Legendary DJ Jazzy Jeff has released the third part of the mix CD series Hip Hop Forever.
He has followed the trend he started with his previous volume by fusing classic tracks with rare jams and new favourites, and he has included the likes of Biz Markie, The Pharcyde, J-Live and the late, great, J Dilla.
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The Bronx’s new single, White Guilt, is to be released on November 6th on CD and 7″, and will feature the new track Rockers NYC.
The band are currently finishing up a UK tour, playing the Islington Academy on November 1st. You can check out the video to the White Guilt single by clicking the links below:
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Black Sabbath, minus singer Ozzy Osbourne, have joined up with sometime vocalist Ronnie James Dio for a 2007 tour, but will be playing as Heaven And Hell, and not Black Sabbath.
However, it isn’t because the band have argued with Ozzy [as happened before when Dio filled in], as Ozzy has said through a representative that there will be a Sabbath tour and album coming late next year.
Pavement’s release Wowee Zowee is currently getting a load of airplay at Crossfire HQ and what better way to share this with you than with some links? You can click below to check out Father To A Sister Of Thought and Rattled By The Rush.
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A mate of the Crossfire crew has just buzzed us in with some lovely star spotting news. Global phenoms and cheerful chaps Dangermouse and Cee-Lo, otherwise known as the mighty Gnarls Barkley, have just had their passport photos snapped by our friend.
Did she try and smuggle a picture of herself with them into the passports? Did she get them to pull stupid faces? Who knows, but one thing is for sure, Crossfire is the hook up for globetrotting music associations! Say Cheese!
Paul McPike, a man from Oregon, has claimed that a song he wrote has been stolen by Green Day.
McPike filed a lawsuit against the band, after claiming he had written the American Idiot album in college. He went on to state that a friend of his “leaked” the tracks to Green Day who used them to make their album.
However, the judge ruled that McPike didn’t have enough evidence and threw the case out.
Sonic Youth are going to release a new compilation album of B sides and old tracks in December.
The album, called The Destroyed Room: B-Sides And Rarities, comes as bass player Kim Gordon says the band are likely to leave Geffen after the new record comes out. She said:
“I don’t really think they want us to stay. They fired a few key people working on [‘Rather Ripped’] a week before it came out, [including] our A&R person – he worked on our last record with us, and that was the first time we had an A&R person in five years, but we liked him. Also a marketing person who had really good ideas. So, I don’t know.”
Pete Townshend, the guitarist with The Who, stormed out of a radio interview with US shock-jock Howerd Stern after the co-host, Robin Quivers, mentioned the guitarist’s run in with the police after he had accessed a child pornography website.
He was due to do the interview with bandmate Roger Daltrey but heard the link to the show when Quivers and Stern discussed asking him about it and left. Daltrey finished the interview, backing up his friend saying the show was “sniffing dirty underpants”, and followed with
“Can you imagine you’re accused of this stuff and then you’re found not guilty? If you had to defend yourself through this stuff? The wounds are so deep on the man, and it’s just tragic because he’s got so much to offer”.
The band are about to release Endless Wire, their first new album in 24 years.
Blur and Gorillaz master musician Damon Albarn’s new band, who though officially unnamed, are being referred to by the name of the album – The Good, The Bad And The Queen – played their first major show this week for Radio 1’s Electric Proms.
The band, which features Albarn alongside Simon Tong [The Verve and Blur’s touring guitarist], Paul Simonon [The Clash] and Tony Allen [Fela Kuti’s drummer], played the Roundhouse in Camden, debuting their album from start to finish, dedicating one song to the legendary John Peel.
The album is due out in 2007.
Coventry debutants The Enemy are releasing their first single, 40 Days And 40 Nights on November 6th on limited 7″. If you want to check out the video, then click on the links below.