Middle of The Map Fest has announced their first crop of bands slated to perform at the 3rd annual music portion of the festival, April 4-6 in Kansas City, USA.  Tickets are a STEAL at $45…

 http://www.mybloodyvalentine.org

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Tracklisting:

she found now
only tomorrow
who sees you
is this and yes
if i am
new you
in another way
nothing is
wonder 2

LISTEN:

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheOfficialMBV?feature=watch

BUY:

http://www.mybloodyvalentine.org/Catalogue.aspx

Catch them at the O2 March 8th!

MORE LUDICROUS FESTIVAL NEWS

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Black Flag have announced Hevy Fest!, Port Lympne Wild Animal Park, August 2-4 2013!!!

The show will be their first UK date in 30 years! They’re going to be fronted by Ron Reyes, not our boy Rollins… But hey, change your pants and buy your early bird tix here… \m/ \m/

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If you’ve got nothing to do over the next couple of months then go surf some crowds…

FEBRUARY 13

7th: Thurston Moore & Michael Chapman @ GLEE
12th: Everything Everything @ HMV INSTITUTE
15th: Swim Deep @ HMV INSTITUTE
16th: NME AWARDS TOUR (Django Django/ Miles Kane/ Palma Violets/  Peace) @ O2 ACADEMY
19th: DEFTONES @ O2 ACADEMY
23rd: Wolf Alice/ Wide-Eyed @ THE SUNFLOWER LOUNGE
24th: Deap Vally & Drenge @ THE RAINBOW
26th: Exit Ten @ O2 ACADEMY

MARCH 13
2nd: San Cisco @ HMV INSTITUTE
6th: Wet Nuns @ THE RAINBOW
8th: My Bloody Valentine @ O2 Academy
16th: The Stranglers @ O2 Academy
19th: Cancer Bats @ HMV INSTITUTE
21st: Fiction @ THE RAINBOW
26th: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club/ The Big Pink @ HMV INSTITUTE

IS TROPICAL released a new EP of electronic tracks today via Kitsuné and Cooperative. It’s a collection of unreleased demos they were too attached to let go of in the album writing process. IS TROPICAL teamed up with Owen Pratt, Visions, Get People and DRUGSNDREAMZ to produce the tracks. If you’re in to keys this will blow your mind.

Download on iTunes

Jelly Roll Morton would play this particular song in the brothels of New Orleans.

Sex. Violence. Jealous Rage. Murder. Vulgarity.

Sung from the perspective of a jilted lover, it’s full of lines like “bitch, I’ll cut your fucking throat and drink your blood like wine” and “She pulled out a pistol and shot her right in her eyes/She said, ‘open your legs, you dirty bitch, I’m gonna shoot you between your thighs.”

Would’ve been hard to be a working gal ( or a cheating man, for that matter) with an ominous tune like this chipping away in the background.

Recorded by the legendary Alan Lomax in 1938.

In the darkness, Elvis shares a womb with his stillborn twin, Jesse. He vacates- only to be born into poverty.

He overcomes poverty, to be a star. A hillbilly with money and fame.

He prevails over the pressures and burdens of celebrity by dropping out/off.

He triumphs over falling off/out (and himself), by staging a comeback.

He transcends his comeback with an ultimate success: Death. It was the last move to make. A death/life so compelling, a mystique so finely woven into the fabric of western culture, that even in finality, it echoes down the mirrored halls into perpetuity…

As adapted from Greil Marcus by Brad Krohe

Bobbie Gentry and some sweet sweet southern soul.