Category: Music News

Reel Big Fish have announced a new UK tour for January 2010.

The band, who hit Australia the following month, will play the following dates:

17th – Plymouth, Plymouth University
18th – Bristol, Bristol 02 Academy
19th – Portsmouth, Portsmouth Pyramids
20th – Oxford, Oxford 02 Academy
21st – Norwich, Norwich UEA
22nd – Manchester, Manchester 02 Academy
23rd – Glasgow, Glasgow 02 Academy
24th – Newcastle, Newcastle 02 Academy
25th – Birmingham, Birmigham 02 Academy
26th – Leeds, Leeds Metropolitain Uni
27th – Nottingham, Nottingham Rock City
28th – London, Koko

Between The Buried And Me have placed a new song online.

The track, Obfuscation, is taken from their upcoming album The Great Misdirect, which is released on October 27th and you can hear it by clicking through to their MySpace page.

Meantime, remind yourself of their older stuff here:

This album is going to rip you apart. We have it here at Crossfire HQ and it’s the heaviest, most gnarly record on the stereo right now and will take some serious beating to knock it off. Watch the video for Axe To Fall right here and weep. The album drops on October 20th.

Damian Abraham from Fucked Up loves his local indie record store and so should you. Watch this docu about the whole deal and then go play your vinyl collection!

Check this amazing edit of Enter Shikari playing Zzzonked live in Norwich from this current UK tour. It was shot by Crossfire filmer Moose and crew capturing the explosive energy of the band in style! Look out for the band in London on Saturday at the Roundhouse as it is set up for a stormer.

Public Enemy are asking fans to help fund the recording of their next album.

The legendary rap group have signed a deal with SellaBand and are looking to raise $250,000 through fan donations. Fans who invest in the album will get a share of the revenue from it in addition to a numbered copy. Chuck D said of the deal:

“SellaBand’s financial engine model goes about restructuring the music business in reverse… It starts with fans first, then the artists create from there. The music business is built on searching for fans and this is a brand new way for acts to create a new album with fans first, already on board.”

Jay Reatard‘s band have left him midway through his North American tour.

A twitter post said:

“Band quit! Fuck them! They are boring rich kids who can’t play for [s]hit anyways. Say hello to your ugly and boring wifes, opps I mean life guys, suck it.”

The singer has claimed he is auditioning for replacements before his UK tour dates which are in November:

10th – Birmingham O2 Bar Academy
11th – Glasgow King Tut’s
12th – Manchester Roadhouse
13th – London Underworld
14th – Bristol Croft
15th – Liverpool Masque
16th – Dublin Whelans

Foreign Beggars released their new single Contact this week and have a banging video to accompany it.

With production from Dutch outfit Noisia [check out the switch to the remix at the end], the track is taken from the United Colours Of Beggattron, which bangs out on October 19th. UK doing bit!

The Ghost of A Thousand’s new video is here and it’s a corker!

To accompany the single ‘Knees, Toes, Teeth’ which is set for release on 9th November, the video sees the band pay a slight homage to the one and only Hives. Check them out on tour over the next couple of weeks with Alexisonfire, Anti-Flag and Four Year Strong –

7 Oct 2009 JUNCTION: Cambridge
8 Oct 2009 UEA: Norwich
9 Oct 2009 ACADEMY: Oxford
10 Oct 2009 ROCK CITY: Nottingham
11 Oct 2009 ANSON ROOMS: Bristol
13 Oct 2009 CONCORDE 2 Brighton
14 Oct 2009 HMV FORUM: London
16 Oct 2009 ABC: Glasgow
17 Oct 2009 UNIVERSITY: Leeds
18 Oct 2009 ACADEMY: Manchester
20 Oct 2009 ACADEMY: Birmingham
21 Oct 2009 PYRAMID CENTRE:P’mouth

Knees, Toes, Teeth

Brand New‘s previously unreleased music video for Jesus has appeared online.

The video was shot in 2007 for the track taken from their 2006 album The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me but was apparently scrapped and remained unreleased until now. Brand New’s latest album Daisy is out now.