Category: Music News

Black Lips have released a track with GZA.

The band, who became friends with the Wu Tang member at SXSW, have collaborated with him on a version of the track Drop I Hold which appears on the band’s 200 Million Thousand. You can check out the track by clicking here.

The band are also on tour here in May:

14th – Brighton, The Fly at Great Escape
5th – Nottingham, Trent University
16th – Sheffield, Rollerpalooza
17th – Cardiff, The Globe
20th – Leeds, TJS
21st – Liverpool, City Sound Festival
22nd – Dublin, Crawdaddy
23rd – Glasgow, Oran Mor
24th – Manchester, Academy 3
26th – London, Electric Ballroom

www.black-lips.com

Rancid had unveiled some webisodes in the build up to their new album.

Let The Dominoes Fall is released on June 1st with single Last One To Die out on May 25th. One webisode will be available to watch every day from Mondays to Fridays all the way up to the day of the release on June 1st. They will be posted at the following links – www.hellcatrecords.com and www.youtube.com/hellcatrecords The videos are up now so get checking!

LET THE DOMINOES FALL TRACKLISTING:

1. East Bay Night
2. This Place
3. Up To No Good
4. Last One To Die
5. Disconnected
6. I Ain’t Worried
7. Damnation
8. New Orleans
9. Civilian Ways
10. The Bravest Kids
11. Skull City
12. L.A. River
13. Lulu
14. Dominoes Fall
15. Liberty and Freedom
16. You Want It, You Got It
17. Locomotive
18. That’s Just The Way It Is Now
19. The Highway

The Ghost of A Thousand will be releasing their thrilling album ‘New Hopes, New Demonstrations‘ on 1st June and will be playing at Bloomsbury Bowling in the evening that very same day. There will be no charge for entry so that everyone (over 18) can join the party! Giveaways from Epitaph, Jagermeister, Vans, Criminal Damage and Rockstar will be on hand to make it a real big one.

TGOAT will precede this immense event with a special album release show in their hometown of Brighton at Audio on 30th June with the This City and Blackhole. This event is free to attend too.

TGOAT ALBUM RELEASE PARTIES –

30 May 2009 Audio w / This City (16 +) Brighton, UK
1 June 2009 Bloomsbury Bowling w / Outcry Collective and Warship (18 +) London, UK

FURTHER LIVE DATES FROM THE GHOST OF A THOUSAND –

6 May 2009 Academy 1 w/ Gallows and ETID Manchester, UK
8 May 2009 ABC w/ Gallows and ETID Glasgow, UK
16 May 2009 Great Escape Festival Brighton, UK
20 May 2009 iBar Bournemouth, UK
21 May 2009 Forum, w/ Gallows & ETID London, UK
24 May 2009 University, Slam dunk festival Leeds, UK
01 June 2009 Bloomsbury Bowling – album launch! London, UK
06 June 2009 Harlequin Redhill, UK
11 June 2009 Borderline w / Alexisonfire London, UK
10 July 2009 Lounge On The Farm Festival Canterbury, UK
11 July 2009 The Canteen Cumbria, UK
12 July 2009 Guilfest – Rocksound Cave Guildford, UK
08 Aug 2009 Boardmasters – Vans Stage Newquay, UK
28 Aug 2009 Reading Festival – Lock Up Stage Reading, UK
30 Aug 2009 Leeds Festival – Lock Up Stage Leeds, UK

www.myspace.com/theghostofathousand

Up and comers None The Less have put a new video online.

Define is taken from their debut mini-album The Way To Save Ourselves [released May 18th] and you can see these guys showing off their skills at Download this year as well as dates with Young Guns in July. Big ups to Anthony in the band, Crossfire salutes you!

www.myspace.com/nonethelessonline

The Cool Kids have released their new mixtape.

Gone Fishing, produced with Don Cannon, is up for free download which you can get by clicking here. In the meantime, check out the video to their big tune Pennies:

www.myspace.com/thecoolkids

Nothing like a freebie, especially when it’s from the likes of Dinosaur Jr.

Click here for an MP3 of new track ‘I Want You to Know‘ and here for all the details of the new record titled ‘Farm‘, the fifth full length record by the original line-up-J Mascis, Lou Barlow, and Murph scheduled for release on June 22nd via PIAS.

Placebo will release their new single For What Its Worth on June 1st.

The track is taken from their upcoming album Battle For The Sun which will follow on June 8th. Take a look at the video for the single below:

For What It’s Worth

www.myspace.com/placebo

Son of Dave played a few Crossfire club nights over the years and has always been brought up in conversation when we are out skating from people who saw his incredible live sets before his fame levels started to rise to street level. He is back with a new single ‘Ain’t Going To Nike Town‘ this month and yep, he’s got a bee in his bonnest for the Swoosh.

Check the video below and look out for this single to be releases on Kartel Records on 11th May. See him live on a UK tour over the next 2 weeks.

Pendulum will release a live DVD this year.

Live At Brixton Academy is released on June 15th and will feature tracks such as Slam, Granite, Propane Nightmares and Tarantula as well as their interpretations of The Prodigy’s Voodoo People and Metallica’s Master Of Puppets. The DVD will comes with a CD with the tracklistings below:

DVD

INTRO
SHOWDOWN
FASTEN YOUR SEATBELT
ANOTHER PLANET
VOODOO PEOPLE
PROPANE NIGHTMARES
9000 MILES
MIDNIGHT RUNNER
MUTINY
BLOOD SUGAR
THE OTHER SIDE
DIFFERENT
METALLICA REMIX
SLAM
HOLD YOUR COLOUR
TARANTULA
GRANITE
THE TEMPEST
CREDITS

CD

INTRO
SHOWDOWN
FASTEN YOUR SEATBELT
ANOTHER PLANT
VOODOO PEOPLE
PROPANE NIGHTMARES
BLOOD SUGAR
THE OTHER SIDE
DIFFERENT
METALLICA REMIX
SLAM
HOLD YOUR COLOUR
COUNTDOWN
TARANTULA
GRANITE
THE TEMPEST

In the meantime, here’s their video to The Other Side:

www.pendulum.com

Currently wowing Abjekt with his 60s style, Mayer Hawthorne just put out a video for Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out.

The track, which was released on the amazing heart shaped vinyl that can be seen in the video, is taken from Mayer’s debut album which is expected to drop this year on Stones Throw.

www.myspace.com/mayerhawthorne