The Aquabats have posted a quick update online.
The band will be heading out on tour across the States but will make a one-off stop in London at the Islington Academy on July 8th to play a show with Sonic Boom Six.
In addition to this, the band will be recording a new record very shortly and have asked fans to send in song titles so that the winning entries get picked for the new record.
A rap supergroup has recently formed featuring Kanye West, Pharrell and Lupe Fiasco according to reports.
Recently Lupe said he was working with a “superstar rapper and someone who is a rapper/producer” in what he called a “top secret project” and this group, Chicago Runs Shit, looks likely to be what he was talking about.
Their mixtape Can’t Tell Me Nothing‘s details were revealed over the weekend and the first song from it is Us Placers, which samples Thom Yorke’s The Eraser.
The Cult are to bring out a new album this year through Roadrunner Records, in conjunction with the band’s own imprint, New Wilderness.
The as-yet-untitled album is likely to be released in September of this year and is being recorded in London with producer Youth.
The band, led by founding members Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy will be supporting The Who on their European tour next month and will be adding headline dates along the way.
Thrash kings Municipal Waste will be hitting the UK in August.
The band will be playing these shores as part of their European tour to support their upcoming album The Art Of Partying, out on June 11. They will be supported on the UK dates by SSS [except Newcastle] and the Liverpool show will also see Evile join the bill.
August:
5th – Southampton Joiners
6th – Newcastle Cluny
7th – Liverpool Barfly
8th – Glasgow King Tuts
9th – Sheffield DNR
10th – London Underworld
Turbonegro will be releasing their new album Retox on June 13th.
To get you in the mood for this release, they have put up a video for a track from the album called Do You Dig Destruction. To check out that video, click here.
They have also uploaded a new mp3 from the record called We’re Gonna Drop The Atom Bomb and you can listen to that here. The tracklisting for the new album is:
1. We’re Gonna Drop The Atom Bomb
2. Welcome To The Garbage Dump
3. Hell Toupée
4. Stroke The Shaft
5. No, I’m Alpha Male
6. Do You Do You Dig Destruction
7. I Wanna Come
8. You Must Bleed/All Night Long
9. Hot And Filthy
10. Every Body Loves A Chubby Dude
11. What Is Rock?!
Go Kart Records have announced the signing of Banner Pilot.
The Minneapolis punk band have been likened to Jawbreaker, The Lawrence Arms and Alkaline Trio. The band formed in 2005 and released an EP called Pass The Poison last year.
More details are forthcoming but until then you can check them out at the myspace address below.
Maximo Park have announced a new UK tour for October following the success of their last tour.
Tickets for the tour go on sale on June 1st at 9am and the tour will feature support from Good Shoes. The band will also release Books From Boxes, taken from their recently released album Our Earthly Pleasures, on June 11th. The tour dates are:
October:
2nd – Glasgow Barrowlands
3rd – Dundee Caird Hall
5th – Doncaster Dome
6th – Manchester Apollo
7th – Cambridge Corn Exchange
8th – Portsmouth Guildhall
10th – Wolverhampton Civic Hall
11th – London Brixton Academy
12th – London Brixton Academy
December:
15th – Newcastle Metro Radio Arena
It was nearly a year ago that I first clapped eyes on Gallows, supporting zombie-core pioneers Send More Paramedics at the Kingston Peel. I hadn’t really heard about them before, and was impressed by their onstage intensity.
It wasn’t until I wrapped my ears around their recently-released ‘Orchestra Of Wolves‘ debut that I truly fell in love with this bunch of self-proclaimed ‘skinny kids from Watford’. Fast forward a few months, and Frank Carter’s crew are now – quite rightly – the talk of the town, thanks to the aforementioned record and a slew of truly blistering live shows.
If you haven’t yet acquainted yourself with ‘Orchestra Of Wolves‘, then you’re in luck; because it will shortly be re-released on Warners. Not only do you get the original album in all its twisted hardcore/rock n’ roll glory, but there’s also a bonus CD that features live tracks, a couple of new songs, and an excellent Black Flag cover. A pretty sweet deal, all told.
You can check out new single ‘Abandon Ship‘ on the link above. As anthems to doomed romances go, it’ll take some beating, and is best experienced in the live setting – where it’s guaranteed to get an already volatile pit to go that little bit crazier. “Mayday”? Mayhem, more like.
Alex Gosman
There are some record labels that you can always trust to deliver the goods.
Before the wonderful invention of the internet made it easy for us to hear every bad we could possibly ever want to check out, we trusted labels to feed us with good music, buying everything the likes of Sub Pop, Dischord, Epitaph and many more put our way and they rarely let us down.
Ecstatic Peace, run by Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth fame, is one of these labels, issuing a never ending stream of strange and challenging records.
Black Helicopter are remarkably more accessible than many other releases on Ecstatic Peace. They’re a comfortable listen, taking me back to the early nineties when the twisted indie sounds of Pavement, Small 23, Big Trouble House, Archers Of Loaf and Built To Spill were making some of the most exciting and addictive records of the period. Their sound is dark and quirky yet the songs are gorgeously melodic and accessible, propelled by layers of explosive Sonic Youth guitars.
Perfect Boston indie rock. Get it.
Sebadoh are to re-issue their album The Freed Man on June 25th.
The album, which sees Lou Barlow and Eric Gaffney’s work re-mastered, will feature a mammoth 52 tracks, many of which have never been heard before. With the success of the re-issue of III last year, this is definitely going to be one to pick up.