Check out everyone’s favourite musical film makers MGMT and their latest efforts in ‘Alien Days’. Naturally this is trippy as ‘owt, with a host of powerful, psychedelic imagery. Turn up your speakers and prepare to be eternally spooked.
Cheatahs have announced they will release self-titled debut album on 10th February 2014 via Wichita Recordings.
This is very exciting news for us in the Crossfire office as we had their breakout single ‘The Swan’ on repeat for weeks when it came out. It also ranked a respectable #2 position in our ‘Top 20 Tracks of 2013 so far…’ feature back in June.
September AA side release ‘Cut The Grass’/’Kenworth’ followed in the same anthemic vein with another shed load of warped fuzzy chords and whammy bar action.
The ear splitting riffs and fuzzed out chords that surely lay within this upcoming debut are bound to be killer. Keep your eyes peeled for this one in the new year. And while you’re here why not give this a spin for old times sake!
The next time you are feeling skint, over-worked, underpaid and generally fed up with it all, think about how Marilyn Manson looks when he takes his make up off.
His latest role playing waiter called Kenny Powers in a restaurant called Jellybeans sees Manson serving the public on roller skates. He really does look like a Brian Hugh Warner – his real name.
New York punks Cerebral Ballzy have released a brand new music video for their A side single ‘City’s Girl’. Taken from their forthcoming 2014 album Jaded and Faded, this video is directed by front man Honor Titus himself. See if you can spot the cameo appearance in there too.
Fugazi front man Ian MacKaye features on NPR this week discussing various moments in his life as Dischord Records owner, Washington DC punk scene spokesperson and much more in various fun stories looking back over time. Tune into Random Questions here.
In other recent Fugazi news, live recordings of the band playing London’s Brixton Academy on the 13th May 1995 and all of the other shows on that tour in Glasgow, Manchester and Wolverhampton. Download the full sets for just $5 here.
This year’s Crossfire Halloween Massacre in association with Vans hosted on the Battersea Barge on the Thames this Friday will host the most explosive band we have found this year. Baby Godzilla have been charging around the country smashing venues up bare handed so we have decided to unleash their explosive nature this Friday at our annual Halloween mash up.
Hear what they have released this week on a limited edition translucent blood wax 7″ via Venn Records and get the last remaining tickets from here today.
Pick up a copy on Venn Records here.
Doom will be bringing his mysterious jams to the UK this November for a Lex Records and All Tomorrow’s Parties show with MF Doom (live) alongside Bishop Nehru (live) and BadBadNotGood (live) with special guests. The show will happen on the 16th November at The Forum in London. Tickets on sale now.
Following our own interviews with Kurt Cobain and co from Nirvana, another old gem has surfaced this week from the Blank on Blank crew who have unleashed a Jon Savage interview that was recorded on July 22, 1993. Cobain discusses his confusion with his identity in this amongst more treasured quotes which is accompanied by a wonderful illustration. Enjoy this.
We got it, did you get it? Run The Jewels‘ album is definitely up there as one of the best of 2013 so if you ain’t got it….you know the rest.
A new video from EL-P and Killer Mike taking their Run The Jewels live show on the road through Northern America just dropped online with live and goofy footage. Fun times for rap, avoid the crap. If you want more of this then head for the hills.
Don’t miss their live show at the Electric in Brixton, London on the 26th November. It will be like missing Public Enemy rock the Brixton Academy back in 1987.
Get It from Run The Jewels on Myspace.
Black Flag fans worldwide woke up to the news that this is the official new artwork for new album ‘What The….’ Ha! No joke. This is sat proudly on iTunes right now as the band’s artwork for their new 22 song record. It certainly doesn’t look like a typical Raymond Pettibon piece, more like something The Offspring would chuck out there.
Surely this is some sort of joke from someone who loves hardcore at Apple as it doesn’t seem to be on the SST website or on their social networks, yet.
Recently, Black Flag founder Greg Ginn lost his legal battle to regain the trademark of the Black Flag legacy, allowing rival members in the new band FLAG to tour under the name and use the same branding. It’s a sad state of affairs that seems to just get worse by the week.
