Talons are currently preparing for the release of their debut album ‘Hollow Realm‘ on Big Scary Monsters Records. In addition to news of a UK tour the band have offered up a download of their track ‘Peter Pan‘ which can be grabbed below.
The band will be playing the following dates,
September 29th – Norwich Arts Centre
September 30th – Camden Underworld, London
October 10th – Leeds Weekender @ The Well
October 18th – London Camden Barfly
October 21st – Cardiff SWN Festival @ Y Fuwch Goch
October 22nd – Leeds Brainwash Festival
Rhymesmith extraordinaire MF Doom, now officially known as the notably harder to Google DOOM (probably stylised with capitals for extra connotations of DOOM) has announced a series of UK dates next month for his self-dubbed DOOMSDAY tour.
He will be joined by Jamie XX and a whole host of other acts at the following dates:
October 13th – The Warehouse Project, Manchester
October 14th – O2 Academy Brixton, London
October 15th – Concorde 2, Brighton
October 16th – O2 Academy, Bristol
October 18th – The Arches, Glasgow
American rock 5-piece The Sleeping have posted the video for ‘Young Vibes… Don’t Run Away From Me‘ online.
The song appears off the band’s new album, The Big Deep due out on September 28th through Victory Records. Watch the video directed by Eric Richter below.
The festival season was a mighty one this year and we’re sure you all got involved in someway yourselves. If you missed out then head into our Live Reviews section for an extensive coverage.
But whether you were there or not, here is a selection of photographs from Caitlin Mogridge who got fully stuck in to some of the best festivals this summer. Relive some memories or just have a look at great photographs below.
Nick Cave’s rugged and raw garage rock project Grinderman are currently buzzing away with their sophomore release Grinderman 2 in our Buzz Chart. You need this album in your life, so jump right into this video of the dirty old men taking the gutter rock to the unsuspecting Jools Holland on his Later show.
They played ‘Worm Tamer‘ on Jools’ show broadcast on September 21st. The track will be released as a single on November 22nd.
This week the winter Bizarre Balls have been announced for the UK in London and for the first time Manchester serves as the host for the first Bizarre Ball to take place outside of the capital.
Manchester’s Ball will take place on October 22nd and will feature a headline performance from The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster alongside Rolo Tomassi and more…
London’s Ball is set for November 20th and boasts a line-up that features the likes of The Damned, The Tiger Lillies, The Ghost of Lemora and more…
Be sure to turn up to what could easily be the alternative night of the year, and now you Northern heads have no excuse! Head here for our Night Raids at The Bizarre Ball earlier this year in June.
To coincide with the release of the fourteen track ‘An Introduction To Elliott Smith‘ Domino Records are releasing ‘The Ballad of Big Nothing‘ as a limited edition double A sided vinyl with ‘Division Day‘.
The album and single, both serving to introduce later generations to one of the greatest songwriters of our era, will be released on November 1st.
To pre-order the single simply click on the sleeve below.
The latest video from Animal Collective is yet another cut from Merriweather Post Pavillion, the sixth one so far! This time it’s Bluish, the criminally underrated slow synth ballad that’s recalls the warm Beach Boys’ harmonies greater than any other song on the album.
Click the screenshot below for the appropriately coloured video and scroll further down for a classic AC video (for the wonderful ‘Who Could Win A Rabbit’) that you may have forgotten about after MPP took over the entire internet.
Mental breakdowns and crises can occur at any point in an existing person’s lifetime, most commonly when confronted with the concepts of existence, or indeed a limited time in which one can be alive and exist. Shit, I’m constantly surprised that we’re not in a constant state of anxiety-ridden madness, I know I’m flirting with the idea just writing about it. And listening to the latest disc of fuzz-fuelled fantasy and anti-serious garage rock from Nick Cave’s Grinderman project almost tempted me to indulge in a balls-out illicit affair with insanity.
That is not to say that Grinderman is Cave’s outlet to just lose his shit; though shoving on some Roman garb and thrusting lasers at the earth while a wolf circles a girl in a bathtub would almost have you thinking otherwise. And I’m certainly not going green-text imply that The Bad Seeds isn’t the music he truly wants to make. What Grinderman 2 is, is an informed soundtrack of celebration for the natural impulses that linger in our sub-conscious that make us occasionally want to thrust lasers from our dick while wearing armour and shout ‘HERE COME THE WOLFMAN’ while walking into a cinema. It’s the reason why we celebrate Halloween.
Musically, it’s bitter, gorgeous and somehow more sonically expansive then the first collection of impromptu sleazy, visceral rock. Cave’s absurdist saturation of sexual, violent, hilarious lyrics penetrate harder than ever as he scowls on Worm Tamer, ‘My baby calls me the Loch Ness Monster, two great big humps and then I cum’ while the perpetual bass fuzz makes you want to just get up and throw shit. One can only imagine how fun the Grinderman recording sessions are as they surf through high and low culture on an impossibly badass selection of bluesy riffs and guitar noise that can only be made by the monster that lives in the garages of tacky US horror flicks.
So dive in and embrace the wonderful breakdowns that are imminent when listening to one of the most raw albums you’ll hear in 2010. And if you thought your big husband would protect you, YOU WERE WRONG.
Groove Armada have announced that they will no longer be performing live after their series of dates in the UK and Australia this year.
Tom Findlay and Andy Cato, two of mainstream dance music’s most influential performers will no longer be playing with the full live band after their tour that begins on October 7th.
Be sure to catch them on their last tour as when backed by the full band, Groove Armada consistently put on a stunning, visceral spectacle that DJ sets rarely come close to. Head here for a review of their UK tour last year around the release of their album, Black Light.
They will be playing the following dates in October:
Leeds, Academy – 7th
Glasgow, Academy – 8th
Manchester, Academy 9th
Norwich, UEA – 11th
Bristol, Academy 12th
Birmignahm, Academy 14th
London, Brixton Academy – 15th/16th
This week the winter 
Mental breakdowns and crises can occur at any point in an existing person’s lifetime, most commonly when confronted with the concepts of existence, or indeed a limited time in which one can be alive and exist. Shit, I’m constantly surprised that we’re not in a constant state of anxiety-ridden madness, I know I’m flirting with the idea just writing about it. And listening to the latest disc of fuzz-fuelled fantasy and anti-serious garage rock from Nick Cave’s