The annual War Of The Roses events are planned and coming at you quicker than one of Div’s bowl carves.
Expect bangers and mash this month at both Interact Skatepark in Leeds on Saturday 27th October and also The Works Skatepark in Leeds on the 28th October.
Our resident hip hop head Abjekt caught up with El-P last night before his raging show at the Scala for an interview. During the interview, which you’ll be able to read in full very soon on Crossfire, El-P gave us some exclusives.
Firstly, the Def Jukie confirmed that Del would be releasing his new album The 11th Hour on Def Jux, which had been rumoured for some time. And the second exclusive he gave us was that he plans to release an EP next year so we don’t have such a long wait between records again.
Keep your eyes peeled to see what the former Company Flow man had to say about London crowds, owning a label, making his music and thoughts on Def Jux’s 2007 soon!
Crossfire mate, and definitely not an African wild animal, Rhino from Thrasher has put up a blog of the Darkstar team’s exploits, that recently included our Southbank Jam.
Click here for photos and video of Adam Dyet, Terrell Robinson,Gailea Momolou and Chris Haslam, for some reason.
Oh, and our Abjekt gets BGPs as well!
DJ/Producer supreme Mark Ronson brought a host of guests on stage during his sold out show in LA.
The Version creator played to the El Rey Theatre with Daniel Merriweather, Santogold, Tiggers, Alex Greenwald and even Robbie Williams joining him for the action packed set.
Ronson is set to hit the UK on some dates so this array of guests could be hitting stages around the country very soon!
Texas’ Fair To Midland have announced some UK dates to support their recently released album Fables Of A Mafly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True.
November:
15th – Glasgow, King Tuts
16th – Manchester, Academy (supporting Serj Tankian)
18th – Manchester, Barfly (headline show)
19th – Birmingham, Academy (headline show)
20th – London, Barfly (headline show)
21st – Brighton, Barfly (headline show)
22nd – London, Astoria (supporting Serj Tankian)
Taking Back Sunday have lost guitarist and co-vocalist Fred Mascherino.
The band, who will be releasing their DVD/CD compilation The Louder Now Part Two on November 20th, said the following regarding the departure:
“After four great years and two successful gold albums together, Fred has decided to leave Taking Back Sunday to pursue his solo career. We wish him well and we are working on the next Taking Back Sunday album as we speak.”
The famous Unplugged session by Nirvana is finally set to hit DVD.
The performance took place on November 18th 1993 and was released as a CD but has remained unreleased on any video format. The DVD is due out on November 20th and will feature the unedited 66 minute concert.
Um, I don’t really know what to say about this, other than ‘brilliant. I love Fridays, the internet and Michael Jackson.
Following the departure of several team mates in recent months, it was announced today that Don “The Nuge” Nguyen has left Duffs as well.
It won’t be long before the Foundation rider is snapped up by some other footglove sponsor.
Artsy, stylish, and one of the most anticipated videos of the year, the new Habitat video Inhabitants will be premiered In Derby on November 1st.
For booze action, and skating from the likes of Danny Garcia, Stephen Janoski, Silas Baxter-Neal, Kerry Getz and Tim O’Connor head over to every skateboarders favourite haunt The Blue Dog Pub to see Inhabitants from 8pm.