Supergroup XO Skeletons, who feature members of Hatebreed, American Nightmare and Some Girls, have put up some new material on their myspace site.
To check it out click here and party hard. Look out for a guest spot by Def Jux rapper Cage, a track which you can sample on the myspace too.
Incubus have announced the tracklist for their new album, which will be called Light Grenades. The album is slated for a late November release and will see Anna Molly as the lead single from it. The tracklist is:
01 – “Quicksand”
02 – “A Kiss To Send Us Off”
03 – “Dig”
04 – “Anna Molly”
05 – “Love Hurts”
06 – “Light Grenades”
07 – “Earth To Bella Part 1”
08 – “Oil And Water”
09 – “Diamonds And Coal”
10 – “Rogues”
11 – “Paper Shoes”
12 – “Pendulous Threads”
13 – “Earth To Bella Part 2”
Slayer have put up some new live videos of their performance in Vancouver, which took place on July 13th.
If you think you can handle that much thrashing verocity, then head on over to www.slayer.net and check them out.
Planes Mistaken For Stars have put up a new track, entitled Little Death, online.
The track is due to be on the new album Mercy, which will be hitting the shops in early October. To check out Little Death, click here.
Afrika Bambaataa has officially dubbed rapper the1shanti as India Bambaataa.
Afrika Bambaataa said:
“You have our blessings (Afrika Bambaataa and The Universal Zulu Nation) as long as you use your name in the good of your people and the good of yourself.”
The rapper was one of the first rappers out of New York of Indian descent to bring hip hop to India and claims Afrika Bambaataa has a huge influence on his career and actions. the1shanti’s album, which will be also called India Bambaataa, is due for release in late autumn.
We are thinking of expanding our writing team this month and are looking for people oozing creativity to join us here at Crossfire.
Over the last 3 years, 2 of our writers are now fulfilling their dreams of writing for skate and music magazines using us as a springboard. Since then, the site has become a lot larger and we are sent more and more stuff to review.
We are looking for 5 new people to be involved (especially fans of indie, punk and metal) to take part in the following:
– Album and single reviews
– Live reviews
– Band Interviews
– Book reviews
– Film reviews
– Video game reviews
If you have been looking for an outlet for your words, then don’t hesitate to contact sam@caughtinthecrossfire.com today.
He will ask you to send in a couple of examples of your writing skills and get back to you. Spread the word…
To My Boy, who recently supported Tapes N Tapes on their UK tour, will be playing some headline shows in September. They will also be gearing up for the release of their forthcoming debut single, the double A-side I Am X-Ray/Outerregions. The tour dates are:
September:
6th – Birmingham Sunflower Lounge
7th – Hull The Lamp (Transmission)
8th – Brighton Sumo (She Likes Parties)
9th – Southampton Lennons (Long Live Rock & Roll)
11th – Coventry Colleseum
14th – Manchester Jabez Clegg
15th – Northumbria University
16th – Glasgow Barfly
17th – Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire
Seattle’s Blue Scholars have posted a blog on their myspace saying that work on their new LP is underway. Rapper Geologic stated:
“Folks returning from the third world, folks leaving for school, folks gettin laid off, folks looking for work. Summer is dying a slow death in Seattle. Perfect for a series of late night sessions in the lab concocting what will eventually become the 2ND BLUE SCHOLARS LP. If the first LP was on some summer vibe and the Long March EP invoked autumn, then this next one is – you guessed it – wintertime. Saba’s coming into his own with these melancholy hopeful beats and I’m just trying to stay focused.”
Look out for a Blue Scholars track on the next Hip Hop Radio Show here on Crossfire…
Awesome street-artist and all round genius Banksy has struck again. This time he’s been fucking with Paris Hilton’s new album.
The social kitten’s album have been tampered with and left in indy record shops and even branches of Virgin and HMV. It was confirmed by a spokeswoman for Banksy that he’d swapped Hilton’s CD for one of his own, featuring titles like “What Have I Done?”, “What Am I For?” and “Why Am I Famous?”.
He also tampered with the sleeves, making Paris naked and having a dog’s head. However, he left the bar code on the 500 doctored albums so that customers wouldn’t realise something was wrong. So far, HMV have said no-one who bought the changed CD has complained and Virgin have said that they tip their hat to him – we wonder what they would have said if we had gone in and tagged them up and drawn a poo-stache on her slapable, useless face?!
Keep it up Banksy…you can find his stuff at www.banksy.co.uk
Billy Talent have invited the awesome Reuben to be the support on their European tour, which will include a number of UK dates. If you want to check out this great line up, then get yourself to one of the following shows:
September:
7th – Southampton Guildhall
8th – London Hammersmith Palais
9th – Bristol Academy
13th – Wolves Wulfrun Hall
14th – Dublin TBMC
15th – Glasgow ABC
16th – Manchester Academy