Morrissey’s video for his single The Youngest Was The Most Loved is ready to be viewed by all you fans out there, in the lead up to the release of the single, which is due out on June 5th. To view the video in flash form, then click here and to view it as a wmv, click here.
He’s off finishing his 30-date tour and will play the last two gigs this coming weekend.
27th – King’s Lynn Corn Exchange
28th – London Palladium
You heard us, the Imperial Vipers have been chosen as the support to Hanoi Rocks on their upcoming June tour as well as playing some of their own shows.
June [with Hanoi Rocks]:
1st – Norwich Waterfront
2nd – Huddersfield Picture Dome
3rd – Newcastle Legends
4th – Whitehaven Civic Hall
30th – Cleethorpes Winter Gardens
Headline shows:
5th – Wolverhampton Robin 2
6th – Islington Bar Academy
8th – Cheltenham 2 Pigs
10th – Luton Uni
25th – Bournemouth Live
Check out www.imperialvipers.com for all the news.
This year’s Uxfest, which takes place at the Islington Academy on August 6th, will be headlined by Skindred. The event, which will raise money for Youth Music, The Natandy Fund and Yeldall, will feature the following bands:
Skindred, Bring me the horizon, Engel, Mumrah, No Warning Shot, Sylosis, Forever Never, Outcryfire, PDHM, Architects, B movie heroes Profane, Shellshock, Fireapple Red, Eths, Head-on, Biomechanical, Murder One, Kingsize blues, Inner Rage…
And one “secret” band which promises to be a blast!
Check out www.uxfest.org for more.
Rapper Ice Cube has spoken out against the American administration recently, claiming he sees no difference between the way America is run and how Iraq was run when Saddam was in charge. His upcoming album, Laugh Now, Cry Later includes a track about American law enforcement and Bush, called Why We Thugs.
He went on to say that he knows people who have been tortured in jail and people who have been pulled out of their house in the middle of the night, but “we just call them LAPD. We call ’em sheriffs. Saddam wasn’t out there doing it with his own hands. He had his people. His people worked for the federal government. Same tactics. There’s nothing happening in Iraq that ain’t happening here on this soil, so, to me, it’s the same shit.”
On a music related note, we were invited over to Virgin records to hear the new Ice Cube album this week and it is the shit, so look out for more when we know or go to www.icecubemusic.com for all the shnizzle.
Crossfire has joined forces with Heroin Skateboards graphics punk, French and the result is some stunning t-shirts with demonic logos!
The Heavy Shit T-shirts will be given out at the Snickers Bowl at the Download Festival, with additional ltd 100 being made available in our new store that is incoming.
More about that soon.
We could sit here and type out the details of the upcoming Youth Of Britain gig but then where would be the fun in that, especially since we have a lovely video with the details for you lot to see:
But just in case you wanted to see the details written down, we’ll give you them too:
Youth of Britain
Loaded at The Brass Monkey,
18 Havelock Road, Hastings
Friday 26th of May
Folk/Punk Ska group The King Blues have been confirmed as the support for the outrageously brilliant Gogol Bordello for the upcoming tour in July. Eugene Hutz, the gypsy punk frontman, chose The King Blues and will also have support from Babar Luck. The King Blues’ debut album, Under The Fog, is due out on June 5th. The dates are:
Gogol Bordello – July
3rd – Nottingham Rock City
4th – Manchester Academy 2
6th – London Koko
Solo shows in May:
26th – London Russell Sq, The Square Social Centre (benefit for Sri Lankan Tsunami support groups)
28th – London Lewisham, The Dirty South
Shows with Babar Luck in June:
3rd – Warsop, Notts The Blackmarket
3rd – Bradford 1 in 12 Club
4th – London Camden, Dublin Castle
10th – London Russell Sq, The Square Social Centre (benefit show)
15th – The West Riding, Yorkshire
17th – Aberdeen, The Moorings
23rd – Bristol, The Junction
24th – Leicester The Attik
And a show with Ghost Mice is on 12th June – Newport, Le Pub.
Lightheaded member Braille‘s new label Hip Hop IS Music, has announced some upcoming releases for the label which will mean an exciting end to 2006.
Japan will get a new Braille solo album called Box Of Rhymes which will feature songs that won’t appear on the rest-of-world version.
Surreal and DJ Balance’s debut for the label, Future Classic, is being readied for a release this year, which will be an exciting record to hear.
Deepspace5 crew member Sivion is finishing up his solo debut, Spring Of The Songbird. Sivion will have production from Lightheaded’s Ohmega Watts and will include guest spots from Othello, Theory Hazit, Freddy Bruno and Braille himself.
Check out www.hiphopismusic.com [which is still being built] or www.braillehiphop.com
Talib Kweli, who has just come back from his performance with The Roots at Radio City Music Hall, has put a track up on his myspace from his forthcoming album Eardrum.
The album will be released on Talib’s own label, Blacksmith Music, and is pencilled in for a release late this summer. The track, Listen, is produced by Kwame and can be heard by clicking here.
