Speech Debelle scooped the Mercury Prize last night.
The South London rapper, who won with her album Speech Therapy said she wanted to hit the US and work with some American producers, as well as working with Kings Of Leon. Check out the video to Go Then Bye below:
Alberta Cross have confirmed details for their own headline UK tour in November.
The band’s debut album, ‘Broken Side of Time‘, is to be released through Ark Recordings on September 21st. Single ‘ATX‘ is released one week before on September 14th. The November dates are:
11 Bristol The Cooler
12 Leeds Cockpit
13 Glasgow Captains Rest
15 Manchester Ruby Lounge
16 Birmingham Birmingham Bar Academy
17 London Bush Hall
Also check out the video for ‘ATX‘:
Gama Bomb will give their new album away for free.
The Irish thrash band are heading into the studio next week to record Tales From The Grave In Space and will then make it available, complete with artwork, from November 5th. To get it, make sure you book mark www.earache.com/gamabomb.
Speaking of the action, frontman Philly Byrne said: “It doesn’t matter who you are, where you live or whether you’re skint or loaded right now – on November 5th you can have our album for free, no questions asked. We just hope you enjoy it.”
The band have also announced a tour around the release:
05 Nov 2009 – Huddersfield, Parish
06 Nov 2009 – Birmingham, Hellfire Festival, NEC Arena
07 Nov 2009 – Peterborough, Club Revolution
08 Nov 2009 – London, The Underworld
09 Nov 2009 – Bristol, Bier Keller
11 Nov 2009 – Nottingham, Seven
12 Nov 2009 – Colchester, Twist
Lovvers have announced new UK tour dates.
You can check out the band, who will be continuing to wow audiences with tracks from their debut album OCD GO GO GO GIRLS, which was released last month. As if that weren’t enough, they have also placed a previously unheard track online, which was recorded in Brooklyn and will be released as a 7″ record.
The dates are:
September
18 Auntie Annie’s Belfast w/ Times New Viking
19 Whelan’s Dublin w/ Times New Viking
21 Brudenell Social Club Leeds w/ Nodzzz
22 The Corner Manchester w/ Times New Viking
23 Chameleon Nottingham w/ Nodzzz
24 Buffalo Bar Cardiff
25 Old Blue Last London
26 The Cowley Club Brighton w/ Male Bonding (7-9pm)
27 Rough Trade East London (6pm)
28 New Cross Inn London
29 The Stockroom Sheffield
30 The Masonic Arms Shrewsbury
October
1 Oct Off Modern @ Corsica Studios London
Check out their new track Society Jam here:
Form 696 is being revised.
The form, which used to ask promoters to fill in what the ethnicity of fans will be at a gig before that was taken out, still asks the question about what type of music is being played. It is this question which looks set to be removed as well, after a number of petitions against it, notably one set up by Jon McClure of Mongrel fame.
Dizzee Rascal wants to work with The Prodigy.
The MC recently stated that after his successful teaming up with both Calvin Harris and Armand Van Helden, he wanted to move on to working with Liam Howlett and co. after having toured with them earlier this year. Dizzee will be releasing his new album Tongue N Cheek on September 21st.
Arctic Monkeys have announced their new tour.
The band, who released their new album Humbug recently, will play the following dates in November:
Friday 13- Liverpool Echo Arena
Saturday 14 – Sheffield Arena
Monday 16 – Newcastle Metro Arena
Wednesday 18 – Wembley Arena
Friday 20 – Birmingham NIA
Saturday 21 – Manchester MEN Arena
Sunday 22 – Nottingham Trent FM Arena
Tuesday 24 – Glasgow SECC
Wednesday 25 – Belfast The Odyssey
Thursday 26 – Dublin The O2
Cardiacs were one of the most exciting bands to ever come from the South of Britain. In all honesty there’s nothing else like them out there so it was a pleasure to discover some super old footage of them live at the Clarenden in London. Click below for some Goosegash.
Last year I went to see Municipal Waste play live at the underworld in Camden. To quote myself I said “Maybe a “detox” is in order before the Waste come at us again with something fresh, something new and something that will make us go utterly ape shit for these guys all over again.” What the Virginian thrash powerhouse have done is produce a record that is more focused, more furious, more aggressive and I, for one, have gone utterly ape shit for it!
It seems as though a lot of the main stream metal media have turned their backs on this whole ‘Thrash revival’ thing that’s going on. Municipal Waste have had their critics and their doubters over the past year or so but with the explosive nature of their sound, magnified on ‘Massive Aggressive‘, it appears that all of this ‘hating’ is just pissing in the wind.
‘Masked By Delirium‘ sets the break neck pace for the album and will silence all nay say-ers. ‘Upside Down Church‘ and ‘Wolves Of Chernobyl‘ to name a few are stand out, trash masterpieces which are only added to by Tony Foresta’s visceral, unrelenting vocals. Sit down at your desk, shut you pie hole and prepare to get schooled by the Waste with thrash metal 101.
‘Massive Aggressive‘ is consistently impressive. The amazingly titled ‘Horney For Blood‘ and ‘The Wrath Of The Severed Head‘ really shine through with not only blistering axe work from Ryan Waste but an all round superb rhythm section manned by Land Phil and Dave Witte. The Waste have clearly found their musical groove and are tighter than ever.
Simply put; I love this record. It makes you want to bang your head, pound beer after beer and mosh like you’ve never moshed before. The Waste have dropped a dirty, throbbing, heinous, slab of thrash right in our laps and it’s nothing short of fucking brilliant. Buy this record, listen to this record and watch as it melts your face off. Municipal Waste are back and as always, they’re gonna fuck you up!
Tom Lindsey
Health have put the video for the new single Die Slow online.
The single will be released on September 28th and is taken from the album Get Color which is out today [September 7th].