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Last week Londoners gathered round the LCB Skatestore over East to watch the premiere of the Bacon Skateboards video “unheard.” It was a good turn out for a relatively unknown company within the UK and people were stoked on the video. Amazing parts from Kevin Kowalski and the rest of the team fueled a street session afterwards and a product toss from Duffs and Bacon whose decks will be hitting the shops for this Summer.
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Emerica Europe rider Enis Fazliov says hello from this year’s Simpel Session. Apparently there are rumours that the Urban Games may be coming back to London, they ought to have a butchers at this street course in advance of the usual standard UK effort.
As previously reported, The Smoking Hearts are set to release their debut album next month, and they have now announced a string of UK dates to go with it.
Their record, Pride of Nothing, will be released on 8th March, and the band is set to play the following dates;
Feb:
13th – Peter Parkers Rock N Roll Club, Denmark Street, London
23rd – Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff
27th – The Nags Head, High Wycombe
March:
4th – Red Lion, Stevenage
6th – Man On The Moon, Cambridge
8th – South Of The Border, Old Street, London (ALBUM RELEASE SHOW)
11th – Upstairs at The Garage, Highbury, London
12th – The Marquee, Norwich
13th – Club Revolution, Peterborough
14th – The Central, Nottingham
15th – The Freebutt, Brighton
19th – Goblets, Southampton
26th – Esquires, Bedford
April:
1st – The Hat Factory, Luton
3rd – Club 85, Hitchin
Sole has left anticon Records.
The rapper/producer, who set up the label in the 1990s recently wrote on his siet that he was ending his relationship with anticon after finding himself “increasingly at odds with the business end of anticon”.
He insists there is no bad feelings between him and the rest of the artists, but wants to concentrate on his solo career and Black Canyon label. This comes a week after Def Jux went on indefinite hiatus as a label.
Influential skate punks Suicidal Tendencies are to release their first ever live DVD next month. The footage is taken from the band’s performance at Los Angeles’ Olympic Auditorium, featuring classic ST tracks ‘Institutionalized’, ‘War Inside My Head’ and ‘Possessed To Skate’.
Meanwhile, the band is set to headline Hammerfest 2 in Prestatyn ahead of the release of a brand new album in September.
Jay Z has been announced as the headliner for the final night of this year’s Wireless Festival.
Headlining the event at London’s Hyde Park on Friday (June 4th), Jay Z will go on to play further UK dates in Birmingham and Manchester. Joining Jay Z at Wireless will be Mr Hudson as well as a full line-up of yet to be revealed acts.
Meanwhile the opening night of the festival will be headlined by Pink, with support from The Ting Tings, The Gossip and The Temper Trap, among others.
Don’t miss Jay Z playing the following;
June:
4th – London, Wireless Festival (Hyde Park)
7th – Manchester MEN Arena
9th – Birmingham LG Arena
Son of Dave will release the follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2008 album ‘03’, on March 22nd this year. The record, entitled ‘Shake a Bone’, was recorded and mixed by Steve Albini.
As a long time contributor for underground music rag The Stool Pigeon, Son of Dave will also have his columns published in one easy volume, which has been named ‘We Need You Lazzaro, You Lazy, Greasy Bastard’. The book will also be available from March 22nd.
In support of these endeavours, Son of Dave has announced a string of scattered UK dates;
February:
26th – London Blues Kitchen,(Free Entry)
March:
25th – Manchester, Academy 3
31st – Brighton, Hectors House
April:
1st – Bristol, Thekla
2nd – Leeds, Brudenell
23rd – Nottingham, Bodega
24th – London, Jazz Café
May:
6th – Southampton, Brook
7th – Sheffield, Leadmill
26th – Newcastle, Cluny
Blueprint‘s Paul Shier, Nick Jensen and Colin Kennedy ride the night in Mallorca.
Freeway is one of those rappers you know you like, but you feel just hasn’t reached the top of his game, well that’s all changed with this record. His Rocafella status propelled him into the spotlight and he ran admirably with it, but it wasn’t til he guested on Jake One‘s White Van Music on The Truth, that I really saw him in his element.
Teaming up again with Jake One looking after all the production duties on The Stimulus Package, Philly Freezer has definitely stepped up a notch and proved himself to be not only a good storyteller, but a distinguished voice amongst the plethora of rappers out there. Starting as they mean to go on with Throw Ya Hands Up – a straight up boom-bap banger – the duo get those necks moving and don’t let up throughout the entire album.
The drums snap hard, none more so than in Never Gonna Change and One Thing [which features an excellent verse from Raekwon] and allow Freeway to vibe over the beat with ease. It’s easy to imagine the big man bouncing from foot to foot as he delivers his lyrics.
The subject matter flits from calling out snitches to how awesome he is to a superb objective look at how drugs have caused problems across the board from the point of view of the drug itself. Not something you’d expect from a more commercial rapper, but, once again, Rhymesayers have sprinkled their magic and it works perfectly. Even when he tries a little crooning on Freekin’ The Beat, he doesn’t fall flat, a true sign that this album worked.
Take a bow chaps, this one’s a biggun. Check the video below for the proof!
Abjekt.