Back in the 1980’s, the genre crossover metal made it’s mark in venues and skateparks all over the planet but was engineered by bands in the USA such as Cro-Mags, DRI, Anthrax, Agnostic Front, Gang Green, Ludichrist, and many more who bridged the gap between metal and hardcore.
In 1983, Crumbsuckers from NYC formed on the Lower East Side and by 1986 they had released ‘Life of Dreams’, a record that every kid in the scene had if they knew what was going on.
20 years later, the band have reformed for European shows scheduled for February 2007, so watch this space for tour dates, it will be a blast from the past that will either be amazing or your worst nightmare, i guess it’s up to the boys to make sure they play thier debut album and leave the embarressing ‘Beast on My Back‘ in the 80’s.
More at www.myspace.com/crumbsuckers
San Francisco’s Set Your Goals have said that after they’ve finished their tour with Terror, which they’re currently on, they’ll be taking time off until they go on a full tour of the States in March and April.
Explosions In The Sky have announced they’ll be playing a one off show in London at Koko on March 1st next year.
Florida’s Poison The Well have posted an updated on their myspace regarding their upcoming album, entitled Versions, which is due out in 2007.
Kanye West has apologised for his outburst at the MTV Europe Awards in Copenhagen last week when he ranted about losing the best video award to Justice v Simian.
Charges of gun possession against G Unit have been dropped after the investigations found that they had not been in possession of weapons when they were arrested last year in New York.
Pete Doherty has been fined £750 for his assault on a BBC reporter in March. In addition, he’ll have to pay a further £450 to cover court costs and compensation.
After having sold out the Astoria in London last week, Enter Shikari are continuing their live dominance with some more dates starting at the end of the month. The dates are:
T9, the company that are responsible for the majority of the predictive text software, have set up The Infinite Monkey Project. T9 have brought in artists from around Europe to try and create a song via the Infinite Monkey theory – “Due to the nature of infinity, a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard will almost surely eventually type every book in the Bibliotheque Nationale de France” – with the public being the monkeys to create the lyrics of a song.
An announcement of the launch of Japan’s MySpace is expected this week. Reports are that it’ll be a joint venture by News Corp [who own MySpace] and ISP Softbank from Tokyo. Just to ignite the rumours that bit more, Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corp, is in Japan for a conference.