
Stoner rock legends Fu Manchu have compiled all 14 cover songs they've recorded since 1996 onto a limited LP to be available at shows on the upcoming tour. Pressed in an edition of 900 copies on colored vinyl, these will only be available from the band on tour. Artists covered include Devo, Black Flag, Twisted Sister, Van Halen, SS Decontrol, The Cars, Circle Jerks, Void, Thin Lizzy, Adolescents, and more. Chicago readers, be sure to catch the November 7th show at Double Door!

California rock band Fu Manchu have announced plans to celebrate the 15 year anniversary of their record In Search Of..
Rock and roll music: You like it. We like it. Essex, UK-based noise rock trio Fashoda Crisis plays it. You will watch their video --populated as it is with various perversions of your dreams as a seven-year-old in stop motion with much yelling -- and for the first two-thirds of it you will wonder what the hell is going on. We took this as a sign that Fashoda Crisis are on to something (or at least on something). "Animals" is a single from the band's forthcoming sophomore set Him Make They Learn Read , [...]

Hell on wheels - Fu Manchu This song and band will be forever linked to those school holidays where all my friends went to the Offshore(?) festival in Victoria, had a whale of a time, had all kinds of age-appropriate experiences, and brought back so many road stories, new bands to like, and merchandise. Meanwhile i sat at home, alone, playing Majora's Mask or Perfect Dark or something. It was one of the first instances where my prudishness and unwillingness [...]
Kid needs some rest. I promised myself early last week that I was going to take it easy for a while and then I fell back into the habit of going out and staying out late for too many successive nights. Maybe this week we'll see some laid back nights. Starting tonight. I've got some [...]
If you're anything like us, you've been slouching around in the sun all weekend, pretending there aren't any deadlines for next week, and generally enjoying the fact that this weekend the UK's been having a premature mini-Summer. Aside from barbequeing foolish amounts of meet, and downing loutish amounts of discount beer, it's also given us [...]

It warms my heart when youth gets corrupted. ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ ---------------------------- This is what happens when unsupervised youth is allowed to fester in a basement of cheap beer, dirt weed and Cathedral tapes. Groan are a 4 piece doom metal outfit with members spread out across the UK but close enough to Stonehenge absorb some of its triptych wicked powers. The Sleeping Wizard is their debut. 7 songs in 26 minutes makes it either a short album or a long EP, take your pick. Musically, Groan is in the tradition of Black Sabbath influenced bands like Candlemass, Electric [...]
A Perfect Circle and Avenged Sevenfold will head the fifth annual Rock on the Range Music Festival . Set to take place from May 21-22 at Columbus Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio, the bill will also feature such as heavy weights as Disturbed, Korn, Stone Sour, and Staind. Other confirmed acts include Danzig, Hollywood Undead, Bullet For My Valentine, Black Label Society, Alter Bridge, A Day To Remember, Hinder, Escape The Fate, All That Remains, P.O.D., The Damned Things, Fu Manchu, Black Veil Brides, Saving Abel, Sick Puppies, Finger Eleven, My Darkest Days, Cavo, Trapt, Rev Theory, [...]

Yep, I see 5 bands on this 2-day lineup that I want to see.

After a month of procrastination I have finally finished a list of tunes which I felt had the biggest impact in Dubstep for the year 2010. My choices for this list are based on a number of random criteria. Searching through hundreds and hundreds of tunes (and a few Serato crates) I found myself asking: How often did this track make its way into a live set of mine? How many times did I see it in track-lists for other dj's sets or hear it out at parties? How popular was it online and amongst music retailers? [...]
[Wayne Coyne turns 50 today. Wonder where that party is.] Top 4 shows for those not expanding their horizons at Gary Lucas' Captain Beefheart Symposium at the Echoplex: ► Stoner metal gods Fu Manchu blast off at the Satellite with a show featuring a performance of their album "In Search Of ..." ► Plan B raps to a sold-out Troubadour. That's his video for "Stay Too Long," above — the 28-year-old, born Ben Drew, was the top-selling artist in [...]

Andrew Bird Plays Two Shows at Largo This Week I'm just getting back into town and trying to figure out what's going on this week/year. Things are starting to pick up towards the end of the week.... Monday 1/10/11 [Pick of the Night] The Fling / The Belle Brigade / Everest / My Pet Saddle @ The Satellite [f/k/a Spaceland] (Free) – The Fling and The Belle [...]

• One of the most unique, fantastic voices in the history of rock 'n' roll, Don Van Vliet (Captain Beefheart), passed away yesterday. He was 69 years old. There's nothing funny about his death. He did write some funny songs, though. If you don't own one of (if not all of) the following, your record collection is incomplete: Safe As Milk , Trout Mask Replica , MIrror Man . I'm sure Paris Hilton was devastated. • According to FoxNews, quantum physicists in California have designed a machine that is capable of purely quantum-mechanical motion. So…teleportation devices should [...]

Non è il mio disco preferito ma magari dal vivo mi ricredo.

There are only about a million reasons to love the Giants this year, but this reason has to be top-three: (the impatient need only wait 43 seconds for the payoff) Fu Manchu - Weird Beard from King Of The Road http://www.fu-manchu.com/
Fu Manchu, "Living Legend"

Photo by Ben Clark THIS WEEK'S BEST BET: Autolux w/ Gold Panda Saturday, September 4 The Masquerade - 695 North Ave NE in Atlanta, GA 30308 Admission is $16 / Purchase Tickets The latest release from Los Angeles-based Autolux —the minimalist art-pop offering, Transit Transit —has been divisive to say the least. Detractors have derided it as icy and colorless; a dreary document devoid of the captivating post-shoegaze haze that made their debut such a [...]

This one is going to take over. After hearing it in the Magnetic Man Essential Mix I have been searching high and low looking for more info about a release date. There is a promo vinyl pressing that has been out a couple weeks in the UK but the tune is coming out on Technique Recordings [TECH068] and is set to be released Sept. 6th, 2010 in all formats. Drumsound and Bassline Smith - Fu Manchu (Preview Clip) Here are a couple really catchy dubstep remixes of popular tunes. Roksonix puts a [...]
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Virulence – If This Isn't A Dream…1985-1989 (Southern Lord) Fu Manchu - Signs Of Infinite Power (Century Media) Nebula – Heavy Psych (Tee Pee) Fu Manchu and Nebula play mid-temp heavy rock that owes a huge debt to the 1970's but their roots come from the aggressive hardcore punk scene that exploded in California at the end of that decade and bled deep into the 1980's. Virulence is a hardcore [...]