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Original Beach Boys album Smile to finally be released

beach-boys_smileBeach Boys fans will be stoked to know that the original version of Smile will finally be released this summer. This majority of the tracks on this record have been released on other albums, most notably the Smiley Smile album that was re-recorded in 1967 and and their 1993 boxset, Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys that was available in 1993 and Brian Wilson‘s 2004 version where he tackled re-recording the record alone.

Earmarked as the record to follow the popular Pet Sounds, Smile was left on the curtting room floor due to a dispute between the band and label Capital Records and has been in big demand from fans since.

Look out for it when the sun comes up this year as it could well be your sound of the summer.

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No Age: The making of Fever Dreaming video

subpopSub Pop have released the making of the awesome No Age video for the Fever Dreaming single. Watch it below.

The band will be joining the Foo Fighters, Cee Lo Green and Band of Horses at Wembley for the NME Awards, find them at http://www.myspace.com/nonoage

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Yelawolf won’t exploit skateboarding

Yelawolf has spoken about his love of skateboarding but has assured both fans and skaters alike that he won’t be exploiting it.

Whilst he has never shied away from being a skater nor ever held himself back from professing his love for a good schralp, he recently said in an interview that he didn’t want to make tracks specifically about skating, as Lupe Fiasco and Pharrell have done in the past. He explained:

“It’s something I do, it’s something that I love doing, but it’s nothing that I’d ever want to exploit. I think skateboarders respect that, and I think that’s why I’ve been embraced within that culture, because I don’t want to write records about skateboarding. I don’t think it’s necessary, I don’t think it’s cool.”

You can see him on a board in the video below, for the remix of I Wish, which also sees him wearing arguably the best sweatshirt of all time.

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Watch: New video from TiRon

When it’s still grey and cloudy outside, all you really need is an injection of sunshine and this new track from TiRon and Ayomari is just that.

If you’re into it, you can grab his two free mixtapes, both with excellent condiment related titles here: Ketchup and MSTRD.

Now whilst they’re downloading, get your shades on, kick back and chill…

TiRon & Ayomari – What You Waiting On from The Cafeteria Line on Vimeo.

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Kno gets cease and desist order

Hip Hop producer Kno has been delivered a cease and desist order.

The beatmaker for rap group Cunninlynguists used uncleared samples on their A Piece Of Strange album from 2006 and was recently reprimanded as a result. However, he has said that he will keep on making beats and he was aware of what he was doing, in an interview with AboveGround:

“The music I make infringes on copyrights. I am aware of this and have been aware of this, that is why I don’t stress getting rich off of it, I tell people to download it if they want to and I sink any money I do make back into making more records…even if I were to give it away for free., it would still end up on YouTube and I’d still get served by Google-searching lawyers and publishing houses who think they might be able to squeeze money out of me.”

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Bloodied But Unbowed: A Canadian punk documentary

The Canadian punk rock scene and music scene in general has always been intriguing as it has produced some gems over the years that add something different to our ears. A documentary called Bloodied But Unbowed has been premiering over the last year stuffed with the good times and the bad from the late-’70s birth of the Vancouver punk-rock scene. The film features bands such as DOA, Subhumans, Rabid, U-J3RK5, Active Dog and many more with chit chat from luminaries such as Henry Rollins and Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan appearing to reminisce their experiences of the Canadian scene too.

Watch the trailers and clips on this site and fingers crossed this will get screened in UK at some point soon.

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Darkest Hour post new track

We checked out Darkest Hour at the Garage the other night and it was shred-tastic.

The band have a new album out shortly and have posted a track from it called Your Everyday Disaster online at ArtistDirect.com. So head over there for your riff-fix.

The new album is titled The Human Romance and it will be released in Europe on March 7th through Century Media Records.

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Protest The Hero announce new album

Canadian band Protest The Hero will be releasing their third album Scurrilous on March 21st via Spinefarm Records. The album will be 10 tracks long and serves as the follow-up to 2008’s Fortress which featured Bloodmeat, a favourite of some of us at Crossfire.

More details are coming soon but in the meantime enjoy their awesome new press photo [eyes to the right here, people], check the tracklisting and watch the video to Bloodmeat below. This one’s going to be a biggun!

1. C’est la Vie
2. Hair-Trigger
3. Tandem
4. Moonlight
5. Tapestry
6. Dunsel
7. The Reign of Unending Terror
8. Termites
9. Tongue-Splitter
10. Sex Tapes

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The White Stripes announce split

The White Stripes announced they had split up last night via their website. Having not played live for a few years now and various other projects taking preference, Jack and Meg have parted ways (for now) and left this message for die hard fans:

“The White Stripes do not belong to Meg and Jack anymore, The White Stripes belongs to you now and you can do with it whatever you want. The beauty of art and music is that it can last forever if people want it to.”

Jim Diamond must be still dancing around his flat to this news. He produced the first two albums and ended up being walked over with big lawyers appointed by White who he quotes in the amazing punk rock book We Never Learn: “Jack White is the greatest meglomaniac rock-star cliche on the earth…The White Stripes sued me, saying I had defamed their name by claiming to be involved with their sound. Well assholes, what does it say on the record cover? At least I didn’t lie under oath. Jack said shit on the stand like the only reason he came to me (to produce and record the first 2 records) was because he didn’t have gas money to get to another studio.”

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The BellRays return with new album Black Lightning

The Bellrays are back with a new album titled Black Lightning . The band who were heavily pushed as the next big thing from Poptones label return with what they say is “arguably their finest collection of songs to date.”

No live dates have been released yet but if you want to get into the mood of the rock and roll machine fronted by the mighty Lisa Kekaula then click here to read Pete Craven’s live review from back in 2009 when they played Brighton.

Black Lightning will be released on Fargo Records on February 28th.