A new skateshop has opened it’s doors in London – the Camden, Cantelowes area to be more precise, and it’s called Tuesday. Why? I’m not sure, but the place looks very clean, they stock all your favourite brands and the staff are more than helpful.
So, if you snap a board or need something new whilst skating the future Cantelowes Skatepark (Mid august..?), you know where to go!
Tuesday Skateshop
118 Camden Road, London
Tel: 0207 284 4515
Work has been underway at the Works Skatepark in Leeds to create a new driveway. The obstacle will be big, so Powley and co. built a big bank to drop in from and a hubba is planned for the left hand side of the master piece.
Meanwhile, over in Burnley at Interact skatepark, you can get a chance to watch the premiere of Porno Paul’s Dirty DVD featuring Cashman, Nicky Cornell, Lee Dainton and many more Welsh stars. There might be scenes of nudity, in the DVD or at the park. You’ve been warned.
Lightheaded member Braille‘s new label Hip Hop IS Music, has announced some upcoming releases for the label which will mean an exciting end to 2006.
Japan will get a new Braille solo album called Box Of Rhymes which will feature songs that won’t appear on the rest-of-world version.
Surreal and DJ Balance’s debut for the label, Future Classic, is being readied for a release this year, which will be an exciting record to hear.
Deepspace5 crew member Sivion is finishing up his solo debut, Spring Of The Songbird. Sivion will have production from Lightheaded’s Ohmega Watts and will include guest spots from Othello, Theory Hazit, Freddy Bruno and Braille himself.
Check out www.hiphopismusic.com [which is still being built] or www.braillehiphop.com
Talib Kweli, who has just come back from his performance with The Roots at Radio City Music Hall, has put a track up on his myspace from his forthcoming album Eardrum.
The album will be released on Talib’s own label, Blacksmith Music, and is pencilled in for a release late this summer. The track, Listen, is produced by Kwame and can be heard by clicking here.
Head Automatica, the brainchild of Daryl Palumbo, have a new song up on their myspace site for fans to check out.
The song, Scandalous, is a track taken from their upcoming Popaganda which will be produced by Howard Benson instead of Dan The Automator who was on the producto for their first album.
Check out the new track by clicking right here.
Mike Patton’s new project, Peeping Tom, has just finished filming a video for Mojo. The video will include appearances from Dan The Automator, Rahzel, Danny DeVito, Rachel Hunter and Blink 182’s Mark Hoppus.
They have also confirmed the live line up for the performance on Conan O’Brien in the States – Patton will be alongside a supergroup of Dan The Automator, Rahzel, Miho Hatori [Cibo Matto], Dub Trio and Rob Swift – Sounds like it’s going to be an absolutely banging performance. The album, entitled, originally enough, Peeping Tom, is due out on May 30th.
www.ipecac.com for more.
DJ Shadow has announced his set of UK dates in support of his upcoming album The Outsider. The album, which comes four years after The Private Press, is due out on August 25th. Shadow will play festival dates too, with 2 Wireless shows and an appearance at Creamfields, where he will be performing with Turf Talk and Keak Da Sneak.
The dates are:
June
8th – Bristol Blue Mountain
9th – London Fabric
10th – Liverpool Chibuku
11th – Nottingham Stealth
23rd – London O2 Wireless Festival
24th – Leeds O2 Wireless Festival
August
26th – Liverpool Creamfields
The Forum
17.05.06
The support of the evening is a band called the Horrors, which according to murmurings was exactly that. A horror!
Next support act is 2 Hoxton looking lads that made an unbelievable amount of noise. I tried to imagine it as electro-garage-clash, but eventually resorted to imagining the whole experience just wasn’t happening. Loads of energy though. After sticking out the support bands, a relieved audience welcomes the headliners with thundering applause.
Karen O, from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs graces the stage, adorned in a white Elvis-esque sequined suit. “Gold Lion” topped the NME chart earlier in March, so it is no wonder they use it for their opening. Singing “Gold lion’s gonna tell me where the light is” Karen O moves slowly, poised like a cat. She dedicated an entire album to the life of her cat after all.
With her clown make-up, she looks like a punk-rock ballet dancer. Every muscle, movement, and note in perfect place for the cameras.
