The LA based United Ghosts have just dropped a brand new music video for ‘Out Of Love’, the lead track from their forthcoming EP Dear Electric Sun.
Leaving behind their original full-band set-up, United Ghosts have stripped their sound back to the original two founding members, Sha Sabi and Axel Ray Steuerwald.
Their upcoming five track EP is chock full of vintage synthesiser wizardry and savy guitar moves. Magnificent soundscapes and psychedelic reveries guaranteed, catch Dear Electric Sun from August 4th via Tambourine Girl. Check their UK live dates below.
August Live Dates
1st – London – The George Tavern
4th – London – The Old Blue Last
Summer holidays just got way more interesting thanks to Red Bull who have delivered bags of concrete and tools to 17 independent UK skate shops this week for you to go and pick up for free and build your own DIY skate spot.
The best spot built over the next 2 months will be judged by an expert panel and the winning crew will receive a free skate trip to Bulgaria. Note that the winning crew is said to be made up of no more than 3 people.
Check the list below to see if your local skateshop has been delivered the goods and get planning. Once you have built your spot, you need to send photos to DIY@uk.redbull.com to enter.
The competition will be running from July 25th September 25th after which the DIY Tour will take place between 4-8th October (TBC). The top spots will get a visit from a team of top skaters, giving the crews the opportunity to ride the spot they have created with some of the top UK skaters.
Level Skateboards in Brighton
Native Skate Store in Newcastle Upon Tyne
Welcome Skate Store in Leeds
Parlour in London
Ideal in Birmingham
Focus in Edinburgh
Freestyle in Newport
Skate Pharmacy in Margate
Note in Manchester
SS20 in Oxford
Fifty Fifty in Bristol
Big Woody’s in Blackpool
Bored Skateshack in Cornwall
Endemic in Huddersfield
Decimal in Cirencester
Red Bull’s Korahn Gayle said ”This is such a good opportunity for crews to build a spot for all their friends to skate! They can put in all the obstacles that they love to skate and to do it with a load of mates would be a perfect project for the summer, which could be topped off with an amazing trip to Bulgaria.
If you have never before come across the skateboarding world of Simon Woodstock then prepare yourself for a treat. Back in the 90s Woodstock was a legend known for clowning about and making skateboarding hilariously fun at the same time of pushing it forwards on random self made decks and in the most bizarre places.
This month, Death Skateboards have honoured Simon with a guest deck alongside long time friend and Death lifer Dan Cates. Enjoy this documentary on his world and look out for his deck in your local skate shop.
London rock ‘n’ rollers Human Hair are the musical result of a friendship between ex-furniture salesman turned vocalist, Jack Lenton and ex-Lovvers guitarist Henry Withers. Naturally, these two musical minds clash from very different ends of the spectrum. With a dark, poetic, Nick Cave reference lingering in Lenton’s vocal corner, and a simplistic Pavement-esque ideal resonating with Withers.
With their separate influences in mind, Human Hair’s sound is rather curious and unique. ‘Hungers’ receives a rigourous floor tom thrashing alongside scuzzy chord abuse. A minimalistic musical concoction is brewed. There’s no need nor want of unessesary decorations, that would only detract from the commanding vocal tones protruding from Lenton’s deep howl.
Hit play below and expose your ears to the weird rock ‘n’ roll of Human Hair, and your eyes to the hilarious visual they’ve knocked up to accompany this track.
Having just dropped their debut album My Life as a Beast and Lowly Form, the London quartet are set to play the Bad Vibrations / Marshall Teller all-dayer at The Shacklewell Arms on Saturday, be sure to head down and check out their live show at 4.45pm.
Rising from the ashes of Capricorns and Pettybone, London trio Broken DC are steaming in with a new 7″, ‘Face The Sun’ / ‘Gnarled’.
Recorded aboard Rory Atwell’s Lightship, back in 2013, this A side is a fierce marriage of hardcore and post-punk.
A thrashing ode to the the firey orange disc that burns high in our skies, ‘Face The Sun’ kicks in with sincerely rocking riffs and animalistic kit bashing. The first half of this track is a full on assault to the ears, with a growling mantra, spat high over primal chord-thrashing.
Recalling the sounds of Metz, it’s not just noise that Broken DC bring to the fold. Breathing space is carved out by a progessive mid-section, unfolding phased-out, unexpectedly intricate guitar lines that build from easy on the ear to a cascade of choral chaos. Watch the video now on YouTube.
‘Face The Sun’ / ‘Gnarled’ is due August 11th on Dry Run Records.
Following this weeks release of their new album Never Hungover Again via Epitaph Records, Joyce Manor have announced a November tour with Cheap Girls.
In addition, the LA pop punks have shared a new home made music video for ‘The Jerk’, streaming on YouTube now, hit this today and check out the tour dates below.
November UK Tour Dates
11th Leeds, Cockpit 2
12th Glasgow, 13th Note
13th Manchester, Star & Garter
14th London, The Dome Tufnell Park
15th Southampton, Joiners
16th Kingston, Fighting Cocks
17th Bristol, The Exchange
You pay to play but there’s usually only one winner when you have to nail your ender for the Baker 3 film. Jim Greco‘s patience to take home this switch frontside flip is admirable and is aided by an old friend.
Our ears have only just stopped ringing since Destruction Unit dropped their Adult Swim installment, ‘Dust‘, a few weeks ago. Now, the Adult Swim Singles Club come good again with brand new noise from stoner rock titans, Sleep.
Picking up where 2003 LP Dopesmoker left off, ‘The Clarity’ is a straight up, stoned, doom metal phenomenon. Bone-shaking bass throbs, a guttural kick drum pounds, and a smoke-screen’d vocal is shrouded in sub-frequency fuzz. This is not a track for the faint hearted and if played loud and proud through your biggest speakers, is sure to knock you straight on your back.
Exhaling into a face-melting interlude mid-way through, its no suprise Sleep don’t stray too far from their key riff here. Why would they? In a recent interview with NPR, Sleep revealed that ‘The Clarity’ was written in a couple of days, off the cuff, just as Adult Swim approached the band to do a single. Their comment on the near ten minute epic, “‘The Clarity’ is an exercise in musical stream of thought, as all proper music should be.”
Human Hair
Broken DC
The Clarity