Category: Music News

The Specials are reuniting for a 2009 tour to celebrate their 30th anniversary. Original members of the band including Hall, Neville Staple, Sir Horace Gentleman, Roddy Radiation, Lynval Golding and John Bradbury are all confirmed to play the gigs. Tickets for the tour go on sale at 9am on December 11th this week for the following dates:

Newcastle Academy (April 22)
Sheffield Academy (23)
Birmingham Academy (25, 26)
Glasgow Academy (28)
Manchester Apollo (May 3)
London Brixton Academy (6, 7)

The Go! Team are all set to start work on their third album at a studio in Brighton. An indication of the direction came from Ian who, in a recent interview, said that it was likely to be …. “cut-n-paste and more schizo like you’re flipping channels on a radio”

Bristol legends Portishead are back with a new single called Magic Doors released on 15th December via Island Records. Collectors should look out for the 12″ etched vinyl and downloaders will find live tracks in the digital bundle. The album ‘Third’ will feature in our top albums of the year over xmas but don’t tell anyone we let that out..

Probably the news story of the day here: the label Secretly Canadian are re-releasing the mammoth “Vicious Circle” album by Indianapolis punk legends, ZERO BOYS.

This was one of the best debut punk records ever made so it’s going to be very welcome here at Crossfire when it gets a release on February 2nd 2009.

This band dominated the punk scene in the US between 1979 and 1983 and were the band to put the Midwest firmly on the hardcore map. More good news is that the the lost second album, “History Of” will also be available so look out for these as they are classics and ultimately must haves for your ears. Click here to stream Civilization’s Dying whilst you wait for this to drop.

Poison The Well have posted the first of their studio updates.

The band, currently recording their new album, will hit the UK with 36 Crazyfists and Gwen Stacy in March 2009. The dates are:

5th WREXHAM – Central Station
6th OXFORD – Zodiac
7th COLCHESTER – Arts Centre
8th NORWICH – Waterfront
9th WOLVERHAMPTON – Wolfrun Hall
10th MANCHESTER – Academy 2
11th GLASGOW – Garage
13th LONDON – Electric Ballroom

Here’s the blog:

www.myspace.com/poisonthewell

Bring Me The Horizon are reportedly ‘blowing up the United States of America right now and will not stop until they are done’. This inside gossip comes from within the BMTH camp who have seen them explode in the US since their amazing shows on the Vans Warped Tour this year.

Check their latest teaser here and get your ears ready for Suicide Season America.

BRING ME THE HORIZON US TOUR 2008 TEASER TRAILER from Khaled Lowe on Vimeo.

Minnesotan rapper P.O.S. will release his new album in February.

The Doomtree member’s third solo album, Never Better, will hit the stores on February 3rd and contains 16 tracks, around half of which were produced by the man himself. The tracklisting is:

1.Let It Rattle
2.Drumroll (We’re All Thirsty)
3.Savion Glover
4.Purexed
5.Graves (We Wrote the Book)
6.Goodbye
7.Get Smokes
8.Been Afraid
9.Low Light Low Life
10.The Basics (Alright)
11.Out of Category
12.Optimist (We Are Not For Them)
13.Terrorish
14.Never Better
15.The Brave and the Snake

www.myspace.com/posisruiningmylife

Atmosphere will reissue their seminal God Loves Ugly album early in 2009.

The group’s third album will come complete with a DVD of the God Loves Ugly release parties, which itself is a reissue, having originally been brought out as Sad Clown Bad Dub 4. GLU will contain classics such as the title track, Fuck You Lucy, Modern Man’s Hustle and Shrapnel amongst others.

www.myspace.com/atmosphere

The Flaming Lips have released their film Chrismas On Mars.

The “fantastical film freakout” has been in production since 2001 and is directed by frontman Wayne Coyne, with co-director George Salisbury who is in charge of the band’s audiovisuals. The film, unsurprisingly from the title, takes place during Christmas on Mars when an oxygen generator malfunctions.

For more info, hit up www.flaminglips.com

Deerhunter are going to be hitting the UK as part of their European tour.

They will released Never Stops, the latest single from their Microcastle album on March 2nd. The UK dates of their tour are:

Tuesday 3rd March – Scala, London)
Wednesday 4th March – Deaf Institute, Manchester
Thursday 5th March – Stereo, Glasgow
Friday 6th March – The Black Box, Belfast
Saturday 7th March – Whelans, Dublin
Sunday 8th March – Korova, Liverpool
Monday 9th March – Audio, Brighton

www.myspace.com/deerhunter