Leeds rockers Dinosaur Pile Up return with a stabbing new video featuring Diana Vickers. New album coming in June called Nature Nurture, look out for it if you like driving rock.
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J Dilla
J Dilla
‘Trucks’ / ‘Anthem’
Pay Jay
J Dilla may have left us in 2006 but his legacy rolls forward through his music daily. A new b-side track titled ‘Trucks’ was released today made between late 2001 and early 2002 in Detroit. It’s a 2-track demo mix of the classic ‘Cars’ track by Gary Numan released originally back in 1979 featuring an alternate version of Dilla’s vocals and a third verse not found on Dilla’s final sessions for this song.
Both tracks are out on a new 12″release ahead of the long-awaited missing album ‘The Diary’ that is said to be dropping sometime in 2013.
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Black Sabbath announce another UK show
In light of Ozzy Osbourne being back on the booze and gear, Black Sabbath’s new studio album titled ’13’ is still scheduled for release on June 10th and will still be missing the amazing Bill Ward who is not part of things.
The remaining trio will be visiting the UK this December with another drummer and have just added another London date in Birmingham today. Enjoy this new documentary of the band in the studio.
December
10 – O2 Arena – London, UK
12 – Odyssey Arena – Belfast, NI
14 – Motorpoint Arena – Sheffield, UK
16 – Hydro – Glasgow, UK
18 – Arena – Manchestser, UK
20 – LG Arena – Birmingham, UK
22 – LG Arena, Birmingham, UK
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Your Demise plan to split up in 2014
Hertfordshire band Your Demise have announced that the band will be splitting up….in March 2014.
The bands next UK performance will be at Southampton’s Takedown Festival on May 11th and are also planning to release a DVD that will feature a documentation of their career and the forthcoming farewell tour.
Watch their official video statement:
If there’s one artist from our generation who captured the world through ink, print and paint, then it has to go to fellow skater/music lover Shepard Fairey. A new 20minute film has been released overnight online based on the true story of Shepard’s first act of street art during his time at Rhode Island School of Design from 1989-1992.
It’s bizarre to see Shepard acted out in this way but if films based on real life float your boat and you are genuinely interested in his back story of how Obey Giant came about then press play. In reaction to this film, Fairey has said this week: “While I approve of the film, please note, I had no creative or financial involvement in the making of this film.”
OBEY THE GIANT – The Shepard Fairey Story from Julian Marshall on Vimeo.
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London Posse
London Posse
‘Money Mad’
Tru Thoughts
Let’s head back into 1987 when London Posse kicked off a career in Hip Hop that would last a legendary lifetime in British hip hop.
Made up of Sipho, Rodney P, Bionic and DJ Biznizz they kicked off with a self titled release on Big Life produced by a young Tim Westwood followed by the seminal ‘Money Mad’ on Westwood’s Justice Records in 1988 that put Rodney P and Bionic on the map. The Posse may have split leaving these remaining two members but they went from strength to strength to release ‘Gangster Chronicle’, one of UK hip hop’s most cherished slabs of vinyl that is scheduled for a full re-issue treatment on 17th June via Tru-Thoughts.
Keep an ear out for ‘Money Mad’ with brand new remixes coming from Drumagick and Wrongtom on 13th May and if you don’t click on the play button on this documentary you will never know your Tru roots. Support it whilst we try and find out who those skaters are in the opening frames…answers on a postcard please.
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Bobby Conn announces UK tour dates
Those of you familiar with the beautiful world of Bobby Conn will be stoked to know that he will be touring three dates in the UK in June.
The Chicago legend famous for his quirky musical skills and legendary album Rise Up! is heading our way to play tracks from his latest album Macaroni that was released last year and out now on Fire Records. As usual he will be on the road with his wife and musical partner Monica Boubou regular band The Burglars and playing Cardiff’s Clwb Ifor Bach, Liverpool’s Krunk Fiesta and London’s Lexington venue. Have a free download below.
20.06.2013 UK CARDIFF CLWB IFOR BACH
22.06.2013 UK LIVERPOOL KRUNK FIESTA
23.06.2013 UK LONDON THE LEXINGTON
When you think of the word ‘punk’ most people would probably not consider Italians to be in the top five regions famous for it. Look further though and you will find some underground treats like Wildmen here, a duo with a mission to keep the garage-rock flag flying in a country where the punk scene from old concentrated heavily on the subject matter of depression and the proletariat; the scene was politically motivated, sexually charged and fueled by that good old Italian blood found in no other country.
Made up of Giacomo Mancini (guitar) and Matteo Vallicelli (drums/vocals), Wildmen have a solid groove and can kick out a decent jam so we asked Fabiana Giovanetti to introduce them to you.
I know you have been also in some punk and hardcore bands. Which bands have you played in, what do you think you learnt from these past experiences?
I played in a couple of hardcore punk bands and still play with a band called Smart Cops. I think I learned a lot from the hardcore scene. Especially from touring. It helps you maturing the right attitude towards life in general when you have to sleep in a German squat full of rats and stuff like that.
If you had to describe your music in just three words, which ones would you pick?
Fun, fun, fun.
How much has the 60s garage-punk influenced your music? Is there any garage band in particular that you are drawing inspiration from, or are you influenced by other genres?
Of course we dig 60’s garage punk. Every band on compilations like “Nuggets” of “Back From The Grave” was a great inspiration for us but we don’t give a shit about the “garage revival” thing and don’t want to sound like them. We are very open minded and we listen to anything – even hip hop or techno…
Would you like to share with us the “legend” about how you formed the band?
