Whilst surfing the cyber wave, we stumbled across this soundtrack to the concrete wave.
Skaterdater is an award winning movie from the 60’s whose soundtrack encapsulated the easyrider living of our ancestors.
The soundtrack was scored by Mike Curb (Pun intended..?) and is available if you click the image here.
The Drum & Bass world is set to explode with a tour featuring heavyweights Andy C, Roni Size, DJ Zinc and DJ Marky for six dates across the nation. Each DJ is going to play an extended set to wow the crowds and showcase their obvious talents and will be joined by various major MCs.
Before they hit the road for the first date of the tour in Brighton, the DJs will jump into the studio for an exclusive track for the tour.
The tour dates are:
Friday 26th May
Beach Club, Brighton
Sunday 28th May
Ministry of Sound, London
Saturday 3rd June
Leeds Stylus
Thursday 8th June
Warwick University
Friday 9th June
Pull the Plug, Sheffield
Saturday 10th June
Bristol Academy
This years Girls Skate Jam UK has had a change of date and it has been brought forward to SATURDAY 27th MAY . This date is set in stone and won’t be moved again.
It will run between 12-5pm at Pioneer Skate Park, St Albans (20 mins north of London) with skate for everyone and party afterwards.
Email jen and jen at girlskatejamuk@btinternet.com for any more info.
Daddy Fresh Music, a Brighton based company, have come up with a fantastic forward thinking idea which is aimed at helping all music makers online. It offers musicians a choice of releasing the music through the label or even release it themselves if they pay an administration fee.
The site will also offer its own chart, which will be printed in the music industry’s holy grai Music Week. With a massively experienced A&R team ready to pick up potential singings [including Ivor Novello winning Robbie Craig and Tim Palmer, founder of XL Recordings], music will be reviewed with contructive opinions.
In addition, the site will be able to provide campaigns to promote the music submitted, again for a fee, and music will be able to be purchased through the digital store on the site. Advertising through the high profile music channels, will ensure a massive audience, and plans for a quarterly compilation album will help that too.
If you have any further questions please feel free to contact one of the A&R Executives at anr@daddyfreshmusic.com
The website can be found at www.daddyfreshmusic.com
Eastpak are stoked to be bringing out some special bags this summer, with designs by Ozzy, Lemmy & Slash.
Working with original artwork designed by each artist they have produced some bags which definitely kick arse and they are supporting a good cause as well with 10% of the retail price donated a charity chosen by the artists themselves.
Ozzy rocks in with his “Wank For Peace” design, Lemmy is responsible for the “Blind Faith” bag and Guns N Roses axeman Slash is the creator of the “Rock N Fuckin’ Roll” backpack.
Be on the lookout for these designs this coming June.
Visit www.whateverittakes.org for more info.
One of the original supergroup crews in rap, The Juice Crew, which was home to the likes of MC Shan, Biz Markie, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane and Roxanne Shante, is reportedly set to be brought back to life with a new look crew for 2006.
Shan and Shante have stated they want to continue the crew’s legacy but with new talent. Shan said that it will be “something different; not the “I slang drugs, I got jewellery” rhymes”. Whether or not anything will come of this is yet to be seen, but it’s certain to cause a lot of conversation and arguments from old skool fans.
Watch this space.
London Forum
05/03/06
It’s a sign of the fickle state of the music industry these days,that bands largely need to work not only hard, but also fast, in order to keep their fans. Lacuna Coil’s forthcoming ‘Karmacode‘ album has been roughly four years in the making, and although a band’s creative process shouldn’t be hurried, their absence from the scene has arguably allowed the likes of Evanescence to flourish in popularity with a watered down imitation of the Italian gothic metal crew’s sound. That said, the fact that Lacuna Coil can sell out the Forum with only the slightest whiff of new material is testament to the loyalty and respect that their fans afford them.
First up tonight are Deathstars, a bunch of Swedish guys who favour the ‘gothic stormtrooper’ look once so beloved of a certain Marilyn Manson. However, vocalist Whiplasher (!) isn’t as given to between-song speeches as the self-styled God Of Fuck, so the band get to work with a set of competent, if unoriginal, synth-laden industrial metal; with pounding beats and juddering guitars in abundance. They’re hardly essential, but they keep the crowd entertained.
Lacuna Coil receive a heroes’ welcome as they take the stage, and as they launch into ‘Tightrope‘, it’s clear that their confidence has never been higher; with vocalists Cristina Scabbia and Andrea Ferro exhorting the crowd to greater efforts. Clearly proud of their latest efforts, the band debut no less than eight new songs tonight; songs which combine their traditional sound with a heavier, more groove orientated approach – all to excellent effect. Elsewhere, there’s plenty of older material to keep the strongly partisan crowd happy – with ‘Swamped‘ and ‘Humane‘ received like old friends – and even a surprisingly good gothic-metal reworking of Depeche Mode’s ‘Enjoy The Silence’ to finish the main set.
It’s the onstage chemistry and stage presence of Cristina and Andrea that helps to make the Lacuna Coil live experience so enjoyable, and they soon return to charm us one last time, with an encore featuring new single ‘Our Truth’ and old favourite ‘Heaven’s A Lie’. With a slot at the Download festival confirmed and the imminent release of ‘Karmacode’, 2006 looks to see Lacuna Coil’s star shine ever brighter. Don’t bet against them.
Pat Duffy: Rail ollie to bank (above from Skateboarder Mag, click for sequence by Bradford)
Ryan Gallant: backside 180 switch frontside nosegrind –
Nestor Judkins: Frontside bluntslide pop-out
Lil’ Jesse: Switch heelflip backside 5-0
Stephane Giret: Fakie 360 flip
Pablo: Fakie varial flip
Oli Buergen: Ollie up to lipslide
1. Harold Hunter passing away. R.I.P.
2. Baker 3 compared to Questionable.
3. Almost a Consolidated/Nike shoe.
4. French Magazine Feuding.
5. Rowley quitting Vans for Globe?
Featuring J. Mascis of Dinosaur Jr fame on drums, Witch was born when J and his longtime friend Dave Sweetapple were interested in forming a hard rock band. Although Mascis is obviously more famous in rock circles for his genius guitar playing and song-writing, he actually started out as a drummer in early eighties hardcore punk band Deep Wound and is more than capable of handling himself behind the ole’ pots n’ pans and dustbin lids!
Joining forces with Kyle Thomas and Asa Irons, both members of New England avant-folk outfit Feathers, they set about creating a savage sonic noise that fuses the classic proto-heavy metal sounds of bands like Black Sabbath, Blue Cheer and Atomic Rooster with the crushing heavy-weight sludge of the Melvins and the like. Out early March on Tee Pee Records, their self-titled debut is a must for all fans of heavily fuzzed out and intensely loud heavy fucking metal.
Having formed in 1997 after vocalist Eddie Glass and drummer Ruben Romano left desert rock pioneers Fu Manchu, Nebula have released a series of frankly brilliant scuzzed up rock records that have left a trail of scorched destruction across the world of rock.
Now ready to launch their latest album ‘Apollo‘ on Sweet Nothing Records, Nebula return with fourteen tracks of primal rock grooves and snarling garage noise. Produced by Daniel Ray (Ramones, Misfits, L7), ‘Apollo‘ does a fine job of capturing the band’s raw power assault. Check it out and watch out for tour dates later this year.