Sleaford Mods’ much praised new album ‘Key Markets’ is sitting #10 in the midweek album charts today. Jason Williamson released a statement of sorts on the release today and streamed lead track Live Tonight.
Look out for a feature in Uncut this week, The Quietus and Observer features and more to come. Over 75 reviews of the album have run to date, out now on Harbinger Sound.
Masked sonic avengers Evil Blizzard have announced their new album, Everybody Come To Church, for October 9th via Louder Than War Records.
Recorded live in one day with minimal overdubs at Magnetic North Studios, Everybody Come To Church is a fierce spontaneous outburst of evil noise. Hear the first cut, ‘Sacrifice’, on Louder Than War here and be sure to catch them live in the UK on the forthcoming dates below.
Tour Dates
August
6th Rebellion Festival, Blackpool (Empress Ballroom Stage)
29th 100 Club, London w/ The Membranes & Je Suis Crabbi (Pop Will Eat Itself)
September
12th Unorthodox Paradox Festival, Shropshire
26th Liverpool Psych Festival
October
10th The Great British Alternative Weekend, Butlins Skegness
15th The Donkey Bar, Leicester
24th Georgian Theatre, Stockton
24th In-store session at Sound It Out Records, Stockton in the late afternoon
30th The Hairy Dog, Derby
31st Blitz, Preston (Halloween album launch)
November
11th Trades Club, Hebden Bridge
27th Wagon & Horses, Birmingham
28th The Barfly, Camden w/ Bad Guys
December
19th The Academy, Manchester
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Radkey have announced today that they will return to the UK for a full UK tour in October and November this year to play tracks from their debut album ‘Dark Black Makeup’, scheduled for release on Littleman Records on August 21st.
The band have also shared their brand new single ‘Love Spills’ today: “a song about an evil villain type character and his dreams of terrorizing the city that he loves,” explains Isaiah Radke.
The Missouri trio will also play live sets at Reading & Leeds Festival and a one-off show at the Old Blue Last with special guests on Tuesday 1st September. Tickets for this low-key show and the ‘Dark Black Makeup’ UK tour will be on sale now and can be purchased from http://www.livenation.co.uk/artist/radkey-tickets
Visit http://smarturl.it/RadkeyiTunes to download new track ‘Dark Black Makeup’ and also ‘Parade It’ when you pre-order the album.
Sat/Sun 30th August
Reading and Leeds Festivals
September
Tue 1-Sept The Old Blue Last. London
October
Mon 26-Oct Brighton, Green Door Store
Tue 27-Oct Bristol, Exchange
Wed 28-Oct Birmingham, Hare & Hounds
Thu 29-Oct Sheffield, Leadmill
Fri 30-Oct Nottingham, Bodega
Sat 31-Oct Manchester, Sound Control (basement)
November
Mon 02-Nov Glasgow, King Tuts
Tue 03-Nov Newcastle, Academy 2
Wed 04-Nov Leeds, Key Club
Thu 05-Nov London, The Dome
Photo: Duncan Stafford.
This feature is a must read.
“These songs do to the English language what Pete Townshend did to his Rickenbacker – this is a rhetorical racket, lingual feedback; noisy resistance to well-ordered, market-friendly thinking. The same goes for that furious scatology, that feverish obsession with the abject; Jason Williamson’s mind is a cloaca, discharging torrents of weaponised filth, scooped up and catapulted out of the cage, a logical response to alienation and confinement… yeah all right, I know, I know. But seriously, listen: this is the best British lyricist to have emerged so far this century.”
Brighton’s most exciting new band, Demob Happy, have ensnared the folk over at The Line of Best Fit with their “searing guitars and thunderous percussion”.
Demob Happy will be performing with Broken Hands at Power Lunches in London tonight (14 July).
Copenhagen’s Baby In Vain take you to “the sexiest dinner party of your life” in their music video for ‘Muscles’. Noisey dub the trio’s sound as a “visceral combination of Sleater Kinney, Babes in Toyland, and Queens of the Stone Age with boss-ass results”.
Baby In Vein are soon to be on tour with The Kills and are currently finishing their debut album in Denmark.
Tour Dates:
Friday 17th July Bukta Tromso Open Air, Norway
Saturday 18th July Slottsfjeld Festival, Norway
Monday 27th July El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles, CA w/ The Kills
Tuesday 28th July The Glass House, Pomona, CA w/ The Kills
Saturday 1st August St Andrews Hall, Detroit, MI w/ The Kills
Sunday 2nd August Metro, Chicago, IL w/ The Kills
Monday 3rd August First Avenue, Minneapolis, MN w/ The Kills
Wednesday 5th August Ogden Theatre, Denver, CO w/ The Kills
Friday 7th August Neurolux, Boise, ID
Saturday 8th August Roseland Theatre, Portland, OR w/ The Kills
Monday 10th August Brick & Mortar, San Francisco, CA
Tuesday 11th August The Echo, Los Angeles, CA
After “fairly conclusive and forceful instructions”, Baby Godzilla are forced to change their name to ‘HECK’. See what Kerrang! have to say.
The Nottingham four-piece urge you not to “fear the change”.
Baby Godzilla Spring 2015
The band will be playing the following live dates:
17th July – TRUCK Festival, Steventon
25th July – Tramlines, University Arms, Sheffield
26th July – The Charlatan, “Gentse Feesten” Ghent, Belgium
14th August – HEVY FEST, Port Lympne
15th August – Light The Fuse, Hurstbourne Tarrant
12th September – Butserfest, Elizabeth Country park, Hampshire
3rd October – Play Fest, Hasselt, Belgium
John J Presley is sharing his video for latest single ‘Come Calling’ on The Guardian as part of their Americana playlist.
His debut EP ‘White Ink’ will be out 24th July via Vital Music.
We welcome new London duo Pertini to Division today who will release their debut single Blackfriars Bridge digitally on July 31st. Hear their new tune premiering on The Line of Best Fit.
Pertini will be playing live at the following London shows:
16th July – Roadtrip and the Workshop, 243 Old Street, EC1V
5th August – The Monarch, 40-42 Chalk Farm Rd, Camden, NW1
Nottingham duo Sleaford Mods landed the lead feature in The Observer this weekend as the release of their new album ‘Key Markets’ draws close on July 24th, through Harbinger Sound.
Headlined ‘The Filth And The Fury’, the two-page feature tells the full story of their lives, music and all of the events that led them to where they are today. Read the feature here.
