Author: Crossfire

Spiritualized will make their come back on May 19th.

The group will release Songs In A&E on Spaceman Records and will precede that with a single, Soul Of Fire, which will be released on CD and digitally. The album is inspired by the serious illness suffered by Jason Pierce in 2005 which forced him to spend time in intensive care. You can also check the band out at the following dates in May:

18 – Cambridge Junction
19 – Sheffield Plug
20 – London, Koko
24 – Bristol, Dot to Dot Festival
25 – Nottingham, Dot to Dot Festival

www.spiritualized.com

The Camden Crawl line up has been announced.

The event, which takes place at 25 different venuesin Camden on April 18th-19th will this year feature the likes of Does It Offend You Yeah?, Sam Sparro, Blackhole, Kode9, Cage The Elephant and more.

The full line-up is:

(Both days)

The Answering Machine
Bobby Cook
Bombay Bicycle Club
Boy Kill Boy
Cage The Elephant
Cat The Dog
Cock N Bull Kid
The Creepy Morons
Crystal Castles
Does It Offend You Yeah?
Elle S’Appelle
Fanfarlo
Florence and the Machine
Future Of The Left
The Haunts
Ida Maria
Ipso Facto
Johnny Flynn
Johnny Foreigner
Let’s Wrestle
Los Campesinos!
Lykke Li
Make Model
Noah And The Whale
One Night Only
Operator Please
Royworld
Slow Club
Sam Isaac
Sam Sparro
Tellison
This City

(Friday only)

Agaskodo Teliverek
Blackhole
Cheap Hotel
Cutting Pink with Knives
Eugene McGuinness
Figure 5
The Ghost Frequency
Hatcham Social
In Case Of Fire
JME
The King Blues
Pete Molinari
Post War Years
Rolo Tomassi
The Rushes
Sergeant
Shut Your Eyes And You’ll Burst Into Flames
Simone White
SixNationState
Soko
Vinny Vinny
William
Yoav
Youthmovies

(Saturday only)

Acoustic Ladyland
The Brute Chorus
Circulus
Cheeky Cheeky and the Nosebleeds
Damn Shames
The Dirty Feel
Duels
Innerpartysystem
Invasion
Jay Jay Pistolet
Kode 9
Lucy and the Caterpillar
Nic Dawson Kelly
Pacific!
Reuben
Rosie Oddie and the Odd Squad
Skepta
Sky Larkin
Slagsmalsklubben
Stricken City
Team Waterpolo
Tronic Youth
White Lies

Weekend passes are £49.20 and single day tickets are £29.70.

www.thecamdencrawl.com

The Hold Steady have completed recording on their fourth album.

The record is tentatively named Stay Positive and will see the band move into more diverse instrumentation with strongs, horns, harpsichord and a mandolin being used. There is no release date yet as the album still needs to be mixed and mastered, but expect it sometime this year.

www.theholdsteady.com

Akon is in the limelight again.

The pipsqueak rapper was making an appearance at a shopping mall in Copenhagen when a fire alarm went off. 2,000 people who turned up at the 1,000 capacity mall were ushered out of the centre by police but began throwing bottles and rocks, with several injuries reported. Apparently the fire was a false alarm, unfortunately Akon’s career is not.

www.akononline.com

A Badge Of Friendship have joined forces with Southern Records for a new album night.

It will all kick off at The Fly on March 7th with ABoF and Southern Records DJs battling it out on “the decks of doom”. Expect to hear music from Les Savy Fav, Weezer, Beck, Minus The Bear, Fugazi, Oxes, Pavement, Q and not U, Daft Punk and more. This non-stop party action will happen on the first Friday of every month after that.

The Fly
36-38 New Oxford Street
London W1

Doors 7.30pm – 2am!

£6 in advance, £7 on the door until 10.30pm / £5 after 10.30pm

www.southern.net / www.myspace.com/abadgeoffriendship