
After Branko kickstarted Enchufada’s Upper Cuts series with his stunning Njena Reddd Foxxx collaboration & Buraka Som Sistema contributed with the genre-defining ‘zouk flute’, now it’s time for another Buraka founding member to enter the series. I’m talking about Riot, the eclectic DJ + producer who started the global kuduro revolution with Branko & the rest of the crew, & is still turning heads on the Portuguese drum&bass + dubstep scene. Since it was up to him to close the 1st Upper Cuts season in style, he decided to surprise everyone with a personal [...]
1 year ago today Pussy Riot members were arrested for performing a song. Two are still in prison. Meanwhile Russian authorities continue their crackdown on free speech trying to muzzle activists and even NGOs. Take action: http://bit.ly/XRP9V9 Filed under: Beats , Eurobeat , Politik , Yankee Panky Tagged: album , new , pussy , riot , single

Canción del Día: Permanent Makeup - Not A Riot // Febrero 22 Nombre: Permanent Makeup País: Tampa, Florida, USA. Álbum: The Void... It Creeps (New Granada Records!, 2013) Suena como: Fugazi, Sonic Youth, Wire, Minutemen. Sonidos: rock and roll, punk-rock, garage. Link : http://newgranada.com/bandsart ists/permanent_makeup/ Download: Permanent Makeup - Not A Riot [...]
Hey! It's Valentine's Day? Is that a rubbish enough segue into a Bullet For My Valentine interview? Probably not. Oh well. As regular readers of Thrash Hits know, Bullet For My Valentine are most definitely a band we have opinions ( fast forward to 33mins 13 secs... ) that sometimes get us in to a bit of trouble with them. So when Nick Hagan emailed us late last year telling us that he had some time interviewing Michael "Padge" Paget from thet band (that's him lurking behind Matt Tuck above and looking like he might bite your throat out), [...]

A big thanks to Senior/ West Coast ENS Contributor Dave Tobias for sending along this review and video from Ra Ra Riot's show at The Fillmore earlier this week. This is a chick band. That’s what kept going through my head as Syracuse sextet Ra Ra Riot played the historic Fillmore in San Francisco on Monday night. I don’t mean that comment disparagingly. It’s just rare that you find a band in the indie-sphere that attracts a predominantly female audience. Women could be attracted to Ra Ra Riot for a [...]
Cam'Ron kicked off 2013 by dropping a new single, " You Know This ." It's not terrible.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]

Jailed Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova has been transferred to a prison hospital after suffering from severe headaches. The punk activist was moved on 24 January after her condition was deemed “very serious”. The Guardian reports that the 22 year old had been forced to sleep barracks with up to 200 other women and undergo 8 hours of manual labour a day. Last year three members of the punk band/political group were found guilty of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” and sentenced to two years in jail. [...]
One of the jailed members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot has been taken to a prison hospital.

The re-tooled line up of Slum Village just keeps on keeping on, don't they? But ten months and change after T3, Illa J and Young RJ continued the SV legacy through a more than decent mix tape, The Dirty Slums , the boys are back at it again. The sequel to Dirty Slums - you guessed it, Dirty Slums 2 - has just dropped today, stitched together by the mighty Mick Boogie and no doubt boasting some jams. [...]

One member of Russian punk protest group, Pussy Riot , has had her conviction appeal denied. Maria Alyokhina, 24, was seeking to be released so she could look after her five-year-old son. However, the Berezniki City Court said that this had already been taken into consideration before the sentencing. The child is currently been cared for by Alyokhina's mother. Last year three members of the punk band were found guilty of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” and sentenced to two years in jail. The trio had been [...]
From the Halo8 team: "This is the full-length cult/guerrilla/no-budget (obv)/16mm/punk movie THREAT shot in the LES during the mid 90s in the final years these streets were known as Alphabet City before the gentrification boom that followed later in the decade. *This is the version that was released theatrically in 2006 with some re-edits and alterations (note the voiceover comments on 9/11, which occurred well after filming). I'm also going to upload the original "touring version" that played in underground venues across the US & Europe in the late 90s. The film was shot [...]

Slum Village will drop Dirty Slums 2 with DJ Mick Boogie on January 29th. I'm not totally clear on who is in Slum Village anymore, beyond T3, who ropes in Rapper Big Pooh, Joe Scudda, and Kam Covert for this new track, "Riot". The record is produced by Young RJ and serves as a manifesto for these rap veterans. Check it out below.

The Pitch last caught up with Quiet Corral just a few weeks ago, as the band prepares to release its new album in the Spring. Quietly (get it?… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
Bullet For My Valentine ha revelado el primer sencillo de su nuevo álbum. La canción titulada 'Riot' saldrá a la venta el próximo 2 de febrero, 9 días antes de que el cuarto álbum de la banda de metal galés 'Temper Temper' esté disponible en las tiendas. 'Temper Temper' fue producido por Don Gilmore quien ya había trabajado [...]
Lovers and Losers ▲ Let Em Riot - Official from Lara Everly on Vimeo .

It's no coincidence that RIOT is an unusually simple title for a Golden Apes album and it is no coincidence either, that the 7th studio album of the Berlin-based Gothrockers sounds noticable direct and resolute. Because the last two years were a time of continuous change and alteration, of upswing and shift for the band. And so Riot is caesura and conclusion similarly, last point and new chapter. It is the musical essence of a band, that never brooked catchyness and artistic standards as an incoherency and which remains true stylistically to itself, but defines itself anew [...]

Ya te habíamos contado sobre el grupo de chicas rusas que fueron encarceladas por su actuación frente a una catedral de Moscú. Tras la liberación de una de ellas, un tribunal dictaminó que el clip grabado durante esa presentación debe ser removido de Internet. Se trata del video en contra del presidente Vladimir Putin que filmaron adentro de una catedral rusa en febrero y por el cual las integrantes de la banda Nadezhda Tolokonnikova , Maria Alekhina y [...]

Could a jailed, punk-rock band from Russia become the Person of the Year? The ladies of Pussy Riot are up for the accolade after Time magazine nominated them alongside Barack Obama, Michael Phelps, Psy, Jon Stewart, and Jay-Z. On today's Rock it Out! Blog, we discuss the news and ask if you think Pussy Riot should grace the cover of Time come December 31st or not. Also on today's episode, Sami recaps more music headlines including a list of the richest musicians of 2012 , Dave Grohl's radio show , [...]

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova , Maria Alyokhina y Yekaterina Samutsevich , la parte encarcelada del colectivo Pussy Riot , fueron seleccionadas por la prestigiosa revista junto a una larga lista de nominados a “Persona del año”. Entre los nominados sobresalen los nombres de Barack Obama , Felix Baumgauter , el CEO de Apple Tim Cook , Bill y Hillary Clinton , Michael Phelps , Jay-Z y Psy , entre otros. [...]