Lethal Bizzle is set to release the second single to be taken from his forthcoming third album. “Going Out Tonight”, which has already received plays from Radio 1’s Zane, will be released on Sept 21st 09 on the Search and Destroy label, on CD, as well as a download bundle.
 
Watch “Going Out Tonight” video here:

 
Bizzle has also just announced 5 shows around the UK in October, in addition to his appearance at the Reading and Leeds festivals. 
 
Quoted by the Guardian as the ‘best known rapper in the indie scene’, Lethal has been embraced by rock’s elite- working with Babyshambles and Gallows in the studio. His new album “Go Hard”  will be released on October 5th, and includes work with producers Donaeo, Mark Ronson, Dexplicit, Youngstar and Gallows.
 
Lethal Bizzle is the most prolific, exciting rapper to emerge from the UK underground scene.  Previously a member of More Fire Crew, and with a UK No. 7 chart hit  ‘Oi’ under his belt, he formed his own Lethal Bizzle Records imprint in 2004. At the end of the year, he released the comeback single “Pow! (Forward),” also known as “Forward Riddim.” Produced by Dexplicit, which entered at 11 on the U.K. charts and earned him a MOBO award for Best Single (he was also nominated for Best Newcomer).
 
Bizzle was swiftly signed to V2 Music to release his solo grime debut album Against All Oddz, released in mid-2005.  His next set of singles, including “Uh Oh! (I’m Back),” and “Fire” also made it onto the UK charts and paved the way for his solo debut, establishing him as one of the UK’s most popular underground artists.
 
The live dates are as follows:
 
October 2009
Wednesday 7th – Liverpool Academy 2
Thursday 8th – Bristol Academy 2
Friday 9th – Birmingham Academy 2
Sunday 11th – Sheffield Academy 2
Monday 12th – London Islington Academy

Ticket prices are £8.00 (£10.00 London)
Doors are  7.00pm

Jarvis Cocker has written three songs for the upcoming film “Get Him to the Greek,” a spinoff of the 2008 comedy “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.”

The former frontman of rock band Pulp said that what he’s written so far is “rather silly, but it’s a silly film.”

The songs would be performed by Russell Brand’s character Aldous Snow, a hapless rock star who is about to open a huge tour at Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre. The Judd Apatow-produced film, which also stars Jonah Hill and Rose Byrne, is expected to be out in 2010.

It’s interesting to note that Apatow’s golden touch seems to be on the way out in Hollywood and how well this film turns out am not sure, from the behind the scenes clip it just seems like the same old tripe!

Last week, Cocker wrapped a short tour in support of his second solo album, “Further Complications,” with a sold-out show in Brooklyn, N.Y., and an appearance on NBC’s “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.” Three European festival gigs are on tap in August.

As for other upcoming projects, Cocker says he’d like to reprise the series of musical events he held in May at a Paris gallery, where he and his band jammed with fans and improvised music for everything from a dance party to a yoga class. He’s eyeing doing it all again at a London art fair in November, but details have yet to be confirmed.

Cocker said Pulp, which hasn’t performed since 2002, is frequently offered opportunities to reunite. So far, such an endeavour hasn’t held much appeal for him, but he says, “I better decide for sure pretty soon, because otherwise, I’ll be too old.”

Arctic Monkeys will release their new single “Crying Lightning” through Oxfam shops, with proceeds going to help the charity’s work around the world.

The limited-edition 7,” the first single from their new album “Humbug,” goes on sale at Oxfam’s 700 charity shops on August 17. It marks the first time Oxfam shops have sold a new release single for 25 years.

The ‘Crying Lightning’ 7″ features a cover of the Nick Cave classic “Red Right Hand” as a B-side. Each single will cost 2.99 pounds and come with a download code allowing fans to get an MP3 version of the songs free.

Domino Records and Arctic Monkeys urged fans to bring any unwanted albums or singles to their local Oxfam shop when they pick up a copy of their single.

Oxfam shops sell around 6 million pounds worth of music each year, enough to fund its projects in Indonesia for a year, buy 187,000 emergency shelters, or provide safe water for 8 million people.  Oxfam has also been involved in music festivals such as Glastonbury and Live8 as well as its own festival Oxjam, which has featured more that 36,000 musicians including Jarvis Cocker, Fatboy Slim and Hot Chip.

“Humbug” goes on sale on August 24 and Arctic Monkeys are set to headline the Reading and Leeds festivals on August 28 and 29.

There will also be a 10″ release, available in record stores, featuring B-sides ‘Red Right Hand’ and a new original song ‘I Haven’t Got My Strange’.

On thursday last week the Arctic Monkeys broadcast a special web transmission which featured 4 new tracks from their forthcoming album Humbug plus a cover of the Nick Cave & The Bads Seeds classic, Red Right Hand.

Chad VanGaalen Returns As Black Mold A warped and mutated blend of the futuristic and the organic, Snow Blindness is Crystal Antz is the debut album from Black Mold – the electronic alter-ego of songwriter and Polaris Prize nominee Chad VanGaalen.

With Black Mold, VanGaalen is allowed the freedom to explore the wildest tangents of his instrumental work, using a broad palette of glitches and noise married with the warm hues of acoustic instruments. Guided by a
free-associative approach to songwriting, the songs show the full-blown instrumental side that VanGaalen hinted at sparingly on his own albums.

The product of several years of late-night instrumental experimentation, mainly on vintage analogue and hand-built modular synths, Snow Blindness…is at times glitchy and unpredictable while at other times Teutonic and sparse. The album opens with a baffling and beautiful composition, “Metal Spider Web #2”, a lattice of cello and clarinet complemented by shifting electronic pulses. In the dreamlike and metamorphic title track, subtle oscillations and erratic surges build before settling into a simple layering of acoustic guitars and drums. Elsewhere, other songs utilize 8-bit beats & warped synthesis to create multi-layered rhythmic patterns. Snow Blindness… comes from a basement stacked to the ceiling with broken and discarded devices and poorly wired technology fused with organic instruments, all jury-rigged to somehow work together in sequence – and often acting with no masters.

Fans of VanGaalen may draw immediate parallels between Black Mold and the early electronic groundwork of “J.C.’s Head on the Cross” (Infiniheart, 2005), the enigmatic synthesizer lines of “Red Hot Drops”
(Skelliconnection, 2007) or the quasi-literate dance styling of “TMNT Mask” (Soft Airplane, 2008). While many songs embody the spirit of the more accessible pop-based leanings of VanGaalen’s solo work, the debut
album from Black Mold is the product of an artist bent on creating a personal soundscape.

Sometimes re-working the tradition of modular synthesizer pioneers such as Wendy Carlos, Tomita or Jarre, at other times cutting a swath through contemporary sample-based territory, the album is strewn with musique concrete pastiches, creative use of circuit bending and manipulation, and an intuitive and intelligent understanding of rhythmic minimalism. Snow Blindness is Crystal Antz will be driving late-night parties as well as providing the hung-over soundtrack to the aftermath.

Black Mold : Snow Blindness is Crystal Antz

1 Metal Spider Webs
2 Dr. Snouth
3 Uke Puke
4 Toxic lake
5 Tetra pack heads
6 Rotten Walls
7 Memes
8 Fuck Ebay
9 Wet ferns
10 Smoking rat shit
11 Barn swallow vs sk-1
12 Gummed Desk
13 Virtual Prison
14 No Dream Nation
15 Pristine Boobles
16 Snow Blindness is Crystal Antz
17 Left behind by the digital ships
18 Swimming to food
19 Finally someone invented a teleporter!