Recommendation: Dip Dap

Dip Dap are a punk band, which hail from Glasgow. They have played many gigs throughout the last few years, and they are a popular sight in the Glasgow/Edinburgh punk scene. Following the punk ideals, this band produce and sell their own albums and merch. They are constantly looking for gigs.

The current band line up, features Jen on guitar/vocals, Kipper-man on bass and Budgie on drums.

Dip Dap take influences from bands such as: Astrid Oto, Blatz, Tilt, Nirvana, Operation Ivy, Crimpshrine, Cleveland Bound Death Sentence, Fifteen and The Gr’ups.

visit the band at http.myspace.com/dipdappunk for more information including booking details.

I met Budgie and Jen in 2008 when we were queueing for the Eastpak Antidote Tour. I was first in line, and they came after. I have since met them at a few more gigs, including their own at Ivory Blacks in Glasgow. Very nice guys, and the amount of work they do, they really deserve this band to do well.

Free Dip Dap downloads
Dip Dap - What To Do
Dip Dap - Cheap Ass Beer
Dip Dap - Repeat
Dip Dap - Fool To Think

Music News 04/05/10

Blink 182 album to be completed this Summer
Blink 182 front man Tom DeLonge has spoken to the Chicago Tribune saying that the new Blink 182 album would be completed during this summer. In news which will thrill the band's loyal fans, DeLonge confirmed that the band were getting close to completing the long-awaited follow-up to the bands 2003 self-titled release.
Delonge also admitted that if it wasn't for the plane crash that almost killed drummer, Travis Barker, the band would not have reunited. The musician said 'if that accident hadn't have happened, then we wouldn't be in a band, pure and simple. It was fate'.
I guess you don't realise how much you need something, until it is almost taken from you. I am interested to see what the band have come up with.
(via www.kerrang.com)

DJ John Peel's son gets BBC Radio 6 show
The son of the late, great John Peel, Tom Ravenscroft, has been signed up to present a show on BBC Radio 6. People are bound to have large expectation of what Tom will come up with, especially seeing how loved and treasured his father was. For those who don't know, John Peel was BBC Radio 1's longest serving DJ (37 years) and is seen as launching the careers of Nirvana, The Pixes and hundreds more.
Tom will be taking over from, Iron Maiden front man, Bruce Dickenson, who has been with the station the 8 years since it's been launched.
6 Music editor,Paul Rodgers, has praised Tom for his musical knowledge, and feels the new signing will be a good omen for the struggling station.
Good luck to Tom, and I hope it all goes well when he starts his new job on 4th June.
(via www.BBC.co.uk)

Apple says bye bye to Lala
In December 2009 Apple purchased online music company Lala, and has caused a lot of conspiring in what it plans to do with the utilities the service has. Lala was an online music site, where users could upload music, and stream the songs through various devices. You could also buy songs to download, or buy 'web songs' which you bought for a lower price, but couldn't download to your PC.
This has caused a lot of chatter about itunes opening up a site where you can stream your itunes library from anywhere. This would be useful in that it would see Apple release apps for Android and Windows 7 Mobile phones. Some tech bloggers, have started calling the project 'itunes.com', but ever secretive Apple, doesn't seem to be wanting to give anything away before its annual conference in June. Although it should be mentioned, Lala will shut completely on May 31st, 1 week before the Apple conference in San Francisco.
This is some exciting news for user of the world's most popular media player. It would be great to be able to access my library over the web, but I am cautious that it could mean it could get hacked into.
(via www.informationweek.com)

Monday Monday

Hello. Another weekend has passed, and I haven't progressed any further in anything.

I did a lot of thinking, and came up with the idea of starting a music blog, as if I don't have enough to do. Its going to be filled with music news and recommendations.  I love music, so I thought that this would be the ideal way to spread some love. So done both the recommendation and News posts for today.
Check it out: http://musicholdall.blogspot.com

Also I have an article I am supposed to be sending into my works internal magazine. Its to try  and help raise the moral of people in the call centres. I think its is a fantastic idea, and am looking forward to seeing what I come up with. I think it is going to be written in a similar way as this. 

So I am going to vanish and get the 500 word thing typed up now, seeing as I have 40 minutes before I start my shift. And that will be one thing I can tick off my list as being 'done'.

Music News Update

Catchy title, I know.
But welcome to The Music Hold-All's first news update.
I am aiming to let the world see all the latest news on artists I care about.

Child 'killed' in M.I.A's video, defends the singer.

M.I.A's new video to accompany the song 'Born Free' has been hitting headlines all over the world, due to its violence. The video shows red headed people being collected up in some sort of military operation. Hamrick, who was shot in the head during the video, states that the message of the video is to 'show violence to end violence'. It is certain that this video was created with a message to get people to think of genocide, and actually acknowledge what's happening in the world. What do you think about the video.

