Category: Music

Roots Manuva has announced a new UK tour, set to take place in October.

The tour will feature material from his upcoming album Slime And Reason which is released on August 25th. The dates are:

7th – Gateshead Sage 2
8th – Edinburgh Liquid Room
9th – Glasgow Arches
11th – Manchester Warehouse
12th – Nottingham Rock City
13th – Coventry Kasbah
15th – Preston Club 53
16th – Sheffield Plug
17th – Birmingham Academy 2
18th – London Shepherds Bush Empire
21st – Brighton Concorde
22nd – Cambridge Junction
23rd – Bristol Anson Rooms
24th – Exeter Lemon Grove
25th – Plymouth University

www.rootsmanuva.co.uk

Snoop Dogg has remixed a Johnny Cash song.

The cover of I Walk The Line will appear on Johnny Cash Remixed, an album featuring songs licensed from Cash’s first label, Sun Records. The compilation has been produced by Cash’s song who said:

“[Johnny Cash] would have loved this remix record. While it stays true to the original recordings, this CD touches on undiscovered ground. This is what my father was about: staying true to tradition while creating groundbreaking new music.”

The album is due out in October.

www.johnnycash.com

Pendulum are releasing their new single The Other Side on July 28th.

You can check out the video by clicking the links below:

Quicktime
http://streamos.warnermusic.com/qtime/wmiuk/pendulum/otherside_hi.mov
http://streamos.warnermusic.com/qtime/wmiuk/pendulum/otherside_lo.mov

Windows Media
http://streamos.warnermusic.com/wmedia/wmiuk/pendulum/otherside_hi.wvx
http://streamos.warnermusic.com/wmedia/wmiuk/pendulum/otherside_lo.wvx

Real Media
http://streamos.warnermusic.com/real/wmiuk/pendulum/otherside_hi.ram
http://streamos.warnermusic.com/real/wmiuk/pendulum/otherside_lo.ram

www.myspace.com/pendulum

Bloc Party have put their new single online.

Mercury can be heard on their MySpace and will be released independent of an album, as Flux was. The band are working on the album now with singer Kele Okereke saying:

“We’re in the middle of it. we’re still writing and working on it so it’s quite hard to have an overview really, we are making the record i always wanted us to make so we just can’t wait for it to be done.

www.myspace.com/blocparty

The Strokes are planning to record a new album in 2009.

Albert Hammond Jr. of the band recently said that they hadn’t got anything set but they were “figuring something to do” in the next year. He went on to say:

“If we don’t make a Strokes record before that, people will think that’s the end of us.

www.thestrokes.com

N.E.R.D will play three UK dates in August.

Pharrell Williams and his mates will be hitting Sheffield Academy [18th], Birmingham Academy [19th] and Manchester Academy [20th], with new album Seeing Sounds’ material due to be played.

www.myspace.com/nerdofficial

Joker is set to release new single Holly Brook Park later this month.

The dubstep producer who released Gully Brook Lane earlier this year as well as remixing the likes of Simian Mobile Disco and Roni Size, will put his new single out on Bristol’s Kapsize. The 12″ will be a double A-side release with the track 80s backing Holly Brook Park.

www.myspace.com/thejokerproductions

Portishead will work on a new album this year.

This is one of the reasons that the band are not playing any more live shows for the rest of the year. Adrian Utley confirmed that the band wanted to work on a new album so fans didn’t have a huge wait after Third. He went on to say:

“We got together the other night discussing stuff and getting a bit of a plan together. We’re all gonna be doing stuff. We’ve finished our touring for this album for this year because of things that we want to do.”

www.portishead.co.uk

Lil’ Wayne is planning to launch his own brand of champagne later this year.

The rapper, who released Tha Carter III earlier this year which sold one million copies in its first week, will call his bubbly Halo and will be released in four types -Halo Brut, Halo Brut Vintage, Halo Rose and Halo Pinnacle. Abjekt is delirious over this news and he doesn’t even drink, praise indeed.

www.myspace.com/lilwayne

Funeral For A Friend are releasing one half of their new double A-side single as a free download.

Waterfront Dance Club, which is paired with Beneath The Burning Tree, will be available for free download from July 14th. The double A-side vinyl will be released on the same day and the album Memory And Humanity will be released on October 13th.

Make sure you get it from www.waterfrontdanceclub.com