Category: Music News

The Chemical Brothers have tapped up Klaxons to appear on their new album.

The track All Rights Reversed will feature the band on the upcoming album We Are The Night, the follow up to Push The Button which was released in 2005.

The album will also feature collaborations with Midlake on The Pills Won’t Help You Now and Willy Mason on Battle Scars. The first single is Do It Again and will come out on June 4th, featuring the vocals of Ali Love.

The tracklisting is:

‘No Path To Follow’
‘We Are The Night’
‘All Rights Reversed’ (Ft. Klaxons)
‘Saturate’
‘Do It Again’ (Ft. Ali Love)
‘Das Spiegel’
‘The Salmon Dance’ (Ft. Fatlip)
‘Burst Generator’
‘A Modern Midnight Conversation’
‘Battle Scars’ (Ft. Willy Mason)
‘Harpoons’
‘The Pills Won’t Help You Now’ (Ft. Midlake)

www.thechemicalbrothers.com

Pete Doherty’s Babyshambles will treat their fans to a secret show at this year’s Camden Crawl.

On April 19th, the band will play a gig for a select group of fans thanks to their teaming up with MySpace.

Only their MySpace friends will be able to gain entry to the gig and in order to be in with a chance of winning, you should sign up to www.myspace.com/secretshowsuk and the band’s page at www.myspace.com/babyshamblesofficial, putting both profiles in your top 8 friends.

Fans will then have to show a print out of their profile to the staff at the Camden Crawl ticket exchange when they pick up their wristband and entry is on a first come, first served basis.

www.myspace.com/thecamdencrawl

Any aspiring bands out there wanting to play at this years Uxfest music festival need to get their act together because you only have until the end of April to apply.

If you want to play at Uxfest 2007, taking place the first weekend of September at the Islington Academy, then you need to send a demo CD into them right sharpish. Bands need to send a clearly labelled demo with all your contact details to:

Uxfest c/o Talita
1-6 Denmark Place
London
WC2H 8NL

Your band could be among those helping support 10 years of charity work and ethical heavy music, just make sure you get in touch before the end of April. Get on it!

Check out www.uxfest.org for more details.

Aesop Rock recently gave a big update on his myspace blog on his future plans.

The Def Jux rapper is currently working with Jeremy Fish on the packaging and art for his upcoming album None Shall Pass, with the same duo working together on the video for the title track.

On a related note, Aes said he is also trying to decide which other songs to use for potential videos. He is planning a tour starting in September and claimed this will include “overseas too”.

He’s been a busy guy on other people’s music too, stating he’d done a beat for the new Grayskul album which would also include a verse, as well as rapping on the new Rob Sonic album Sabotage Gigante and featuring on a new LuckyIAm(PSC) track with Slug from Atmosphere.

www.definitivejux.net

Motley Crue’s Vince Neil has launched a 4 day cruise that will run in January 2008.

The cruise will see a gig from Neil and his band, with several other performers thought to be announced soon. There will also be meet and greets with the bands and a charity poker tournament.

The trip has been billed as “four days of rock & roll on the high seas – Miami to Key West, FL and Calica, Mexico”.

Go to www.motleycruise.org for all the shnizzle.

Converse shoes have announced they plan to release a new line of Ramones themed shoes to support the Project [RED] charity.

The line will feature an exclusive pre-beaten-up pair of Chucks which will see the Ramones logo replacing the traditional patch on the shoe. The charity aims to raise awareness and money for The Global Fund by selling (Product)RED branded products and giving a percentage to the charity to help women and children affected by AIDS and HIV.

www.joinred.com / www.converse.com

The BBC has announced plans to record a tribute album to The Beatles.

Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band will be recorded as the tribute album will have bands such as Oasis, The Killers, Travis, Kaiser Chiefs and Razorlight appearing on it.

The album is closing in on its 40th anniversary and to mark the occasion, the performances will be recorded at Abbey Road using the equipment The Beatles used for the original.

The tribute is set to air on BBC Radio 2 on June 2nd.

www.thebeatles.com

New Radiohead material has been put online by the band.

A short video film has gone up and was made by The Vapour Brothers, the team behind the video for I Might Be Wrong and some of the promotional clips for the Kid A album.

The video shows the band in the studio, with Thom Yorke dancing whilst DJing and the group jamming. The soundtrack features music and dialogue, thought to be some of the new record they’re working on.

www.vapourbrothers.com

A new Fall Of Troy track has been posted up online.

Semi-Fiction will be taken from their upcoming album Manipulator which is the follow up to Doppelgänger which was released in 2005.

The new album will be released on May 1st and you can stream the new song by clicking here.

www.thefalloftroy.com

Bring Me The Horizon are in hot water after an incident that happened after one of their gigs this weekend.

Reports are circulating that Oli Sykes, lead singer of the fringe-wig wearing scenesters, tried it on with a girl in the tour bus, and when rejected, proceeded to urinate on her, before a bottle was thrown [it is not known by who] which hit said girl on the head, causing quite serious facial injury.

Sykes has come out and said this has been twisted and taken out of context, though quite how someone can mistake a toilet for a human being is beyond me.

www.myspace.com/bmth