The Heroin camp have been a busy bunch recently. With Howard getting a fuckin’ gnarly cover for Document, Fos jet-setting Stateside for artistic duties with Altamont, and the team coverage amassed for Sugar Magazine’s second Battle of Normandy, pats on the back all round are the order of the day.
Sister company Landscape isn’t slacking either with Soy Panday and Joey Pressey filming loads for the new Static 3 video out in New York, and Alan Glass getting his rushed but sweet edit of the team’s La Rue Est Vers l’Image (King of the Road meets Day in the City in France) footy uploaded onto the site for your viewing pleasure. Vote for Landscape here.
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After having to stand through an hour’s worth of ridiculously shit nu-soul – is that what you call it? Well, I’m not a 40 year old middle class woman who thinks she can boogie with the youngsters, and that’s the target audience I imagine listening to it – the festivities finally got underway with the opening act of the night at the not-as-packed-as-usual Jazz Café – Micall Parknsun and Dubbledge. They were fun, the brilliant Dunya blasting out as a crowd favourite and some tracks from Fist Of Jah sounding pretty fresh, but the sound didn’t help matters.
After already having supported Reel Big Fish, The Slackers and The Sunshine Underground this year, Big Hand are going out alone on their headlining Black n White tour. The dates are as follows:
For those of you who like to snowboard at this time fo the year Burton have announced dates for a global movie tour, which will feature the debut of new snowboard film For Right Or Wrong, that will premiere in 22 cities around the world.
Bloc Party have announced the tracklisting for their 2nd album, called A Weekend In The City, which is due out in February next year.
Good Shoes have come up with a way to get their fans even closer to their music – By devising a competition that allows you to appear on their artwork for the forthcoming single The Photos On My Wall, which is due for release on January 1st 2007.
Kurt Cobain is officially the largest earning dead person. The former Nirvana man has come top of the Forbes.com poll of top deceased earners. Between October 2005 and October this year, he has earned $50 million, much of which came from the sale of 25% of the band’s catalogue to PrimeWave.
Jimmy Chamberlain, the drummer for the Smashing Pumpkins has blogged on the band’s MySpace about the new material, saying the band have been working with Terry Date and Roy Thomas Barker. He said:
The Datsuns have recorded a cover of Life’s A Gas by T Rex as the B side to their forthcoming download only single Waiting For Your Time To Come, which is to be released on November 6th. The band are over on tour soon, the dates are: