Bobby Conn has announced details of his new release.
Macaroni, recorded with his band The Burlgars, is described as a “delicious bowl of cheesy noodles served up for a world of war, riots, greed and revolution” and a “record for the Occupy generation”.
The album will be released on Fire Records on March 19th and will be supported later in the year on a tour of Europe and the UK. Press play below to see what to expect from the album.
Trash Talk have joined forces with Creature Skateboards today to unleash a killer animated video for their ‘Slaughter’ track that is well worthy of a viewing.
The song is lifted from the bands amazingly short but fierce Awake EP that came out at the end of 2011. Put this in your pipe and smoke it.
The sad news that Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has been diagnosed with cancer was announced over Facebook.
The statement says:
“With the news that Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi has been diagnosed with the early stages of lymphoma, his bandmates would like everyone to send positive vibes to the guitarist at this time. Iommi is currently working with his doctors to establish the best treatment plan – the ‘iron man’ of rock n roll remains upbeat and determined to make a full and successful recovery”.
The original band members stated they would move to the UK to continue working on their first album in 33 years so that Iommi could be a part of the writing and recording process whilst he receives treatment.
Further to his free LA State of Mind mixtape dropping, I Self Devine has released some visuals for his track Sweat Equity.
Nothing more to it, press play and enjoy!
The Mars Volta will release a new album this year.
Frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala said in a recent interview that the vocals are finished and he’s working on finishing the guitar parts, adding: “The sonogram of the little beast is looking very good.”
As if that wasn’t enough, Bixler-Zavala and his former bandmates in At The Drive-In have announced they are reforming for Coachella festival having written:
“To whom it may concern: AT THE DRIVE-IN will be breaking their 11 year silence THIS STATION IS …NOW…OPERATIONAL.”
Ever wanted to know some of the details the FBI had on Big Baby Jesus aka Ol’ Dirty Bastard?
Well, wonder no more as someone has that information thanks to the Freedom of Information Act in the States. Details include ideas that he was affiliated with the Bloods, that he had a shoot-out with the NYPD and much more. To read it all, click here.
Meantime check out the best interview ever done, ever:
We all thought it would never happen, but Refused are back!
The Swedish hardcore band have done the unthinkable and reformed for Coachella and Swedish festival Way Out West, marking the first live appearances since the late 1990s. Speaking of the decision, the band said:
“It’s been a motley 14 years since our band came apart. We’ve all kept busy in our respective endeavors but we’ve all remained friends and kept in touch. There have been offers, and lots of jokes about these offers. We’ve sort of looked down from our high horses and made fun of people who’ve just wanted to share the psychopathic intensity that we would deliver on a nightly basis in our post-pubescent prime. A reunion has just seemed irrelevant to us. Too much other shit to do”
Additional dates will be added on the official site.
The Coachella Music Festival in the US announced its line up this morning with various British bands such as Florence and the Machine, Madness, Noel Gallagher, Madness and others confirmed to play on the bill in April. The biggest surprise though was the addition of three bands who have reformed this week. LA’s At The Drive In are officially ‘operational’ so says their twitter account this morning. Mike Watt’s Firehose have been added to the bill but not officially mentioned their new plans and Refused are back and are excited to ‘see you in the pit’ from a statement over night.
The festival will take place over 2 weekends in April (13th-15th and 20th-22th) in Indio, California. Fingers crossed these bands all have plans to visit the UK for Reading, Sonisphere or Download this summer. Watch this space.
Swound! have announced the details of their debut album.
Into The Sea will be released through their own label, The Grelmin Corporation, on March 5th. The package will come with a DVD that includes a documentary of the recording of the album called Whatever Happened, Happened.
The album comes hot on the heels of the band supporting Electric Six in the UK and Europe and you can get an idea of the album’s sound by watching the video for Big Trouble below.
Nick Cave has announced his band Grinderman will release a remix album.
Grinderman 2 RMX will feature reworkings of tracks from the Grinderman 2 album bu the likes of Josh Homme, UNKLE, A Place To Bury Strangers and Grinderman themselves amongst others. The album will be released on March 12th through Mute Records. The full tracklisting is below and you can stream the remix to Bellringer Blues here.
Super Heathen Child (Grinderman/Fripp)
Worm Tamer (A Place to Bury Strangers)
Bellringer Blues (Nick Zinner)
Hyper Worm Tamer (UNKLE)
Mickey Bloody Mouse (Joshua Homme)
When My Baby Comes (Cat’s Eyes with Luke Tristram)
Palaces Of Montezuma (Barry Adamson)
Evil (Silver Alert ft Matt Berninger)
When My Baby Comes (SixToes)
Heathen Child (Andy Weatherall)
Evil (Factory Floor)
First Evil (Grinderman)