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Former Black Flag members including Dez Cadena, Kira Roessler and Keith Morris will release re-workings of classic Black Flag tracks as a six track mini album.

The record, titled Gimme Gimme Gimme: Reinterpreting Black Flag, will also feature guests Mike Watt, Joe Baiza and the Chapin Sisters. Songs including Rise Above, Six Pack and Nervous Breakdown have been rerecorded in Rock and Roll, Surf Rock and Conutry styles.

The album will be released on April 20th, including the following tracks;

1. Rise Above (ft. Dez Cadena & Jimmy Destri)
2. Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie (ft. Kira Roessler & the Chapin Sisters)
3. Six Pack (ft. Dez Cadena & Mike Watt)
4. Nervous Breakdown (ft. Kira Roessler & the Chapin Sisters)
5. In the Jailhouse Now (Jimmie Rodgers cover ft. Keith Morris, Peter Case, Mike Watt & Joe Baiza)
6. Thirsty and Miserable (ft. Dez Cadena & Jimmy Destri)

The Who’s Pete Townshend has cast doubt over the band’s future after a recurrence of his tinnitus problem.

Speaking with Rolling Stone the guitarist revealed that if the problem persists, the band will be forced to call it a day, adding, “I can’t really see any way around the issue.”

Townshend will test a new in-ear monitoring system during the band’s Teenage Cancer Trust gig next week (February 30th), as he attempts to solve the issue caused by years of exposure to high volume.

The XX have regrettably had to cancel 6 European shows after guitarist Romy Madley Croft’s father died last Friday.

The band, who have toured almost non-stop over the past year, will make a further announcement this week regarding their scheduled gigs.

The cancelled gigs are;

February

20th – St Malo Route du Rock Winter
21st – Strasbourg Laiterie
23rd – Rome Brancaleone
24th – Milan Magazzini Generali
25th – Munich Tonhalle
27th – Cologne E Werk

Minneapolis activist, rapper and all round awesome guy, Toki Wright, has put out a new digital EP.

The BlackMale EP is free at this link, though you can pay money for it if you wish, with all proceeds going to help in the aftermath of the disaster in Haiti. Production comes from the likes of Benzilla amongst others. Check out the video below as Toki explains it all.

Taken from the band’s recent ‘Abnormalities’ EP, ‘Gateway Drug’ is classic Spill Canvas. Lilting guitars, brooding lyrics and a killer melody that you just can’t kick out of your head. Vocalist Nick Thomas pulls at the heartstrings with the range of emotion conveyed through a mix of silky smoothness and gravelly aggression.

Along with the band’s trademarked moves (yes, a little carefully positioned swearing never hurt anyone), this track features a rather countrified picked-out riff interspersed within the standard radio-friendliness of this tune. Rather than lifting the song, it acts as a dark groove re-iterating the ominous themes in the lyrics.

The Spill Canvas know how to craft a song but they always find that bit extra to take it out of the realms they’ve already tried and tested. They’ll never be ones to break all the rules but the beauty of their songwriting and glimmers of originality within their music mean that this is a band who surely have an extensive and successful career ahead of them. Tunes like ‘Gateway Drug’ can be identified with and creep into your psyche slowly but surely until they are a part of you.

Winegums.

The Spill Canvas- “Gateway Drug”

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Liars have released a new video for Scissor, the opening track from their recently released 5th album Sisterworld.

The noisy New York City trio has been known to radically change their sound over the years, but Scissor finds the band in familiar indie-rock territory.

Check out the stunning new video below, which plays out like a gripping sea adventure.