made this day throughout his short explosive career with Test Icicles.The band all came to HQ for an afternoon of interviews and banter, you can hear their radio show here.
Dev’s interview with Vice here.
Danger Mouse has revealed he has been flooded with offers of production work.
Speaking to MTV News, the producer who shot to fame with The Grey Album and carried it on with Danger Doom, Gnarls Barkley and the last Gorillaz album, said that the past few months have seen him being offered numerous jobs.
The two confirmed will be the new Sparklehouse album and a record with Italian composer Daniele Lupi. He went on to say:
“The stuff I’m working on now is the stuff I’ve been working on before these successes or whatever. I’ll continue to do those, and that’s kinda what I want to do. And, of course, I always like doing whole records with people if I can”.