Ok, so last week we dropped news about the bloody massive skatepark Paris is about to get built, but how about this for appetizers?
Situated in the 13th arrondissement at Square Robert Bajac, this is a collaboration between art and skateboarding apparently, they call it an “open-plan planisphere“. We just call it rad.
Cheers to Captain Conso and the Concrete Pirates for the tip-off.
Funeral For A Friend’s Matthew Davis will take his side project, The Secret Show, on tour.
The group, which pays tribute to Country heroes, will see their album Impressionist Road Map released on February 5th with the single, Lovers, following it on the 19th.
In support of these releases, the group will play the following dates:
February:
19th – Club Ifor Bach, Cardiff
20th – Borderline, London
21st – Barfly, Birmingham
Seminal death/grind legends Napalm Death are set to return to their roots on an impending UK pub tour. Bassist Shane Embury comments:
“We have the idea for sometime now to hopefully put together a U.K. tour of smaller clubs and pubs, as we haven’t really toured the U.K. as much as we would have loved in the past.
Occasionally, we have been to places as in Newtown, Wales where we met so many fans and saw such response to a local gig that they aranged there for some local bands that we got to thinking. Well, maybe we could do an extensive tour in smaller towns in the U.K. and play cities and towns that no one goes to.
“In a nutshell, we would love to hear from serious local promoters around the United Kingdom who would be up for such an idea. I know there’s an abundance of killer up-and-coming grind/hardcore/death metal bands who will hopefully be into playing their local towns with us also. I have heard from a couple of promoters over the past couple of months and we haven’t forgotten about you guys.
“Please only serious enquiries, but we would love to see this happen one day soon with killer local opening bands who can maybe help spread the word old-school style so we can all have some killer killer/fun shows.”
You know the premier Euro skate company, Cliché, have got deep roots in Australia, so a a tour of duty is the call during these shitty winter months.
Catch up with almost everyone on the team, plus a couple of Hoon guests, between February 22nd to march 4th, from Melbourne to the Gold Coast.
Stock a few Coopers in the fridge!
Quite simply the most terrifying metal prospect ever to cross the channel.
Hailing from the unlikely source of France, tech-metal overlords Gojira deal in some of the most twisted, complex and utterly fucked up soundscapes since Meshuggah first picked up their 8-strings and tuned lower than Abi Titmuss’ sense of morality.
If you’ve picked up a metal rag over the past year then you’ll likely need no introduction, and ‘The Heaviest Matter of the Universe’ is a prime example of why the quartet are such shit hot property. Mixing the crazed and complex brutality of Strapping Young Lad with Fear Factory’s trademark haunting vocal refrains, this 4 minute burst of aggression more than lives up to its title. Once your ears start bleeding and your body spontaneously convulses in a state of shock, you’ll wonder how you ever coped with sanity.
One of the most well known names in the mix tap scene has apparently been arrested by police under anti-piracy laws.
DJ Drama [aka Tyree Simmons], who is TI’s DJ, reportedly had a large number of CDrs taken from his offices.
There aren’t many details about this but apparently he has been bailed and another report claims that all the CDrs are going to be destroyed with Drama’s website being taken down.
Both Arcade Fire and Idlewild have changed release details recently.
Arcade Fire have changed their lead single from the new album from Keep The Car Running to Black Mirror with the release date due to be February 19th. The album is coming out on March 5th.
Meanwhile Idlewild have apparently put their new album and single back a week. Single No Emotion is now due out on the 26th of February with the album, Make Another World on March 5th. They will support these releases with the following live dates:
March:
12th – Newcastle University
13th – Manchester Academy
14th – Norwich UEA
16th – Wolverhampton Wulfrun
17th – Oxford Brookes University
18th – Leeds Met University
19th – Aberdeen Music Hall
20th – Perth Concert Hall
22nd – Northampton Roadmender
23rd – London Hammersmith Palais
24th – Bristol Carling Academy
Ewan McGregor is being lined up to play Kurt Cobain in a new biopic about the Nirvana star.
This rumour comes on the back of confirmation from Courtney Love that the film was in development and she also said 2 actors were being considered for the lead role. The film is expected to follow the Heavier Than Heaven biography by Charles R Cross.
Definitive Jux’s Hangar 18 will be the support act for the upcoming Gym Class Heroes UK tour.
The group, who were seen rockin’ it at Scribble Jam last August, will play the following venues:
February:
2nd – Birmingham, Academy
3rd – Oxford, Zodiac
4th – Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms
6th – Leeds, Cockpit
7th – Newcastle, The Global
8th – Glasgow, Cathouse
9th – Manchester, Academy 3
10th – Yeovil, Ski Lodge
12th – London, Carlng Academy Islington
Aesop Rock recently updated his myspace blog with a sneak preview snippet of the title track from his upcoming album None Shall Pass.
The track is produced by long-time collaborator Blockhead with DJ Big Wiz providing the cuts. The rapper also said that the track will be featured on the Def Swim release, which will be out on Adultswim on the 26th of February.
Check out the snippet by clicking here.