Author: Crossfire

TrocaBrahma, the collaboration of UK and Brazilian artists, will be coming to the UK in July.

Taking place in London, Liverpool and Glasgow from July 26th – 29th, the festival is part of an exchange programme that brings UK to artists to Brazil to collaborate with Brazilian artists who them perform the material back in the UK.

The artists involved are Os Mutantes, JD Twitch, Bonde Do Role, Radioclit, Gruff Rhys, Tony da Gatorra, Four Tet, Open Field Church, King Creosote, Romulo Froes, Ben Westbeech, Tita Lima, Diplo and Amanda Blank.

Expect big reviews of the event, providing Abjekt can stop himself from fainting at the sight of Amanda Blank.

www.trocabrahma.com

Blue Scholars have posted up a teaser video for their upcoming album Bayani, which is out on Rawkus this year. Pimp it below:

Day In The Life of Blue Scholars from sabarillo on Vimeo

www.bluescholars.com

Legendary Californian punk rockers Social Distortion will release a Greatest Hits compilation through Epitaph Records on June 25th.

Along with classic Social Distortion cuts such as ‘Mommy’s Little Monster’, ‘Story Of My Life’ and their cover of Johnny Cash’s ‘Ring Of Fire’, the record will feature the brand new song (and future single) ‘Far Behind‘.

Mike Ness and co are currently planning a worldwide tour to support the album, and are also working on a new studio album – the follow-up to 2004’s ‘Sex, Love And Rock & Roll’.The full tracklisting is as follows:

1. Another State Of Mind
2. Mommy’s Little Monster
3. Prison Bound
4. Story Of My Life
5. Ball And Chain
6. Ring Of Fire
7. Bad Luck
8. When The Angels Sing
9. I Was Wrong
10. Reach For The Sky
11. Far Behind (new song)
12. 1945 (13th Floor) – Europe only bonus track

Check www.socialdistortion.com for more info.

There’s no shortage of activity in the Side One Dummy Records camp these days.

Both ska-punk stalwarts Big D And The Kids Table and anthemic street punks the Street Dogs scheduled to tour the UK later this month. Big D’s dates are as follows:

May:

18th Swindon The Furnace
19th Exeter The Hub
20th Manchester Satans Hollow
21st Newcastle The Venue
22nd Leeds Venue Tbc
23rd Derby The Vic Inn
24th Southampton Joiners
25th London Underworld
26th Kingston The Peel

Whilst the Street Dogs will hit:

May:

25th Newcastle Academy 2
26th Birmingham Academy
27th Bristol Academy 2
28th London Islington Academy
29th Sheffield Corporation
30th Leeds Joseph Wells
31st Glasgow King Tuts

New albums are also forthcoming from former Hot Water Music singer/guitarist Chuck Ragan (a live recording of a solo show entitled ‘Los Feliz’) and the 2007 Vans Warped Tour compilation (featuring more than 50 tracks over two CDs).

Check www.sideonedummy.com for more info.

Following the release of their new album ‘Legend Of The World‘ on Volcom, US psychedelic rockers Valient Thorr are set to visit Europe for the first time as main support to the legendary Fu Manchu. UK dates are as follows:

May:

26th Nottingham Rock City
27th Glasgow Cathouse
28th Belfast Limelight
30th Wolverhampton Little Civic
31st Wolverhampton Little Civic

June:

1st Leeds Rio’s
2nd London Underworld
3rd Southampton Nexus

They will also support Turbonegro at London’s Islington Academy on June 7th.

Check www.valientthorr.com for more info.