The Bronx‘s alter-ego Mariachi El Bronx will be touring Europe and the UK later this month.
The Bronx will also “appear” at the shows, with the schedule looking like this in November:
18th – Glasgow, Oran Mor
19th – Manchester, Club Academy
20th – Leeds, Metropolitan University (feat. The Bronx)
22nd – Oxford, Academy
23rd – London, Islington Academy
As if you weren’t hyped enough, a video of Aesop Rock working on the beats for the new Felt with DJ Big Wiz doing the cuts has gone online:
Alec Empire will play a number of dates this month and a new single.
After having toured as the support for Trent Reznor’s recent European tour, Alec Empire will release the download only single 1000 Eyes on December 7th and will hit the following dates this month as headline slots:
18th – Newport, TJs
19th – London, O2 Islington Academy
20th – Birmingham, Eddie’s
21st – Manchester, Club Academy
22nd – Edinburgh, GRV
Evile have announced UK dates for January 2010.
They will hit the road for the first time since the death of their bass player Mike Alexander and are currently looking to bring a new bassist into the band. The tour dates in are:
The confirmed tour dates are as follows:
14 Jan – Cardiff, Barfly
15 Jan – Wrexham, Central Station
16 Jan – York, Fibbers
17 Jan – Glasgow, Cathouse
18 Jan – Newcastle, University
20 Jan – Manchester, Academy 3
21 Jan – Nottingham, Rock City
22 Jan – Leeds, Rio’s
23 Jan – Bristol, Thekla
24 Jan – London, The Underworld
25 Jan – Wolverhampton, Civic Hall
Killing Joke have announced two shows for spring 2010.
The group will be playing in both Edinburgh and London in April next year and will no doubt be showcasing tracks from their live album Requiem which was released earlier this year. The dates are:
15th – Edinburgh, Picture House
16th – London, Hammersmith Apollo
Jerry Fuchs, who drummed with !!!, has died.
The 34 year old fell to his death whilst trying to leap a gap between the life and the building’s fifth floor after a malfunction, according to reports. He also played in Turing Machine, Maserati and The Juan MacLean.
Blakroc, the Black Keys hip hop project has released its first official video.
After weeks of webisodes featuring studio footage, the video for Ain’t Nothing Like You (Hoochie Coo) featuring Mos Def and Dipset’s Jim Jones has made its way online. Prepare to be singing this all day…
Blakroc: Ain’t Nothing Like You (Hoochie Coo) Ft. Mos Def and Jim Jones from Jonah Schwartz on Vimeo.
It’s rumoured that 80’s hardcore mob Jailcell Recipes had to pull their London show last night dude to 2 band members being down with flu. Either that or drummer Dave Arnold just couldn’t trek to London because he was shredding his backyard pool. Look out for more dates on their myspace soon and hopefully they will reschedule this one.
Them Crooked Vultures have released streams of their entire album today on youtube. This highly anticipated debut featuring the rhythm section of Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones and fronted by Queens of the Stoneage head honcho Josh Homme is released on November 16th. Listen to all of the tracks here:
No One Loves Me & Neither Do I
Mind Eraser, No Chaser
New Fang
Dead End Friends
Elephants
Scumbag Blues
Bandoliers
Reptiles
Interlude With Ludes
Warsaw Or The First Breath You Take After You Give Up
Caligulove
Gunman
Spinning In Daffodils
Queen of Hoxton
29.10.09
Perhaps the biggest surprise package of 2009, Mayer Hawthorne rolled into London to play a packed out show in the oven-like environment at the Queen of Hoxton but most certainly proved himself to be as cool as a cucumber on stage.
The man formerly known as Haircut was introduced along with his band The County, all of whom were looking very dapper in their suits, and took to the stage with a smile. From that point on it was clear that the only thing happening that night was fun!
His album, A Strange Arrangement, has the perfect balance of slow numbers and danceable Motown styled hits and Mayer was able to translate that extremely well on stage. His banter with the crowd, especially before the ballads, was brilliant so that even when the track itself didn’t get the spectators moving, smiles were firmly plastered on faces.
Running through tracks like Maybe So, Maybe No, Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out, One Track Mind and l Wish It Would Rain (complete with raindrop fingers!), the set flew by but left everyone in the building delighted they’d attended.
He saved the best track til last too, with the up-tempo The Ills, his self-confessed favourite track, finishing the night on the highest of highs with the majority of the crowd dancing as much as their confined space would let them.
He might not look like one, but Mayer Hawthorne is a star and he can only shine brighter in 2010.
Abjekt.