Category: Music

An NME poll has revealed that Nirvana‘s 1992 Reading Festival performance was their best moment.

The poll, which coincides with what would have been Kurt Cobain’s 40th birthday, saw the festival set feature at the top spot, just above their MTV Unplugged set and Smells Like Teen Spirit.

Other events which made the top 10 include the band singing the wrong words to a song on Top Of The Pops and the band’s performance on the legendary TV show The Word.

The full top 10 is:

1. Reading Festival 1992
2. MTV Unplugged
3. ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’
4. Singing the wrong words on ‘Top Of The Pops’
5. ‘Nevermind’ knocking Michael Jackson off the top of the US charts
6. The band’s performance on ‘The Word’
7. The ‘Nevermind’ album cover
8. ‘Come As You Are’
9. Starting a food fight and getting thrown out of the ‘Nevermind’ launch party
10. Pretending to be Madonna’s representatives and crank calling The Lemonheads

www.nme.com / www.nirvana.com

A number of groups are opposing plan to modernise the UK’s nuclear weapons.

Razorlight, Thom Yorke, Ian Brown, Bloc Party and Snow Patrol are amongst those who have signed a CND statement which is against Tony Blair spending a ton of money on updating the country’s weapons.

Kele Okereke from Bloc Party added that spending billions would bring us nearer to “global catastrophe” whilst Ian Brown claimed political leaders were “hypocrites and warmongers”.

www.cnduk.org

Busta Rhymes is mulling over a guilty plea to save getting prison time.

Rapper Busta has already rejected an offer of six months in prison on two assault charges, but is currently thinking over a guilty plea for a lesser charge that will mean having to serve no time.

He was offered a plea of third-degree assault by the judge which means he’d get off of jail time in exchange for community service and anger management classes.

He is accused of beating his former driver over back pay and another charge against a fan who spat on his car.

www.bustarhymes.com

Funeral For A Friend have announced their latest set of UK tour dates.

The band go on tour in May to support their upcoming album Tales Don’t Tell Themselves, with tickets going on sale this Saturday [24th]. The dates are:

May:

13th – Bristol Academy
14th – Nottingham Rock City
15th – Leeds University
17th – Glasgow Academy
18th – Manchester Apollo
19th – London Brixton Academy
21st – Portsmouth Guildhall
23rd – Cambridge Corn Exchange
24th – Birmingham Academy
25th – Newcastle Academy
27th – Derry Nerve Centre
28th – Belfast Mandela Hall
29th – Dublin Ambassador

www.funeralforafriend.com

Roller Disco is lighting up King’s Cross and is now blasting its way to South London too.

The ever popular Roller Disco events in King’s Cross on a Thursday sees rowdy rollers doing their thing in fancy dress to the best in funk, disco house and DnB over 3 indoor arenas. And now the finest rollers in the South can experience it too as it spreads its wings to Vauxhall:

Renaissance Rooms, Vauxhall, London SW8 1SD
Fridays, 8pm – 2am and Saturdays 8pm – 2am
£12.50 including skate hire

South London DJ line up: Dj Louise, Mik Arnold, Martyboy, Mikey Mac, Dj Louise, Soulfull Darco , Steve Feelgood (on rotation)

Canvas, Kings Cross Goods Yard, London, N1 0UZ
Thursdays 8pm – midnight and Fridays 8pm – 2am
Thursdays: £10.00, Fridays: £12.50 both include skate hire

North London DJ line up: Dj Stefan, Dj Dorothea, Steve B, Roland London, Sam Starlight, Vladimir P, Adrian Alaisay, Anton Priestnal, D’Lambert, Barnaby, Fashion Andy, Soulfull Darco (on rotation)

www.rollerdisco.info

Dinosaur Jr’s J Mascis will play a solo show in London next week.

The acoustic set will be held at London’s Metro and he will be playing some older Dinosaur Jr tracks as well as some new material from the upcoming Beyond album.

The gig will mainly be for competition winners but there will be a few tickets on the door, the night of the show.

The new album has been heard by some of Crossfire’s friends who are heavily into their music and they tell us that its brilliant and fans of the band will definitely not be disappointed.

www.dinosaurjr.com

The first set of bands have been confirmed for this year’s Don’t Look Back gigs in London.

Sonic Youth, The House Of Love and Slint will be performing a classic album in its entirety. Slint will be the first up, on August 22nd at Koko where they’ll play Spiderland.

Sonic Youth will be play the Roundhouse on August 31st to perform Daydream Nation in full.

The House Of Love will be at Koko on September 13th to play their self titled debut.

www.sonicyouth.com / www.slint.us

Ian MacKaye did an in depth interview with The Onion recently and spoke, amongst other things, about Fugazi being used in the World Series:

“It is reassuring to know that, despite all the attempts of the major labels and ad industry to control all of music, that something so totally independent can still pop up to the surface. I kind of get a kick out of it.”

He also spoke on how frustrating it was for Fugazi to play in bigger venues, claiming he felt bigger PA systems gave him a “voice of God” problem. He went on to say:

“Also, when you have a room that big and so many people in it, the people in the back of the room are having a completely different experience than the people in the front of the room.”

If you want to check out the entire interview, then click here.

www.dischord.com

The Rapture will be playiung a UK tour starting at the end of this week to support their new single W.A.Y.U.H (People Don’t Dance No More). Tickets are now on sale and the dates are:

February:

28th – London, Astoria

March:

2nd – Manchester, Academy
3rd – Dublin, Tripod
4th – Glasgow, ABC
5th – Leeds Met University
7th – Bristol, Academy
8th – Portsmouth, Pyramid
9th – Coventry, Coliseum
10th – Middlesbrough, Empire

www.therapturemusic.com

Ash have revealed their new album will be more poppy than Meltdown.

The new record, You Can’t Have It All, will be out in July and drummer Rick McMurray has said that whilst the sound will be lighter, lyrically the album will be heavier, inspired by Tim Wheeler’s relationship problems of the last couple of years. McMurray added that going back to having three members led to apprehension:

“It’s almost ten years since we were a three-piece, so we were all a wee bit worried how it would work out, but we wanted to go back and simplify. There were a lot of nerves, but after a few days we realised it was working so well we would keep going at it.”

www.ash-official.com