Cardiff’s longest serving independent skate shop City Surf have added night owl Billy Trick to their shop team this week. Get on this quirky edit filmed on rough spots in the darkness of the Welsh night.
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Luminous Bodies
Luminous Bodies
‘Destroyed’
Box Records
If you thrive on the kind of acid-tinged scumbag dirge that the likes of Terminal Cheesecake, Psychic Pussies and Part Chimp all kick out then look no further, because all of the above make up the ranks of a new noise brigade who’re about to blow your ears clean off.
Luminous Bodies arrive with not one but two powerhouse drummers, and all the wall-of-noise string thrashing and throat-mangling howl you could ever ask for. Just fresh from North London’s esoteric Raw Power festival the five-piece have recently revealed ‘Destroyed’, a two-minute noise ride that’ll shred your ears off in seconds, and the first look at Luminous Bodies’ debut LP which is due early August via the commendable Northern noise outlet, Box Records.
Get in on this glorious racket below and look out for them tearing through London’s small venues over the coming months.
Designer Roy Harpaz is transforming your record collection with his new invention, the TOC. A vertical, free standing record player utilising a linear tracking system to capture analogue sound perfectly, whilst also allowing listeners to skip between LP tracks using a remote control.
The TOC plays 12″s, 10″s, 7″s and also warped records with ease due to it’s integrated spherical bearings. Check out the trailer below – a genius feat of engineering, or a rip off of Sony’s PS-F5 Flamingo, the turntable that time forgot?
Ben Raybourn celebrates his signature to new bearing company, Bronson Speed Co with some fresh footage. Watch those brick banks get a roasting.
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RVCA Japan tour footage
Ph: Jeremy Leabres pushes an impossible shot by John Bradford.
Get some of this new footage of RVCA reps Curren Caples, Greyson Fletcher, Jeremy Leabres, Julian Davidson and Nestor Judkins shredding Japanese demo’s, parks and street spots.
Maverick Industries have opened a new skatepark in Cromer, Norfolk recently with a gnarly looking concrete wave. Aside from the unique features and styling, the park is also furnished with all the functional items you might expect in a small skatepark, these include a spined mini-ramp with roll-overs, extensions, hips, a clam-shell pocket, jump-box and a small flat bank with ledges and a rail.
“Cromer is a coastal town in north Norfolk, just up the road from Sheringham, whose skatepark features a nautical theme and a concrete fishing boat,” says Maverick’s Ian Jennings. “Not to be out-done, Cromer went for a themed approach again, with a skateable replica of the towns’ iconic lighthouse and a nod to the local beach and surf culture in the form of an over-vert wave. The park has coloured concrete and is lots of fun, lots of flow, and has something for everyone. Once again built to an exceptionally high standard by our fantastic build team.”
You can find the new skatepark behind the Meadow Golf Course, off Hall road, Cromer, NR27 9JF. Map here.
Head here for their proposals on the Concrete Wave park down in Cornwall and the newly opened Duck Lane skatepark in Bournemouth.
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Metz announce UK Tour for Autumn
Famed Toronto noise-rock trio METZ have announced UK tour dates for this coming Autumn with Crows and Protomartyr in support.
Watch the new music video for ‘The Swimmer’ here and check out the forthcoming dates below.
Tour Dates
** w/ Protomartyr
^ w/ Crows
September
6th Dublin, IE – Electric Picnic
October
30th Birmingham, UK – Hare and Hounds ^
31st Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club ** ^
November
1st London, UK – Scala **
3rd Bristol, UK – The Fleece **
4th Manchester, UK – Sound Control **
5th Glasgow, UK – Stereo **
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NME to go free from September
One of our most treasured and longest running music publications, the NME, is set to be distributed for free across the UK beginning this coming Autumn.
In print since 1952, the New Musical Express held the market share of music weeklies for years, continually outselling it’s rivals, Melody Maker, Sounds and Record Mirror, with sales figures regularly reaching the 300,000 mark through the 1970s. 20 times more than today’s 15,000 per week figures, which have been falling on the ABC Circulation stats for years.
Regardless, since launching online in 1996 the magazine has remained a benchmark taste-maker in the music press, and while some deem the forthcoming transition to a free paper as a sorry move and potential devaluation of it’s content and position, the magazine’s editor Mike Williams details the move as an evolution and positive step into the future.
Published today on NME.com, Williams explained –
“The cat is out of the bag, and I couldn’t be more excited. For the past few months we’ve been working in secret here at NME on the next phase of our evolution. The goal, throughout all of our research and development, has been to find new and inventive ways to connect with you, our audience, better than ever. In the 63 years since NME launched we have evolved and transformed plenty of times. The evolution of 2015 is our boldest ever move, and I’m delighted to be able to share the news with you at last.”
Although NME have stated that music is “firmly at the heart of the brand”, they have revealed the new issue will explore content focusing more so on “film, fashion, television, politics, gaming and technology”. How will this shape the future of the UK music press? Leave a comment below and tell us what you think.
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Grohl Returns To The Throne
Having broken his leg after falling from the stage last month at a gig in Gothenburg, Dave Grohl and the Foo Fighters were forced to cancel a headline slot at Glastonbury last weekend, and a run of sold out shows at Wembley Stadium.
Hell bent on delivering to his fans, Friday night saw Grohl and his band return to the stage at Washington DC’s RFK Stadium for a 4th July celebration. The show saw the frontman bandaged and cast, atop a gigantic throne built from guitars, amps and ‘lasers and shit’, hand-drawn plans of which are pictured above.
Watch the clips below which detail Grohl’s original fall and a rendition of ‘The Pretender’.
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Caleb McNeely in ET
Caleb McNeely gets stuck in for ET, Levi Douthit’s scene video featuring upcoming skaters in Richmond, Virginia. Aside from Caleb here you will find footage of Alex Barber, Ty Beall, Joe Lilley, Thomas Goldman, Trevor Hart, Will Rosenstock, Zander Moehling, and more in this DVD that will cost you a mere fiver from here.