Remade/remodeled version of earlier fan fave. Album due from 4AD.

Psychedelic hip-hopper SpaceGhostPurrp has just dropped a new track via his YouTube channel.   Entitled "Bringing Tha Phonk" this is a re-recorded, mixed and mastered version of a track that was originally released last year.   Prefix called it a, "cleaned-up take on the original, and it emphasizes all the strong aspects of SpaceGhostPurrp's uniquely dark production...(it holds) tight to a druggy, industrial beat." You can check it out, below.

Mysterious Phonk: Chronicles of SpaceGhostPurrp - the debut commercial release from the Miami-based producer is being released via 4AD on June 12. The album compiles SpaceGhostPurrp's both new and old material, tracking the early years up to the present.

DOWNLOAD HERE: http://www.freeonsmash.com/news/2012/04/11/spaceghostpurrp-bringing-tha-phonk... (brings you the remastered edition)

Ed. Note: as you no doubt heard yesterday, Axl Rose has declared - firmly- that he will not attend this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, which is to include Guns N' Roses (who will be inducted by Green Day). "We are sorry Axl will not be able to accept his Induction in person," the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation said, in a statement, last night. Below is the full, unedited text of Rose's open letter to the Rock Hall and to GNR fans, which was posted online Wednesday and also sent out via email by Rose's publicist.

By Axl Rose

To: The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Guns N' Roses Fans and Whom It May Concern,

When the nominations for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame were first announced I had mixed emotions but, in an effort to be positive, wanting to make the most of things for the fans and with their enthusiasm, I was honored, excited and hoped that somehow this would be a good thing. Of course I realized as things stood, if Guns N' Roses were to be inducted it'd be somewhat of a complicated or awkward situation.

Since then we've listened to fans, talked with members of the board of the Hall Of Fame, communicated with and read various public comments and jabs from former members of Guns N' Roses, had discussions with the president of the Hall Of Fame, read various press (some legit, some contrived) and read other artists' comments weighing in publicly on Guns and the Hall with their thoughts.

Under the circumstances I feel we've been polite, courteous, and open to an amicable solution in our efforts to work something out. Taking into consideration the history of Guns N' Roses, those who plan to attend along with those the Hall for reasons of their own, have chosen to include in "our" induction (that for the record are decisions I don't agree with, support or feel the Hall has any right to make), and how (albeit no easy task) those involved with the Hall have handled things... no offense meant to anyone but the Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony doesn't appear to be somewhere I'm actually wanted or respected.

For the record, I would not begrudge anyone from Guns their accomplishments or recognition for such. Neither I or anyone in my camp has made any requests or demands of the Hall Of Fame. It's their show not mine.

That said, I won't be attending The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction 2012 Ceremony and I respectfully decline my induction as a member of Guns N' Roses to the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.

I strongly request that I not be inducted in absentia and please know that no one is authorized nor may anyone be permitted to accept any induction for me or speak on my behalf. Neither former members, label representatives nor the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame should imply whether directly, indirectly or by omission that I am included in any purported induction of "Guns N' Roses".

This decision is personal. This letter is to help clarify things from my and my camp's perspective. Neither is meant to offend, attack or condemn. Though unfortunately I'm sure there will be those who take offense (God knows how long I'll have to contend with the fallout), I certainly don't intend to disappoint anyone, especially the fans, with this decision. Since the announcement of the nomination we've actively sought out a solution to what, with all things considered, appears to be a no win, at least for me, "damned if I do, damned if I don't" scenario all the way around.

In regard to a reunion of any kind of either the Appetite or Illusion lineups, I've publicly made myself more than clear. Nothing's changed.

The only reason, at this point, under the circumstances, in my opinion whether under the guise of "for the fans" or whatever justification of the moment, for anyone to continue to ask, suggest or demand a reunion are misguided attempts to distract from our efforts with our current lineup of myself, Dizzy Reed, Tommy Stinson, Frank Ferrer, Richard Fortus, Chris Pitman, Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal and DJ Ashba. 

