News
Kelly Gets Racial
Its poltical correctness gone mad! Lawyers on both sides of the R Kelly porn case are challenging the jury selection in a way that can only be described as bizarre; Kelly seems to have decided he doesn't want any of those African American types deciding if he can continue his nouvelle auteur film career unhindered by a stretch in the big house. Who votes for Judge Judy as the judge?
Read more...BUY BUY BUY
Remember that ridiculous FlyLo endorsed festival in a car park in London called Brainfeeder I spoke about mid week? Well... your WM went above and beyond to bring you the official line from Warp and more importantly those damn valuable ticket links.
Read more...Boosh Bonanza
The Mighty Boosh have plucked a handful of names out of the ether for their debut festival shindig. 1980s automobile fancier Gary Numan is being rolled out for an exclusive set, alongside the slightly unexpected combination of floppy vererans The Charlatans, Austin fuzz buckets White Denim and leftfield jazz bastards Polar Bear. Who amongst us isn't hoping for a Moon vs Bear rendition of the Spirit of Jazz?
Read more...New Cure
Er... so yeah. New video clip from The Cure for new single 'The Only One'. Kind of meh.
Read more...On your MRKs
Offering up more proof that the North don't slouch on this bass ting Manny's finest MRK 1 drops an hour long mix of strictly dubplate material with MC JSD from Virus Syndicate telling it like it is.
Read more...What a WOPA!
A new night down at the ol' 333. We are both worried and intrigued by the concept of Neon 2-Step Garage Party Bangers BUT and it is a big but; they have a DJ called Rudeyard Kipling playing. Who cares what he's playing, did you read that name? Hello?
Read more...Red Stripe Crown Winner
Klaus Says Buy The Record won the Red Stripe Music Award this monday. It was a big ol' battle of the bands and the WM tipped O Fracas lost out to the impish charm of Klaus.
Read more...Metro Toddla
We coined a phrase the other day round these parts: Anal Bashment. Its all about weak, flimsy dancehall riddiming and real pro gay lyrics... or the complete antithesis of today's dancehall. I'm sure the free Toddla T collabo with The Metro's, 'Clubhouse Riddim' is in no such vein, still... sounds pretty graphic duntit?
Read more...Anticon Update
Anticon may have been a bit quiet of late, excluding the Son Lux album that came out a while back - which was actually quite great - but they've confirmed the next release will be from Bristolian songsmith SJ Esau entitiled 'Small Vessel' out on our shores on 24th June.
Read more...Rip It
Portishead have announced their next single from the wholly awesome album Third (yeah, maybe we'll get round to reviewing it soon) will be 'Rip' coming publically on the 9th June.
Read more...Wilsonic Festival
Everywhere outside the UK, no scrap that, London, is so infuriatingly cheap. Still at least those outsiders know how to rock a dope festival. Wilsonic boasts Skream, 2562, TRG, Fennesz, Kentaro, Clark, Little Dragon and you know who all for the princely sum of 550 Slovakian Korunas. Thats under £15 to you and I...
Read more...Reviews
Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip - Angles
Dan Le Sac and Scroobius Pip first popped up on the radar last year with their Radio 1 championed ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’ a new age indie baiting take on Baz Lurhman’s ‘Everybody’s Free To Wear Sunscreen’.
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James Pants - Welcome
The 80s is a decade that still holds much fascination some eighteen years after its conclusion. From a sartorial point of view it's a period that we should probably erase from our minds, luminous socks never again to be mentioned like some shameful family secret.
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Torche - Meanderthal
Hydra Head have had this mystical reputation for me since I first heard Lightning Bolt’s ‘Hypermagic Mountain’ for the first time proper when I was bundled into an SUV by my old man and driven for a couple of days across Death Valley.
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Jackson Conti - Sunjinho
At last. I’d been waiting for this record since the first time I saw Keepintime, back in 03. Remember that scene where Madlib’s grooving on his SP-303 and all of he sudden he chuckles and blurts, “this is some shit that won’t never come out”.
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Radioactive Man - Growl
I'm going to have a quick reviewer’s moan here. Just a quick one mind as I've got some actual music reviewing to do. It's just that reading the blurb on the press release for Radioactive Man's latest long-player 'Growl' you might think your ears are about to bear witness to the single-most important creative outpouring in musical history such is the gushy hyperbole contained within it.
Read more...LATEST FEATURE
 The Last Skeptik - Under The PatioAnother month is here, and another completely sporadic and not well timed edition of the Queen’s favourite hub of ranting, grunting and gallivanting hatred. It was my birthday last week, and at the old age of 54 I’m starting to think that my life might nearly be over. Read more... 2562 Is My NumberWhen Toots and The Maytals sung about the number 54-46 on their 1960s hit ‘54-46 That's My Number’, it was an all too common tale of oppression and police brutality in Jamaica. Fast-forward to 2008, The Hague, Holland, and Dave Huisman aka 2562 is a man very much carving out his own image of identity and freedom through his music. Read more... |
Media
Pivot - In The Blood
New Warp signing Pivot are are band you have to actually listen to to get, 4real, no homo. This little vid clip is a kind of stop motion doll house of terror and fake goo. A healthy introduction if ever there was one...
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Bleubird - Street Talk 2
Its damn hot on these shores, days in the park end up with white sunglasses rings and crispy forearms but it all feels a little better when heavily moisturised after you've stumble across a load of alternative Canadian freeness.
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Buddy Peace - Deer Blood Falls
Buddy Peace has long since been a stable of our mixtape diet since he introduced himself over the counter of a certain record store in central London, bonding tentatively over a love a certain dusty Canadian record label, Bully Records.
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