There was this kind of saloon rumble in a bar in Trastevere (Roma). We were there and took part in the fight, and we became friends.
Why did you decide to record Wildmen in analog instead of digital?
We knew these friends who had this studio and decided to work with them cause we really liked their productions. It was very natural. Besides that, the tape has a warmer sound and we like it. We were very happy with the results.
You are now collaborating with Shit Music for Shit People, a label that is highly focused on the records and the artwork. How much is the product itself important, when it comes to a release?
It is very important to have records that sound but also look good, cause it’s easier to sell! Hehe… And you need to sell records when you are on tour. “Cash rules everything around me”, you know.
Was it your idea to suggest and use Francesco De Figueiredo’s art for the cover of the album?
Francesco is a good friend and we decided to work together. Again, it was very natural. We are really satisfied with the artwork he did. In fact, you couldn’t tell it’s a garage punk record. It looks more like a 90’s techno 12″ and we like this.
How much of the punk attitude you deliver when on stage? How is the chemistry between you whilst playing?
We just play really hard, trying to sound as big as we can even if we are just a duo. We need to concentrate on the show. I guess we are more “punk” while we are not playing, actually…
Do you have any interesting/embarrassing anecdote about a gig to share with us?
There are several, but since they all concern girls, drugs or faeces we prefer to keep quiet.
The apocalypse is coming and you have to put one track into a time capsule to preserve for future generations, what would it be?
“Be My Baby” by The Ronettes.
When you are not busy writing and performing with Wildmen, what do your daily lives look like?
Very boring.
Which are the main appointments in your agenda for the rest of 2013?
We are going on tour in Europe again in May and then start writing a new record.
Wildmen’s debut self titled album is out now vinyl 12″ and digital download via Shit Music For Shit People. Fill your ears and buy the album from here.
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Alkaline Trio
ALKALINE TRIO
‘My Shame Is True’
(Epitaph)
When you consider that the four Ds (drugs, drinking, depression and death) have been Alkaline Trio’s lyrical stock-in-trade for most of their seventeen (!) year existence, it’s amazing that ‘My Shame Is True’ (their ninth album) sees the Chicago crew sounding so vital.
The opening ‘She Lied To The FBI’ and ‘The Temptation Of St. Anthony’ belt along with the kind of hooks and addictive choruses that bands half the Trio’s age would kill for, replete with Matt Skiba’s black-humoured story telling. So far, business as usual – and business is good. ‘I, Pessimist’, featuring guest vocals from Rise Against’s Tim McIlrath, is one of the best things the Trio have ever done, and should sound amazing live.
However, the songs that really colour ‘My Shame Is True’ are those of lost love and regret. Hardly fresh ground for this most endearingly maudlin of bands, but the likes of ‘Kiss You To Death’ and epic closer ‘Until Death Do Us Part’ could teach your average screamo band a thing or two about dealing with heartbreak.
“I hear the telephone works both ways/Think you can make a little effort someday?” croons co-vocalist/bassist Dan Andriano on the piano-laden ‘Only Love’. He sounds troubled, but hopefully he’ll find comfort in knowing that, with songs as good as these, we’ll be listening whenever Alkaline Trio call.
Alex Gosman
Hardcore: that wonderful musical movement that kicked off in the 80’s pushing punk music to another level in the US. It’s been documented for years in zines, all over the web, bands have reformed, there’s a even a new film coming all about it. This scene is very much part of our make up and partly why why we spend hours bringing you skateboarding and music all day long in here, but unfortunately it’s becoming so popular that fashion twats are beginning to ruin this history with no care or attention and it’s getting worse by the week.
A month ago we plugged a new book and exhibition for American Hardcore that the Vinyl Factory have put together. On the surface, this looked to be legit but what actually rolled out on the opening night was quite the opposite from an account online today.
Hardcore lover Jamie Thomson was asked to DJ at the launch party and thought it would be fun, but his recent review about the entire ordeal shows American Hardcore to be yet another example of fashion conscious pillocks spending their spare time on trying to fit in with what is seen to be cool. The gallery ‘exhibition’ itself is made up of a “giant oblong frame of fifty 7″ sleeves – for this was what this entire exhibition consisted of: no explanations, no notes, no additional material – just a bunch of record sleeves”.
The party was said to be attended by “self-congratulatory cunts celebrating their charmed lives” as depicted in James’ blog – “full of moneyed arseholes with nary a clue about what they were listening to nor the inclination to investigate any further”.
The book itself was put together by UK punk collector and “Gold card anarchist” Toby Mott who is also alleged to have published the book riddled with wrong facts: “Adolescents’ ‘Welcome to Reality’ is listed as being from 1990, rather than a decade earlier, because he’s used the fucking repress!”
We will leave you with Jamie’s scathing ender as this says it all about this ‘book’, and made us laugh out loud.
“Worse still are the listings for the Fear and Bad Brains EPs, which refer to the boots of those respective records, and even then the fucking dates are wrong. The exhibition blurb claims it “visually documents the scene’s subtle shifts and changes between the late seventies and early nineties”. To put it in visual art terms, they’ve listed Warhol’s Campell Soup Cans as hailing from 1987, because that’s when you could buy a poster of it in Athena. And, lest we forget, now we’re just looking at covers of bootlegs in this special book? Maybe that’s why they’re charging £50 a copy, so he can afford to buy the originals and put them in their own special little exhibition.”
If you need a decent book on hardcore punk, try the real American-Hardcore by Steven Blush or the film that came out a couple of years back.