Izzy came out with us a few times back in '06 and I invited him to join us at our LA Forum show last year. Steven was at our show at the Hard Rock, later in '06 in Las Vegas, where I invited him to our after-party and was rewarded with his subsequent interviews filled with reunion lies. Lesson learned. Duff joined us in 2010 and again in '11 along with his band, Loaded, opening in Seattle and Vancouver. For me, with the exception of Izzy or Duff joining us on stage if they were so inclined somewhere in the future for a song or two, that's enough.

There's a seemingly endless amount of revisionism and fantasies out there for the sake of self-promotion and business opportunities masking the actual realities. Until every single one of those generating from or originating with the earlier lineups has been brought out in the light, there isn't room to consider a conversation let alone a reunion.

Maybe if it were you it'd be different. Maybe you'd do it for this reason or that. Peace, whatever. I love our band now. We're there for each other when the going get's rough. We love our fans and work to give them every ounce of energy and heart we can.

So let sleeping dogs lie or lying dogs sleep or whatever. Time to move on. People get divorced. Life doesn't owe you your own personal happy ending especially at another's, or in this case several others', expense.

But hey if ya gotta then maybe we can get the "no show, grandstanding, publicity stunt, disrespectful, he doesn't care about the fans" crap out of the way as quickly as we can and let's move on. No one's taking the ball and going home. Don't get it twisted. For more than a decade and a half we've endured the double standards, the greed of this industry and the ever present seemingly limitless supply of wannabes and unscrupulous, irresponsible media types. Not to imply anything in this particular circumstance, but from my perspective in regard to both the Hall and a reunion, the ball's never been in our court.

In closing, regardless of this decision and as hard to believe or as ironic as it may seem, I'd like to sincerely thank the board for their nomination and their votes for Guns' induction. More importantly I'd like to thank the fans for being there over the years, making any success we've had possible and for enjoying and supporting Guns N' Roses music.

I wish the Hall a great show, congratulations to all the other artists being inducted and to our fans we look forward to seeing you on tour!!

Sincerely,

Axl Rose

P.S. RIP Armand, Long Live ABC III

Dates listed below - ‘nuf said.

BLURT cover stars Wilco hit the road this summer in support of their most recent release, The Whole Love. The just-announced U.S. tour includes concerts in Salt Lake City, UT, Sioux City, IA, Newport, RI, Cooperstown, NY, Essex Junction, VT, Hartford, CT and Rochester, NY plus a special North Adams, MA concert benefiting MASS MoCA, the home and host of the band's Solid Sound Festival.

These concerts are in addition to the list of previously-announced summer U.S. tour dates that include two performances at the famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, CO, a special Chicago-area concert at Fifth Third Bank Ballpark and more.  A complete list of current tour dates follows and additional tour dates will be announced soon.

WILCO U.S. TOUR DATES

"The Wrecking Ball Company" taken from forthcoming album The Sister.

By Blurt Staff

Singer-songwriter Marissa Nadler has premiered a new video for her "gorgeously melancholic" single "The Wrecking Ball Company" with IFC. You can view it below.

Marissa Nadler - The Wrecking Ball Company (Official Video) from Ryan Walsh on Vimeo.

Nadler explains, "the song references the walls that can grow up between two people and how painful that distance can be." In the video, "the couple is sharing the same desolate, unadorned house, but they are apart, and looking for a hopeful sign to bring them back together." "The Wrecking Ball Company" is taken from her previously announced forthcoming release, The Sister, that was recorded and produced by Brian McTear at Miner Street Studios in Philadelphia. The Sister is a companion record of eight new tracks subtly linked to last year's self-titled critically acclaimed LP, out May 29 via her own Box Of Cedar Records.

Tour dates:

6/01 -  Somerville, MA - The Armory

6/02 - New Haven, CT - Cafe Nine 

6/13 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's

6/14  - Washington, DC - DC 9

6/15 - Brooklyn, NY - Union Hall

6/16 - New York, NY - Joe's Pub

WWND? (What would Nick Cave do?)

