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Raspberry Bulbs: not for the faint hearted. 

Beginning life as the solo project of band lynchpin M. del Rio (previously of Cali metallers Bone Awl), the band have evolved into a rambunctious five-piece with a fierce live reputation. Debut LP Nature Tries Again arrived on Dominick Fernow’s Hospital Productions back in 2011, and offered a selection of seriously unvarnished lo-fi punk – Dead Kennedys as imagined from Burzum’s prison cell.

Raspberry Bulbs’ sophomore album Deformed Worship will find a home in Blackest Ever Black‘s broad church in July. The nine-track LP has a chequered past: the original studio recordings were all canned, then subsequently re-recorded onto cassette 8-track in November of last year. There are a lot of influences at play – traces of Born Against here, a hint of Sabbath there – but the results are distinctive, muscular and totally uncompromising.

Deformed Worship will be released on vinyl LP and digital formats in July; album track ‘Groping The Angel’s Face’ (sample lyric: “fondling the graves/And groping the angel’s face”) is available below. Raspberry Bulbs play live with Total Control, Crazy Spirit and Survival at 285 Kent, NYC, on Thursday 23 May – head here for tickets.

More names have joined the bill for End Of An Era 1 and 2, the last ever All Tomorrow’s Parties holiday camp festivals.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor, who masterminded the event back in 2010, will touch down at Camber Sands on the first weekend, curated by ATP and Primavera Festival. The Canadian post-rockers will be joined by legendary Chicago outfit Tortoise, scantily clad mischief-maker Har Mar Superstar, slowcore heroes Low and Fuck Buttons spin-off Blanck Mass. Other first weekend additions include Scout Niblett, Los Planetas, Standstill, Headbirds and Refree. They will join previously announced acts including Television, Dinos Chapman, Demdike Stare, Dinosaur Jr and Oneohtrix Point Never.

Weekend 2, curated by Loop, has also added a stash of new acts, including Cali troubadour Ty Segall, Tri Angle’s Balam Acab, Wolf People, White Fence and Dawn Hunger. Previously announced acts for the final foray include Mogwai, Dirty Beaches and The Pop Group.

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The first track from The Weeknd’s bizarrely named Kiss Land is the title track, a 7-minute-2-parter-style thing, similar to tracks he’s done before. The first half isn’t all that, but the second is much more promising, having more of the wailing sex-flow and smooth production that we’ve grown to love:

Future’s ‘Karate Chop’ has, over the last few weeks, nudged ahead of Rocko’s U.O.E.N.O to claim the title for 2013′s most contentious rap joint. 

Lil Wayne’s guest verse, which makes a facetious reference to murdered civil rights icon Emmett Till, caused a major kerfuffle: Till’s estate took umbrage, and Wayne was subsequently dropped by sponsors Mountain Dew as a result of the fuss. Clearly not afraid to flirt with fire, newly ascendant crooner Jeremih has now produced his own remix of the track.

Jeremih’s been tolling like a Stakhanovite in the last week, releasing new track