Dutch turntable and production wizards C-Mon & Kypski [who were featured in July’s Hip Hop Radio Show] have posted on their Myspace site that their 3rd album, Where The Wild Things Are, is finished.
The album is to feature Sadat X, Pete Philly, Kain The Poet and Benjamin Herman. The single, Bumpy Road, is slated for an October 6th release with the album out on October 20th.
You can get at the single by clicking right here. And check out their myspace site for more.
The Bronx have announced a series of album playbacks taking place around the UK early next month of which you can go nuts to at the following dates:
8th September Ramshackle @ The Academy, Birmingham
9th September Distortion @ Rock City, Nottingham
9th September Loaded @ The Krazyhouse, Liverpool
9th September Sonic Boom @ The Leadmill, Sheffield
12th September Satans Hollow, Manchester
The Bronx tour dates:
OCTOBER
FRI 13 Dirty Sounds @ The Barfly
SAT 14 Oxford Zodiac
SUN 15 Cardiff Barfly
MON 16 York Barfly
TUES 17 Leeds Cockpit
WEDS 18 Manchester Roadhouse
THURS 19 Liverpool Barfly
FRI 20 Nottingham Rock City
SAT 21 Glasgow Barfly
SUN 22 Sheffield Corporation
MON 23 Birmingham Barfly
NOVEMBER
WED 1 London Islington Academy
Def Jux head-honcho and underground kingpin El-P has decided to write in an online blog to chronicle the latter stages of the making of his second album I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead.
If you want to read what the rapper has to say then all you have to do is point your browsers here.
Nick Oliveri isn’t satisfied with just rocking like a beaver on stilts with his Mondo Generator, he’s also teaming up with Blag Dahlia from The Dwarves to tour as The Uncontrollable. If you get to one of the dates below you’ll hear stuff from Mondo Generator, Dwarves, Queens and some old tunes. It’s one not to be missed. The dates are:
September:
8th – Brighton Pressure Point
9th – London Purple Turtle
10th – Nottingham Social
11th – Norwich Arts Centre
12th – Cambridge Soul Tree
13th – Leicester Charlotte
14th – Leeds Cockpit
15th – Middlesbrough Cornerhouse
16th – Newcastle Global.
Northern Ireland’s The Answer are to release a new single, Under The Sky, in October and will follow it up with a big UK tour. On top of this, the band are celebrating being nominated in the Best British Newcomer category for the forthcoming Kerrang Awards and having already won Classic Rock’s Best New Band 2005, it’d be stupid to count them out!
The tour dates are:
October:
4th Reading Fez
5th Exeter Cavern
6th Bristol Louisiana
7th Cardiff University
9th Oxford Zodiac
10th Sheffield Leadmill
12th Milton Keynes Ritz
13th Manchester Academy 3
14th Edinburgh Voltaire
15th Dundee Westport Bar
16th Aberdeen Tunnels
17th Glasgow King Tuts
19th Liverpool Academy 2
20th Carlisle Brickyard
21st Nottingham Rock City
22nd Newcastle Legends
24th Peterborough Park
25th Birmingham Academy 2
27th York Fibbers
28th Stoke Sugarmill
29th Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
30th Brighton Engine Rooms
November
1st London Mean Fiddler
Hip Hop street legend Kool G Rap has signed a deal with indy label Back Route Records and will release Uncontrolled Substance on it.
The deal came about after he did a collaboration with Okwerdz who is already on the label. It will be interesting to see how the record turns out from the guy who inspired the likes of Big Pun, Mobb Deep and Nas. Watch this space…
The Mobo Awards have announced their nominations for this year’s awards. The UK, as always with these awards, features strongly and there’s a good chance they could take the top honours. Some of the nominations include Gnarls Barkley, Kano, Lady Sovereign, Sway, Akala, Plan B and more.
Head on over to www.mobo.com for all the fun.
Following hugely successful sets at Wireless and sold out dates in the UK in March, Jack White’s Raconteurs are returning for more shows this year. After Reading and Leeds, they will be hitting the following cities, make sure you check them out:
October
14th – Glasgow Academy
15th – Manchester Apollo
18th – Newcastle Academy
19th – London Brixton Academy
22nd – Bristol Colston Hall
23rd – Nottingham Rock City
24th – Wolverhampton Civic Hall
25th – Liverpool University
Devendra Banhart will be gracing the UK with a tour in September. If you want to see him, make sure you get out to one of these shows!
September:
2nd – Glasgow ABC
3rd – Aberdeen Lemon Tree
5th – Newcastle Uni
6th – Leeds Met Uni
8th – Manchester Uni
9th – Nottingham Festival Hall
10th – Isle Of Wight Bestival
Dance kings Basement Jaxx make their welcome return with the new single Hush Boy, taken from the upcoming album Crazy Itch Radio, due out in September. The group are currently touring with Robbie Williams but have announced their own headline tour dates at the end of the year. Their headline dates are:
November
28th Plymouth Pavilions
29th Brighton Centre
30th Bournemouth International Centre
December
2nd London Wembley Arena
5th Birmingham International Arena
6th Newcastle Arena
7th Manchester Evening News Arena
8th Glasgow SECC