By Blurt Staff

Those merry men of Grinderman are set to drop Grinderman 2 RMX next week - it's a collection of remixes, reinterpretations & collaborations based on the songs contained in the band's 2010 album Grinderman 2

It's now streaming in full at Stereogum: http://stereogum.com/999221/stream-grindermans-grinderman-2-rmx/album-stream
 

Grinderman 2 RMX's tracks include "Super Heathen Child" - a collaborative version of Grinderman's "Heathen Child" (MOJO Honours Song Of The Year 2011) which teams the band up with legendary guitarist Robert Fripp (King Crimson, David Bowie, Eno); an exclusive previously unreleased remix of "Bellringer Blues" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs' guitarist Nick Zinner; a remix of "Mickey Mouse & the Goodbye Man" by producer/-musician Joshua Homme (Queens of the Stone Age); "When My Baby Comes" by Cat's Eyes (a duo consisting of Horrors' front-man Faris Badwan and soprano Rachel Zeffira); "Evil" reinterpreted by Silver Alert (Grinderman's Jim Sclavunos) and The National's front man Matt Berninger; and Grinderman's original demo version of "Evil", "First Evil".

 
Grinderman 2 RMX tracklisting:

Grinderman / Fripp                              "Super Heathen Child"     
A Place to Bury Strangers                    "Worm Tamer"
Nick Zinner                                          "Bellringer Blues" (exclusive)
UNKLE                                                 "Hyper Worm Tamer"
Joshua Homme                                    "Mickey Bloody Mouse"
Cat's Eyes with Luke Tristram              "When My Baby Comes"
Barry Adamson                                    "Palaces Of Montezuma"
Silver Alert (featuring Matt Berninger)  "Evil"
SixToes                                                "When My Baby Comes" (exclusive)
Andy Weatherall                                   "Heathen Child"
Factory Floor                                       "Evil"
Grinderman                                          "First Evil"

Details on tour dates, below.

By Blurt Staff

No, it's not a cover of Max Frost & the Troopers (and it's definitely not a Yardbirds cover either), but "The Shape of Things To Come" is without a doubt a highlight of the recent self-titled debut from Zammuto, aka Nick Zammuto's post-Books project. The other day the band released a video for the song, a multi-camera rehearsal clip that'll have you rewinding over and over to pick up you own playing tips. Check it out (via Stereogum):

Zammuto - "The Shape Of Things To Come" Video from stereogum on Vimeo.

Nick himself was recently the subject of a BLURT profile in which he talked about his old band, the new one, touring with Explosions in the Sky, and sundry other matters. "This summer I want to jump back in the studio right away, if I can," he explained. "Financially I've spent everything I have producing this last record and trying to get this new band off the ground, so I'm sort of counting on people actually buying the record at this point to keep me in the studio, otherwise I'm going to have to do something else for a while. I feel like the band is in a really good place to jump in on a new album right away. And with this band, it's really meant to be a live thing. And the amazing thing about these players is they can bring the album to life in a way that really makes it better. So I'm hoping people will take that risk and come see us play."

Go see him play, folks:

4/11 - Eugene, OR @ McDonald Theater

4/12 - Reno, NV @ Knitting Factory

4/15 - Davis, CA @ Mondavi Center

4/16 - San Francisco, CA @ Palace of Fine Arts Theater

4/17 - San Francisco, CA @ Palace of Fine Arts Theater

4/19 - San Diego, CA @ Soda Bar*

4/20 - Visalia, CA @ The Cellar Door*

4/22 - Flagstaff, AZ @ Orpheum Theater

4/24 - San Antonio, TX @ Backstage Live

4/30 - Brooklyn, NY @ Glasslands*

5/01 - Annandale-on-Hudson, NY @ Bard College*

We would never post a gratuitous Nirvana item simply to drive web traffic. Oh, no. Never.


By Perez Mills


Some days we write the news. Some days the news writes itself... from Billboard.com (all details reported verbatim):

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Frances Cobain is calling for a Twitter ban on mother Courtney Love after a Wednesday rant that alleged Dave Grohl had made a pass at the 19-year-old.

"While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn," Cobain said in a statement. "I have never been approached by Dave Grohl in more than a platonic way.  I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy. Twitter should ban my mother."

Love made the allegations on her private Twitter account, claiming that she'd been told the Foo Fighters frontman had "hit on Frances," and called Grohl "sexually obsessed" with Kurt Cobain -- her late husband and Grohl's late Nirvana bandmate.

Grohl denied the accusations in a statement of his own.

"Unfortunately Courtney is on another hateful Twitter rant. These new accusations are upsetting, offensive and absolutely untrue," he said.

