DJ Signify has announced details on his new album.
Of Cities will be released via Bully Records in early 2009 and features a guest spot from Aesop Rock. You can check out the track Low Tide on Signify’s MySpace by clicking the link below or go to Aesop Rock’s MySpace to hear another track with the two of them called Dirt.
Bloc Party will release new single ‘One Month Off‘ on 26th January 2009.
The single coincides with the bands UK tour in January. This will be the band’s first UK tour since December 2007.
January 2009
25 – Glasgow, Academy
26 – Glasgow, Academy
28 -Manchester, Apollo
29 – Manchester, Apollo
31 – Wolverhampton, Civic
February
01 – Wolverhampton, Civic
April
11 – London, Olympia
12 – London, Olympia
Single Fins And Safety Pins is the new single by Japanese Motors and will be released on December 1st through Vice Recordings.
Check out the video here:
Check out the video from ‘Young Bloods‘ by The Bronx. Pick the album January 26 2009.
The Gaslight Anthem are to release new single Old White Lincoln on December 1st.
The New Jersey band have lifted the single from this year’s sophomore album The ’59 Sound and will be hitting some cities in the UK in December to promote it:
1st – London, Vans Store (signing session)
3rd – Glasgow, Garage
4th – Manchester, Academy 3
5th – London, LA2
Check out the video below to get more insight into the group:
Parkway Drive
Unearth
Despised Icon
Architects
Protest The Hero
Whitechapel
Carnifex
The Forum, London
15.11.08
5pm is a little too early for Metal in my eyes, so I headed to the venue just in time for Protest The Hero. Their technical riffs and intricate alterations of tempo were somewhat lost in the ether of The Forum, but they definitely set the stage for the evening through a succession of new album bangers including ‘Bloodmeat‘. Older material was somewhat lacking but a good proportion of the crowd was loving their work.
Architects were up next and they totally dominated proceedings with a barrage of gritty breakdowns and a stage presence so fearsome that everyone in the venue was rapt. They may not be as accomplished in the beard stakes as some of the metal aficionados present tonight but they know how to put on a gripping performance and the feeling was one of excitement as the only British band on the bill commanded one of the best receptions of the night.
Despised Icon were not such a brilliant prospect with their emphasis being on a churning out of pummeling bass drum excess as the meatheads in the crowd took up residence at the front of the venue. It seemed that this is a band being heavy for the sake of it and having little in the way of riff-based content, or any melodic interest at all for that matter.
Unearth whack things back up a gear with a performance that ripped through the venue like a hurricane and that was most certainly not void of musicality as was the case with the band before.
Australians Parkway Drive‘s metallic hardcore has won them many an admirer on UK shores and they are, in fact, no strangers to this very tour having been main support to Comeback Kid on last year’s edition. They certainly deserved their spot at the top of the bill this year with a hefty crowd in the palm of their collective hand. Parkway Drive culminated proceedings in the best of style with riffs aplenty, brutally intense vocals and insanely speedy rhythms pelting out from behind the drum-kit.
The Altamont Never Say Die! Tour was a must for metal fans across Europe and will go down as one of the best tours of the year in its genre. No doubt.
Winey G.
Flying Lotus has pulled out of his UK show this Friday.
Fly Lo has had a death in the family and as such won’t be performing, but the night has now moved to The Rhythm Factory and sees The Gaslamp Killer performing with edIT, Glitch Mob, Lone/Memory 9 and MLR. You can check this hench line up out on Friday 21st.
Our mate Solid Gold knows how to throw a party and he’s gone all out this Christmas.
The first of the two comes on December 12th and features DJ MK, Seb Chew, Matt, Tolfrey, Love Theory, Miami Bryce, Solo, This & That, Nasty McQuaid, Oli Dab & Robin and Solid Gold & Park Ranger.
Following that, on December 20th comes the big one, check this out for a line up: Hervé, Trevor Loveys, Disco Of Doom, Hijack, Solid Gold & Park Ranger, Oli Dab & Robin, Zomby, Boy 8-Bit, Reso, High Rankin, The White Suge Knight, The Boog-A-Loo Crew and Digital vs Analogue Silent Disco.
Get your tickets at www.wegottickets.com.
Sway will hit four dates in the UK to finish up his Campus Tour in the UK.
The dates for the Urban Music Awards’ Best Hip Hop Artist are:
18 Nov – Sheffield – SU, Tuesday Club
20 Nov – Bristol – Syndicate
21 Nov – Warwick – Warwick Uni, Hustle
28 Nov – Nottingham – Detonate at Stealth
Bonnie Prince Billy will release his new album in March 2009.
Beware! will feature Dee Alexander, Leroy Bach, Jim Becker, Robert Cruz, DV DeVincentis, Jon Langford, Greg Leisez, Rob Mazurek, Nicole Mitchell and Azita Youseffi and the tracklisting is:
Beware Tracklisting:
1. Beware Your Only Friend
2. You Can’t Hurt Me Now
3. My Life’s Work
4. Death Final
5. Heart’s Arms
6. You Don’t Love Me
7. You Are Lost
8. I Won’t Ask Again
9. I Don’t Belong to Anyone
10. There Is Something I Have To Say
11. I Am Goodbye
12. Without Work, You Have Nothing
13. Untitled