Blur frontman Damon Albarn is to perform a new track at an anti-nuclear weapons gig tonight.
The track, 5 Minutes To Midnight, will be performed on the Greenpeace boat Arctic Sunrise and will be backed by a 50-piece choir.
The show will also feature visual designs from Massive Attack’s 3D and will be streamed live on Greenpeace’s site from 7pm.
Flogging Molly are to celebrate St Patrick’s Day by releasing an iTunes exclusive digital EP.
The group were in LA last month and stopped off at the Complete Control Radio studio which hosts a Punk show hosted by Joe Sib from SideOneDummy Records.
The group set up and played an acoustic set to a small crowd of competition winners. The performance was recorded and features four old songs and two brand new tracks. The release date is set for March 13th.
Mortiis has made some of his upcoming album available via myspace.
The tracks come from the Some Kind Of Heroin remix album which features reconstructions of tracks from The Grudge featuring the likes of Girls Under Glass, Kovenant, PIG and more. The album will be released in Europe in April. Speaking about the album, Mortiis said:
“I had remixed several of these artists for their releases earlier so it was really only a matter of bringing out the baseball bat and start yelling “payback time!” – others I would contact direct and work out deals with.
This album mostly came together through mutual contacts, sending Outemails or calling up and asking if they wanted to be part of it. Bands like Girls Under Glass and Gothminister I had met and am friends with so we knew that would work out great.”
Darkest Hour are working with Devin Townsend on their upcoming album.
The record, Deliver Us, is the follow up to Undoing Ruin which came out in 2005. Guitarist Mike Schleibaum stated that the band’s hands, legs and bodies hurt from playing so much, but that they are very happy to be working with Townsend and are also happy with the music that’s come out of it. He said:
“It is some of our most complex, melodic, brutal, and aggressive songs to date. There’s some punk, metal, thrash, shred, prog, and even a little of Devin Townsend’s special sauce mixed in this metal gumbo.”
The band have also jumped on the video recording bandwagon and present their recording process here.
The Living End will be recording their new album soon.
The band, who released State Of Emergency last year, are looking to make a new album this year.According to reports, bassist Scott Owen has said:
“we’re going to start making a new album at some point this year, so we’ll stop and start thinking about that very shortly.”
Death Metal progressionists Akercocke have been recording video footage of their current album sessions.
The band, who are putting the finishing touches to their as-yet-unnamed album, due out on May 14th, will go out on the road with Cephalic Carnage in May. The group will also play two headline shows to debut their new material this month, the dates are:
29th – Colchester Arts Centre
31st – London Water Rats
Their dates with Cephalic Carnage are:
May:
16th – Nottingham Rock City
17th – The Music Box Manchester
18th – Belfast Sping And Airbrake
19th – Dublin Voodoo Lounge
20th – The Cathouse Glasgow
21st – Rio’s in Leeds
22nd – The Park in Peterborough
23rd – The Academy Birmingham
24th – Sheffield Corp
26th – The Nexus Southampton
27th – The Underworld London
You can check out the videos of their recording progression by clicking here and here.
Seattle’s Blue Scholars and their label Massline will team up with Rawkus for the new release.
Sabzi and Geologic, who have made many waves over on the West Coast, will follow in the footsteps of Company Flow and Mos Def by signing to the label.
Their new album, Bayani, which follows their self titled album and The Long March EP will be released in June of this year.
You can read more about their community acitivist organisation Massline here.
Index7 have announced the launch of the first online service to provide information about upcoming 7″ single releases.
With 7″s being limited editions a lot of the time, information on the new releases are hard to find. Index7 will offer a news and information resource for 7″s and provide a platform for labels to promote their new releases.
With Moshi Moshi, White Heat, City Rockers, Transgressive and Loog already joining the revolution, information is being gathered at a fast rate.
Head on over to www.index7.co.uk for all the trimmings.
Hip Hop Is Music’s Sivion was recently involved in a car crash.
The rapper was involved in the accident on Valentine’s Day, with his car being written off and him having to be rushed to hospital to get emergency surgery to stop internal bleeding.
Hip Hop Is Music have decided that instead of asking for donations of money, they will give 75% of all royalties from the sale of his album to him and his family to help them through this current difficult period.
Spring Of The Songbird is a great record, as recommended a few months back in The Mix, so if you are thinking of getting a copy, now’s the time! Crossfire’s best wishes go out to Sivion and his family, we know you’ll get through it.
Cat Power will be playing in Europe this spring, with some dates in the UK.
Chan Marshall and her Dirty Delta Blues will be kicking off in Glasgow with a date in London and an appearance at All Tomorrow’s Parties, before heading out into Europe. She returns to Dublin for her last show on May 10th. The full tour dates are:
April:
25th – Glasgow Ferry, Triptych Festival
27th-29th – Somerset Butlins, Minehead, All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival
May:
1st – London, Forum