Author: Crossfire

Jello Biafra is back in the vocal hotseat with new band. The infamous Dead Kennedy’s singer has put together many different music projects over the years and now he has returned with a new band called Jello and the Guantanamo School of Medicine. Keeping the gritty punk rock riffs and politically driven lyrical content on 11, Biafra has carved out a full album featuring players Andrew Weiss (Rollins Band,Ween,Butthole Surfers), Jon Weiss, Ralph Spight, Billy Gould and Kimo Ball. Look out for a full album in October and get a taste of what’s to come from this show in SF below. Jello will also be visiting London on the following dates with this band. Get your tickets now.

Mon 07 Sep 2009 – O2 Academy Bristol
Tue 08 Sep 2009 – O2 Academy Islington
Wed 09 Sep 2009 – O2 Academy Sheffield

Ghostface has announced he is to record an album with Method Mad and Raekwon.

The prolific rapper hasn’t got a title for the album but said in an interview that production is likely to begin within the next few months. He added:

“Everybody goes in — [Raekwon] gets four songs, I get four songs, [Meth] gets four. Start coming around like that and seeing what we can do. Make a little phat, tight one. I told Meth the other day, ‘It’s gotta be phat and tight. We don’t need 16, 19 joints on there. Nah, nah, nah — 12 phat bullets. We do it like that, and that’s it.’ That’s gonna happen soon. It will probably be out by the end of the year or January, and that’s that.”

Phat bullets. That’s realness right there.

Weezer have announced they will release their new album on October 27.

The band made the announcement on their official site though have kept the title and tracklisting a mystery but promised that there would be more to come soon. You can hear one of the new tracks below, performed live in Korea earlier this year:

Broadway Calls have unveiled their new video for single ‘Be All That You Can’t Be’ which is out this week. The band’s second album ‘Good Views, Bad News‘ is released next week and the band will be playing some dates with The Offspring this month as well as Reading and Leeds!

Live dates

August 2009:
25th London Brixton Academy with the Offspring
26th Manchester Academy with the Offspring
27th Newport – Le Pub with Save Your Breath and The Arteries
29th Leeds Festival
30th Reading Festival

September 2009:
4th Southampton Joiners with Polar Bear Club
5th Album launch show @ The Fighting Cocks, Kingston

Jack White’s latest side project, The Dead Weather, are returning to the UK to deliver a full tour after the handful of sold out shows and secret shows they recently played on this side of the Atlantic.

The full list of planned UK dates are as follows:

Monday 19th October – Manchester Academy
Wednesday 21st October – Newcastle 02 Academy
Thursday 22nd October – Edinburgh Picture House
Friday 23rd October – Leeds 02 Academy
Sunday 25th October – Bristol 02 Academy
Monday 26th October – Birmingham 02 Academy
Thursday 29th October – London 02 Brixton Academy

Here’s the video for “Treat Me Like Your Mother“:

One of the most influential musicians to ever grace the music industry Les Paul has passed away aged 94. In 1952, he paved the way for rock and roll by developing one of the first solid-body electric guitars although it is said he was rocking his own one back in 1941, and he is also known for his crucial innovations in developing multi dubbing, overdubbing and the invention of the very first eight-track tape recorder.

Les unfortunately passed from complications of pneumonia in New York City and tributes to the star have been rolling in as the news breaks. Slash described him as “an exceptionally brilliant man” and his legend status will sit in the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame forever.