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Dillinger Escape Plan Cover Soundgarden

The Dillinger Escape Plan have covered Soundgarden’s Jesus Christ Pose and have posted it up online. The track is taken from the forthcoming EP Plagarism, which is only available on iTunes and will be ready to be go on June 13th. You can check out the cover by clicking here.

Another group who have posted up a cover version on their myspace is Dry Kill Logic, who have reworked It’s So Easy by Guns N Roses. It’ll appear on their new CD/DVD The Magellan Complex which is scheduled for release on June 27th. To check that track, click here.

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Music News

Triffids Mount Plaque

The Triffids have decided that they are going to mount a plaque in London on June 28th. The band went through lots of planning permission and the rigours of designing, manufacturing and mounting it, and 1,000 members of the group’s forum gave in £1 each to help finance the affair.

The plaque will commemorate the affection the fans have for the band and will be mounted on the warehouse next to the Mark Angelo studio in Farringdon where the album was recoreded.

If you’re a fan that wants to attend the celebration on June 28th then head on over to www.thetriffids.com

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Buzz Chart

The Horror

Fuck all of that metal shit masquerading as hardcore, this is the real deal. Fast, pissed off and utterly direct, The Horror plug directly into the roots of hardcore, feeding off the raw power of bands like SSD, Void, Negative Approach, DRI etc and spewing them back into the present in a wave of bile and hate. This is vicious stuff.

This is their second full album and every song’s as short and razor sharp as before. They’ve certainly not fucked with the formula and stick to what they do best – playing fucking hardcore for hardcore fucking kids. Walk The Plank and The Horror. The two best bands in UK hardcore right here right now.

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Buzz Chart

Captain Beyond

If you like your classic seventies rock and think you have the best of the period covered with your Led Zep, Thin Lizzy, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple records, think again. If you dig a little deeper and peek under a few stones there’s treasures there that will blow your brain. Captain Beyond may never have achieved the commercial success of the era’s monsters of rock but their debut album is artistically up their with the greats.

The whole album just buzzes with genius, classic riffs, jaw-dropping drumming and rhythmic percussion and brilliant songs. Stoner rock greats Monster Magnet covered ‘Memorization Eclipse’ and re-invented it for their ‘Twin Earth’ single, exposing the band to a whole new generation of rock freaks. And what’s good enough for Monster Magnet, is good enough for us.

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Live Reviews

The Decemberists

Koko
19.05.06

Each track by the Portland, Oregon sextet is completely unique, and strong enough to stand alone and hold a rooms attention. The Decemberists open into California One/Youth And Beauty Brigade. They slip into The Infanta, all while the crowd stops talking, and the only sound you hear besides the music is the applause and cheering. A band that demands respect from the very beginning!

This Sporting Life throws in a touch of Morrisey. We Both Go Down Together, is a song about a suicide pact, sung so joyously you wouldn’t even realize without special attention being paid to the jam-packed lyrics. A contradiction to some of their other songs where their music from the outside can seem intensely serious, but looking deeper into the lyrics you start to appreciate some of the light-heartedness. A gentle balance of seriousness and humour is the glue that sticks all these different songs together.

Meloy’s humour extends not only to his actions when he sings, but he considers the crowd before him. He insistently breaks into mid-gig Callanetics. He then proceeds to ask everyone to “…turn to their right, shake the persons hand, and share their favourite movie”. Everyone was then commanded to sit down on the floor, and be completely silent. All 4 tiers of Koko ceased at a grinding halt, whilst Meloy “…gave our legs a break”. I found it a little bizarre, but my friends loved the intimacy it brought.

He commands power and control over the crowd, as if he were one of the ship captains in his songs. Out of the silence, Meloy claims they not only know fellow Oregon’ers The Shins, but to also be better than them. Two quirky bands from the same town, both with a strong sense of humour…and a healthy competitive streak it seems.

Towards the end he wanted everyone to “shake their hands like they just don’t care…then to shake them like they care…don’t care…care…don’t care” after about 5minutes of everyone playing ‘Simon Says’ (and enjoying it!), they break into their next song The Engine Driver. With the sweetest harmonies of “…and if you don’t love me let me go” ringing throughout the venue, it makes you feel lucky to enjoy the Sold out gig even more.

What sets The Decemberists apart from most other bands is a unique antique sound. A far cry from the manufactured rock of the moment. Seriously riff-heavy, Celtic poems, including an assortment of strings and brass create the colourful and creative album Picaresque, it makes you feel shipwrecked back in the 1800s. The accordion on My Own True Love (Lost At Sea) haunts me on my journey home.

The Decemberists are as amazing live, as they are on their albums.

Niki Kova’cs
Photo by: Niki Kova’cs

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Live Reviews

AFI Live

London Electric Ballroom
25.05.06

There are arguably few bands around today that enjoy the same level of devotion from their fans as AFI do. Tickets for this one-off intimate show – a precursor to the release of new album ‘Decemberunderground‘ – sold out within minutes of going on sale last month, with the few remaining spares currently fetching a black market price of around £60. The ridiculously long queue was allegedly started at around 3am this morning, and now consists of a thousand-odd punks, goths and metalheads, several sporting AFI tattoos, and all united in excited anticipation of what the evening holds in store.

Credit is due to local boys Rainy Day Fuck Parade, who face the largely uninterested crowd with a spirited performance. The amusingly-named quartet ply a fine trade in thunderous stoner riffs and off-kilter rhythms, in a Mastodon/Kyuss vein, but are ultimately met with little more than sparse applause from an audience who are here for one band only.

