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Download Dog

The Download Dog, Download Festival‘s mascot, has been let loose in the virtual world of Second Life.

The Download Dog will leave a trail around the Second Life world, which will work like a treasure hunt with the prize up for grabs being an Epiphone Les Paul guitar, signed by artists playing at the festival this year.

The festival takes place between the 8th and 10th of June and will see My Chemical Romance, Linkin Park and Iron Maiden headline. The competition is open now and the winner will be announced on June 7th.

To enter the competition click here.

www.downloadfestival.co.uk

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Reign In Blood

OK, come up close to the screen…smell it, go on, take a sniff because this ltd edition Danny Way Plan B deck smells like heaven.

Next week one of these extremely limited edition decks will be posted on this site to win and then shipped out to the lucky git who wins by first class post 3 weeks later.

If you don’t know by now the entire Plan B Team will be here throughout the weekend of the 1st June. First stop Milton Keynes Bus Station Plaza on the 2nd June and the first shred at the new Dreamland built Saffron Walden skatepark in Essex on June 3rd.

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Ash headline Ripcurl Festival!

Ash have been confirmed as the headline act for this year’s Rip Curl Boardmasters festival.

The event will take place on August 10th in Newquay and will feature 35 bands, more than they have ever had on before.

The surf, skate and music festival will also feature current ravemasters Enter Shikari so get those tickets quick.

www.ripcurlboardmasters.com

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James Yorkston rarities album

James Yorkston will release his new album Roaring The Gospel on June 4th.

The record will be a collection of rarities and unreleased music, including his first ever single The Lang Toun, which is being made available for the first time since its original release in 2002.

He will celebrate the release with a special show at Union Chapel in London on May 24th and will feature James Yorkston and The Athletes plus some special guests which are to be announced soon.

You can get your ticket from www.seetickets.com or by ringing the Box Office on 020 7226 1686

www.jamesyorkston.co.uk

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Shameless new video

Irish rapper Shameless has a new single coming out on June 18th titled ‘Everyday in a Broken Dream‘ featuring Rod Stewart of all people! Click below to watch it on poo tube.

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Long Live The Franchise

As they say, you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. However, this statement means nothing to those over at Neversoft who, on time as always, have introduced the concept of the ninth game in the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series.

With huge competition this year emerging from EA’s SKATE, will this game finally be the realistic skate simulation they keep promising us? And even if it isn’t will it still fly of the shelves? Of course it would.

Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground‘ has another unique selling point to add to its collection this year. It will focus on filming and editing your own skate video in various skate metropolises over America. Philly, DC and Baltimore to name but a few. This year’s instalment also allows for bowl carving (about time!) as well as being able to alter your skate spot to uncover more line possibilities. Nail the trick also returns with the addition of ‘Nail the Grab’ and ‘Nail the Manual’. Great.

President of Neversoft, Joel Jewett claims that the game will “drop players into the skateboarding world like never before. This is the largest, deepest and most compelling Tony Hawk game ever. You can skate the best lines, define your own style and produce your own videos. You can even take it further by tricking out your own Skate Lounge, where you can hang out and skate with others online. Proving Ground will throw you so deep into the lifestyle of skateboarding that you won’t be able to get out. Hands down, it’s the most exciting Tony Hawk title yet.”

So what’s next? Scene Tony Hawk’s Videos emerging on Youtube? Maybe not, but Neversoft seem to be getting ever closer in their aim to prevent a child from ever leaving the house again.

www.neversoft.com

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Let’s Do This

It’s that time of year for another one of Transworld‘s ludicrously glamorous, beautifully captured productions to drop. And it turn make every other video we were loving off this year look like it was filmed by Grandpa George.

Whether it has an irritating narration about how great skateboarding is (we are skateboarders after all, we don’t need reminding), or not, it’s bound to be nothing short of spectacular. Especially with a superb line up, boasting the likes of – Clint Peterson, Devine Calloway, Brain Brown, Peter Smolik and Emmanuel Guzman.

Click the image to view the carnage!

www.skateboarding.com

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Gogol Bordello album details

Gypsy Punks Gogol Bordello have announced plans for a new album this year.

The record is called Super Taranta and is set to be released in July. The band will work with Victor Van Vugt on the production and Eugene Hutz of the group said:

“With Super Taranta! Gogol Bordello is going to conquer the world. Everything on the album is taken to the next level. It’s more direct, more abstract, more focused, with more dark humor. The dub parts are deeper; the fast parts are faster, its pure orgasmo hysteria.”

We at Crossfire can’t wait. Bring on the gypsy speed metal dubstep.

www.gogolbordello.com

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Reznor speaks out against pricing

Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor has recently blasted his record label Universal for making the price of the band’s new album Year Zero too high.

Posting on the band’s site, Reznor called the pricing “absurd” and has said he believes the label have ripped the band’s fans off. The example he used was the pricing in Australia where his album cost $34.99 next to Avril’s record which was priced at $21.99. He went on to say:

“As the climate grows more and more desperate for record labels, their answer to their mostly self-inflicted wounds seems to be to screw the consumer over even more. When I asked a label rep about this his response was: ‘It’s because we know you have a real core audience that will pay whatever it costs when you put something out – you know, true fans. It’s the pop stuff we have to discount to get people to buy.’ So… I guess as a reward for being a ‘true fan’ you get ripped off.”

He finished by saying the band would release a full-length remix album, with details coming soon.

www.nin.com

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Run to the ‘Gills’

…with Electric Eel Shock. Their new album “Transworld Ultra Rock” as well as the long anticipated documentary: “Sex, Drugs & Email” are both coming soon…