RJD2 will release You Never Had It So Good as a limited 7″ single on the 19th of February. The song is taken from his forthcoming third album, and his first for XL, The Third Hand. The tracklisting for the album is:
1. Intro
2. You Never Had It So Good
3. Have Mercy
4. Reality
5. Work It Out
6. Laws Of The Gods
7. Get It
8. Someday
9. Murs Beat
10. Beyond
11. Sweet Piece
12. Rules
13. Legends
14. Just When
15. Evening Gospel
Canada’s Metric, who will be playing with Bloc Party on their UK tour, have announced they’ll be playing 3 extra headline dates.
Their new single, Empty, will be released on February 12th and will be backed with a remix of The Police And The Private by Howie B, on digital download and limited edition 7″.
Their headline shows are:
January:
30th – Dingwalls London
31st – Audio Brighton
February:
4th – Zodiac Oxford
The Horrors’ debut album, Strange House, will feature 11 tracks, including the singles Sheena Is A Parasite, Count In Fives and Gloves, the last of which will be released on February 26th.
The album, which is out on March 5th, will be released on Limited Gatefold Vinyl, digital download, special edition CD/DVD and regular CD with the UK version featuring their second single Death At The Chapel as a bonus track.
The tracklisting is:
01. Jack The Ripper
02. Count In Fives
03. Draw Japan
04. Gloves
05. Excellent Choice
06. Little Victories
07. She Is The New Thing
08. Sheena Is A Parasite
09. Thunderclaps
10. Gil Sleeping
11. A Train Roars
12. Death At The Chapel [UK Bonus Track]
108 have decided to reform for good after their split in 1996. The group are due to enter the studio with Converge’s Kurt Ballou next month to record the new record and plan to tour the US, Japan, South America and Europe to support it.
The Locust’s new album, New Erections, will be out in March this year, as the follow up to Plague Soundscapes and the Safety Second, Body Last EP.
The album has been produced by Alex Newport and will be put out on Anti-/Epitaph.
A new Funeral For A Friend album is on the way with the title Tales Don’t Tell Themselves. The record, due out in May, comes after a series of blogs on the band’s myspace, from the studio.
A teaser with new material has been put up on you tube, which you can view here.
If you thought it was hard enough travelling a few miles to skate, imagine what it would be like if there was only one ramp in your entire country!
Thanks to the initiative of one Ugandan and one South African, Jack and Shael, Uganda had it’s one and only skate ramp built in April 2006, in Kitintale, a working class area of Kampala, Uganda’s capital. With one ramp and two donated boards between them, Uganda had its first skate scene!
Today, the community needs support in raising funds to ship donated material such as boards and protective gear into the country, as well as pay to pave a section next to the brick and mortar miniramp to enable some street skating to go down.
For more information about how to help, visit their website : http://www.terriblyfabulous.com/kitintalecontents.html
Cheers to Cliché for pointing this out!
Crossfire wasn’t the only group to celebrate Christmas. Unit 23 Skatepark in Dumbarton, Scotland, held their own festive jam and it went right off! The overall winner for the day was Shaun Allison.
Scottish lensman, Perry Kruger got down and dirty and came up trumps with this footage of the day’s skating.
A new video is about to drop from the Northern shores of Sweden entitles Skeleven. If you are not familiar with Scandinavian skaters and the ripping scene they have going on up there, I suggest you grab a copy of Neighbours or visit Tackyworld.com .
In any case Skeleven is going to drop soon so you can freak out on the stylish skills of Johan Florell, Ola Löwbeer, Koffe Hallgren, Daniel Spängs, Günes Özdogan (switch flip ph. Micke Johansson), Jonas Dalesjö, Henry Viitanen, Erik Petterson, Danijel Todorovic, Petter and Christian Ingelhammar, Alvaro from Malaga and many more.
Damn son! Skateboarding done gone global, yo! Peep these promos hand-picked from around the world. Repping Slovakia, the Slatna Skejta skate crew are busy busting out. Filmed by Kornholio, featuring the S.O.S. team, Jaka “yoc” Hrepevnik, Jurik “Kornholio” Turnsek, Matej “Strah” Strasck and introducing Neso.
PJ did it, so why not someone else. Peter Vlad and his crew from Arizona jump on the wagon with style. Filmed by Dave Rosenbaum and Buster O-Shea, featuring Peter Vlad, John Motta, Jaws, Robbie Brockel, Jaystay, Evan & Spencer Okeson, Nick Fiorini, Brandon Walker, Ryan Lay, Justin Yoder, Jeff Trish, Aric Blattner, CTC & more.
The SPF Media guys do the South African scene proud. They’re busy gathering footy for the new video entitled Project Mayhem, featuring Deon Fourie, Simon Stipch, Christi Wiehahn, Alan Marola, a friends section, Philly (cliché flow), Alan Adams, and the Toy Machine comp winners. Read about it here, and in the meantime peep Christi Wiehahn‘s part from SPF TV video magazine.