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Iggy announces ATP details

Iggy And The Stooges will play with ‘Raw Power’-era guitarist James Willamson at next year’s All Tomorrow’s Parties event.

The gig will take place over the weekend of May 2nd/3rd and will be the first show Williamson has played with the band since 1974. The guitarist revealed that Iggy had called him asking if he wanted to play guitar and he replied “What the hell, let’s do it!”, even fuelling rumours that new material might come out in the process.

Check out some of the Stooges’ action in 1970:

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More Black Sabbath incoming

Black Sabbath are reissuing more classic albums.

Following the re-releases of seminal records Paranoid, Black Sabbath and Master Of Reality, the band’s subsequent albums will be released on September 21st – Vol 4 (1972), Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973), Sabotage (1975), Technical Ecstasy (1976) and Never Say Die! (1978).

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Rza and Raekwon hit London

Wu Tang Clan‘s RZA and Raekwon have announced a joint set at Matter.

The rappers will be hitting the London venue on October 3rd for the show which has been named The Tao Of Wu, which shares its name with the book which is released on October 20th.

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MGMT team up with Kid Cudi

MGMT will guest on the new Kid Cudi album.

The Brooklyn duo will appear on a song alongside Ratatat on the album called Man On The Moon: The End Of The Day. The full tracklisting is below and the album is released on October 5th.

‘In My Dreams (Cudder Anthem)’
‘Soundtrack 2 My Life’
‘Simple As…’
‘Solo Dolo (Nightmare)’
‘Heart of a Lion (Kid CuDi Theme Music)’
‘My World (featuring Billy Cravens)
‘Day N Nite’ (Nightmare)
‘Sky Might Fall’
‘Enter Galactic (Love Connection Part 1)’
‘Alive (Nightmare)’ (featuring Ratatat)
‘Cudi Zone’
‘Make Her Say’ (featuring Kanye West and Common)
‘Pursuit of Happiness (Nightmare)’ (featuring MGMT and Ratatat)
‘Hyyer’ (featuring Chip The Ripper)
‘Up, Up & Away’

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Say Anything Say Hate

The new music video for Say Anything‘s irreverent new song ‘Hate Everyone‘ is now online. It’s worth a click if you’re having a bad day. Especially if you live in London with all those pesky people getting in your way everywhere…

Say Anything – Hate Everyone

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New Eels video

Eels have released the video for their new song That Look You Give That Guy which you can check out below.

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Nirvana Live at Reading 1992 CD/DVD!

Back in 1992 we were stood in a wet field awaiting was was to be one the most influential shows on earth! We are talking about Nirvana of course!

That moment when Everett True pushed Kurt Cobain on in a wheelschair and Dave and Chris picked up their intruments was serioulsy exciting and the show itself has been spoken about for years. A bootleg of this show was released way back but the quality was terrible and unofficial. We were gutted at the time, but now, that famous night is going to return to your TV screen and stereo as a double pack CD/DVD.

Nirvana Live At Reading will be issued in a limited edition DVD+CD Deluxe Edition as well as DVD-only, CD-only configurations on November 2, 2009, followed by a 2 LP version on November 16, 2009. YES!

Only 2 of the 25 performances on the DVD have ever been released before.

Here’s the playlist!

1. Breed
2. Drain You
3. Aneurysm
4. School
5. Sliver
6. In Bloom
7. Come As You Are
8. Lithium
9. About A Girl
10. tourette’s
11. Polly
12. Lounge Act
13. Smells Like Teen Spirit
14. On A Plain
15. Negative Creep
16. Been A Son
17. All Apologies
18. Blew
19. Dumb
20. Stay Away
21. Spank Thru
22. Love Buzz*
23. The Money Will Roll Right In
24. D-7
25. Territorial Pissings

*not included on CD

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Subhumans – Live

Engine Room, Brighton
27.08.09

The dateline on my digital devices informs me this is 2009, but during August I was firmly strapped in to the wayback machine for some serious musical time travelling, and (in some cases) more nostalgia than you could shake a walking stick at. And to round it off – Subhumans.

Make no mistake; unlike some other outfits from the past I’ve seen lately, Subhumans are as relevant today as when they emerged from deepest Wiltshire at the dawning of The Eighties. Although they were soon aligned with the burgeoning Anarcho-punk movement/bands, musically they were quite a different proposition to many of their peers, with a much more upbeat and driving melodic sound, coupled with some incredibly clever and not (so) obvious lyrical messages. These guys could play. I guess I first heard them in ’83 and was immediately sold on ’em. I’ve seen them countless times since…

A testament to said relevance of Subhumans is that the packed crowd is made up of young punks and old gits in fairly equal measure who all hit the floor dancing when The Subs launch in to opener “Apathy” (“Drink, Sex, Cigarettes, Ford Cortina, household pets… Bombs? War? Famine? Death? An apathetic public couldn’t t care less”) – yep, up and running! There’s songs from their most recent studio LP “Internal Riot” and they trawl all the way thru an extensive back catalogue to the “Demolition War” EP (1982) And when they break in to the slow burning reggae tinged punker “Human Error” (from the latter record) – well here’s a classic point of their timeless relevance… where references to Belfast and Vietnam can be easily replaced by Baghdad and Afghanistan, and America’s interminable grip on the war machine.

Elsewhere, there’s plenty of talk from singer (and for my money probably one of the smartest people in punk) Dick Lucas about the credit crunch and the greed of the filthy rich bankers and politicians who have lied and deceived for so long. It would be easy for Dick to sound a little smug, as he and his cohorts have been warning about the ills of capitalism for… err… the past 25 years and then some!! But it’s no laughing matter. People’s jobs, savings and lives that are being sold down the river and the corporate media sound a little surprised. But first the Weather…

Anyways where was I… oh yes… red hot political punk in the furnace-like confines of The Engine Room. I believe the main set finished with “Mickey Mouse is Dead” and “Black/White“. After taking on fluids, the band throw together a cracking trio of songs to close… a cover of The Epileptics/Flux of Pink Indians standard “Tube Disasters“, followed by anti-animal testing anthem “Evolution“, before leaving us for dust with the almighty “Religious Wars“. Seriously, how fuckin’ constantly topical is this songs message… where everyday people are being shot, blown up, tortured, raped and imprisoned, in the name of what? A God? “Religious Wars no reason why, What a glorious way to die”…

Pete Craven

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Aesop Rock’s new project

Hail Mary Mallon have released a new video.

The project, which consists of Aesop Rock and his Def Jux labelmates Rob Sonic and DJ Big Wiz, released this song via the Def Jux Presents 4 album and below is the video for it. Guts and dogs with lazers for eyes are involved. You’ve been warned.

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Stephen Malkmus tour dates

Stephen Malkmus will be hitting the UK in December.

He will bring The Jicks with him for a show at the Electric Ballroom in Camden as well as dates in Brighton and Manchester. The full line up is:

8th December – Brighton, Komedia
9th December – London, Electric Ballroom
10th December – Manchester, The Deaf Institute
11th December – All Tomorrow’s Parties (Butlins)