Category: Music News

Stones Throw will team up with [adult swim] again with a new Chrome Children record.

Chrome Children Vol. 2 will feature artists such as Four Tet, Oh No and Percee P and is available for free download on the Stones Throw site from today, for a month. In other label news, the next Stones Throw Podcast will be a “Thank You Jay Dee” show, going live in February.

February 10th will mark one year since the great Jay Dee died, and to celebrate the life and works of the man, a number of tribute shows are being put on across the globe.

The London event is happening on February 4th at Cargo. Performing will be The Extended Players [reppin’ from Shortee Blitz, Mr Thing and Harry Love], Benji B, Marc Mac and DJ Spin Doctor. It’s free but any donations made will go to the J Dilla foundation, so get along and give generously.

www.stonesthrow.com / www.jdilla.org

The Locust have released the first track from their upcoming album.

The song, titled We Have Reached An Official Verdict: Nobody Gives A Shit, can be found on their myspace site. The album, New Erections, is to be released via Anti-/Epitaph in March.

Click the link below to hear the new track.

www.myspace.com/thelocust

Modest Mouse’s new album’s tracklist has been announced.

The group’s new record, which follows up Good News For People Who Love Bad News, will be called We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank and will be released in March on Epic. The tracklisting for the record is as follows:

March Into the Sea
Dashboard
Fire It Up
Florida
Parting of the Sensory
Missed the Boat
We’ve Got Everything
Fly Trapped in a Jar
Education
Little Motel
Steam Engenius
Spitting Venom
People As Places As People
Invisible

www.modestmouse.com

Goldfinger have reportedly put the final touches to a song and an album is in the pipeline.

The album is set for a late summer release, though this is more of a hope than anything concrete. It will be the follow up to Disconnection Notice and will be released on Side One Dummy, who they signed with last year. Drummer Darrin Pfeiffer, who has his own label – High 4 Records, will be releasing the debut from Crush Luther in February.

www.goldfingermusic.com

Low Life Records have made a new signing for the new year.

The UK hip hop label have announced that they have signed Dubbledge. The rapper, who first came to prominence as an affiliate of the Foreign Beggars crew and who released his ever-popular record Fist Of Jah, has been snapped up along with his upcoming album The Richest Man In Babylon.

The album is due for release this year.

www.lowliferecords.co.uk

Death Cab For Cutie’s guitarist is to put out a solo album.

Chris Walla will be releasing a solo album this Autumn and reports are saying that he will play every instrument on the album with except the drums which will be taken up by Nathan Good and Jason McGerr from Death Cab.

www.deathcabforcutie.com

We are proud to announce that Crossfire have been exclusively invited by Kerrang! Magazine to take over the top room at Koko at the brand new Klub Kerrang! in Camden.

The new night is scheduled for 3rd Saturday of every month and will feature new bands live and rock across the board. Resident Kerrang! DJ’s James Sherry (also from Crossfire) and Kerrang!’s Emma Johnston will provide tunes in the main room whilst Zac Slack and guests will take care of the top room and guest DJ’s from The Bronx and Biffy Clyro in the middle room.

Expect the Crossfire room to have more underground mixes of punk, hardcore, thrash, metal and more very much in line to what you hear on the None More Punk Show and Heavy Shit Radio Shows.

Kerrang! Editor Paul Brannigan said this week, “Klub Kerrang! Is going to be the loudest club the capital has ever seen.” He’s not wrong, because for the opening night on Sat 27th January, the raucous GALLOWS will be playing their hardcore set live alongside former 3 Colours Red, bassist Pete Vuckovics new band- BASSKNIV3S.

We have 10 pairs of tickets to give away every month so click here to enter. We look forward to seeing you down there.

KLUB KERRANG!
GALLOWS
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BASSKNIVES
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Resident DJs James Sherry and Emma Johnston

Crossfire Room – DJ Zac Slack and special guests.

Sat 27th January 2007 (then every third Saturday of the month)

Doors open 10.00pm to late

£6 before 11.00pm and £8 after.
Flyers and NUS cards £4 before 11.00pm

Tickets 0870 998 8888 or right now on www.aloud.com
Drinks offers all night shooters £1.50 Fosters Twist £2

Strictly over 18’s only

Address: KOKO 1A CAMDEN HIGH ST LONDON NW1

Arcade Fire have taken a stand agains touts for their upcoming dates.

The band have announced they will be making another 50 tickets available for each London date [St John’s Church and Porchester Hall] on the door at 6pm of the night of the gig.

They will be on a purely first come, first serve basis and will be wristbands, to stop people selling them outside the venue.

www.arcadefire.com

Snoop has officially pleaded not guilty of weapons charges.

The rapper was found with a collapsible baton in his luggage whilst boarding a plane in Orange County. He was charged with possession a deadly weapon but Snoop claimed it was just a prop.

Doggy Dogg wasn’t in court to deliver his plea, as his lawyers took care of that for him and also requested that the trial be started and finished as quickly as possible.

www.snoopdogg.com

Cat Power is returning to the UK in April and May with her new Dirty Delta Blues band.

The singer will bring over her new line up, which includes Judah Bauer from Jon Spencer Blues Explosion as she plays some shows in the UK.

They have recently played in Europe, including a show for Chanel and are due to play New York’s Museum Of Modern Art in early February. The new single, The Greatest, is to be released on February 19th.

The two dates in the UK are:

27th April – All Tomorrow’s Parties, Minehead (Curated by The Dirty Three)
1st May – The Forum, London

www.catpowerthegreatest.com