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Building Better Bombs

Building Better Bombs are the hardcore band of Doomtree member and Rhymesayers’ rapper POS and this is your chance to slap your ear drums with some noise courtesy of the Minnesotan band.

Stef [POS] and his friend Isaac started off by playing hardcore with a drum machine until Isaac went overseas, but since his return, and with the help of bassist Ryan Olson and Drew Christopherson on drums, Building Better Bombs are back and they’re creating carnage.

The group are ready to unleash their debut full length onto the world, a scorching 28 minute, 13 song screamfest onto the world and this track, Lookout, [this version is taken from POS’ Meat Tape], is just an example of the fast paced sonic avalanche you can expect when the record drops. You like it loud? You want it to fuck your hearing up? Well Santa just came early kids because this is exactly what you’re after.

Head on over to their myspace page at www.myspace.com/buildingbetterbombs for more tracks off the album and just as much rowdy behaviour.

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Sharkey & C Rayz team up

Sharkey and C Rayz Walz have collaborated on a new album – Monster Maker and it is due to drop in early 2007. Producer Sharkey commented on the album, saying it’s about the fact that everyone has that point where they just break down and let loose:

“Everyone has those moments where they feel like they can cross the line, everyone has that seed in them where they’re capable of doing something monster shit.”

Rapper C Rayz Walz has said that Sharkey is the best producer he’s ever worked with and that they’ve “made a monster and now he’s here to bite everybody’s fuckin’ head off.”

www.myspace.com/sharkey

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Tom Delonge hates pop!

Former Blink 182 frontman and current singer for Angels & Airwaves, Tom Delonge, has blasted his former band with a video on youtube. There were a few rumours floating around as to why they had gone on “indefinitely hiatus” last year, but Tom has straightened it all out by saying:

“I do not want to be in a bullshit pop band with some bullshit pop songs while you drive your fucking bullshit car and sing along to it like you’re some 14 year-old girl.”

No more songs about bumsex with dogs then.

Check out what the other two Blink boys are up to by going over to the Buzz Chart and checking out their new band +44.

www.angelsandairwaves.com

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Music News

Sway wins US award

London rapper and general awesome fella Sway is to pick up the best UK Hip Hop gong at the US TV network Black Entertainment Television’s awards.

The ceremony will take place in Atlanta after Sway won thanks to being voted for as the winner by viewers of MTV Base and listeners of BBC 1Xtra. Following the news, he said:

“I’m over the moon. It’s a massive opportunity for me and hip-hop in the UK in general. I’m going to capitalise on it as much as I can. Stickers are going on every new CD I do.”

www.swaydasafo.com

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NME goes yank

NME have launched a New York version of its Club NME and will soon announce that they are launching two US news desks, one on the West coast and one on the East, to enhance the news service on their website.

NME publishing director Paul Cheal said:

“This is a great time to be extending NME into the US. Not only will our readers there get even more value out of our investment in NME.COM, but they can also now enjoy the full-on live experience of Club NME in both LA and NYC!”

www.nme.com

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Music News

Spank Rock cancel tour

Baltimore’s Spank Rock have announced that their European dates have been cancelled.

The tour, which was due to start in Switzerland and go through London, Bristol, Glashow, Manchester and Leeds, is off due to personal and professional commitments.

However, the group are expected to be back earlier in the new year.

www.bigdada.com

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New Charlatans Video

The Charlatans release their new album, Forever – The Singles, on November 6th with single You’re So Pretty We’re So Pretty on November 13th.

To see the video for the new single, click the link below:



Click here for the new Charlatans Video

www.thecharlatans.net

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Live Reviews

Milburn – Live

XFM’s Big Night Out
Brixton Carling Academy
14.10.06

These flashy big music/clubbing/getting wasted affairs never do bands justice.

Naturally, massive Carling Academy events only do justice to the free flowing pints of Carling beer. The bands’ job is to supply a more worthwhile reason than alcohol for being there.

So I felt extra sorry for the young Milburn band being first up to play before a swarm of drunken teenagers. It was a challenge to get any tune past the heaving sweating moschpit and to make themselves heard, let alone sounding good.

So did Milburn manage it? Kind of. They were certainly no better or worse than the bands which followed: The View and The Fratellis, but many of their songs sounded the same. Sure, the rabble of the crowd did not make their task easy, but any band which truly wants to make it needs to be able to make the uniqueness of their voice sound loud and clear from any stage.

With a year old record contract and a debut album Well Well Well released only two weeks ago, Milburn have already made it in one sense of the word. But if they want to last beyond the big debut, then the four-man band will have to move away from the Artic Monkeys’ shadow and develop their own style. Milburn’s Artic Monkey reflection is understandable since both groups were born in the lovely city of Sheffield, but folks, a constant stream of individuality and originality is the key to a long-lasting marriage with your record label.

Milburn have a lot of growing up to do, and with the oldest band member being only 20 this is really no surprise. Though their raw youth leaves a lot to be desired it also gives them a lot of space to develop, more so than most new bands have the luxury of. For Milburn, their debut tour is more a right of passage than a claim to fame. “Almost famous” is the phrase which springs to mind.

Rebecca Geach
[Photo courtesy of www.myspace.com/milburnmusic]

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Music News

The Killers tour dates

The Killers have announced some tour dates for 2007, with tickets going on sale this Friday [3rd November]. The dates are:

February:

16th – Sheffield Hallam FM Arena
17th – Manchester MEN Arena
18th – Birmingham NEC
20th – Newcastle Metro Radio Arena
21st – Aberdeen P&J Arena
22nd – Glasgow SECC
24th – London Wembley Arena
25th – London Wembley Arena

March

3rd – Brighton Centre
4th – Nottingham Arena
6th – Cardiff CIA

www.thekillersmusic.com

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Music News

Buzzcocks tour dates

Buzzcocks will be releasing a new single, Reconciliation, on December 4th. The track comes from their recent album Flat-pack Philosophy, and will be accompanied by a tour which will feature “a multimedia display featuring original artwork by Malcolm Garrett, plus photos by Chris Gabrin and Kevin Cummins”.

The dates are:

November:

27th – Brighton, The Concert Hall
28th – St Albans, Alban Arena
29th – Bristol, Anson Rooms

December:

1st – Manchester, Academy
2nd – London, The Forum
4th – Northampton, The Deco
5th – Leicester, University
7th – Gateshead, Sage61
8th – Glasgow, ABC
9th – Warwick, Arts Centre

www.buzzcocks.com