Category: Music News

Fucked Up have announced the dates for their European Tour. You can check them out at the following UK dates:

December:

27th – London, Old Blue Last
28th – Manchester, Star and Garter
29th – Leeds, The Fenton
30th – Sheffield, DnR Bar
31st – London, The Luminaire

In other Fucked Up news, their “mixtape volume 2” is available at the Deranged Records online store. It’s around an hour long and features unreleased songs, alternate vocal tracks, live versions, cover songs and live interviews. It’s a cassette-only release and features exclusive tracks from the likes of Brutal Knights, Mind Eraser and Cold World.

www.derangedrecords.com

Friction Records has announced it will be putting out a vinyl pressing of Right Now You’re In The Best Of Hands, the debut record from Bear vs Shark, in January next year.

The vinyl release will feature two unreleased tracks, recording during the album sessions – June 7th and California Hot Seat. The band have now broken up so it is sure to be snapped up quickly.

www.frictiongoods.com

MF Doom has always been one of the most prolific rappers out there in terms of sheer numbers of releases and 2007 looks set to continue that trend. To start with, his classic Operation: Doomsday record will be re-issued by Rhymesayers, as it had been forced out-of-print due to remoured sample clearance. The new edition is thought to be in a deluxe digipack with additional tracks and a DVD featuring both live footage and videos. A re-issue for the also-pulled MM…Food is being planned too.

Madvillain 2, the highly anticipated follow up to the hugely popular Madvillainy [Doom and Madlib] was due out in 2007 but this is on the back burner now as it is thought that the two men haven’t had any serious recording time together. But there is a new track on the Stone’s Throw Chrome Children LP, so pimp that for now but an album that is expected to be out next year is the Ghostface/Doom collabo, which apparently is top of the priority list for the Wu member.

Finally, Kid Robot, who have done plastic renditions of Biggie and Gorillaz, are going to put out an 8.5″ figure of Madvillain, on a limited run. Expect this to go like hotcakes [or should that be Hoe Cakes?].

www.myspace.com/mfdoom

Super DJ/producer Mark Ronson has posted his “Best of 2006” mix on his myspace blog. It features the likes of Ghostface, Nas, The Roots throw in with Dirty Pretty Things, The Go Team and Beck – not one to be missed!

Make sure you stay on the lookout for his new album next year, and you can check out the single taken from it – Toxic feat. Tiggers and ODB [10″ only on January 31st] – on the Buzz Chart. It’s a banger!

For the 2006 mix, click here.

Rap producer Diamond D has said that Diggin’ In The Crates are planning to put out a new album.

The group, which features Diamond D, Showbiz, AG, OC, Lord Finesse, Buckwild and Fat Joe [not to mention the late, great Big L], haven’t got a title for the record yet, but the producer said they were definitely getting back together.

www.myspace.com/therealdiamondd

Not only are Gallows starting off the New Year as support for the Bullet For My Valentine tour, they have also bagged themselves a support slot on the As I Lay Dying dates too!

On top of the tour, the band’s pre-album demo will be released on coloured vinyl in February with a limited pressing of 500 copies, with the tracks Just Because You Sleep Next To Me It Doesn’t Mean You’re Safe, Will Someone Shoot That Fucking Snake, Abandon Ship and Swarm Over Death. In other news, they will also be releasing a split 7″ with November Coming Fire, with 500 copies being pressed.

Their tour dates are:

January 2007:

3rd – Newcastle Academy (with Bullet For My Valentine + As I Lay Dying)
4th – Manchester Apollo (with Bullet For My Valentine + As I Lay Dying)
5th – Birmingham Academy (with Bullet For My Valentine + As I Lay Dying)
6th – Colchester Arts Centre (with As I Lay Dying)
7th – Cardiff University (with Bullet For My Valentine + As I Lay Dying)
8th – Hammersmith Apollo (with Bullet For My Valentine + As I Lay Dying)
10th – Oxford Zodiac (with As I Lay Dying)
11th – Sheffield Corporation (with As I Lay Dying)
21st – Kingston Peel (with The Legacy)
22nd – Wolverhampton Little Civic
23rd – Leeds Cockpit (with The Plight)

www.myspace.com/burnthegallows

The Camden Crawl has been confirmed for 2007 and it promises to be even bigger and ever better than this year’s. A new 2 day format will be included, taking place on the 19th and 20th of April.

The 2007 Crawl will see 15 of Camden’s venues brought together for over 80 bands and DJs to play out 32 hours of music!

The even will start at Noon on each day and will see impromptu shows, fan forums and acoustic sessions, before heading into the evening’s new music showcases and surprise guests. You can buy both two and one day tickets on www.gigsandtours.com for £37.50

www.thecamdencrawl.com

Soil will be supporting their last release, True Self, with a number of UK tour dates alongside Godhead, Brand New Sin and Lennon. The dates are:

January 2007:

10th – Bristol, Bierkeller
11th – Exeter, Lemon Grove
12th – Bradford, Rio’s
13th – Milton Keynes, Pitz
14th – Norwich, Waterfront
16th – Glasgow, Cathouse
17th – Belfast, Spring & Airbrake
18th – Dublin, Voodoo Lounge
19th – Liverpool, Academy II
20th – Wolverhampton, Civic Hall
22nd – Nottingham, Rock City
23rd – Manchester Academy II
24th – London Mean Fiddler
25th -Sheffield Corporation
26th – Brighton Concorde 2

www.soil-music.com

Dead Moon have announced they are to split after almost 20 years together. Fred Cole, guitarist and vocalist with the group, confirmed the split after they’d suddenly cancelled some shows:

“After 20 yrs, Dead Moon is retiring. It has been a journey we will always treasure and feel that a worldwide family has emerged in its place. Dead Moon became much bigger than the band itself, it became a DYI underground hopeful for a lot of people. The candle is still burning!”

www.subpop.com

Atlanta hip hop kings Mars Ill are putting a new record out with brand new material and a previously unreleased track from 1999, entitled Old Ironsides. On their myspace blog, the group said:

“I guess after you have had a record pushed back (propain) a 100 times and dealt with all the “when’s it coming out? Blah, blah” nonsense it is extremely joyous and therapudic when you can literally drop an entire record in your fans lap and say “enjoy”. So here you are, enjoy.”

Make sure you pick this up, it’ll be the best way to see in 2007. You can check a track from it on their myspace here.

www.marsill.com