A track from the new Sonic Youth rarities and b-sides album The Destroyed Room, has been made available online.
The album will be released in mid-December and features 3 previously unreleased tracks and material from their 2001 Noho Furniture Sessions. The track below is called Kim’s Chords.
Yungun & Mr Thing
Scala
02.11.2006
The packed out Scala warmed up with Imperial Leisure, a shockingly bad ska band who, as far as I’m concerned, should never have been on the bill. After they’d finished however, the real show got into full swing with Yungun and Mr Thing taking the stage with Devise on hype duty. Opening up with Jackin’ For Breaks, the UK act showed their worth, rapping over various other tracks and getting the crowd that bit more excited.
Mr Thing busted out a nice solo, hitting some one-handed scratch routines, before Devise got a chance to do his thing over some faster paced music. But their highlight was the brilliant Dancing Shoes, cutting the audience in half for some hugely well received call and response, before having the entire place bust out their moves for the track.
With the audience suitably ready, Ugly Duckling took to the stage with DJ Young Einstein throwing up some People Under The Stairs as their introduction. Andy Cooper then proclaimed that King’s Cross was the first place they stayed when they first came over 6 or so years ago… and it was still as shitty as it was back then! With the opening salvo of Let It Out, Yudee and Pass It On, the crowd were dancing and hollering before they’d even got into full swing on the stage.
But when Einstein brought out his trust dookie gold rope and Eye On The Gold Chain rang out, we knew we were in top gear. Rio De Janeiro and A Little Samba came either side of Pick Up Lines, where Dizzy attempted to chat up a girl using first an American line and then a British one – Do you work for the Royal Mail? Because I swear you were checking my package – before finishing up with Turn It Up and Smack.
One thing you know you’ll get when you see UD is a brilliant live show, packed with fun and smiling people, and this time didn’t disappoint. Though it was full to bursting point, there wasn’t one push or shove as everyone found their own tiny bit of space to dance in. A brilliant performance by an always amazing live act.
Abjekt
[Photo from www.myspace.com/yungunmusic ]
Bjork and The Sugarcubes got back together for one night only last week in Laugardalsholl, Reykjavik.
It was the first time the band had played together in 14 years and marked the 20th anniversary of the record label Smekkleysa SM and their first single Birthday.
You can check out footage of them playing the Icelandic version of Birthday at the show by clicking right here.
Reports are that Jimmy Eat World will reissue their first two albums – Static Prevails [1996] and Clarity [1998].
Each album will feature unreleased material and rare tracks chosen by the band themselves. Clarity will include a demo of Sweetness and Christmas Card from their split 7″ with Blueprint.
Static Prevails featuring a cover of the Wedding Present’s Spangle amongst other things.
The band are still working on their 5th studio album.
Former Nirvana bassist Kris Novoselic has apparently being snapped up by San Francisco’s Flipper.
It marks a return to music for the bass player who had put his music career on the back burner whilst he concentrated on politics in Washington state.
Pigeon John is the most fun rapper on earth, it’s basically as simple as that. The rapper, who has put out songs about having an identity crisis and a goat named Sam is back with his new album, his first for the Quannum label, which is home to Lyrics Born, Lifesavas and more.
Pigeon John has always had feel-good beats behind his raps and this new album steps it up a level, with the likes of DJ Rhettmatic, Dnae, Chris James and RJD2 stepping up to the board with their own styles that John flows over with his inimitable happy-go-lucky steezo. With subject matter on this album ranging from losing his job [I Lost My Job Again] to thinking back to the early days of hip hop [Growin’ Old], John always manages to put a smile on the listeners face.
The track you can hear here is The Last Sunshine, which features the production of RJD2 and the guest vocals of J-Live and provides a chorus which ends with “A cold old man that was once a child/ I just wanna tell you I miss you”. Even with tracks like these, Pigeon John is able to use his delivery to give you that feeling that maybe things will be alright in the end.
And with this album being one of the best hip hop records of the year, I think we all know that it will be alright – so long as we do the pigeon dance!
This record has without a doubt been one of, if not the, most popular CD played at Crossfire HQ this year, and it’s not hard to see why this is the case.
From the first bleepy beat to the last “la la la”, it’s a fun filled electro diamond of an album. With many albums, you may get stuck on one track, liking it so much that you have to keep going back to it, but with this album from the Brazilian band, you can’t do that or else you’ll miss out on the next awesome track.
Alala is the catchy single and though it is simple, the chorus is literally just “alala”, it’s something that you won’t ever stop singing once you’ve heard it. Similarly the bouncy Alcohol, with its “hey hey hey hey HEY, do you wanna drink some alcohol?” imbeds itself in your head as soon as it begins.
The six piece, whose full name is Cansei De Ser Sexy, have crafted a pop-fuelled album full of little gems with some awesome titles – Let’s Make Love And Listen To Death From Above, Art Bitch [where you are invited to suck the singer’s art hole] and Music Is My Hot Hot Sex. The bleeps and basslines carry every song through with their own electro-melody and Lovefoxxx’s voice can’t help but make you smile.
Go on, stick it on. I bet within 30 seconds you’ll be Alalal’ing your way through the day.
The Kerrang! Tour for 2007 has had its line up announced – Biffy Clyro, The Bronx, The Audition and I Am Ghost will be filling the slots at the following places:
January:
11th – Belfast Mandela Hall
12th – Dublin Ambassador
14th – Cardiff University
15th – Bristol Academy
16th – Nottingham Rock City
18th – Southampton Guildhall
19th – Norwich UEA
20th – Manchester Academy
22nd – Newcastle Academy
23rd – Glasgow Barrowlands
24th – Liverpool Academy
26th – Birmingham Academy
27th – London Astoria
Fucked Up are bringing their combination of hardcore, punk and rock to the UK in December for your viewing and listening pleasure. So make sure you get to one of the dates for your post-Christmas fun.
December:
27th – London Old Blue Last
28th – Manchester Star and Garter
29th – Leeds The Fenton
30th – Sheffield DnR Bar
31st – Bristol [TBC]
These Arms Are Snakes will be playing a number of UK shows in November and December in support of Easter. The dates are:
November:
28th – Exeter Cavern Club
29th – London Underworld
30th – Manchester Satan’s Hollow
December:
1st – Birmingham Chapter 11 ::CONFIRMED VENUE::
2nd – Glasgow Nice N Sleazy
3rd – Sheffield Corporation
4th – Sunderland Independent
5th – Leeds Cockpit
6th – Brighton Engine Rooms
7th – Southampton Unit 22