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Crossfire confirmed to curate at Camden Crawl 2012!

We are very proud to announce today that CROSSFIRE have been invited back to the Camden Crawl in 2012! This will be our third year of being involved as one of the curators of the festival, so we are stoked that in May, we will be rolling out a superb line up of new bands once again to grace this get together.

Over the last 2 years we hosted The Barfly Club, so you never know, we could end up with a different venue this year and at this stage of the organisation and right now, we have no idea what bands will be on the bill. Planning will begin behind the scenes and In the next 2 months we will subject a list of over 100 new bands to the Crawl comittee, so if you have any recommendations for our line up this year, please get in touch.

The Crawl will take place on the 4th-6th May on Bank Holiday weekend in Camden, London, NW1. Earlybird tickets are on sale now at the cheapest price for those who are smart. See you there.

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Hawk Eyes November tour, ep and free download

Hawk Eyes have announced a tour, new EP and free download today. The band formerly known as Chicken Hawk who smashed our Halloween Massacre back in 2009 will be on tour in november playing some of the tracks that have been recorded for their new album scheduled for 2012. The tour that kicks off next week is with Turbowolf and James Cleaver Quintet so get your shit together and get a ticket as this line up looks a bit tasty.

Claim your free download of their Witch Hunt demo below and look out for a new EP released via Brew Records in December.

Tue 08 Nov 2011 Bristol Croft
Wed 09 Nov 2011 Cardiff Ifor Bach
Thu 10 Nov 2011 Colchester Arts Centre Tickets
Fri 11 Nov 2011 UK Southend Chinneys
Sat 12 Nov 2011 Nottingham Basement
Mon 14 Nov 2011 Birmingham Vudu
Tue 15 Nov 2011 Leeds Cockpit
Wed 16 Nov 2011 Glasgow King Tuts Wah Wah Hut
Thu 17 Nov 2011 Manchester Alter Ego
Fri 18 Nov 2011 UK Sheffield Corporation
Sat 19 Nov 2011 Aldershot Westend Centre
Sun 20 Nov 2011 Southampton Joiners
Tue 22 Nov 2011 London Upstairs at the Garage

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Crowns and Pheobe Winter join the Massacre line up!

The Crossfire Halloween Massacre is about to kick London’s arse on Friday night.

We are proud to tell you today that the bill has been expanded today with 2 new additions to the line up. Crowns will now be playing live in support to Cerebral Ballzy at 10.30pm. This new 4-piece band from Cornwall have a swagger in their step that could only fit a room full of drunken pirates. So get your pints at the ready as Crowns will be playing a 30 minute punk rock set in the Vans room as guests on the night and we cannot wait to see them play again.

Also added to the line up this week is Pheobe Winter from Planet Rock. Pheobe hosts the Metal Hammer show on Planet Rock radio will be tag teaming Talita Twoshoes in the Vans room and slamming in the rock and metal on the night. Get the last of the advance £10 tickets today as they are almost gone. There will be 100 on the door available for £15 from 9pm.

Get a free download from Crowns here today on us!

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Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks hit the UK

Stephen Malkmus takes his band The Jicks on tour in the UK in November.

The band will play the dates below. Tickets are available at The Arches for Glasgow and See Tickets for the remaining dates.

10th – Manchester, Ritz
11th – Glasgow, The Arches
12th – Leeds, Constellations Festival
14th – London, KOKO

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Pretty Lights vs Led Zeppelin

If Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd were hanging out with Pendulum and Noisia this month, you can bet your bottom dollar that they would be having as much fun as Denver, Colorado based producer Derek Vincent Smith is having right now.

His renditions of classic tracks produced alongside a sea of deep dubstep and electro beats are works of sonic art and are attracting a huge amount of people to his shows.

Pretty Lights should definitely be in your radar this month, watch this.

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Random Axe hit London

Following the release of their critically acclaimed debut earlier this year, hip hop supergroup Random Axe will play their first UK show tonight at London’s Scala. Random Axe consists of drum loving Detroit super producer Black Milk, Stones Throw’s Guilty Simpson and Brooklyn street rapper Sean Price.

The group’s self titled album is available now, entirely produced by Black Milk, and featuring guests Danny Brown, Roc Marciano and Melanie Rutherford.

As if that wasn’t a strong enough line-up, support this evening will come from Jehst, who himself has released one of Crossfire’s favourite albums of the year with ‘Dragon of an Ordinary Family’.

Tickets for the event are still available from Ticketweb, so no excuses for missing this one.

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Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks release Senator video

Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks have released a new video for their controversial single Senator this week.

Stephen Malkmus is the singer/songwriter from epic band Pavement and this track is lifted from his new album Mirror Traffic, a contender for one of the albums of the year here. Get stuck into this.

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Crowns debut single details

Crowns will drop their debut single Kissing Gates on November 14th through Ship Wreckords.

The UK group will also be heading out on tour as support for the King Blues throughout the start of November, the dates for which are below. Also below is a video of the band having some fun around the beach and beyond to the tune of the single.

2nd November – Roundhouse – London
3rd November – O2 Academy 2 – Birmingham
4th November – Academy 2 – Manchester
5th November – The Arches – Glasgow
7th November – Waterfront – Norwich
8th November – Lemon Grove – Exeter

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Ian Mackaye from Fugazi Kicks Out Against The Pricks

Ian Mackaye has ben very active of late with Fugazi. No gigs have been announced though, or even talk of a brand new record, but we hear on the vine of grapes that a Mojo journalist has visited Dischord House in the last 5 weeks for a future feature in the mag, a new book on hardcore is in the works from the same journo and today, music website Kicking Against The Pricks have unleashed a small interview feature with recent words from the Minor Threat singer.

In Sean Caldwell’s own words: “Our discussion centered on independent music and its progress as the scene, technology and means with which information can be distributed have changed.” Click here to read the feature.

Ph: Pat Grahm

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Son of Dave free download and UK tour

Son of Dave kicks off his UK tour this week and has announced a free download to celebrate it.

The track, Ain’t Nothin’ But The Blues, is released as a single on October 30th as a download and 7″ vinyl and was originally recoreded by Steven Albini. Get the free download below along with the tour dates:

13/10 Kendal – Brewery Arts
14/10 Manchester – Band on the Wall
20/10 London – Hoxton Bar & Kitchen
22/10 Brighton – The Haunt
27/10 Liverpool – The Masque
28/10 Selby – Selby Town Hall
04/11 Bristol – The Fleece
05/11 Torquay – Blues Festival