Dutch bass-merchants Noisia have unleashed their new video onto the world and it’s a stormer.
The track is Machine Gun, released on March 8th and comes from their upcoming album Split The Atom which is dropping on April 5th. Turn the volume up and get deaf.
Not long back, we showed you what the amazing packaging for the Freeway & Jake One album The Stimulus Package looked like and now there’s one for the vinyl junkies. Marbled green vinyl? Hell yeah!
A.F.I. have a new video, for their track Beautiful Thieves, taken from last year’s Crash Love album.
Don’t forget they’re touring the UK soon at the following dates in April:
5th – Nottingham, Rock City
6th – London, Brixton Academy
8th – Glasgow, ABC
9th – Manchester, Academy
11th – Newcastle, O2 Academy
12th – Birmingham, O2 Academy
Having enjoyed whirlwind success in 2009, The Gaslight Anthem will be back with a new album this summer. The record will be entitled American Slang, and is set for a June release.
Their debut, The ’59 Sound, received mass critical acclaim and propped the band up onto some of the world’s biggest stages, yet the Gaslight Anthem have shown no hesitance in returning to the studio. In support of the new record, the band will play the following headline dates;
June
22nd – Birmingham, Academy 1
23rd – Glasgow, ABC
24th – Manchester, Academy 1
26th – London, HMV Forum
29th – Oxford, Academy 1
Having released his last two records through Geffen, The Game has announced he will be returning to Aftermath for his forthcoming album R.E.D.
This news came through the rappers twitter feed as he tweeted, “It’s funny how things come full circle, R.E.D.,” accompanied by a picture of himself wearing four Aftermath medallions.
Rejoining the Aftermath roster, Game will join the likes of Eminem, 50 Cent and one of his early mentors Dr Dre.
New Young Pony Club have scheduled a last minute warm-up show ahead of their full UK tour starting later this month. The gig will take place at Madame Jojo’s on February 9th.
The band have recently completed work on their second album, The Optimist, which will be released on March 8th.
New Young Pony Club will play;
February
9th – London Madame Jojo’s
22nd – London O2 Academy Islington
March
15th – Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
16th – Birmingham Academy 2
17th -Bristol The Thekla
18th – Oxford Academy 2
20th – Manchester Moho Live
21st – Leeds Cockpit 2
22nd – Nottingham Stealth
23rd – Glasgow King Tuts
25th – Newcastle Academy 2
26th – Liverpool Korova
27th – Cambridge Junction 2
Sheffield noise mongers Rolo Tomassi will play a one-off date at Camden’s Underworld on April 23rd. This will be the bands largest headline show to date, as they continue to prepare their Diplo produced follow-up to 2008’s Hysterics.
While London’s The Last Skeptik is well known among hip hop heads across the UK, with his latest compilation ‘Same Day Different Shit’ he has announced his mainstream intentions. This is not to deride the albums content, but rather to celebrate the young producer’s potential to create chart destined hits in the near future.
Take his remix of Marina & The Diamonds’ Mowgli Road, already receiving airtime from the likes Huw Stephens and Rob Da Bank, and for good reason. The tracks original vocal takes on a new setting, thriving amongst a clever mixture of dirty electronics and hip hop beats.
Elsewhere Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly guests on a remix of Eslam Jawaad’s Star Spangled Banner, and is also remixed earlier on the disk. This unpredictable choice of source material works in Skeptik’s favour, as he hops from genre to genre, re-working tracks both popular and unknown. So don’t be surprised to find UK chart regulars The Streets and Daniel Merriweather, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Loudmouth Melvin and hip hop superstar The Game.
Instead of clicking “play track”, check out the aforementioned re-working of Marina & The Diamond’s Mowgli’s Road, to sample The Last Skeptik doing what he does best:
Sleekly Brian
Dutch D&B masters Noisia have announced they will release new single Machine Gun on March 8th.
The track, which is definitely an ear-drum blower-outer, is taken from their upcoming debut album Split The Atom which is due for release on April 5th. The single comes with remixes from Spor, 16 Bit and Amon Tobin. Watch out for these guys in 2010, they’re gonna be rampaging!
Check out the video below for Contact, a track they produced for Foreign Beggars, it’s a lot!
Placebo are releasing their new single Bright Lights on February 8th and recently set the Making Of the video for the track live online.
Check it out below: