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Kreator posts new song from forthcoming album, Hordes of Chaos

Posted in Music News with tags kreator on Wednesday, December 3, 2008 by Ryan Buege

The thrash masters in Kreator have been working on their new album for many months, and today they have posted the first music to be leaked from the release. The song is “Warcurse”, a massive beast of hate-fueled thrash that has the band sounding more pissed off and defiant than ever! By January 13th, U.S. headbangers should have their hands on a full album of deadly new German thrash when Hordes of Chaos hits shelves and download sites everywhere. Kreator will be on the road for a gigantic 4 month live stint (with other greats such as Exodus, Warbringer, and Eluveitie) soon, and so far it looks like the new album will definitely add to the insanity in the pits this time around. Click below to check out “Warcurse” and keep reading to see all the dates for Kreator‘s spring tour.

“Warcurse” – LISTEN HERE
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Video: Justice on KarmaloopTV

Posted in Music News, Video with tags A Cross The Universe, Auge, Badass, Electronica, Justice, Rosnay on Tuesday, December 2, 2008 by Tim Althaus

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Well here’s another video of Justice talking about their crazy ass DVD coming out entitled A Cross The Universe. It’s due out December 9th as a Live DVD/CD combo and promises to be a great release. According to these guys they filmed over 200 hours of footage and narrowed it down to just one hour for the DVD (for all of you doing rapid math that’s .5% of the footage). This shit looks like it’s going to be crazy, I know I’m going out to get it.

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Get over to Pitchfork and let your voice be heard!

Posted in Music News with tags Best of 2008, P4K on Monday, December 1, 2008 by Tim Althaus

According to a post on Pitchfork Media last week on Thanksgiving, this week (December 1st – December 7th @ 11:59 PM (central time)) you will be able to cast your votes on your favorites in the year of 2008. Some of the categories that are included are: Favorite Album, Favorite Song, Best Live Act, Best New Artist, Most Underrated Album, Most Overrated Album (The Carter III) and etc.

Pitchfork is going to be posting the results of the Reader’s Poll a week before they post their very own best of 2008 list.

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Folk&Stress: “Brothers Freestyle”

Posted in Music News with tags Aesop Rock, Black Milk, Blu, Folk&Stress, GZA, Hip-Hop, Vast Aire, Wu on Thursday, November 27, 2008 by Tim Althaus

This is the first post of many that I am going to be making about these guys. Folk&Stress are two cats (they are fucking brothers… how sick is that shit?) out of New York, and boy can they make some really fucking good Hip-Hop. It’s funny because I hadn’t heard anything about these guys at all until I watched the Vimby video at Southpaw for Black Milk’s release of Tronic. I immediately jumped over to their MySpace page and was completely blown away by the amount of punch that these two pack. I can tell you right now that their album The Box still has a “to be announced” date attached to it, but once that shit hits you are going to feel it for a long time.

Take a listen to this freestyle with the backdrop of Gang Starr’s Code of the Streets. I’m pretty sure this beat gets completely decimated by these guys, if you feel any different I think that you might be brain dead (either that or entirely too high). Keep on the watch for The Box it features guest appearances by GZA, Vast Aire, Aesop Rock, Blu, Bronze Nazareth & production by Wu affiliate Dreddy Kruger. I don’t know about you but by that guest list alone, this album sounds like it will be something that you are definitely going to want to have. Check out the track below and jump over to their MySpace.

Brothers Freestyle

Interview with DJ Ready Cee and Performance

“Beatrix” (Featuring Vast Aire) on Hype Machine

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Devastation is still a band, for now

Posted in Music News with tags bleed the sky, devastation, incite, soulfly on Tuesday, November 25, 2008 by Ryan Buege

Despite what recent Blabbermouth reports and the band’s website would lead you to believe, revitalized Texas thrashers Devastation are still touring together. In fact, they made a stop here in Maplewood at the Rock with Soulfly on Saturday, November 22nd, and they blasted out classics from their albums Violent Termination, Signs of Life, and Idolatry.

Apparently Richie Dunsmore and Alex Dominguez stranded the rest of the band without a van or trailer, but Henry Elizondo, Walter Trachsler, and and Fidel Tagle are continuing on as a trio until the tour is finished – Elizondo and Walter are trading off on vocals for the rest of the tour (with occasional help from Incite and inebriated members of Bleed The Sky ). We’ll see if the three-piece lineup continues on for long, but I personally hope they do. Despite the fact that no one expected them to even play that night (and they were missing two key members), they immediately made the large venue feel small and alive with their lovable egos and mindbending shred of mid-80s thrash. The unsuspecting audience was headbanging and circle pitting from the word “GO”! I’ll cross my fingers to hopefully seeing them again in some incarnation..

Anyway, here’s a photo as proof of their existence!

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Burnt by the Sun ascend from their own smoldering ashes; new demo posted!

Posted in Music News with tags burnt by the sun on Saturday, November 22, 2008 by Ryan Buege

Can any of us really believe that it has already been 5 years since our friends in Burnt By The Sun presented us with some new music? If you’re not aware of the last several years of breakup rumors and lengthy member searches, forget about it; there’s no need to be sad, because as far as you’ll ever know, all is well in the realm of BBTS. The band is back, revitalized and more determined than ever; and they just posted a new demo called “F-UNIT” online from their forthcoming album Heart Of Darkness!

Although they has been pretty quiet for the half a decade, audibly the band really hasn’t lost any steam. In fact, it would even be hard to say that the rest of the metal scene has caught up with Burnt By The Sun at all during the last few years. I’m still spinning Soundtrack to the Personal Revolution and The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good quite often, and in all honestly, they sound more progressive (and awesome!) than 90% of the metal that’s been released since they dropped their last album. Personally, I can’t wait for the new release any sooner. The new track reunites us with with the BBTS we all remember and love exactly where we left off – feeling scared for our lives.

