Baby Rock Records are to release a new CD of Ramones songs, arranged in the style of a lullaby.
The album, Rockaby Baby! Lullaby Renditions of The Ramones, will feature 12 songs, including I Wanna Be Sedated, Sheena Is A Punk Rocker and Blitzkrieg Bop.
You can preview the tracks here.
Thom Yorke recently blogged on the Radiohead site about 2 new exclusive remixes on his Eraser website:
“For anyone who has heard The Eraser, there are some remixes coming. Yes. I got excited. I’ve been listening through. I mean. There’s some freaky shit. They may start appearing soon. Gradually. Briefly. Just a taste. And then gone. On www.theeraser.net.
First there is Surgeon’s Rmx of The Clock. This was the one that made me think, we got to start getting these out. I was chuffed he wanted to do it as think he is a MASTER. He has turned it into something really hard. And disco. Well what I call disco anyhow. It made me very proud. I hope it gets played in a club somewhere. Not that I get out much nowadays. Peace to us all during the festive season.
There is a second rmx up now…this is a deranged twist of Analyse by Various Productions. I got into them after hearing Hater off their Lp The World is Gone. Love and non-commercial type xmas with not much shopping to christmas compilations.
Thom”
Detroit’s Thunderbirds Are Now, on the back of their third album Make History, will embark on a spate of UK dates early next year. The dates are:
February
14th – Brighton The Hope
15th – Birmingham Sunflower Lounge
25th – London Luminaire
Hell Is For Heroes have finished their 3rd album and have announced they’ll be releasing it in Spring 2007 which will also see a UK and European tour. The band have said that “the songs actually came together a lot smoother than our first 2 albums and we had some serious fun recording them.” The tour dates are:
February –
5th – Norwich Arts Centre
6th – Nottingham Rock City
7th – Newport TJ’s
8th – Exeter Cavern
9th – Bristol Carling Academy
10th – Leicester Charlotte
11th – Sheffield Leadmill
12th – Aberdeen Moshulu
13th – Dundee Reading Rooms
14th – Glasgow King Tuts
15th – Newcastle Global
16th – Manchester Hop & Grape
17th – Liverpool Carling Academy
19th – Stoke Sugarmill
20th – Oxford Zodiac
21st – Bournemouth Old Fire Station
22nd – Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
24th – London Islington Academy
25th – Milton Keynes Pitz
26th – Wolverhampton Little Civic
We might not be Liverpool fans here at Crossfire HQ, but we’re happy to see that the punk lifestyle has manifested itself amongst the Scousers at this festive time of year.
Stevie G – we salute you!
Credit to www.redandwhitekop.com for the pics.
Crossfire is the place to come for all the hook ups. Not content with being the hip hop writer and radio host on the hip hop show here at Crossfire, Abjekt decided to pop up in a video for the new single by Rhymesayers-signed Doomtree member P.O.S.
The track, Bleeding Hearts Club, which features Slug of Atmosphere, is taken from P.O.S’ second album Audition and you can see our very own little scamp appear as the bell-hop in a few shots alongside a whole host of Minneapolis rappers [including most of Doomtree!].
Even if you can’t see him, this video is definitely Abjekt Approved and should be viewed again and again and again.
To check the video out, click right here.
Hardcore stars Only Crime will be releasing their new album, Virulence, in late January as the follow up to their debut album To The Nines. The album will be released on Fat Wreck Chords and the tracklisting is as follows:
1: Take Me
2: Everything For You
3: Shotgun
4: Eyes of the World
5: Now’s the Time
6: In Your Eyes
7: Just Us
8: There’s a Moment
9: This is Wretched
10: Too Loose
11: Framed Then Failed
12: Xanthology
Def Jukie Aesop Rock recently updated his myspace blog to let everyone in on his upcoming album, which will be called None Shall Pass, and is due out in the first part of 2007.
The beats on the album will be produced by Blockhead [7 tracks], Aes himself [5], El-P and Rob Sonic [1 each] with DJ Big Wiz on the turntables throughout the record. Expect to hear from El-P, Cafe, Camutao, Breeze Brewin’, Rob Sonic and John Darnielle vocally in parts.
Lyrically, Aes has said that he feels like he actually wrote something because its “really visual shit” and that the tracks are all stories which represent “different time periods in one’s life”. Regardless, it’s Aesop Rock, so we’re all gonna check it out now aren’t we?
The much anticipated new Stooges album, The Weirdness, will be released in March on Virgin it has been announced. It will be the band’s first proper release in over 30 years and will contain tracks such as ATM, You Can’t Have Friends, Free And Freaky and Greedy Awful People.
Iggy Pop said “At times, [the songs have] a lot of going for the fences, but there’s a great deal of structure and attention to detail. We were very prepared, and we always have been any time we stepped into a studio.”
It is expected that the group will tour the new record in Spring next year.
Good Shoes, in preparation for their Christmas Day single release, have unleashed the video to the track, The Photos On My Wall. You can check it out by clicking on of the links below. In addition to this, the group have announced some UK tour dates, so get yourself along to one of these!
December:
27th – Pressure Point, Brighton
28th – The Peel, Kingston
29th – The Social, Nottingham
30th – Pure Groove In-store, London
Video links: