Category: Music

The ‘Pimp My Pak’ competition is Eastpak’s challenge to concert-goers to test their creativity to the max. At each date of the UK leg of the Eastpak Antidote Tour, fans are being encouraged to bring along their very own customized Eastpak backpacks.

Eastpak are of course famed for their backpack design but they want to see what the British public can do to make them extra special. So, get out your sewing kit, paints and best artistic imagination to the ready and have a go at making your own backpack stand out amongst the crowd. At each date, special Eastpak representatives will be keeping an eagle eye out for those who’ve made the most effort and they’ll pick one very lucky winner who’ll receive assorted goodies from Eastpak and the bands involved as well as the chance to meet and get their picture taken with Flogging Molly and Street Dogs after the show! What more could you want?

It’s been another big year for the Rizla Invisible Players and to round off this year’s tour, a big night is being plotted in the Capital. On Friday 14th November, ‘The Rizla End of Year Party‘ is set to go off at East Village, Shoreditch, London.

In the main room, getting proceedings underway are much-hyped London pair Heartbreak who’ll be treating us to a rare DJ set. Upstairs, two of London’s legendary record labels go head to head, Autodisco DJ’s and Invisible Player Greg Wilson will provide the soundtrack to this club night.

Friday 14th November, East Village:

Upstairs:

9.00 – 11.30 The Heavenly Jukebox vs. 1965 Soundsystem
11.00 – 1.00 Autodisco DJs (Dicky Trisco & iamelectron)
1.00 – 3.00 Greg Wilson

Downstairs:

9.30 -11.30 Heartbreak DJ set
11.30 – 1.30 Stuart Patterson
1.30 – 4.00 Derrick Carter

Check out this intense video for the brand new single ‘Hope’ from Failsafe, which will be released November 3rd. it was directed by Craig Young and is taken from the album ‘The Truth Is…’ – available on Smalltown Records, Nov 10th.

‘Hope’

Black Market will release their debut album on November 10th.

The Elephant In The Room will be released through No Office Records. The band will be playing a one-off live show at The Metro in London on November 3rd to showcase their new material before heading off to Europe to perform as the main support act for The Subways tour.

The tracklisting is:

1. Magic Tricks
2. Night In Question
3. Sheila
4. Sooner Or Later
5. An Alibi Can’t Give Me A Place To Go
6. White Lie
7. Remote [Control Freak]
8. Bad Call
9. Permanent You
10. Drag Addict
11. Ctrl Alt Del
12. Out Of Order

www.myspace.com/blackmarketaz

Grog-merchant Caspa has put a free mix online.

The mix, which is a promo mix for London’s Fabric superclub, is to celebrate the Dub Police takeover at the club’s Room 3 for Halloween. Click here to get the download, the tracklisting is below:

1. Caspa – My Pet Monster – Digital Sound Boy
2. Klaxtons – Its Not Over – Skream Remix
3. Rusko – Mr Muscle – Sub Soldiers
4. Caspa – Louder VIP – Sub Soldiers
5. Caspa – Floor Them – Digital Sound Boy
6. Emalkay – Explicit – Dub Police
7. Sub Scape – Transaction – Dub Police
8. The Others – Africa VIP – Dub Police
9. Unitz – Wait A Minute – Dub Police
10. Rusko – Jahova – Sub Soldiers
11. Caspa – The Terminator – Sub Soldiers
12. TC – Where’s My Money – Caspa Remix – Dstyle
13. Skream – Fick – Tempa

www.fabriclondon.com / www.myspace.com/caspadubstep

Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster have posted a new video online.

The video, for the track The Day Hell Broke Loose At Sicard Hollow, can be seen by clicking here: www.hurley.com/blog.cfm/aid/25186. The band are planning to release a new album in 2009.

http://www.myspace.com/mayleneandthesonsofdisaster

The Cancer Bats have come to destroy.

Fueled by a burning desire to rage harder, play louder and have more fun than any other band, Cancer Bats mix hardcore, southern metal, and punk rock into a lethal rock and roll explosion.

Hail Destroyer will be in stores and online in April.

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy is set to release a new album titled ‘Is It The Sea?’ with Harem Scarem and Alex Neilson

Is It The Sea? captures, in remarkable clarity, performances from the Bonnie Prince’s sold out tour of Scotland and Ireland (and Newcastle) in the Spring of 2006. The tour found Billy in the company of Edinburgh’s Harem Scarem on close harmonies, fiddle, flute, banjo and accordion and Glasgow’s wunderkind Alex Neilson on drums and percussion

Is It the Sea? is released by Domino this week.

The ‘Pimp My Pak’ competition is Eastpak’s challenge to concert-goers to test their creativity to the max. At each date, special Eastpak representatives will be keeping an eagle eye out for those who’ve made the most effort to customize their own eastpak, they’ll pick one very lucky winner who’ll receive assorted goodies from Eastpak and the bands involved, as well as the chance to meet and get their picture taken with Flogging Molly and Street Dogs after the show! What more could you want?

Tickets are on sale now, bring your pimped out backpack to one of the following UK dates to be in with a chance of winning.

UK Dates:

02-Nov UK Newcasle Academy

03-Nov UK Glasgow Barrowlands

05-Nov UK London Astoria

06-Nov UK Manchester Academy

07-Nov IRL Dublin Ambassador

08-Nov UK Birmingham Academy

09-Nov UK Bristol Academy