Nine Black Alps have travelled to Los Angeles to work on their second album. They’ve reportedly been working on new material during their travels on tour and are now set to record. Their website stated:
“In roughly 8 weeks we’ll have a shiny CDR in our hand, which we can play to our families while we eat chrimbo dinner. Smashing!”
Rapper Fabolous has been both shot and arrested in New York. He was approached by a male, who remains unidentified, and shot in the leg as he stood near a restaurant owned by P Diddy, Justin’s.
The rapper and his crew jumped into their care and fled, but they attracted the police by jumping a red light. The p0lice stopped them and subsequently found 2 unlicensed guns in the vehicle. The rapper was taken to hospital and is in a stable condition but has also been arrested, with 3 of his entourage, regarding the guns.
The Nirvana documentary About A Boy has seen clips make their way onto youtube. The documentary follows Kurt Cobain, and is narrated by Cobain himself.
It was compiled from more than 25 hours of interviews, recording by journalist Michael Azerrad during the early part of the 1990s. The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in September, though there is no release date for the UK as yet.
The new Vegas show, Love, which features music by the Beatles following a collaboration between George and Giles Martin, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney and the Cirque Du Soleil, will have a CD put out with the same title on November 20th. The album will also feature a DVD which has been put together by the Martins using master tapes of original Beatles recordings. The tracklist is:
Because
Get Back
Glass Onion
Eleanor Rigby / Julia
I Am The Walrus
I Want To Hold Your Hand
Drive My Car/ The Word/What You’re Doing
Gnik Nus
Something / Blue Jay Way
Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite! / I Want You (She’s So Heavy) / Helter
Skelter
Help!
Blackbird / Yesterday
Strawberry Fields Forever
Within You Without You / Tomorrow Never Knows
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Octopus’s Garden
Lady Madonna
Here Comes The Sun / The Inner Light
Come Together / Dear Prudence / Cry Baby Cry (Transition)
Revolution
Back In The USSR
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
A Day In The Life
Hey Jude
Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
All You Need Is Love
The new special UK edition of VicTorV, which is all about the Dead Rising Tour, is here to wow you all. Just click on the image above to get the podcast.
Goldie Lookin Chain are back and going out on tour in December where they will play old favourites and some new stuff from their next as yet untitled album.
Mr Love Eggs stated: “December is the month to party and our latest tour sees us bringing the 2006 official GLC works do direct to the kids. With fifteen shows in the build up to Christmas this looks set to be the ultimate end of year event. Spreading peace, goodwill and beer via the medium of loud music, draw and leisure wear. There is also a possibility of Adam wearing a snowman outfit for the entire tour. Behold! The Christmas Party 2006.”
The dates are:
2nd – Liverpool Academy
3rd – Leeds University
4th – Nottingham Rock City
5th – Swansea University
7th – Cambridge Junction
8th – Cardiff University
9th – Stafford University Student Union
10th – Norwich Waterfront
11th – Brighton Concorde 2
12th – London ULU
13th – Sheffield Plug
15th – Aberdeen Moshulu
16th – Glasgow Garage
17th – Inverness Ironworks
18th – Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
Brightblack Morning Light are about to set off on a UK tour to support their album which came out last month. The dates are:
October – Twisted Folk Tour with Tunng and Jill Barber:
20th – Glasgow ABC
21st – Manchester Night and Day
22nd – Birmingham Glee Club
23rd – Cambridge Junction
24th – Brighton Komedia
25th – London Scala
Gossip are to release their anthem Standing In The Way Of Control on October 30th. The track, which is about Bush’s decision to deny gay people the right to marry, will be released on both CD and 7″ and will feature remixes from Le Tigre, Headman, Trevor Jackson and the mighty Soulwax. The band will also be heading out on tour, you can see them at:
October:
29th – Liverpool Evol Club @ Academy 2
31st – Oct Glasgow Oran Mor
November:
1st – Leeds Club NME @ Faversham
2nd – Birmingham Barfly
3rd – London NME Club @ KOKO.
