Mike the 2600 King has released a new mix online.
The Minneapolis artist extraordinaire [check out www.burlesquedesign.com for his amaznig work] recently unleased an hour long mix of funk, electro, disco and more online. Check it out by clicking right here.
CSS will release their new album Donkey on July 21st.
You can pick up the track Rat Is Dead [Rage] free on their site. The first single to be released properly will be Left Behind on July 14th. The full track listing is:
‘Jåger Yoga’
‘Rat is Dead (Rage)’
‘Reggae All Night’
‘Give Up’
‘Left Behind’
‘Beautiful Song’
‘How I Became Paranoid’
‘Move’
‘I Fly’
‘Believe Achieve’
‘Air Painter’
The Strokes are gearing up for work on a new album.
The band’s last album, First Impressions Of Earth, was released in January 2006 and the band haven’t done anything since they completed touring in support of that record. However, bassist Nikolai Fraiture has said:
“I’d like to say that I’m still looking very forward to a fourth album release. We just need to work out a few technical kinks…It’s been a long break but much needed for us to remain together as a productive band”.
Enter Shikari have announced details of a new UK tour.
The band, who are currently writing new material, will be playing the following dates:
September:
30th – Underworld, London
October:
2nd – Cambridge Corn Exchange
3rd – Hull University
4th – Nottingham Rock City
5th – Keele University
7th – Oxford Academy
8th – St Albans Arena
9th – Norwich UEA
10th – Peterborough Cresset
11th – Hastings White Rock Theatre
13th – Middlesborough Town Hall
14th – Liverpool Academy
15th – Dublin Ambassador
16th – Cork Savoy theatre
17th – Belfast Mandela Hall
19th – Inverness Ironworks
20th – Dundee Fat Sams
21st – Edinburgh University (Potterow)
23rd – Newport Centre
24th – Bath Pavilion
26th – Llandudno Arena
27th – Bournemouth Solent Hall
29th – Exeter Great hall
30th – Southampton Guildhall
31st – Folkestone Leas Cliff Hall
November:
2nd, 3rd, 4th – London Mean Fiddler
Damon Albarn has revealed that he plans to release a new album in July.
The Blur frontman, who recently performed with The Good The Bad And The Queen at London’s Love Music Hate Racism Festival, has said that the new record will feature a Chinese choir and an orchestra, with over 120 people featured. He hinted that it might have somethnig to do with his recent opera Monkey: Journey To The West but saying that the project’s title had “something of monkeys in there”.
The Fall of Troy are bringing their insane live show to the UK for a series of headline dates. How much noise can three people make? A lot.
Monday June 9 – Kingston The Peel
Tuesday June 10 – Liverpool Barfly
Wednesday June 11 – Southhampton Joiners
Thursday June 12 – Newport TJ’s
Modern emo pioneers Taking Back Sunday have announced a date on 21st August at the London Astoria 2.
The band play Reading festival the next day. A glimpse of new material perhaps…?
Christ almighty. Cancer Bats have never exactly been musical lightweights, but even the bass-heavy hardcore rumblings of their excellent 2006 debut ‘Birthing The Giant‘ couldn’t prepare me for the sheer size and ferocity of ‘Hail Destroyer‘. It’s as if the Canadian quartet have put themselves through the musical equivalent of a boot camp, and emerged sounding heavier, yet also leaner and more muscular than ever before.
Guitarist Scott Middleton has upped his riff ante into the Stratosphere, and the rest of the band are no slackers either; vocalist Liam Cormier roaring like an insane lion throughout. And whilst the band’s hardcore roots are by no means severed, it would be inadequate to describe ‘Hail Destroyer’ as a great hardcore record. Genres be damned, it’s a great record, full stop. Check out the title track on the link above, especially if you’re feeling a bit sleepy at work, and need something to blast away the cobwebs with the force of a jet-propelled nuclear warhead.
When this lot aren’t in the studio, they’re usually out on the road; and sure enough, they’ll be over here to level UK venues next month. Get in on the action at the following shows:
MAY:
Mon 12th – Cardiff, Barfly
Tue 13th – Birmingham, Barfly
Wed 14th – Glasgow, Barfly
May 15th – York, Fibbers
May 16th – Cambridge, Barfly
May 17th – Brighton, The Great Escape festival May 18th – Leeds, Cockpit May 19th – Nottingham, Old Angel May 20th – Sheffield, Corporation May 21st – Manchester, Satan’s Hollow May 22nd – London, Camden Barfly
Alex Gosman
with The Plight
Camden Barfly
11/4/08
Ah, aren’t Barfly tours just the best? The chance to see your heroes in tiny venues, packed in there like a bunch of sweaty sardines…all in the name of some bleedin’ good rock and roll. And talking of good rock and roll, main (and only) support The Plight provide the perfect appetizer to tonight’s headliners. Every song may sound remarkably similar but their Every Time I Die-infused punk-tinged rock and roll is intriguingly fun to watch. Being on Visible Noise Records alongside giants such as Lostprophets and Bring Me The Horizon is clearly doing them no harm so expect to see them on more high-profile support slots as they come.
As good as The Plight were, there is clearly only one band the people are here to see tonight. Having already toured their latest album ‘Versions‘ last year (in support of Gallows) it means that tonight is more of a greatest hits set as opposed to a ‘let’s plug the new album as much as we can‘ set. Which is great news for all concerned, as they play roughly around three to four tracks off of all four of their albums. Poison The Well are the type of band who absolutely soar in venues like this and tonight they live up to this by sounding fan-bloody-tastic. Old hits such as ‘12/23/93‘ are greeted with some serious pit action whilst newer, brooding tracks such as ‘Nagaina‘ provide some thankful respite without losing any energy. Whilst it is obvious everyone is waiting for fan-favourite ‘Nerdy‘ (as is apparent from the mass stage invasion when it does come) tonight Poison The Well show once again how well they can transfer their much-varied albums to the live setting.
Nick Calafato
Portishead‘s new album Third is available to stream.
You can check out the new opus by clicking here. Check it out before the release date this coming Monday 28th April.