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Prophets Of Rage announce full US tour kicking off in July

06/06/2016 by skinbackalley, posted in News

Prophets Of Rage, the collective featuring members of Rage Against The Machine, Public Enemy and Cypress Hill, has announced a full US tour.

The Make America Rage Again Tour kicks off on the 19th of July in Cleveland, OH, winding up in Chula Vista, CA in October. A portion of the proceeds from every show will be donated to a local homeless charity.

The crew, which features Tom Morello, Tim Commerford and Brad Wilk of Rage Against The Machine, Chuck D and DJ Lord of Public Enemy and B-Real of Cypress Hill, recently played sold out shows at LA’s Whisky A Go Go, The Hollywood Palladium and Warsaw Ballroom in Brooklyn.

Say the band: “We can no longer stand on the sidelines of history. Dangerous times demand dangerous songs.
It’s time to take the power back. This historical moment demands a radical soundtrack, and that’s what we intend to provide.”

Tickets for the tour go on sale on Friday the 10th of June and will be available via prophetsofrage.com.

Prophets Of Rage US tour dates:

Jul 19th: Cleveland, Ohio, venue TBD
Aug 19th: Fairfax, VA, Eagle Bank Arena
Aug 20th: Camden, NJ, BB&T Pavilion
Aug 21st: Mansfield, MA, Xfinity Center
Aug 23rd: Harford, CT, The Xfinity Theatre
Aug 24th: Toronto, Ontario, Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
Aug 26th: Holmdel, NJ, PNC Bank Arts Center
Aug 27th: Brooklyn, NY, Barclays Center
Aug 28th: Wantagh, NY, Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
Aug 30th: Noblesville, IN, Klipsch Music Center
Aug 31st: Burgettstown, PA, First Niagara Pavilion
Sep 01st: Clarkston, MI, DTE Energy Music Theater
Sep 03rd: Tinley Park, IL, Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
Sep 04th: St. Louis, MO, Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre
Sep 05th: Kansas City, MO, Providence Medical Center Amphitheatre
Sep 07th: Morrison, CO, Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Sep 10th: Auburn, WA, White River Amphitheatre
Sep 11th: Ridgefield, WA, Sunlight Supply Ampthitheatre
Sep 13th: Mountain View, CA, Shoreline Amphitheatre
Sep 15th: Los Angeles, CA, The Forum
Sep 17th: Phoenix, AZ, Ak-Chin Pavilion
Sep 25th: Dallas, TX, Gexa Energy Pavilion
Sep 27th: Nashville, TN, Bridgestone Arena
Sep 29th: Virginia Beach, VA, Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater
Oct 01st: Tampa, FL, MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre
Oct 02nd: West Palm Beach, FL, Perfect Vodka Amphitheater
Oct 04th: Atlanta, GA, Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
Oct 05th: Cincinnati, OH, Riverbend Music Center
Oct 07th: Tulsa, OK, BOK Center
Oct 08th: Houston, TX, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Oct 09th: San Antonio, TX, AT&T Center
Oct 11th: El Paso, TX, El Paso County Coliseum
Oct 12th: Albuquerque, NM, Isleta Amphitheatre
Oct 14th: Las Vegas, NV, Mandalay Bay Event Center
Oct 16th: Chula Vista, CA, Sleep Train Amphitheatre

Public Enemy return with new album and hard-hitting video ‘Man Plans God Laughs’

17/07/2015 by skinbackalley, posted in News

Legendary hip hop outfit Public Enemy have returned with their new album Man Plans God Laughs.

Scheduled to drop in physical formats on the 25th of July, you can listen to the album now via the Spotify stream below and download it from RapCentralStation.com

PE have also released a hard-hitting video for the album’s title cut. The clip tracks the life of a young boy as he seeks to understand his place in a world filled with varying degrees of violence, Chuck D’s lyrics narrating the existential quest: “Am I radical, am I pacifist? / Am I scared to fight? / I ain’t asking you / Am I grown? Do I stand up? / Am I owned?”

Responding to his environment as he grows up, the video’s protagonist contemplates committing an armed robbery, but, inspired by the words of a teacher from his past, ultimately drops his weapon and leaves. The piece ends with the young boy fully grown, holding his young daughter in his arms.

Speaking recently with Rolling Stone, Chuck D said that Man Plans God Laughs was inspired by the Kanye West and Rick Rubin’s work on Yeezus, as well as El-P and Killer Mike’s Run the Jewels and Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly. In interview with Maxim he qualified the comments, adding: “but [we] stayed far enough away from them to still be Public Enemy. We’re making a comment about the 21st century in this technological yet still political world. It will be able to tell its own story without me trying to talk to it.”

Man Plans God Laughs is Public Enemy’s first album since 2012’s The Evil Empire of Everything, and is the first time since 1991 that the group have worked with just one producer on an LP. Gary “G-Wiz” Rinaldo produced the new material, having worked with Public Enemy before on 2007 single “Harder Than You Think.”

New music releases, 8th December 2014

08/12/201405/12/2014 by skinbackalley, posted in News

Here are your new and notable music releases for this week, the 8th of December 2014:

Monuments To An Elegy, Smashing Pumpkins

Teri Tims, Teri Tims
Greatest Hits: Decade #1, Carrie Underwood
Like It Yes: Yes at the Bristol Hippodrome, Yes
All Time Greatest Hits, Neil Diamond
The Holy Bible 20, Manic Street Preachers
The Best of 4 and More, Foreigner
Thirteen, Harem Scarem
Archgod, Faithful Darkness
Fear Of A Black Planet (Deluxe Edition), Public Enemy
Shadows Of A Broken Past, Pythia
Sun Red Sun (w. bonus tracks), Lynch Mob
London 1980, Girlschool
Long Way Down, Bailey
Stranger, Cretin
Storm, Snailking
Elements Pt.1 & Pt.2 (Box Set), Stratovarius
For The Journey, Threshold
Untrodden Corridors of Hades, Varathron
Boston 1989, LA Guns
Get Your Bulls Out, Messiahs Kiss
Avatar, Avatar
Punk In Drublic (20th Anniversary Edition), NOFX
Season Of The Witch, Stormwitch
Children Of The Iron Age, Wayfarer
Def Mask, Divine Styler
Secret Circle, Voodoma
Shout For Heavy Metal, Mortician
Dead Winter Sun, Born Of Fire
Witchtanic Hellucinations, Acid Witch

All of the above and many more are available via the Skin Back Alley Music Store!

Public Enemy confirmed for Secret Garden Party

27/03/2014 by skinbackalley, posted in News

Legendary rappers Public Enemy have been confirmed as headliners of this year’s Secret Garden Party.

The festival will take place near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire between 24th and 27th July.

Also confirmed as joining the bill are: Hercules and Love Affair, Foreign Beggars, Alabama 3 and John Fullbright. Artists who have previously been announced include Wolf Alice, Little Dragon and Jagwar Ma.

Speaking about Hercules and Love Affair’s appearance, the band’s Andy Butler said: “The Secret Garden Party is legendary. I have had the opportunity to take two versions of the Hercules live show to many festivals, but every now and then get to one where the curation/line up is ace, the location is wonderful, and the overall organization and attitude is stellar – this would be the Secret Garden Party.”

For more information about tickets and the festival line-up, click through to Secretgardenparty.com