M.I.A, Born FreeROMAIN-GAVRAS Vimeo.

Bono loses $140 Million In Palm
U2 front man, Bono, has lost a fortune which he invested in mobile phone company, Palm. In the space of a year, Palm share prices went from $18.09 to $5.70 in the space of a year. The shares were managed by Bono's investment company, Elevation Partners, and the deal has seen Bono lose a large part of the $320 million worth of shares, he has now lost.
Could not have happened to a nicer fella.

Johnny Depp to play Ozzy Osbourne in movie
Since Sharon Osbourne confirmed that were talks of turning her husband Ozzy's life into a movie, there has been speculation over who will play the Brummy rocker. Well bets are being made for Johnny Depp, to play the former Black Sabbath frontman. I have a feeling that the only reason Depp's name has been thrown forward as it is well known he can play a 'wasted person', after he played Jack Sparrow in Pirate's of the Caribbean. But I am unsure of whether Depp would be convincing enough as the God of Darkness. I guess time will show what will happen with this.

Recommendation: The Guilty Pleasures

The Guilty Pleasures are a punk band from Lancaster, England. They are influenced by bands such as Anti-Flag, Bad Religion and The Unseen. This band first came to my attention in 2008, when I heard of them through Rebellion Festival, which is an annual punk festival in Blackpool, England. Around about this time, word started to spread that these guys were fantastic live, and they were spotted in national magazines such as Big Cheese.

They began to get a lot of press when the recently received a KKKK review from Kerrang! magazine, currently the only alternative Rock weekly magazine in the UK. The also made an appearance on the Radio 1 punk show, which is a major thing for any band. BBC radio 1 is widely acknowledged for launching the careers of many a band. They have a successful history of championing bands, so that they get their deserved success.

To date the band have released two E.P.'s, 'Freedom Of Speech' and 'Think Of England'. And June 2008, they released their first full album, 'What Are We Fighting For?'. They have also supported bands like The Subhumans, UK Subs and MC Lars on tour. These guys are one of my favourite band, in the current wave of UK Punk, and they put on an amazing Live show. The band have a good energy and presence that the crowd thrives on. A definite must see for any punk fan.

Download The Guilty Pleasures- Kick In The Face MP3

Welcome

Welcome to this new project I have started to try and promote music news and bands I like.

I have decided that I would like to see a blog, which covers all my musical interests from 90s cheesy pop to black metal to classical. I love music and I hate at having to go to different sites to find all the news and information that I would like. So, I am trying to show a wide range of music interests.

I know it is going to be quite the challenge covering all forms of music, but as I said it will be mostly relevant to my tastes at the moment. Though if you are reading this and have any recommendations, then email them to me at Riot_Graphics@yahoo.co.uk.

Any recommendations or news will be credited no matter where it comes from.

Weekend Thinking

Ok, I thought that someone, somewhere decided that weekends were supposed to be relaxing. Well, NEWS FLASH, it's not.

I seem to be doing this thing right now, where I just stress myself out over nothing. Which is so unlike me *rolls eyes* So I have been stressing out, on how my internet seems to be falling in and out of connection, like nothing on earth. Which I can normally live with. But when I am trying to upload a video to youtube, especially when there are issues with the uploader. So yeah,been going kinda shouty at the computer for that.

Aside from that, I have been updating things. Also been shouting at Tumblr, as it has decided that it doesn't want to do things my way, and just balls up everything I do. In retrospect, it may be me who is malfunctioning and not the site, but I like being able to blame something else. Makes me feel better about my failure.

Good news, a talk to my mum today, kinda helped me decided that I may start freelancing alongside my pay-job. Because I am getting interest in relation to my work. Basically, how it is right now, is that I am doing a lot of work for myself and I am really enjoying it. I have been told reccently, that I have a good writing style, though I do blabber on a bit. But writing was something which came into my head when I was at school. But at the time I wanted to be a Veterinary Nurse or an Artist. And here I am, aged 26 looking to start of a business as a graphic designer.

But due to the popularity in online blogs and journalism, I could see that in my future? I don't know. The one thing is, the comments about my writing has got me really considering things like that. But, I know that through the last year or so, since I really got back into blogging, I know that my grammar has approved 100%. And I have also picked up touch-typing, which was one thing I couldn't do at school. I have no idea where I picked it up. To be honest, I think its because, right now, I seem to spend half my life in front of a computer, be it at work, college or at home.

I guess I just have a LOT of thinking to do. I mean, do I get myself working 9-5 trying to kick-start Riot Graphics? It seems like a good root, as I have a lot of pathways I could go down. Fingers crossed. The thing is, I don't know how I will act being self-employed. I really don't know if I have the discipline to do that without having it planned out for me.