4th – Manchester Roadhouse
5th – Brighton Concorde 2
6th – Sheffield Plug
Supporting Scissor Sisters:
11th – Brighton Centre
12th – Nottingham Arena
13th – Birmingham National Indoor Arena
Kentish Town Forum
06.10.06
With their first album for almost ten years just released on Vagrant, Evan Dando and Co are back in the UK again for a full tour and on this autumn evening the Forum is crowded as refreshingly mature crowd, wait for them to take to the stage. After a perfunctory opening slot, Dando comes loping out on the stage, a humble smile on his face as usual and jumps straight into ‘Down About It’.
Tracks come thick and fast, Dando’s never been big on banter and he picks and chooses from old classics and fresh offerings from their new self titled album. New single ‘Become The Enemy’ is heartfelt and emotion driven, with Dando’s alt-country voice as strong as ever. ‘Alison’s Starting To Happen’, the bittersweet’ Drug Buddy’, ‘It’s a Shame About Ray‘ ‘Confetti‘ and the stunning ‘No Backbone’ follow, although it’s clear the crowds haven’t quite got to grips with the new album, the great line ‘ If it ain’t fixed..don’t break it’ in Black Gown is left for the crowd to sing..and there’s an embarrassed silence, which Dando just grins at. Having cleaned up his act, Dando has hardly aged at all, and looks and sounds every bit as great as his did in his hey-day. ‘Into Your Arms’ is sublime, and ‘Ruddlerless‘ is roared back by the crowd. ‘Baby’s Home’ is a witty ballad, the lyrics telling of how a cuckolded boyfriend returns to find his girlfriend with another guy and he crushes his head with a rock. Nothing like a nice murder ballad sung with a smile!
As his guitarist and drummer sidle off to the side of the stage, Evan treats us with a solo section, reappearing already wearing his jacket to leave, but armed with his acoustic guitar, “I’m taking requests!” ‘Outdoor Type’ sways towards country, and Dando’s admiration of Gram Parson’s shines through in a cover of ‘I Just Can’t Take it Anymore‘ “Not many people know this one..not even me!” he grins, and he’s off. 20 minutes of acoustic versions of tracks new and old, ‘Frying Pan’, ‘All My Life’, the stunning ‘Different Drum’, ‘Style’, ‘Divan’, ‘Stove’ and finishing off the night with ‘Steve’s Boy’
Tonight Evan Dando is calm, bashful and humble in front of a packed out Forum. There’s no fanfare, no amazing light show, no backdrop – it’s a simple set which is all about the music, and you leave feeling inspired that he can come back after so long in the wilderness, and still be every bit as talented as ever. But as the saying going..if it ain’t broke…
Dee Massey
[Photos from www.evandando.co.uk]
Koko
05.10.06
Peanut Butter Wolf’s Stones Throw label has been going for 10 years and with Koko packed out, it was time to get down to celebrating the label that has brought us the likes of Percee P, Madlib, Oh No, J Rocc, M.E.D, Lootpack, Breakstra and the one and only J Dilla. It was J Rocc and the boss PBW that opened up with some crazy turntable fun, with the Beat Junkie J Rocc opening with a kazoo intro following it up with a can can theme before rockin’ his own Damien Marley dubplate and then dropping some Jaylib.
Peanut Butter Wolf was just as fun, and the two swapped positions a couple of times as the crowd got warmed up with Kick In The Door by Biggie and even The Specials made an appearance over the speakers. Percee P was the next act on and the big rapper was full of power as he brought the house down with Day At The Races. He bellowed out some tight acapellas and told the crowd that after being in the game for nearly 20 years, it was no wonder his album was called Perseverance. There’s a reason why many people consider Percee P to be a legend and tonight he proved he is worth that label.
It was Madlib that got the biggest cheer of all as he stepped out onto the stage, with his typically laid back flow sounding out over a variety of beats. When he asked where all his weed heads were at, it was no surprise to hear a roar from almost everyone go up but this response was topped when he asked if anyone wanted to hear some new Madvillain shit – before playing Monkey Suite from the Chrome Children album just released by the label. The bass was huge and the crowd left happy at having seen such an array of talent.
Celebrating the label was definitely a blast, but remembering the highly influential and incredibly talented J Dilla was highest on the list. It was a fitting way to remember him, RIP.