Download festival has also announced its line up for 2007.
Wolfmother, Slayer, Bring Me The Horizon, Killswitch Engage and Marilyn Manson are the latest acts to be confirmed for this year’s event.
The festival has already announced My Chemical Romance, Linkin Park and Iron Maiden as headliners on the bill which will take place at Donnington Park from June 8th-10th.
The Dirty Three curated All Tomorrow’s Parties’ line up has been revealed.
The event, which will take place at Minehead’s Butlins on April 27th-29th, will see Nick Cave headline with a solo performance.
The line up will also include Papa M, Low, Felix Lajko, Brokeback, A Silver Mt Zion, Devastations, Cat Power, Joanna Newsom, Yann Tiersen, Roscoe Mitchell and more.
CSS will be lining up a remix for The Mules.
The Brazilian hipsters who are everybody’s favourite group right now will remix the British band’s track We’re The Good People.
The remix will appear on the B-side of the single which is due out on March 26th. The single will be preceded by their debut album Save Your Face which has a March 12th release.
James Yorkston will be releasing a new EP this March.
Woozy With Cider will hit the shops on March 12th, the original version of which appears on his third album, Year Of The Leopard.
Woozy With Cider is a spoken word piece and the EP is going to be available on 12″ and 7″ vinyl as well as download formats. The 7″ will feature Sunday Jacket with the 12″ featuring remixes of the track.
He will also be playing the following dates in March:
3rd – Leeds Cockpit
4th – Bristol Thekla
6th – Manchester Night & Day
7th – Nottingham Social
8th – Oxford Zodiac
9th – Stirling Tolbooth
May:
24th – London Union Chapel
Check out his last single on the Crossfire Hangover Sessions radio show that is just live here or more at www.jamesyorkston.co.uk
The Brit Awards took place last night with Arctic Monkeys and The Killers both taking two awards each.
Arctic Monkeys picked up Best British Album and Best British Group whilst The Killers beat off competition from Gnarls Barkley and Scissor Sisters to win Best International Album and Best International Group. James Morrison was voted Best Male Solo Artist with Amy Winehouse picking up the Female equivalent.
Radio 1 listeners picked out The Fratellis as the Best British Breakthrough Act, ahead of Lily Allen, Corinne Bailey Rae, James Morrison and The Kooks, whilst Orson were named Best International Breakthrough Act.
Other winners included Muse [Best British Live Act], Take That [Best British Single], Justin Timberlake [Best Internatioanl Male Solo Artist] and Nelly Furtado [Best International Female Solo Artist]. Manchester’s Oasis picked up the Outstanding Contribution To Music award.
I Was A Cub Scout are looking for extras for their upcoming video.
The duo will be filming their new video on Monday February 19th for the track I Hate Nightclubs and want people to come along to appear as an extra.
If you are 16 and over, can be free for the filming in Old Street, London, and can get there by 12.30pm [shoot finishes around 6.30pm], then email Joe Dixon and sending a MySpace link or photo of yourself. The first 50 people to do this will be selected.
Whilst the boss is sat in the office in plaster Death Skateboards have revealed the brand new Patrick Melcher deck available in skater owned shops from next week. This black and white beauty is the second in the ‘Surreal‘ artwork series designed by Fos.
In other related Death news Cates and Nicolson are currently in Australia with Ozzy Death riders hard at work filming and Melcher is in the US also filming his solo part for ‘Better than Life‘ – the new Death DVD scheduled for release in November this year.
Watch this space only for the trailer – Crossfire will unleash it as an exclusive in a couple of weeks.
James Goodsall, Andy Ayre, Luc Lacey and others have got together to create a sweet little skate tape called Ups And Downs.
Filmed mainly in and around London, with a bit of Malaga footy in there for good measure, the promo should be available in Spring for the modest sum of £3.
Interested? Then contact James and watch the trailer by clicking the image.
The Holloways will be releasing a new single in March after heading out on tour.
The band, who had a hit last year with Generator, will release Dancefloor on the 12th of March and are currently playing their biggest tour yet.
They will also play an under 18s show in Sheffield following their impromptu gig on top of their bus for kids that couldn’t get into the venue. The tour dates are:
February:
16th – Birmingham Academy 2
17th – Manchester Academy 3
18th – Leeds University
19th – Newcastle Uni Global
20th – Nottingham Rescue Rooms
21st – Brighton Concorde 2
22nd – Stoke The Underground
24th – Dublin Whelans
25th – Belfast Speakeasy
26th – Aberdeen Tunnels
27th – Glasgow King Tuts
28th – Inverness Ironworks
March:
1st – Dundee Reading Rooms
3rd – Hull Yo Yo at Welly Club
4th – Reading Fez Club
5th – Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
6th – Preston 53 Degrees
8th – Wrexham Central Station
9th – Lancaster Liquid
10th – Sheffield Leadmill (Underage Only Matinee Show)
10th – Sheffield Leadmill
A new Elliott Smith album is to be released on May 7th.
The album will be a double CD and will feature 24 songs recorded between 1995 and 1997, a period which saw him record his self titled album and Either/Or.
The album, New Moon, was mixed by Larry Crane who is the archivist for the estate of Elliott Smith and a large percentage of the profits will be going to Outside In, a social service organisation providing help to homeless youth and low-income adults. The tracklisting is:
Disc 1
Angel In The Snow
Talking To Mary
High Times
New Monkey
Looking Over My Shoulder
Going Nowhere
Riot Coming
All Cleaned Out
First Timer
Go By
Miss Misery (early version)
Thirteen
Disc 2
Georgia Georgia
Whatever (Folk Song in C)
Big Decision
Placeholder
New Disaster
Seen How Things Are Hard
Fear City
Either/Or
Pretty Mary K (other version)
Almost Over
See You Later
Half Right