Gogol Bordello will be rolling into the UK for a tour in December.
The gypsy punks will support their new album Super Taranta! on an 8 date tour:
8th – London Hammersmith Apollo
10th – Brighton Dome
11th – Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
13th – Glasgow ABC
14th – Norwich UEA
15th – Nottingham Rock City
16th – Manchester Academy
18th – Sheffield Leadmill
Every Time I Die have posted a new track from their upcoming album.
No Son Of Mine is taken from The Big Dirty which is slated for an early September release as the follow up to 2005’s Gutter Phenomenon. It’s a belting track, so stick it on!
Social Distortion have recently spoken about their new record.
Mike Ness of the band said that they were between studio albums, following the release of their Greatest Hits and the new track Far Behind. He said they’ve a dozen songs that didn’t make the last record and went on to say:
“I have demos from 1994 that I’m revisiting — great ideas that didn’t get finished. You know, maybe they needed a better chorus or something. Also, I just want to create some new stuff entirely.”
Electric Ballroom
11.07.07
“C’mon people, get down the front – it’s bad enough that there’s this barrier here!” growls Animosity vocalist Leo Miller to the largely static throng – and he has a point. A great hardcore show demands the kind of intimacy and audience participation that, tonight, is hindered both physically and atmospherically by the unnecessary presence of a crowd barrier at the front. And as if that wasn’t bad enough, the Electric Ballroom’s hit-and-miss acoustics aren’t doing Animosity’s furiously technical death metal assault any favours, either.
Thankfully, the sound improves for Rise And Fall, who deservedly make several new friends tonight with their more stripped-down, punk rock approach. You can’t help but admire vocalist Bjorn’s enthusiasm as he rasps his way through some truly punishing breakdowns. 108 don’t have as much to say for themselves, preferring instead to channel an onslaught of Deftones-esque riffage through a hardcore blender – albeit with varied levels of success.
Converge, as always, give it their all, although Jake Bannon clearly shares the crowd’s annoyance regarding the barrier. Less his usual tattooed whirlwind self, he mainly just stalks the stage like a caged tiger, unable to engage with his prey in the way that he’s accustomed to doing so.
Granted, there’s no shortage of ferocity in the music itself – the likes of ‘Black Cloud’, ‘Hellbound’ and ‘Concubine’ are pretty much the last word in brutally twisted, polyrhythmic hardcore – but when several punters choose to head for the exit rather than witness the jaw-dropping finale of ‘Jane Doe’, it’s hard not to contemplate just how amazing this show could have been in a more suitable venue.
Alex Gosman
Photo by Ryan Russell, taken from www.myspace.com/converge
Scroobius Pip v Dan Le Sac
Scala
18.07.07
Scroobius is following me around. I don’t think he likes me slating him in reviews and so turns up as the support act for every hip hop show I go to just to spite me. Even when I took refuge in the bar, the man’s voice was attacking me over the speakers. Bastard. So after half an hour of putting my fingers in my ears and going “lalala I CAN’T HEAR YOU”, he was done and RJ was soon on stage with his band.
RJ’s latest album, The Third Hand, was a big step away from his hip hop roots and it was interesting to see how it would adapt to a live setting, and, though it wasn’t bad, the new songs with the band felt a little pedestrian compared to the older stuff he played. That said, hearing Exotic Talk, from Since We Last Spoke with live guitars and drums gave it that extra lift and pumped heads all over the show.
However, unsurprisingly it was the tracks from Deadringer that made the night as special as it was. Leaving the front of the stage to man the decks at the back, RJ burst out of the blocks with Ghostwriter and later did a great little turntable session where Smoke & Mirrors was laid down and The Horror, which followed a Scooby Doo intro, blared out across the packed out Scala.
“Who knows what tomorrow may bring” sings the sample, and the answer, we all wish, is another RJD2 show.
Abjekt
Photo by Paul Williams.
The location that has been described as “the birthplace of Hip Hop” is hoping to be preserved after an application to make it a historic landmark was approved.
The Sedgwick Building hosted parties where DJ Kool Herc played sets which spawned the foundation of the Hip Hop culture and has been namechecked in tracks by the likes of Nas in the recent past. Herc himself called for the preservation of the building, so let’s hope the authorities pay attention and keep the historic building exactly how it should be kept!
The Bled have said their new album will be called Silent Treatment.
The new record will be out in September and follows up Found In The Flood from 2005. The band have also re-issued their debut full length Pass The Flask. The tracklisting for the new album:
1. Shadetree Mechanics
2. You Should Be Ashamed Of Myself
3. Threes Away
4. Asleep On The Frontlines
5. Platonic Sleepover Massacre
6. Starving Artiste
7. The Silver Lining
8. Some Just Vanish
9. Breathing Room Barricades
10. Beheaded My Way
11. My Bitter Half
Epoxies have posted a new song on their MySpace.
My New World is on the 5 track EP, which is their first release for Metropolis Records. The band, who recently put out an EP through another label, with two 7″s, are currently working on the full length album which is expected to be released later this year.
They’re hip. They’re cool. They make music that you shouldn’t be ashamed to like. Right, that’ll do for the spiel, pimp the new Chromeo video for Tenderoni.
The Decemberists have announced a UK tour.
The band, who released The Crane Wife earlier this year, will be playing shows in October, the dates being:
2nd – London, Royal Festival Hall
3rd – Cambridge, Junction
5th – Wolverhampton, Wulfren Hall
6th – Bristol, Anson Rooms
7th – Oxford, Academy
9th – Dublin, Vicar Street
10th – Liverpool, Academy
11th – Newcastle, Academy
12th – Glasgow, Academy
13th – Leeds, Metropolitan University