Yeasayer Announce One-off Gig.
..and yes it is in London
Following tours with MGMT and Beck, psychedelic New Yorkers Yeasayer are to play a one off gig at Club Uncut at King's College London on August 20th as a warm up up to their Reading and Leeds appearances.
Yeasayer will play Leeds Festival on 22nd August and Reading on 24th.
Don't mind me folks...I'm just popping up here as this article is so short it's fucking up our news page. But seriously, go and see these guys...they're pretty awesome. - Ed.
Posted on 24 July 2008 by Nick Foster
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zZz Get to 'Grip' With New Single
It's out on Monday.
Dutch 'dirt rockers' (a mix, it says here, of psychedelic electro wave, garage soul and dirty rock & roll) zZz recently signed to Anti- Records and have wasted no time in getting new single 'Grip' from next Monday (July 28th).
It's the first taste of their debut album 'Running With The Beast' and already has a video which has cleaned up on awards on the continent which you can watch below.
Londoners eager to catch the band's live show should make themselves aware of the following upcoming dates.
July 2008
27 - Sexfest @ 93 Feet East
29 - White Heat @ Madame Jojo's
Posted on 24 July 2008 by Richard Brown
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The Peth Go Fucking Mental!
So mental they're giving their debut single away for free.
Being a Welsh supergroup fronted by actor Rhys Ifans, The Peth have been picked up by The Sun who helpfully explain to their readership how they allegedly sound by the gift of association with well-known acts with this quote:
"A ferocious collision of Oasis-style singalongs coupled with the quirky electronics of Super Furry Animals. A dose of Happy Mondays’ low-slung funk completes the picture… Ifans rocks."
Stuck in Aberdeen, miles from where The Peth have played their handful of club shows and festivals, I'll just have to wait to find out if the quote does justice or, as I suspect, serious injustice to their sound. Fortunately, there's less than a month to wait as the band are releasing debut single, the conservatively-titled 'Let's Go Fucking Mental' on August 18th as a free download from their site and selected others.
This is followed by their debut album 'The Golden MIle' on September 1st.
Posted on 24 July 2008 by Richard Brown
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Look out everyone, it's the new Fratellis video:
'Look Out Sunshine'
The single will be released August 18th and will be available from all good record stores (real and virtual).
Posted on 23 July 2008 by Ash Carter
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Looking for somewhere to get your fix of Hollyoaks AND Taio Cruz at the same time?
We have the answer for you...
You can catch Hollyoaks temptress Roxanne McKee in Taio's new video for 'She's Like A Star', released August 18th. Enjoy.
Posted on 23 July 2008 by Ash Carter
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Oh, that's Stryderman...
top East London writer, man?
Another of East London's grime exports will be gracing your television screens and radio airwaves come August 4th with the release of Tinchy Stryder's new single 'Stryderman' on 4th & Broadway, an Island Records subsidiary.
The 21 year old was 'snapped up' 3 weeks before the release date and looks set to follow on from the underground success of his debut album, Star In The Hood, and reap the benefits from the surge in popularity of UK grime, albeit in a 'friendlier' form.
The video was directed by Mighty Mo and features non other than Tim Westwood; rap's real life answer to Sacha Baron Cohen. Check it out and let us know what you think.
N.B. By the look of all his trinkets, grime does pay.
Posted on 23 July 2008 by Ash Carter
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Do Deerhoof 'Offend Maggie', Yeah?
Well, maybe, but it is the name of their new album.
Arty San Francisco rockers Deerhoof have a new album out called 'Offend Maggie' through ATP on October 6th and they've unleashed a taster in the form of the first single 'Fresh Born', available to download for free.
There's a catch though. Instead of a digital MP3 featuring the band's take on the track, the download available to fans is a pdf featuing the hand-drawn sheet music. What better way to learn to love the song than learn to play it? Also, such a move represents an about-turn slap in the kisser of music technology with the band harking back to the preferred media of old.
To get your hands on the sheet music just visit http://deerhoof.cashmusic.org/. Music lessons cost extra.
