If you were watching Slayer a week back at Sonisphere festival you would remember that they ripped the place apart with a barrage of classics. This week the internet has another classic cover of the band’s seminal Angel of Death track, this time in 8-Bit. Listen to this and look forward to somebody designing a Slayer video game soon.
Not a current news story, but it’s Monday and we want to kick the week off in style.
We saw Company Flow playing a one-off show at this weekend’s ATP Festival, curated by Portishead and they showed they’d lost none of their prowess in the decade they’ve been split up.
Watch for a live review from Saturday coming very soon but in the meantime, share our excitement by watching them at their peak:
Dead Kennedys have dished out some verbals against Heineken.
The beer company used the band’s classic track Too Drunk To Fuck on an advert, which was this month taken down by an industry watchdog for promoting binge drinking and now the band have said the following about it all:
“Dead Kennedys emphatically deny that they ever gave Heineken permission to use the song. The band’s attorneys have contacted Heineken to address the un-authorized use. Dead Kennedys have never authorized any company to use this song or any of the band’s songs to promote a consumer product (let alone the consumption of alcohol) in this or any advertisement.”
And here they are in Finland:
Producer and rapper Black Milk has announced that he will be working with Danny Brown on a collaborative project.
Milk, whose group Random Axe released their album this year, had worked with Danny Brown on his [Milk’s] solo album Album of the Year and they decided to make an entire album together. Speaking on the collaboration, he said:
“There’s probably going to six or seven cuts on there, just trying to keep momentum going…[‘Black and Brown’] was one of people’s favorite joints from [Album of The Year], so I was just thinking lets throw out a couple joints in an EP. Plus, we have a video coming out for ‘Black and Brown’ too.”
If you needed reminding how dope Danny Brown is too, just watch the video below.
Thrice have announced the tracklisting for their seventh studio album, Major/Minor.
The album, which follows up Beggars from 2009, is released on September 19th and the tracklisting is below. You can also check out the track Yellow Belly on the SoundCloud.
‘Yellow Belly’
‘Promises’
‘Blinded’
‘Cataracts’
‘Call It In The Air’
‘Treading Paper’
‘Blur’
‘Words In The Water’
‘Listen Through Me’
‘Anthology’
‘Disarmed’
Sebadoh have announced some new UK dates later this year.
The band whose Bakesale album has been remastered and reissued [out now], will hit these shores in August:
Mon 22nd – London Electric Ballroom
Tues 23rd – Manchester Academy
Wed 24th – Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire
OFF! will be hitting the UK as part of their European tour in August.
As well as playing dates with Trash Talk and Fucked Up, the band which features Keith Morris (Black Flag/Circle Jerks), Dimitri Coats (Burning Brides), Steven McDonald (Redd Kross) and Mario Rubalcaba (Earthless/Hot Snakes/Rocket From the Crypt) will be hitting Hevy Festival and Reading and Leeds.
Here are the full dates and below is a live video of Full Of Shit to get you in the mood.
Aug 4 Rebellion Festival Blackpool
Aug 5 Thekla (w/Trash Talk) Bristol
Aug 6 Hevy Music Festival Kent
Aug 7 Wedgewood Rooms (w/Trash Talk) Portsmouth
Aug 25 XOYO (w/Fucked Up) London, England,
Aug 26 Leeds Festival
Aug 28 Reading Festival
Soulwax have announced details of their fifth annual Soulwaxmas.
This year’s event will take place on December 16th at the Brixton Academy from 9pm to 3am and tickets will cost £26.50, on sale from Friday 22nd July here.
In addition, their Radio Soulwax app has been a huge success, with over one million streams online. Forthcoming on the app are Hardcore or Die, This Is Belgium Part 2. and the brilliantly titled Axe Attack, where users have to try and guess the artist behind the riff before it’s revealed.
Big Boi has announced he is well underway working on his new solo album.
The Outkast man, who released Sir Lucious Left Foot… last year to much acclaim is 17 songs into the follow-up, which he describes as “S-A-X-X-X triple unadulterated funk to the extremest level”. Sounds awesome. He also said:
“I’m seventeen songs into it now, everything is sounding phenomenal. I could put it out tomorrow if I wanted to, but I’mma marinate on it, because I’m on the road. I feel good about it, all the music’s sounding great… I’m just really stayin busy out here killin it”.
We’re massive fans here at Crossfire, so we cannot wait for this new on. Whilst we wait, let’s remind ourselves why he’s so awesome:
Black Lips have unveiled their new video and it’s a winner.
The video is for New Direction, taken from their latest album Arabia Mountain and shows the band flying through the air with the greatest of ease. You want snow-capped mountains? You got it. You want lush green valleys? You got that too.Throw in some mid-air tricks, a starry desert night and a cuddly toy Monkey and you’ve got one of the most fun videos we’ve seen in ages.
Get on it!
Scion A/V Presents: Black Lips – New Direction from Scion A/V on Vimeo.