Cannibal Corpse have announced some dates with Children Of Bodom.
The band will release their new album Evisceration Plague on February 2nd and the tour dates are:
14th GLASGOW – ABC
15th NORWICH – UEA
16th MANCHESTER – Academy 2
17th NOTTINGHAM – Rock City
19th LONDON – The Forum
DJ Spin Doctor has announced the latest line up for Doctor’s Orders.
The February 6th event at Herbal in London will feature the following, for £5 in advance or £10 on the door:
Frank & Dank (performing live)
Kidkanevil,
Spin Doctor,
Mr Thing
& Alex Nut
Big Dada have announced XRABIT and DMG$ as their new signing.
The Texan rappers have teamed up with the UK’s XRABIT and will be releasing their album on March 9th. In the meantime, you can check out DMG$ at YoYo in Notting Hill on January 29th and Fabric on February 6th. Have a watch of their new video, they are being tipped big time by us here at Crossfire!
You know what you’re going to get with Long Beach’s sunniest sons – fun, chirpy choruses and horns galore. Their latest album, Audacity, has buckets of all of these things, but it’s on this release, over 10 years after they first burst out of the West Coast scene, that they really show they’re able to mature to become a new breed of Duckling.
For a start, there is more singing on this record, which is absolutely inspired. Whilst other groups would come off as cheesy and tacky, Dizz, Andy and Young Einstein are able to shimmy their way across the stacatto brass with ease. They’ve taken a step up lyrically too, something they’ve admitted to spending a lot of time on to make the album more personal, which adds to the overall complexity of arrangement found throughout the 12 tracks.
The track you can hear is the opening track, Let It Die which contains everything mentioned above. One thing they won’t let die is the funk, so whack on your headphone and feed your quack habit!
Abjekt.
Krux Trucks have started the New Year flying out of the traps by adding Caradog to the UK team.
The Force is strong with this Welsh one, look out.
TV On The Radio have released the video for their new single Dancing Choose.
The single is out now and features remixes from Prefuse 73 and Telepathe.
UK rapper Lowkey has announced details on his album Dear Listener.
The record, released on January 26th via So Empire/Hiphop Village, features production from Scream Jones, Styalz Fuego and Q-Tones. Meanwhile, Lowkey will also be working on the Mongrel project with members of Babyshambles, Revered And The Makers and Arctic Monkeys.
Eslam Jawaad will release his new single on January 26th.
The rapper, who has toured with Wu Tang and Damon Albarn’s The Good, The Bad And The Queen, will release Rewind DJ via Eslamaphobic. The single features De La Soul and is taken from the upcoming The Mammoth Tusk album, which features production from Damon Albarn and The RZA. Watch this prehistoric space.
Architects’ UK tour has been announced, with the London date having been switched to the Islington Academy.
The dates are:
10.01.2009 Yeovil The Orange Box
11.01.2009 Plymouth White Rabbit
12.01.2009 Exeter Cavern
13.01.2009 Newport TJs
14.01.2009 Birmingham Academy
15.01.2009 Colchester The Twist
16.01.2009 Liverpool Barfly
17.01.2009 Manchester Academy 3
18.01.2009 Leeds Rios
19.01.2009 Glasgow Cathouse
21.01.2009 Edinburgh Studio 24
22.01.2009 Newcastle upon Tyne Academy 2
23.01.2009 Sheffield Corporation
24.01.2009 Stoke On Trent Sugarmill
25.01.2009 Peterborough The Park
26.01.2009 Norwich Waterfront
27.01.2009 Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
29.01.2009 Oxford Academy
30.01.2009 London – Islington Academy w/ Your Demise + Special Guest ** Change of venue**
31.01.2009 Brighton Concorde 2 w/ Your Demise + Special Guest
Check out the video for Early Grave:
Aesop Rock has announced a Weathermen album will be released in 2009.
The group, which consists of Aes, Cage, Yak Ballz, Tame One and El-P, will drop their album this year and Aesop promised it will not be “some thrown together back-burner bullshit posse album comprised of mail-in 16s and unnecessary collabs. no filler.”
He also announced that the new Cage album is done with Aesop providing a couple of beats and finally said that he [Aes] is working on a project with Rob Sonic, and is looking to release this stuff “in some unconventional fashion at some point in 09”
Hip Hop Hooray!