Head over to their official myspace to have a listen to what’s to come!

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Ghostface to release Ghost Deini the Great

Posted in Concert Dates, Music News with tags Def Jam, Ghostface Killah, Hip-Hop, Pusha T, Raekwon, Styles P, Wu-Tang Clan on Friday, November 21, 2008 by Tim Althaus

Well, in a seemingly endless year of great releases it looks as if there is going to be another great compilation album from a Staten Island legend before it’s all said and done. Tony Starks aka Ghostface Killah will be releasing his first official Def Jam collection entitled Ghost Deini the Great. This collection will feature appearances by Kanye West, Lil’ Wayne, Styles P, Ice Cube, Pusha T (Clipse), Raekwon & more. This album also (CD only) features live footage from Ghost’s trek on the Hip Hop Live! Tour, as well as rarities and remixes of some of your favorite Ghostface songs.

Ghost has had one hell of an illustrious solo career, he is highly regarded by many critics and this guy might be up there with the greatest emcees of all time. To me there really aren’t too many guys that can paint a picture like Ghost as well as be funny as hell at the same time. Go out and grab this shit because it promises to scorch the hell out of your speakers and break your neck.

Tracklisting:

01 Slept on Tony
02 Run [Remix ft. Jadakiss, Lil Wayne, Raekwon, and Freeway]
03 Kilo [Remix ft. Raekwon and Pusha T]
04 Be Easy [Remix ft. Ice Cube]
05 Tony Segal (aka Barrel Bros.) [ft. Styles P and Beanie Sigel]
06 It’s Over
07 Walk Around
08 9 Milli Bros. [ft. Wu-Tang Clan]
09 Mighty Healthy
10 Apollo Kids
11 All I Got Is You [ft. Mary J Blige]
12 Cher Chez La Ghost
13 Back Like That [Remix ft. Kanye West and Ne-Yo]
14 Street Opera [ft. Sun God]
15 You Know I’m No Good [ft. Amy Winehouse]
16 The Champ [Remix]
17 Ghostface Christmas

Also go check out the WU on tour:

11-29 Portland, OR – Roseland Ballroom
11-30 Boise, ID – Knitting Factory
12-01 Seattle, WA – Showbox SoDo
12-03 San Francisco, CA – The Grand Ballroom at the Regency Center
12-04 West Hollywood, CA – House of Blues
12-05 San Diego, CA – House of Blues
12-06 Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues
12-07 Tempe, AZ – Marquee
12-08 Tucson, AZ – Rialto Theatre
12-10 Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre
12-14 Chicago, IL – House of Blues
12-15 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
12-17 Cleveland, OH – House of Blues
12-18 Rochester, NY – Main Street Armory
12-19 Philadelphia, PA – Trocadero
12-20 New Haven, CT – Toad’s Place
12-21 Sayreville, NJ – Starland Ballroom
12-23 New York, NY – Hammerstein Ballroom
01-01 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club
01-02 Providence, RI – Lupo’s
01-04 Burlington, VT – Higher Ground
01-07 Norfolk, VA – The NorVa
01-08 Richmond, VA – Toad’s Place
01-09 Greensboro, NC – N Club
01-10 Charleston, SC – Music Farm
01-11 Charlotte, NC – Amos’ Southend
01-12 Raleigh, NC – Lincoln Theatre
01-13 Columbia, SC – LEVEL
01-14 Atlanta, GA – TBA

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Last video off The LAyover to premier Tuesday

Posted in Music News with tags Dilated Peoples, Evidence, Hip-Hop, The LAyover EP on Friday, November 21, 2008 by Tim Althaus

I really don’t need to say too much. Stay tuned.

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The Roots’ tourbus crashes in Europe, Everyone is ok!

Posted in Music News with tags ?uestlove, Okayplayer, The Roots on Friday, November 21, 2008 by Tim Althaus

According to Okayplayer the Roots’ tour bus crashed last night in Paris. Thankfully everyone that was on the bus was ok. The thing about the situation is that the Roots’ European tour bus is a double decker bus and could have done some really serious damage. I’m glad to hear these guys are all okay, they are definitely innovators and legends, they need to stay around for a long time.

I don’t really need to say much more than that. You can read ?uestlove’s blog and recall of the situation here.

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RJD2, The Simpsons?

Posted in Music News with tags Aceyalone, Dead Ringer, Hip-Hop, Mad Men, Ramble John Krohn, Rjd2, The Simpsons on Thursday, November 20, 2008 by Tim Althaus

I was very relieved to hear that one of my favorite producers, Ramble John Krohn (aka Rjd2), was back in the studio making more music. He had mentioned that his new album should be ready sometime around mid-2009 (although he doesn’t like to say things like that pre-emptively). I am really hoping that Rj goes back towards his Hip-Hop roots (Dead Ringer which was released to high critical acclaim) and stays away from the indie pop music. This guy is one of the most talented producers I’ve ever heard, and his music is simply beautiful.

I also found out that the Simpsons recently did a parody of the AMC show Mad Men (which is a Golden Globe winner) and they chose to use Rj’s track “A Beautiful Mine” off of the Magnificent City (which teamed RJ up with veteran Freestyle Fellowship emcee Aceyalone). When RJ was asked how he felt about the situation: “It’s really something when music you made in your basement for your own enjoyment ends up in places you never imagined it would. You can tell they recreated the music for the show using orchestration and all live instruments, so that made it even cooler.”