Category: Music News

Those who are lovers of Fully Flared, the Spike Jonze and Ty Evans Lakai skateboarding flick that came out in 2007, may remember ‘Heaven’, a tune by UNKLE that ran in the credits at the end whilst the explosions filled the screen. The track featured the wonderful vocal work of Gavin Clark who unfortunately passed this week.

“Gavin was a beautiful man, a wonderful friend and father. A man of unimaginable talent, wit and spirituality, and had a voice like no other. One of the greatest and most unique artists I have had the pleasure to work with. He will be deeply missed.” – James Lavelle

Gavin Clark RIP

Those noisy b’stards Pissed Jeans will be heading back to blighty for two shows at the 100 Club in London on the 18th and 19th of August. Look out for tickets on Friday and whet your appetite whilst you wait by reading our interview with singer Matt Korvette here.

Floridian metal giants Torche have unveiled a new track from their upcoming album, Restarter, in the form of a single player computer game. The game enables fans to play as members of the band in a battle against evil robots hell-bent on destroying the city, with the carnage sound tracked by the album’s opening track ‘Annihilation Affair’. Click here to play Torche vs. Robots: Annihilation Affair.

Anyone who can beat the game is in with a chance to win a prize pack including the new album on vinyl, a t-shirt, two tickets to see Torche on their upcoming tour and stickers. To enter, contestants must upload a video to YouTube showing them beating the game with the hash tag #torchevsrobots. Winners will be announced on February 23rd.

Catch Torche live at the dates below, Restarter is due for release on February 23rd via Relapse Records.

May UK tour
22nd London, Underworld
23rd Leeds, Belgrave Social Club
25th Cork, Crane Lane
26th Dublin, Grand Social
27th Belfast, Limelight
28th Glasgow, CCA
29th Manchester, Sound Control
30th Bristol, Festival (2105)

The news spread like wildfire over the weekend but it looks like Death Row Records boss Marion “Suge” Knight has formally been charged with murder and attempted murder following a fatal hit-and-run incident.

It has been reported that Suge ran over two men, his friend Terry Carter (a 55-year-old rap music producer) who was killed, and Cle “Bone” Sloan following an arguement in Compton. Bail was revoked due to his violent past and Knight is said to be scheduled to appear in court in Compton, Los Angeles today facing four charges.

The East Midlands was rocked by an earthquake last night recorded at 3.8 in magnitude as over 1000 reports of tremors and buildings shaking were logged from people in Oakham and as far away as Dudley, where nothing ever happens.

The tremors were said to have lasted up to 10 seconds at a time, fueled by deafening roars that went to ’11’. Many heavy metal fans in the Birmingham area believe this to be directly linked to an aftershock from a punch thrown by Black Sabbath’s infamous bass player Geezer Butler, whose bar brawl in Death Valley, California was said to have been laden with seismic Satan approved energy, blowing out windows in the Corkscrew Saloon at Furnace Creek Ranch.

Butler, aged 65, was immediately arrested, put behind bars and charged for using highly illegal heavy metal superpowers for a misdemeanour assault, public intoxication and vandalism. Neither Butler nor Black Sabbath have issued an official statement as broken glass and tiles are swept up on both sides of the Atlantic and structural engineers assess the damage to offices, homes, churches and cathedrals.

Sources inside the police station are said to have banned lead singer Ozzy Osbourne from visiting the bass player as it’s rumoured that Butler and other Sabbath band members use a secret power socket as a direct source to regenerate their superpowers.

A court room in Manchester today was surprised to see none other than Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown giving evidence against his former school teacher Fred Talbot, who taught him biology the 70s.

Testifying as part of a case to bring Talbot’s alleged seedy past to justice, Brown walked into the court room and told the jury how the sex offender had “..showed me a film. It was years before I realised it had been wrong to show us that film. It was a three minute film on Super 8 projector and a young guy walks into a room dressed in denims, sits on the bed, takes his trousers down and masturbates. It was only a few years later I realised it was perhaps a gay porn film. It wasn’t a sex education film.”

Brown’s involvement in this case sees him give evidence only and is not a victim of the alleged indecent assaults on boys carried out on children aged as young as 14 at Altrincham Grammar School for Boys School in Cheshire in the late 60s and 70s.

In related news, the Anonymous group today launched their date of Friday 13th February as the day to take to the streets in their fight to raise more attention on outing those who should be brought to justice for their involvement in crimes like this. Keep up to date online with #OpDeathEaters.