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Fakey P’s UK tour!

Bright eyed and mischievous, Florida’s Fake Problems took Reading and Leeds festivals by storm a couple of weeks back and they took some time out to muse over the important things in life such as manatees, limb loss, how you should never drink and swim and they also reacted to the moniker given to them by some – FAKEY P!

Single ‘Diamond Rings‘ is out 28th September and the band will be on tour with Frank Turner in October –

Oct 15 UK Glasgow QMU
Oct 16 UK Manchester Academy 2
Oct 17 UK Newcastle University
Oct 18 UK Nottingham Rock City
Oct 19 UK Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
Oct 20 UK Oxford Academy
Oct 22 UK Leeds Met University
Oct 23 UK Cambridge Junction
Oct 24 UK Plymouth University
Oct 25 UK Exeter Lemon Grove
Oct 26 UK Bristol Anson Rooms
Oct 27 UK Cardiff University
Oct 28 UK Winchester Guildhall
Oct 29 UK London Shepherd’s Bush Empire

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New Wall Street Riots incoming

Those pop-rocking scamps Wall Street Riots continue their emergence from the underground scene in London with a belter of a tune ‘One More Ride‘.

With the B-side being a remix by L’Amour La Morgue, these guys are on a mission to make you dance. Set for release 28th September, check out the whimsical video here –

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Dinosaur Pile Up to tour with Pixies

Dinosaur Pile Up are back with a new video newsflash for you this week. The band are confirmed to support the Pixies on tour in Europe this October so look out for them on your travels!

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The Gaslight Anthem get Reading singing!

The Gaslight Anthem provided the music for a rousing singalong at Reading festival a couple of weeks back and you can check out a portion of their moving performance in the form of this live footage of ‘The ’59 Sound‘…

The Gaslight Anthem release single ‘The Backseat‘ on 21st September

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Foreign Beggars studio footage

Foreign Beggars are gearing up for the release of their new album by taking people on a tour of their studio.

Check out the video below to see how Orifice Vulgatron, Metropolis and DJ Nonames run things whilst working on a beat from their upcoming album United Colours Of Beggattron, released on October 19th.

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Ghostface announces tracklisting

Ghostface has revealed the tracklist for his new solo album The Wizard of Poetry.

The album is the Wu Tang member’s “mature” album and features a number of RnB singers with only Fabolous rapping as a guest. The album is released on September 29th and the tracklist is:

01 Not Your Average Girl [ft. Shareefa]
02 Do Over [ft. Raheem “Radio” DeVaughn]
03 Baby [ft. Raheem “Radio” DeVaughn]
04 Lonely [ft. Jack Knight]
05 Stapleton Sex
06 Stay
07 Paragraphs of Love [ft. Vaughn Anthony and Estelle]
08 Guest House [ft. Fabolous and Shareefa]
09 Let’s Stop Playin’ [ft. John Legend]
10 Forever
11 I’ll Be That [ft. Adrienne Bailon]
12 Goner [ft. Lloyd]

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PiL to reform… sort of.

John Lydon will bring back Public Image Ltd.

The difference to most of the reunions happening over the past couple of years is that this version of PiL won’t feature any other original members, including Jah Wobble and Keith Levene. The former Sex Pistol has instread brought in Lu Edmonds, Bruce Smith and Scott Firth.

They will play the following dates in December:

15 Birmingham, O2 Academy
16 Leeds, O2 Academy
18 Glasgow, O2 Academy
19 Manchester, Academy
21 London, O2 Academy

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New Evile video

Evile have finished the video from their new album.

The album, Infected Nations, is set for release on September 21st and the band will play a gig at Islington Academy on September 25th to celebrate the release. Check out the video for Infected Nation below:

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New Lou Barlow video!

Lou Barlow is to release a single on September 28th.

The Right is taken from his second album Goodnight Unknown which will be released on October 5th. Check out the video to the single below, oh and by the way, the new album is awesome!

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Massive Attack

As more and more re-issues, best of compilations (the stars of this review’s own Collected is no exception) and single tracks keep cropping up on the internet to be half-listened to while you open up another tab in firefox and develop some sort of attention deficit disorder, bold statements like ‘there’s no such thing as an album anymore’ aren’t so much bold as an unfortunate actuality.

Almost TWENTY years ago Massive Attack released the groundbreaking ‘Blue Lines‘, a full on album that everyone has or should have listened to at least five times all the way through without stopping but maybe while doing something else like cleaning. The albums that followed in the same decade were just as worthy of your time and attention, then pow pow here come the 00s and aside from 100th Window which wasn’t fully Massive Attack anyway; it looked as though these Bristol-based beatniks were another victim of the music scene becoming increasingly temporary and a bit rubbish.

Or hopefully a ten year break is just what they needed for LP5, which, untitled or not, carries so much hope of being a proper album that, while not totally absent from the last decade, has been missed. An LP. A fully Massive Attack, Del Naja, Danny G and some speculated awesome contributors (Damon Albarn, Guy Garvey, Damon Albarn, Tunde Adebimpe, Damon Albarn and hopefully Damon Albarn) LP. Maybe this will be one of the albums that spur the idea of the album to make a comeback? Please?

Who knows. But the out-of-fucking-nowhere Splitting The Atom EP is a damn good teaser. The title track has mad ominous keys that carry tweaked influences from both Gorillaz’ Demon Days and Portishead’s Third but remain ultimately and unquestionably Massive Attack. Bulletproof Love serves as a minimal-tech platform for Guy Garvey of Elbow to sound great and a little Kid A (the track, not the album) on before a huge and unmistakably Blue Lines era style crescendo in the middle that gives me shivers and hope that LP5 may just be worth the ten year wait.

Stanley.