Author: Crossfire

Black Lips have announced details of a new UK tour.

The group will start the tour in Cardiff on May 1st before hitting Ireland and England, including a set at the Cambersands All Tomorrow’s Parties event. The full dates are:

May:

1st – Cardiff The Point
2nd – Swansea Club NME at Club Sin
3rd – Dublin Crawdaddy
4th – Glasgow Barrowlands 2
6th – Sheffield The Plug
7th – Leeds Brudenell Social Club
8th – Birmingham Club NME at The Place I Love
9th – Cambersands All Tomorrow’s Parties versus Pitchfork
11th – Cambridge The Junction
12th – Oxford Academy
13th – Bristol Thekla
14th – London 100 Club

www.myspace.com/theblacklips

Turbonegro will play the UK with Valient Thorr and Year Long Disaster.

The one off show, which comes as part of the European Volcom Tour will be at the Electric Ballroom in Camden on March 24th. Get along there, even if all your friends are dead.

www.volcoment.com

Sum 41 are coming back to the UK after cancelling dates this year.

The dates are:

February

21st – Brixton Academy
22nd – Norwich UEA
23rd – Cardiff University
24th – Southampton, Guildhall
26th – Manchester Academy
27th – Leeds University
28th – Nottingham Rock City

March

1st – Glasgow Barrowland
2nd – Newcastle Academy
3rd – Birmingham Academy

www.sum41.co.uk

Super Furry Animals have put up an Xmas video for everyone to enjoy, so get clicking:

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www.superfurry.com

Jay Reatard has signed to Matador Records.

The Memphis native will release six limited 7″ singles over the course of next year which will then be compiled for a subsequent CD release. Dates for these releases will follow shortly, but until then, head over to MySpace to get your fix.

www.myspace.com/jayreatard

The Breeders are hitting the UK to tour their new album Mountain Battles.

April

8th – ABC, Glasgow
9th – Metropolitan Uni, Leeds
10th – Trent Uni, Nottingham
12th – Leadmill, Sheffield
13th – Academy 2, Birmingham
14th – Academy 2, Manchester
16th – Koko, London

www.4ad.com/breeders

A preview for Avenged Sevenfold‘s animated film A Little Piece Of Heaven has appeared online:

www.avengedsevenfold.com

Marilyn Manson is well known for being a little bit odd.

This year, for example, he’s built a robot girlfriend, is getting ready to tackle the world snake bath record and is due in court for allegedly spending his band members’ royalties on skeletons of Chinese children and men in wheelchairs. However, if the shock rocker’s latest claims are to be believed, Manson’s innate weirdness is perhaps genetic.

Mr Manson claims his mother, Barb Warner, keeps his foreskin (which the singer parted company with in 1969) in a jar and likes to “wave it around” at family gatherings.

“We’re hoping to sell it at Sotheby’s one day,” says Manson.

www.marilynmanson.com

Rancid have finished their new album.

The band’s new drummer, Branden, posted a MySpace blog confirming that the seventh studio album was completed, the first record from the group since Indestructible in 2003. The album will be recorded in California and will hit the shops in 2008.

www.rancidrancid.com