Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ touring guitarist Imaad Wasif has revealed he’ll be releasing a solo album.
The Voidist is due for release on October 13th and contains 11 tracks including a guest apperance from Dale Crover from The Melvins.
The tracklisting is:
‘Redeemer’
‘Priestess’
‘Fangs’
‘Widow Wing’
‘Our Skulls’
‘Return To You’
‘The Hand of the Imposter’
‘Daughter Of Fire’
‘Her Sorcery’
‘Another’
‘Razorlike’
Check out an older track to get in the mood:
The Lemonheads have announced a tour of UK and Ireland.
Evan Dando’s band will play the following gigs in September:
10th – Glasgow ABC
11th – Dublin Academy
12th – Belfast Speakeasy/Mandela Hall
13th – Manchester Academy 2
15th – Birmingham Irish Centre
16th – London Leicester Square Theatre
19th – London HMV Forum
Blue Scholars release their new EP Oof on August 25th.
To hype the release, they’ve done a nice little shark-week related video. Nice!
The Stone Roses are one of the most seminal indie bands the UK have produced and will be re-issuing their debut album this week.
In the build up, the band have been releasing one single a week, including this week’s effort, Fools Gold. To celebrate, check out the player below which features a ton of Roses videos, have it!
It seems as though this is the year of shite bands making a return and guess what? Alice in Chains are one of them and are back with rumours that Elton John plays on the album too?! How fucking cool? NOT.
Let’s get this straight, Alice in Chains were never cool, they were always at the dogshit end of the grunge spectrum and had nothing on the likes of Nirvana, Mudhoney and other amazing artists that flew the flag. Their only half decent song was a about a Rooster? Come on people….
Limp Bizkit were also on this shite list. Literally hundreds of people we know turning 28 this year are coming out of the woodwork to tell us how amazing they were this year when they played London. You know what, they fucking sucked too! Does anyone remember how caned they were in the press for being such tits? The most uncool band in the world! Don’t support these bands that come out of the woodwork to cash in on their return, burn them instead.
Dizzee Rascal has announced the tracklisting for his upcoming album.
‘Tongue ‘N’ Cheek‘ comes out on September 21st and features Bonkers and Dance Wiv Me.
‘Bonkers’
‘Road Rage’
‘Dance Wiv Me’
‘Freaky Freaky’
‘Can’t Tek No More’
‘Chillin’ Wiv Da Man Dem’
‘Dirtee Cash’
‘Money Money Money’
‘Leisure’
‘Holiday’
‘Bad Behaviour’
Major Lazer have announced they’ll be hitting this year’s Notting Hill Carnival on August 31.
Diplo and Switch will join the bill for the Red Bull Music Academy stage, which will be found underneath London’s Westway at 3-6 Acklam Road with Toddla T, Rusko and more. The full line up is:
Major Lazer (Diplo and Switch)
L-Vis 1990
Toddla T
Rusko
J-Wow (Buraka Som Sistema)
Maluca
Paul Devro
Jillionaire
The youth of today have the tools to trawl back thru bygone musical decades and effortlessly pin down the hippest, hottest platters du jour. The shit that matters. Not for them record collections littered with rarely played plastic brought on a whim, was reviewed in a ‘zine, recommended by a mates brothers best friend (etc, etc) or simply had a sweet looking cover… but ultimately did not make the grade. Rejected and condemned to a lifetime in the shadows.
Unlike many of their peers, who simply focus on one or two distinct points of musical inspiration/reference to base their musical aspirations on, the Shitty Limits have cast their net far and wide in a quest to soak up and be energized by seminal sounds from across the decades. Anyone who has witnessed them live, and picked up their limited run seven inches, will testify to the uncontrollable surge that blasts your senses when they let rip.
“Beware…” comes packed with a dozen tracks that show off their snotty and catchy lightening fast garage-thrash attack, and having heard many of these songs live, on many occasions, I’m just as stoked on the recorded versions, especially the magnificent “Hard Wired” which would not sound out of place on the “Suburbia” soundtrack. Love it. This album is definitely not destined for the dark dusty recesses of my record collection anytime soon, hah!
The vinyl pressing is available from London label La Vida Es Un Mus, or on CD/download from Boss Tuneage. Either way, don’t miss out on this cracking debut album from one of the UK’s most vital underground bands. ‘Limits, the Shitty…
Pete Craven
I last touched base with SoCal’s Nebula all the way back in 2001 and the “Charged” album, picked up after seeing them play a kick-ass set opening for The Hellacopters. Thankfully regardless of my own obvious ignorance to their evolution, the intervening years has seen Nebula continuing to tour hard and stick out records on a number of labels and I was definitely all ears to check out Nebula in 2009 when this disc arrived in my mailbox.
There is no question that the “Heavy Psych” tag does exactly what it say on the sleeve… mega-trippy spaced out hard rock with an archetypal fluid stoner groove that taps in to the indispensable leaden sounds of Sabbath, ‘Purple, MC5 and the Big Man himself… “Oh Jimi who art in heaven, Hendrix be thy name”… as Vim Fuego so touchingly lamented. Seriously, I don’t think there’s been much happening since about ’73 for these guys to get excited about!!
I’m typing this review on a beautiful warm summer evening, lights are down, stars are out, fireworks are going off in the distance… and from my stereo the supernatural jams of “Heavy Psych” fit the mood perfectly.
Pete Craven
Minnesota metallers American Head Charge have decided to call it a day after 12 years, in which time they produced 3 full length studio albums. The reason for the split is due to a lack of commitment from singer Cameron Heacock.
“We’ve been ready and waiting for input from Cameron for almost two years; we’ve written and recorded two albums worth of material in that time. At this point, he no longer gives being in this band any sort of top priority, which is so sad seeing as how he has such an amazing and unique voice” says bassist Chad Hanks.