However, Love refused to back down, telling the New York Daily News that she was "certainly not going to retract anything," and criticizing Grohl's statement with an attack on the appearance of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" -- as sung by Kermit the Frog -- in "The Muppets" film last year.

"Unfortunately, Dave is on another Kurt rant, by turning him into a Muppet and hitting on his daughter," Love said.

Love lost legal custody over her daughter in 2009, when Cobain was 17.

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We here at BLURT applaud each combatant and his/her skill at getting into today's headline music news. It sure beats out those legendary EARLY KURT COBAIN DEMOS UNEARTHED, eh? Why do so-called music fans continue to eat this shit up?

And some news incoming shortly about Coachella, too!

By Fred Mills

‘Tis the season to be festive, and two of the most festive annual events recently unveiled their 2012 lineups. Not coincidentally, they both take place in Chicago.

At Union Park on July 13-15, the Pitchfork Music Festival will feature a who's-who of indie rock: Beach House, Wild Flag, Real Estate, Atlas Sound, Big K.R.I.T., Nicolas Jaar, Cults, Chavez, Ty Segall, Oneohtrix Point Never, Youth Lagoon, Thee Oh Sees, King Krule, Lotus Plaza, Dirty Beaches, Lower Dens, Milk Music, the Psychic Paramount, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Outer Minds, A Lull, Vampire Weekend, Feist, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hot Chip, Sleigh Bells, Dirty Projectors, Flying Lotus, AraabMUZIK, A$AP Rocky, the Field, Danny Brown, Liturgy, Clams Casino, the Olivia Tremor Control, Iceage, Kendrick Lamar, Grimes, Purity Ring, The Men, Cloud Nothings, Tim Hecker, Schoolboy Q, the Atlas Moth, and Willis Earl Beal.

Full details at Pitchfork, natch.

Then on August 3-5 in the Windy City's Grant Park, the storied Lollapalooza bash will host the likes of Black Sabbath (for their on-again, off-again reunion tour), Black Keys, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jack White, the Weeknd, Justice, Die Antwoord, Afghan Whigs, Frank Ocean, At the Drive-In, the Walkmen, M83, Sigur Rós, the Shins, Santigold, Passion Pit, Twin Shadow, Franz Ferdinand, Toro Y Moi, Bloc Party, the Tallest Man on Earth, Neon Indian, Dum Dum Girls, Washed Out, SBTRKT, Wale, the Big Pink, Florence and the Machine, Chairlift, Sharon Van Etten, tUnE-yArDs, the War on Drugs, Bowerbirds, Little Dragon, Bear in Heaven, Alabama Shakes, Star Slinger, JEFF the Brotherhood, Metric, Amadou & Mariam and more.

You can read more about it at the Chicago Sun-Times and at the official Lolla site.

Drummer helmed the kit for one of proto-punk's most influential recordings. Watch live video, below.

By Fred Mills

"Sad news to report on the passing of the former Dictators drummer. Rest in peace, brother. More to come..."

That posting was made yesterday to the official Dictators website regarding Richie Teeter, who passed away at the age of 61. No cause of death has been announced.

Teeter joined the legendary NYC proto-punk combo in 1976 in time to cut the group's second, classic album, 1977's Manifest Destiny - the one featuring such timeless Dics' tunes as "Science Gone Too Far" and "Young, Fast, Scientific" plus a terrific cover of the Stooges "Search & Destroy." Later would come 1978's Bloodbrothers.

And as everyone knows, the Dics effectively bridged the Stooges/MC5 early ‘70s era and the subsequent Ground Zero years for NYC punk (Ramones, Blondie, Television, etc.). Teeter's part of the history books for those exploits and more, and he later was a member of Twisted Sister. While he subsequently dropped off the radar, he will still be missed. (Thanks to BLURT contributor and fellow Dictators acolyte Barry St. Vitus for alerting us to Teeter's passing.)

Let's remember the Dictators via this scorching live clip of "S&D" from the late ‘70s.

Here we go...


In OFF!'s new video, transgressive director Richard Kern joins the punk rock supergroup (which includes ex-Black Flag singer Keith Morris) to bring back everything we loved about old school west coast skate culture.