In “Cheated Hearts” she starts hinting provocatively when she strips off her cape and a few items to “She’s taking taking taking taking it off… He’s taking taking taking taking it off…” She stops at her hot pants and vest, and leaves the crowd going mental. It’s sweet chaos after that, as she jumps around the stage constantly stirring up the audience.
When she sings it comes from her gut. In certain moments (like in “Phenomena“) you can see her holding her stomach as she bends over to hit those difficult notes. Karen O truly has a versatile voice. Not only is each track on this album different from each other, but it doubles as a very different style from previous albums like “Fever to Tell“.
If, like me you were wondering how she does her death metal voice in “Art Star” you would have been amazed to watch her swallow the head of the entire mic-with her hands behind her back! The jumping, and dancing stopped while everyone looked on in awe!
The anthem of the evening is clearly “Maps“. A favourite, as everyone mimes the lyrics, and listens to Karen coo. You might recognise the riff in this song, as it was stolen by Kelly-friggin-Clarkson. Nick even went so far as to dedicated part of his previous interview to complaining about it!
Each member of the band is vastly talented. Nick takes photos like he plays guitar. The lightning fast guitarist has released a book, humorously called -“another book”. Karen lets none of the attention deflect off the rest of the band, as she drapes her arms around them after almost every song.
The energy of their music could come down to uniquely strong ingredients, that compliment each other, simmered at a steady heat. No bull, its just about the music with this band as each track is played back to back with 150% endurance.
The last track is fittingly “Warrior” ending on:
When it’s missing then you want it more
It isn’t right
Turning, turning out the door
And back to this
Leave it like it was before
And let me out
Must’ve been the end of the story
The escape lament of a wanted woman!
Polydor released 12 addictive tracks on the new YYYs album – “Show Your Bones” on March 27. In Karens’ own words “Show Your Bones is what happens when you put your finger in a light socket”
Niki Kova’cs
[Photo by Niki Kova’cs]
Korn are giving their fans in Europe the chance to remix their upcoming single Coming Undone, released on June 12th. The group have struck a deal with MTV and www.ACIDplanet.com for this remix and fans can access the competition via the following MTV websites:
UK: www.mtv.co.uk/korn
Central: www.mtv.de/korn
Spain: www.mtv.es/korn
Portugal: www.mtv.pt/korn
France: www.mtv.fr/korn
Holland: www.mtv.nl/korn
Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Norway: www.mtve.com/korn
The winners [one from each region] will be given a full version of Acid Pro 6.0 and their remix will be posted on the band’s official site with comments from the band themselves. Of these seven finalists, one will be chosen as the Grand Prize winner, who will get a customised Korn PC with audio editing hardware and the remix tracks will be played at the Korn show in the winner’s home country.
The group’s European dates are:
May
25 Lisbon, Portugal Superrock Festival
26 Madrid, Spain La Cubierta
27 Bilbao, Spain Plaza De Toros (Bullring)
29 Clermont, France Ferrand Zenith
30 Toulouse, France Zenith
31 Geneva, Switzerland Arena
June
2 Germany Rock AM Ring
3 Germany Rock IM Park
4 Italy Gods Of Metal
6 Lille, France Zenith
7 Essen , Germany Grugahalle
8 Hamburg, Germany Stadtpark
10 UK Download Festival
11 Dublin, Ireland RDS Stadium
13 Amsterdam, Netherlands HMH
15 Sweden Hultsfred Festival
16 Oslo, Norway Norwegian Wood Festival
18 Finland Provinsii Rock Festival
20 Denmark, Aarhus SK Centre
21 Berlin, Germany Columbiahalle
23 France Nantes Festival
24 Belgium Graspop Metal
25 Paris, France Bercy
27 Budapest, Hungary Arena
28 Vienna, Austria Stadthalle
30 Slovakia Topvar Festival
July
1 Switzerland St. Gallen Festival
2 Leipzig, Germany Full Force Festival
The modern day freak fest that is Jackass will be debuting it’s second film in September. That’s right! More shits and giggles with Johnny Knoxville and Co. as they enjoy the company of poisonous snakes and the ride of jet propelled bikes to drop a few gems of what to expect.
For a quick clip, click here:
Or here.
The crazy bastards.