I have been a fan of the artwork of French illustrator McBess (Matthieu Bessudo) for a while. I don't know why but it reminds me of the old clean linework and exaggerated characters of Jamie Hewlitt (Tank Girl, Gorillaz, etc.). Along with his illustration work he has been working for London-based Mill Studios creating 3D animation ads and music videos, including those for his own band Dead Pirates. Below are the ids for
Take a listen to Justice's newest single, the title track to their upcoming album Audio, Video, Disco before it officially releases in October. The single is set to release September 19th via Ed Banger Records and features remixes from Para One and Mickey Moonlight. Enjoy!
Where do I even begin…This is the mother load, EVERY Essential Mix from 1993 – May 2011. All 919 of them, featuring anyone and everyone, you are welcome!
Leviathan is a one-man San Francisco based black-metal project whose alter ego is Jef Whitehead (a/k/a Wrest). Whitehead has been making Leviathan music since at least 1998, including 15 demo’s, 7 splits, two EPs, and four full-length albums of which I am a huge fan of. True Traitor, True Whore, is going to be the latest release from Leviathan and is scheduled for release by Profound Lore on November 8. Check out a track from the LP called “Her Circle Is the Noose”.
Seattle's Swampcat is doing some interesting things with a new dreamy electronic track entitled "The Colony" featuring Tulep. Check out the streaming downloadable track below courtesy of Swampcat.
DRC Music is a music project that consists of Damon Albarn, Dan The Automator, Actress, T-E-E-D, Jneiro Jarel, Richard Russell, Marc Antoine, Alwest, Remi Kabaka,, Kwes and Rodaidh McDonald that will release Kinshasa One Two digitally on October 3rd and the CD/LP November 7th on Warp which will benefit Oxfam. Check out the streaming track below as well as a couple other new tracks on the new album over at DRC Music.
As previously reported back in early June Kyuss Lives! aka Nick Oliveri, Brant Bjork, John Garcia and Bruno Fevery( Kyuss minus Josh Homme) are touring the Untied States. In celebration of the tour the band appeared on Fuel TV last night and played "Hurricane" the lead track from the …And the CircusLeavesTown live for a studio audience, enjoy the video below….
One of my favorite bands of all time has recently reformed for some reunion shows, Scratch Acid. Scratch Acid was an Austin, Texas noise rock group formed in 1982... The band was named by music journalist Will Lerner as "the American equivalent of the Birthday Party." For those not familiar the bands members have been involved in s slew of acts. Brett Bradford went on to form Colorado punk band Great Caesar's Ghost. They disbanded in 1993. He also formed Sangre De Toro and played with Areola 51. Washam went on to perform with many other bands, including the Big Boys, Ministry, Helios Creed, the Didjits, Lard, and Tad. In 1987, Sims and Washam joined Steve Albini in the band Rapeman, which disbanded just before Sims reunited with Yow in 1989 to form my all time favorite band The Jesus Lizard. I saw Scratch Acid about 5 years ago when they reformed to play Touch & Go’s 25 year anniversary and it was well worth the trip to Chicago to do so, make sure you catch these guys while you can.
Scratch Acid -- 2011 Tour Dates Tue 11/1 Variety Playhouse, Atlanta GA
Wed 11/2 Cat's Cradle, Carrboro NC
Fri 11/4 9:30 Club, Washington DC
Mon 11/7 Webster Hall, NYC, NY
Fri 11/11 Lee's Palace, Toronto, ON
Sat 11/12 Metro, Chicago, IL
Tue 12/13 El Rey Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
Wed 12/14 The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA
Sat 12/17 Neumos, Seattle, WA
OriginalFake highlight an upcoming online exclusive T-shirt release with the KAWS Pecker Bomb graphic. The shirt introduces Pecker the bird as he’s contained with a Blitz-like bomb. Three colors will be available in black, white and gray starting September 3, 2011. The shirt will remain exclusive to the OF online store. I'm really loving this graphic.
YES! Something you should know about me, I absolutely love the LA noise band HEALTH so it was with great pleasure to get this cover of Pictureplane’s “Goth Star”. Those familiar with both bands might recall that production duties for Pictureplanes latest LP Thee Physical was done by Jupiter Keyes who along with the rest of the band have taken the Fleetwood Mac-sampling beat-jam also used in the original and made it into a drum-driven piece of their own.
Here is a sweet short directed by Casey Neistat of tattoo/contemporary artist Scott Campbell doing a tattoo on a friend with makeshift gun, aka prison style in Tompkins Square Park in NYC. Scott briefly discusses what tattooing means to him, his entry into fine art and the logistics of creating a prison style tattoo on the fly, it’s a fun video of the master at work.
