Category: Music News

Black Mountain have revealed details of a new album and UK tour later this year.

The Canadian psych rockers will release their third album, Wilderness Heart, on September 13th through Jagjaguwar records.

Meanwhile the band will also be touring the UK in September, adding to a string of already announced festival dates. The band will play;

July

11th – Kinross, T In The Park Festival
13th – London, Lexington
14th – London, Lexington
16th – Southwold Latitude Festival (16)

September

4th – Oxford, Academy
5th – Birmingham, Hare & Hounds
10th – Isle Of Wight, Bestival
11th – Tollard Royal, End Of The Road Festival
12th – Leeds, TJ’s Woodhouse Club
14th – Glasgow, Oran Mor
15th – Manchester, Academy 3
16th – Nottingham, Rescue Rooms

October

7th London, Shepherds Bush Empire

Sound of Guns have announced some UK tour dates in support of their upcoming releases.

The single Architects is out on June 21st with the album What Came From Fire released a week later.

Check out a little taster of what to expect from the album below.

June

17 – London, 93 Feet East (Brick Lane Takeover)
18 – London, Garage (This Feeling) w/Doves + England WC Game
19 – Preston, Mad Ferret (Glasto Ferret)
24 – York, Fibbers
25 – Stirling, Cape
26 – Glasgow, King Tuts
29 – Nottingham Bodega
30 – Coventry, Kasbah

July

01 – Birmingham, Hare & Hounds
09 – Stockton, Ku Bar
10 – Nozstock Festival, Bromyard, Hertfordshire
17 – Cockrock Festival, Cockenmouth Festival
19 – Mallorca Rocks Festival, Mallorca w/The Courteeners
22 – Plymouth, Ride
23 – Truro, Wig & Pen
24 – St Agnes, Driftwood Spurs
25 – Truck Festival, Oxfordshire
30 – Manchester, Aftershow @ Moho Live
31 – Kendal Calling Festival

Oxfordshire duo Little Fish recently put out a video for their brilliant new single “Am I Crazy?”, and now you can take a look behind the scenes.

The band, who hit the road today on a month-long tour with Blondie, have uploaded a making of feature giving a great insight into how the video came together. You can watch the making of video below, but first check out the music video itself over here.

Benga has a new video out.

It’s for the track Baltimore Clap, which has been around a little while and is now officially released on his Phaze: One EP. It’s a banger and the video is ace. Check it out:

Lostprophets are set to play a headline show at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire this coming August.

The gig will take place on August 25th with support from Attack! Attack!, as the band warm-up for their appearances at Reading and Leeds festivals the following weekend.

Manchester duo Hurts have announced new UK tour dates in order to promote their debut album.

The album, which has not yet been given a title, will be released on August 23rd this year. Meanwhile, the first single from the record will be ‘Wonderful Life’ which will be available on August 16th.

They will also be appearing at:

October

2nd – Brighton, Concorde
3rd – Leeds, Cockpit
4th – Glasgow, Oran Mor
5th – Manchester, Ritz
7th – Birmingham, The Library
8th – Bristol, Trinity Church
9th – London, O2 Shepherds Bush Empire

Iron Maiden‘s forthcoming album, entitled ‘The Final Frontier’, shall be released in the UK on August 16th. This will be the band’s 15th studio album since forming back in 1975.

The album will include 10 tracks produced by long-time collaborator Kevin Shirley, along with artwork from Melvyn Grant.

For for a quick appetizer of what’s to come, head over to the band’s website for a free download of new track ‘El Dorado’.

Brother Ali’s DJ, Rhymesayer in his own right and all round awesome chap BK-One has put a new mix online.

The 40 minute mix includes bangers from Biggie, Doomtree, Guru, Snoop and more, it’s a double thumbs up from us at Crossfire HQ. Grab it here.

Meantime, have this track from his album Radio Do Canibal, released last year:

Mogwai’s Barry Burns shares all in these 8 Questions from Music Slut this week. If you are a fan then this interview is worthy of a read as it’s sharp, to the point and discusses the live film album Burning.

Imagine going to the cinema to watch the 4 most influential metal bands play live sets?! Well, it’s happening. Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax, sharing a stage for the very first time, are bringing their historic European tour to 79 UK cinemas via satellite in a special HD cinematic event.

Declares Slayer’s Kerry King, “I can’t believe someone didn’t make this happen 15 years ago! The fans finally get what they want. I think it’s awesome!”

The legendary June 22nd concert from the tour’s stop of the Sonisphere Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria will air the same day in 79 movie theaters in the U.K. Tickets for “The Big Four: Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, Anthrax” are on sale now at participating theater box offices and on-line at www.thebigfourlive.com, where fans can also view the event cinema trailer. The programme event starts at 6.30p.m, don’t miss it.