Author: Crossfire

Manic Street Preachers will be releasing a free track for fans on March 19th.

The Welsh band will be putting up Underdogs as a free download on their new site [see below] marking the first music to be taken from their upcoming album Send Away The Tigers.

The album will be released on May 7th through Columbia. Nicky Wire said of the album:

“All out punk metal – Alice Cooper – Stooges guitar outro. Could have been on Generation Terrorist. A celebration of the unique, a post ‘Everything Must Go’ address to the fans 10 years after the first time we did it. In a Britain dominated by generic, one diametrical multi branding, let us embrace the difference – the downtrodden – the losers and the opposition. Let us fall in love with individuality again”

www.manics.co.uk

Queens Of The Stone Age will feature a number of guest stars on their new album.

Era Vulgaris will see Julian Casablancas from the Strokes, Mark Lanegan, ZZ Top’s Billy F Gibbons and Trent Reznor appear on various spots on the record.

The album is expected to include to the tracks Sick, Sick, Sick, Misfit Love, Battery Acid and Into The Hollow and has a June release set in the US.

www.qotsa.com

Dr Dre is to return with a new album this year.

The former NWA man appeared on LA radio show Big Boy’s Power 106 to confirm that his new album, Detox, will be released sometime this year.

He said that he is aiming to put out a 12 or 13 track recording featuring “everybody I’ve ever worked with over the years”. If you did indeed forget about Dre, 2007 will be the chance to remember him again.

www.dre2001.com

Rage Against The Machine will be playing 3 dates with the Wu Tang Clan.

The LA Times has announced that the bands will hook up for Rock The Bells, the hip hop festival that begins in New York on July 28th before moving to California on August 11th and ending in San Francisco on August 18th.

Reports are that the additional shows were added because of the ticket scalping for the Coachella show. Rage Against The Machine ain’t nuttin’ ta fuck wit.

www.ratm.com

The View have sunk to a new low with reports that frontman Kyle Falconer is facing a drugs charge.

Reports say that the singer is set to appear at Dundee Sheriff Court this Friday after he was apparently caught with cocaine in the band’s home last year. This comes soon after the band had to cancel their trip to North America because of visa problems, as Falconer hadn’t declared his arrest.

This cancellation has meant 8 shows have been wiped out, including the band’s South By South West slot. Good going guys.

www.theviewareonfire.com

Liverpool band The Little Flames will release their new single Isobella on March 26th.

Isobella will be released on 7″, digital download and CD and the band will be playing with the Arctic Monkeys on tour including their secret gigs last week. They will also be heading out on tour themselves and the dates are:

March:

15th – Manchester Jabez Clegg
16th – Cambridge The Loft
17th – Wolves Little Civic
19th – Coventry Colleseum
20th – Bristol Louisiana
21st – London Barfly
23rd – Hertford Marquee
24th – Southampton Lennons
25th – Luton Live Lounge
27th – Huddersfield Tokyo – Club NME
28th – Glasgow Barfly
29th – Sunderland The Voodo Room
30th – Liverpool Barfly
31st – Nottingham Social

www.thelittleflames.com

Mumm-Ra will be playing a big UK tour as a follow up to their gigs on the NME Indie Rock tour. The dates are:

April:

14th – Brighton Concorde 2
16th – Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
17th – Norwich Arts Centre
18th – Exeter Cavern
20th – Stoke Sugarmill
21st – Newcastle Academy 2
22nd – Liverpool Academy 2
23rd – Cambridge Soul Tree
24th – Colchester Arts Centre
26th – Nottingham Rescue Rooms
27th – Oxford Zodiac
28th – Luton Live Room
30th – Manchester Academy 3

May:

1st – Sheffield Leadmill
2nd – Glasgow King Tut’s
3rd – Aberdeen Tunnels
4th – Leeds Cockpit
6th – Preston 53 Degrees
7th – Birmingham Academy 2
8th – Bristol Thelka
9th – Reading Fez
10th – London ULU

www.mumm-ra.com

Terror will be coming over for five UK dates as part of their European Tour.

The LA band will be playing their headline dates starting in Southampton and ending in Islington as well as supporting Necro on his Astoria date on April 7th. The dates are:

May:

2nd – Southampton Nexus
3rd – Swansea Sin City
4th – Plymouth White Rabbit
5th – Wolverhampton Canal Club
6th – London Islington Academy

www.terrorhc.com