The chants of “Through our bleeding, we are one” start long before AFI finally emerge, amongst a sea of dry ice and eerie blue lighting, to utter hysteria. Every voice and fist is raised in unison to the opening ‘Miseria Cantare’, before the ‘Sing The Sorrow’ era brace of ‘Leaving Song Part II’ and ‘Dancing Through Sunday’ whip the floor into a seething, writhing mass of bodies.

In front of such a rabidly partisan crowd, AFI could probably just go through the motions to keep their fans happy; but thankfully, the Californian quartet seem eager to re-assert their presence and musical worth at their first UK show in nearly three years. Whether ripping full-tilt through old favourite ‘Totalimmortal’ or slowing things down for an unexpected but welcome cover of the Cure’s ‘Just Like Heaven’, AFI are nothing short of thrilling tonight; with live-wire vocalist Davey Havok and bassist Hunter tearing around the stage in their determination to make tonight an event to remember.

The long-term fans in attendance may mourn the lack of the band’s early material – of which only ‘File 13’ and ‘A Single Second’ are aired tonight – but the twisted hardcore of ‘Kill Caustic’ and the stomping rhythm of forthcoming single ‘Miss Murder’ indicate a far more promising future for AFI. Clearly relishing the intimacy of the venue, Davey climbs into the crowd to lead us through the spine-tingling finale of ‘God Called In Sick Today’; and as he stands, silhouetted against the stage lights like a demonic preacher, it’s evident that AFI have not lost their ability to dazzle. When they return in the autumn, kill to be there.

Alex Gosman
[Photo by Will Lewis]

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None More Punk

None More Punk June

Here it is, another session of fucking carnage from Crossfire’s None More Punk Show brought to you by 2 braindead chimps that go by the name of DJ’s James Sherry and Zac Slack.

This month, the tunes are rip roaring with a real old school feel, with brand new tracks mixed in with punk rock and hardcore classics. I guess we both feel as though this is our best effort yet and are both really sorry that we were really wasted when we recorded it…actually that is a total lie, we don’t give a shit!

Enjoy this months show and tell your friends about it by sending them a link.

If you are in a band and you would like to be on the next None More Punk show, get in touch from the contact section on this site and If you would like to request tunes for the next show, click here and leave a message for us.

June Playlist:

1. Imperial Leather – Something Out Of Nothing (Profane Existence)
2. Zodiac Killers – I Wanna Be A Porn Star (Rip Off)
3. The Midnight Evils – Getting Down On The Midnight Hour (Estrus)
4. The Time Flys – Smokin’ Dope (Birdman)
5. I Object – Intra Muros – (Alternative Tentacles)
6. Die Hunns – Tragedy (Disaster)
7. Weirdos – We Got The Neutron Bomb (Frontier)
8. Misfits – Attitude (Caroline)
9. Adolescents – Rip It Up (Frontier)
10. The Replacements – Kids Won’t Follow (Twin/Tone)
11. The Horror – Reagan’s Out/So Full Of Shit You’re Poisoness (Chainsaw Safety)
12. Deep Wound – I Saw It (Damaged Goods)
13. Fucked Up – Generations (Deranged)
14. Annihilation Time – Panic (Manic Ride)
15. Regulations – We Always Know What To Do (NY Vag)
16. Circle Jerks – When The Shit Hits The Fan (Frontier)
17. Coliseum – Set It Straight (Destructure)
18. Lords – Holy Ghost Of The Infidels (Destructure)
19. Richard Hell And The Voidoids – Love Comes In Spurts (Sire)
20. NOFX – Seeing Double At The Triple Rock (Fat Wreck)
21. The Briefs – Medication B (Crystal Songs)
22. Osaka Popstar – Wicked World (Misfits Records)
23. Conflict – The Day Before (Mortarhate)

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Music News Skateboarding News

Rich File releases new EP.

Those of you who skated in the early 90’s may well have bumped into Richard File skating around Sutton and Croydon with Curtis McCann and Paul Shier. Since then, he has worked with James Lavelle with the U.N.K.L.E project, released a bunch of stuff on Mo’Wax Records and co-written the film score to the film Sexy Beast.

Next month File’s brand new EP comes to the general public that sees a different side of his musical talents than before. “Neon One” is 3 tracks of subtle guitar work with an indie feel akin to the likes of Ambulance Ltd, Radiohead and The Verve’s psychedelic side of things.

“Neon One” lights up your life on 3rd July, more on the EP at Crossfire soon but check www.rich.fm for streamable tracks and all info.

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Imperial Leather

Back in the eighties Imperial Leather was every punks preferred soap for spiking up their hair. Yeah, we didn’t have gel or fudge in those days, we just used glue and soap ‘cos things were much more punk back then and this record celebrates those glory days! Musically Imperial Leather are classic punk rock with an early eighties sound that is packed full of high-energy tunes and buzzing riffs. The only difference from the old days being that ‘Something Out Of Nothing’ is blessed with a great production that is just on the right side of raw but clear enough to do the killer tunes justice.

Hailing from Sweden, their line-up is a virtual who’s who of Swedish punk rock featuring Amyl Nitrate of the Spider Cunts on vocals (could this shit get anymore punk rock?) and past members of bands such as the mighty Bruce Banner, DS-13, Dischange and No Security – teaming up to create the perfect punk rock explosion. Regulations better watch their backs, Imperial Leather could be after their Swedish punk rock crown!

James Sherry

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Skateboarding News

Bay Sixty 6 Mini Ramp Jam!

After the success of the last jam, Baysixty6 is planning another miniramp comp, including prizes for best trick, on the evening of this coming Wednesday 31st May.

Come down and enter and you too could walk away with an Xbox 360. Matix clothing and DVS shoes and Krooked Skateboards will also be up for grabs so come down and show us what you’ve got.