Category: Music News

This week the winter Bizarre Balls have been announced for the UK in London and for the first time Manchester serves as the host for the first Bizarre Ball to take place outside of the capital.

Manchester’s Ball will take place on October 22nd and will feature a headline performance from The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster alongside Rolo Tomassi and more…

London’s Ball is set for November 20th and boasts a line-up that features the likes of The Damned, The Tiger Lillies, The Ghost of Lemora and more…

Be sure to turn up to what could easily be the alternative night of the year, and now you Northern heads have no excuse! Head here for our Night Raids at The Bizarre Ball earlier this year in June.

To coincide with the release of the fourteen track ‘An Introduction To Elliott Smith‘ Domino Records are releasing ‘The Ballad of Big Nothing‘ as a limited edition double A sided vinyl with ‘Division Day‘.

The album and single, both serving to introduce later generations to one of the greatest songwriters of our era, will be released on November 1st.

To pre-order the single simply click on the sleeve below.

The latest video from Animal Collective is yet another cut from Merriweather Post Pavillion, the sixth one so far! This time it’s Bluish, the criminally underrated slow synth ballad that’s recalls the warm Beach Boys’ harmonies greater than any other song on the album.

Click the screenshot below for the appropriately coloured video and scroll further down for a classic AC video (for the wonderful ‘Who Could Win A Rabbit’) that you may have forgotten about after MPP took over the entire internet.

The band responsible for the omnipresent ‘gypsy-punk’ description that barely applies to any other band besides themselves, Gogol Bordello have released the new video for Immigraniada (We Comin’ Rougher) through the tech/culture website Boing Boing.

The video has been described as one of the band’s most personal and autobiographical pieces, chronicling the everyday life of an immigrant in the dog-eat-mongrel landscape of Los Angeles. The band themselves unite from all over the globe, collectively hailing from Ukraine, Russia, Israel, China, Ethiopia, Ecuador and Trinidad and so offer a greater legitimacy than most bands tend to have when covering this sort of issue.

You can watch the video below, but follow this link to read a great interview with lead singer Eugene Hütz on the making of the video and some additional stories behind it.

Bad Religion’s 30th anniversary celebrations are set to reach a climax as their 15th studio album, The Dissent Of Man, is set for relese on September 27th.

The band have just posted the entire album, previously reported to contain some of the band’s favourite songs they’ve ever written, on their Myspace for all to hear.

The tracklisting is as follows, now go in and listen to it.

1. The Day That the Earth Stalled
   
2. Only Rain
   
3. The Resist Stance
   
4. Won’t Somebody
   
5. The Devil in Stitches
6. Pride and the Pallor
   
7. Wrong Way Kids
   
8. Meeting of the Minds
   
9. Someone to Believe
   
10. Avalon
    
11. Cyanide
    
12. Turn Your Back On Me
    
13. Ad Hominem
    
14. Where The Fun Is
    
15. I Won’t Say Anything

While it’s currently buzzing away at the top of our Buzz Chart you should all take some time out of your busy schedule to listen to the noisy duo No Age whose album ‘Everything In Between‘ is now available to stream online (via Guardian)

Click this link to read Sleekly Lion’s review and hit the picture below to wrap your ears around some rad sounds.

No Age- Everything in Between promo from Patrick O’Dell on Vimeo.

The video for Former Ghosts‘ ‘New Orleans‘ has premiered online this week (via P4K).

The Joy Division meets Casiotone For The Painfully Alone meets Digital-Ash Bright Eyes meets similar relentlessly unhappy but melodically wonderful band project pioneered by the simple yet evocative lyrics of Freddy Rupert have won a lot of us over. ‘New Orleans‘ is an exceptional example and perfect introduction to the band.

The video, directed by Michael Fierstein features girls eating cake, drinking and indulging in a lot of impossibly obvious metaphors for a nice clip to accomodate a brilliant track.

‘New Orleans‘ appears on ‘New Love‘, due for release on November 8th through Upset The Rhythm.

Since it was announced, regular Crossfire e-scribe Winegums has asked those of us who are forever neck-deep in the internet at least once a week to see if the new Jimmy Eat World album is online yet. Well that day has come and ‘Invented‘ can be streamed in full over at the band’s myspace.

The album is due for release next week on September 28th.

Like it or not, remixing has become one of the most exciting areas in music making today. Just one peek into the blogosphere would confirm that. Pendulum are encouraging this, by teaming up with Juno Download and Soundcloud to offer a potential winner with a major label release on Warner Bros. Records by remixing ‘The Island‘.

The winner’s remix will be released with full promotional and marketing support from Warner, and in addition to the royalty, the winner will also recieve £500 cash, £150 worth of Juno Downloads and a £150 Soundcloud Pro account.

Head here for the page and further information on how to enter. Entries must be in before October 18th. Get in and get creative.