Posted on 23 July 2008 by Richard Brown
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Esser Announces UK Tour, Gives Away MP3
Plus there's an EP with every T-shirt
New Transgressive signing Esser AKA Ben from Ladyfuzz has announced a big autumn tour taking in fourteen venues around the UK, he's also made a track 'Headlock' available to download for free which you can grab now from www.esserhq.com/freedownload or you can watch the video for it first.
If you like the sound of 'Headlock' and want to prove your support for Esser by wearing the name on your chest, you can buy a t-shirt at forthcoming gigs, online or in stores, each with its own unique bar code and catalogue number. By entering the code into a website, you can download the rest of the EP, which runs down like this...
1. 'Headlock'
2. 'Baby It's A Boring'
3. 'Headlock' (12" Version)
Always nice to see a 12" version I think, makes me yearn equally for the ubiquitous 'club mix' that would generally appear on late 80's and early 90's releases. Anyway, those tour dates I told you about earlier...
October 2008
9 - Portland, Cambridge
10 - Evol, Liverpool
11 - Music Library, Lancaster
12 - Bodega, Nottingham
13 - Night and Day, Manchester
14 - ICA, London
16 - New Slang, Kingston
18 - Lennons, Southampton
20 - Cooler, Bristol
21 - Barfly, Cardiff
22 - Central Station, Wrexham
23 - 53 Degrees, Preston
24 - King Tuts, Glasgow
25 - Faversham, Leeds
Posted on 23 July 2008 by Richard Brown
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A Heavenly Festival
The ever popular label comes of age with three nights in September.
Hard to believe, but Heavenly Records will be eighteen years old in September and, to celebrate this coming of age, the label have announced five shows over three nights on London's South Bank with some of the finest acts to ever grace their roster playing.
Things kick off on Friday 12th Setember at the Royal Festival Hall where Doves and Cherry Ghost mingle with 'Very Special Guests' that Culturedeluxe has decided must either be baggy heroes Flowered Up or, although less likely, a full glammed-up Manic Street Preachers.
Saturday sees The Magic Numbers, Beth Orton and Pete Greenwood go head to head with Edwyn Collins, The Rockingbirds and The Loose Salute while Sunday has Saint Ettienne headlining a fantastic show at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with Little Ones and Dot Allison in support with an equally fabulous line-up of Nada Surf, Jaymay and former Blow Monkey Dr Robert playing the Purcell Room.
Some highlights to watch out for are Doves showcasing material from their fourth LP with their first gig in three years, Beth Orton and Nada Surf playing classic albums in full - 'Trailer Park' and 'Let Go' respectively and reformations by The Rockingbirds and 22-20s specially for the event.
Tickets go on sale tomorrow and are available from www.southbankcentre.co.uk/.
Posted on 23 July 2008 by Richard Brown
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Psychotic Horseshit
Shitgaze band read the riot act to label over disc pressing.
Rising stars of the somewhat worryingly titled 'shitgaze' scene, Psychedelic Horseshit have hit out at their label Half Machine Records after their new record was pressed with spaces between the tracks. Matt from the band contacted the label to vent his anger about the EP of which considerably less copies will now be in the shops on Monday:
"dude, got the ep's today, what the fuck is with the spaces in between the tracks. they were strung together with care. THERE ARE GUITAR AND DRUM PARTS CHOPPED IN HALF. i am beyond pissed off. this is why bands are supposed to get test pressings. this thing is a piece of junk now, completely worthless, and all copies must be burned or otherwise destroyed. i am deadly serious about this. if this gets out i will personally make it my job to see to it that every copy is retreived and destroyed. starting at yr offices."
The label have promised that the copies they have left will be set on fire with filmed evidence put on Youtube in an artistic, albeit necessary, statement not seen since the days of The KLF.
You can read our review of this soon to be incredibly rare EP here, to be honest it wasn't the silence between tracks that we found unsettling!
Posted on 23 July 2008 by Richard Brown
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