Category: Music

Ahead of their upcoming UK tour with The Hold Steady, Brooklyn punks The So So Glos have shared an apocalyptic new music video for ‘Diss Town’.

In addition, the band will play five headline shows finishing with a date at London’s Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen on 28th October. If you’re not yet familiar with The So So Glos’ pure DIY ethic, watch their fantastic documentary Who The F#@% Are The So So Glos? here.

October Dates
* w/ The Hold Steady
^ Headline show

12th Portsmouth – Wedgewood Rooms*
13th Bristol – Academy*
14th Newcastle – Riverside*
15th Glasgow – ABC*
17th Belfast – Limelight 2*
18th Dublin – Academy*
19th Manchester – Academy 2*
21st London – Koko*
22nd Birmingham – Academy 2*
23rd Sheffield – City Hall*
24th Milton Keynes – Crauford Arms^
25th Leeds – Temple of Boom^
26th Chester – The Compass^
27th Wakefield – The Hop^
28th London – Hoxton Square Bar & Kitchen^

Love playing old records? Some people love the hiss and the crackle of dust that sits in the grooves, it adds nostaglia and feels real compared to most of our over compressed files that we listen to on pocket devices these days. But for those who would prefer to listen to their favourite albums in pristine condition there’s a simple solution: Wood glue.

Watch this video from a blogger who found that coating wood glue on your vinyl removes every speck of dust and changes the clarity of your favourite records back to when you bought them.

Make sure the edges are covered with enough thickness of the glue though, or you’ll be trying to get small pieces of segmented glue out of the lead in/lead out grooves.

First London, then Seatlle and now the Wire curated DRILL: FESTIVAL is headed for Brighton. December 4th – 7th will see a huge selection of incredible bands, film makers and artists doing their thing across 14 of Brighton’s music venues.

The event will feature a one-off collaboration between WIRE and SWANS, uniting to perform an extended rendition of the infamous Wire track, ‘Drill’. As well as an appearence from the ‘Pinkflag Guitar Orchestra’ which sees Wire joined onstage by collaborators old and new to play an extended and improvised version of ‘Pink flag’ at ear splitting volume. In addition to these exciting prospects, DRILL: BRIGHTON will also host performances from Courtney Barnet, Toy, The Wytches, Savages, Telegram, God Damn and many others soon to be announced.

Tickets go on sale from Friday September 19th here.

Nightmare Festival is where Camden High Street comes alive. Saturday November 1st will see Camdens iconic stretch of music venues taken over by the likes of Blood Red Shoes, Howling Bells, InMe, The Hell, Hawk Eyes, Guy McNight and many others for a raucous Halloween celebration. Check out the line up below.

Organiser Chris McCormack says “Camden goes mad for Halloween. People really get into the spirit of it. We recently sold over 7000 tickets for our sister event Camden Rocks in May and imagined how much fun it would be if we got everybody, including the bands, to dress up and party the day and night away at the biggest Halloween party London has ever seen!”

Head to www.nightmarecamden.com to get your early bird tickets while they’re cheap.

London trio White Sands have revealed a new track from their upcoming 7″.

‘Expect Nothing’ follows suit with the same fuzzy thickness as debut track ‘The Wait’, whilst fusing in a marvelously monotonous bassline that wouldn’t sound out of place in a track by fellow three-pieceTense Men.

Stream ‘Expect Nothing’ below and purchase their debut 7″ form October 6th via Art Is Hard.