It was only 2 weeks ago that Mastodon’s singer Brent Hinds featured in a hilarious restaurant advert and now, the internet has exploded in delight at the release of their new and Fragglerock-breaking video for Deathbound that is a must see!
Click for instant happiness, and death!
So, this is the moment at Glastonbury Festival last night where Lauren Laverne gets rightfully trumped by Zane Lowe after talking crap about Beyonce and Kool and the Gang without even letting him speak about his favourite band QOTSA (who absolutely killed it btw).
Well done Zane Lowe, we would have done the same.
Touché Amoré have recorded their entire record release show set at Backside Records in California and have put the video up on YouTube.
The release show was for the band’s album Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me which was released earlier this year on Deathwish Records.
Well worth 29 minutes of your time.
Wolves Like Us have put a video up online for the track Deathless.
The track is taking from the Oslo band’s new album Late Love, which is out now on Prosthetic Records and has had a good few plays in the Crossfire office.
Get involved.
Fucked Up have released their first ever music video.
Taken from their recently released album David Comes To Life, Queen of Hearts was shot in a remote schoolhouse in Canada. You can check out the full HD version by clicking here with the YouTube version below.
Meanwhile, Fucked Up have announced some August UK dates, including festival slots. Here they are:
Wednesday – 24 – UK, Portsmouth – Wedgewood Rooms
Thursday – 25 – UK – London, XOYO w/ OFF
Friday – 26 – UK – Leeds, Leeds Festival – NME Stage
Sunday – 28 – UK, Reading – Reading Festival – NME Stage
Celebrated photographer Paul Harries is opening his Slipknot exhibition gallery on July 12th.
Sponsored by Kerrang! and Relentless Energy Drink, the gallery features work by Harries at the Strand Gallery in Central London. Harries has travelled the globe with the masked metallers from their Iowan roots to Australia and back and with over sixty photographs on display, including some that have never been seen before, it is a great opportunity for fans to see their heroes in a new environment.
The exhibition is completely free and runs from July 12th to July 24th at the gallery which can be found at 32 John Adam Street, London, WC2N 6BP and is open from 11am – 7pm Monday to Saturday and 11am – 6pm on Sundays. On the 16th, from 3pm til 7pm, Paul will be in attendance and will be answering questions and discussing his work.
Paul’s work is second to none so we know this exhibition is going to be first class, make sure you get down and see it!
Nirvana’s 20th Anniversary of Nevermind will be celebrated on September 19th with the release of a Super Deluxe Edition box set from Universal. The 4-CD/1-DVD package will include previously unreleased tracks, rarities, b-sides, BBC radio appearances, alternative mixes, rare live recordings and an unreleased concert in its entirety on DVD.
Even though this was Nirvana’s most pop moment, Nevermind put a swift end to cock rock and blew the faggots out of the rock music zine almost overnight. Bands left, right and centre were running around cutting their hair, buying lumberjack-off shirts and cutting holes in their jeans whilst pretending to know who The Melvins were when this was being played on every radio station around the world.
The only negative from this news today is that I have just remembered how old I am. Press play on this for some good, old fashioned memories and get hyped on Nirvana’s most punk moment from Nevermind with Territorial Pissings.
Courtney Love is Caught in the Crossfire this week as she appears on video singing at a private function in Venice, Italy. She is filmed singing a Rolling Stones cover after being introduced by some fat twat who doesn’t even know who she is!
The footage was recorded with The Orchestra del Teatro Olimpicoat a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years called the Venice Biennial. Beware, this is one of the saddest videos you will ever see for so many reasons if you are Hole fan.
Malice has announced a new mixtape will be dropping.
The rapper, one half of Virginia’s Clipse along with his brother Pusha T, will release a solo mixtape called Hear Ye Him soon. Speaking of the release he said:
“I do street hip-hop, and I think my mixtape is just going to be one of the hardest that you’ve heard. It’s still Malice, it’s still that lyric-driven, thought-provoking, food for thought style that I’ve been doing over the years…I’m just going all the way in now with it.”
Check out an interview he did with Karmaloop below:
A competition is running for all Fucked Up fans.
To celebrate the release of their third album, David Comes To Life, Matador Records are running a competition to win some rare goodies “compiled with love by the band”.
In keeping with this, the band are asking people to create something inspired by love, be it through writing, drawing or other ingenius mediums. Five ‘character’ designs have been distributed across a number of independent record stores and if you find a postcard, you should put your creation on the left and post it to the address below.
The band will judge all entries and the winner will get a signed, framed poster plus a goodie bag full to bursting. So, here are the record stores and the address to send your entries to. Get going!
DAVID COMES TO LIFE
MATADOR RECORDS
17-19 ALMA ROAD
LONDON, SW18 1AA
Remember to add your email address and your chosen record store, otherwise we can’t get your prizes to you. The participating stores:
ACTION RECORDS – PRESTON
AMULET – (MAILORDER)
AVALANCHE – EDINBURGH
BANQUET – KINGSTON
BOOMKAT – (MAILORDER)
CRASH – LEEDS
DRIFT – TOTNES
HEAD – BIRMINGHAM
JUMBO – LEEDS
MONORAIL – GLASGOW
NORMAN RECORDS – (MAILORDER)
ONE UP – ABERDEEN
PICCADILLY RECORDS – MANCHESTER
RESIDENT – BRIGHTON
RISE – BRISTOL
ROUGH TRADE EAST – LONDON
ROUGH TRADE WEST – LONDON
ROUNDER – BRIGHTON
SISTER RAY – LONDON
SPILLERS – CARDIFF