‘Crossfire’
Universal Republic
We hope you understand that we had to do this today. It’s so bad for so many amazing reasons that it deserves Tune of the Day.
They are back with a bang and they are still as awful as ever, Steel Panther‘s new album scheduled for October 18th titled “Ball’s Out” will be stuffed full of 80’s cock rock, so get a taste of what type of cheese they will be rolling down the same hill that hosts the Hollywood sign, with the first installment being ‘Crossfire’.
DJ Shadow has announced a full UK tour for November and December.
The producer will be supporting his new album The Less You Know The Better by playing eight shows. The full list of dates are:
November:
28th – O2 Academy Bristol
29th- Nottingham Rock City
December:
1st – HMV Institute Birmingham
2nd – O2 Academy Leeds
3rd – O2 Academy Liverpool
5th – O2 ABC Glasgow
6th – O2 Academy Newcastle
9th – HMV Forum London
Emika has released a new video and details of her debut album.
Her self-titled debut is released on October 3rd through Ninja Tune with the single Pretend / Professional Loving on September 5th. She will also be playing CAMP in London on October 5th with tickets priced at £7.50. Below are the tracklist and video for Professional Loving. This album is gonna be great!
1. 3 Hours
2. Common Exchange
3. Professional Loving
4. Be My Guest
5. Count Backwards
6. Double Edge
7. Pretend
8. The Long Goodbye
9. FM Attention
10. Drop The Other
11. Come And Catch Me
12. Credit Theme
The Jesus Lizard‘s soundtrack to CLUB will be released on vinyl in December.
Chunklet will release the DVD soundtrack on gatefold vinyl with a pre-order for the limited colour vinyl available now by clicking here. CLUB, which came out in September, documents the reunion for their first American performance in over ten years when they played in Nashville in 2009.
There are only 1,000 of these being made, with only 200 on coloured vinyl, so it’s definitely one for the real fans. Tracklistings are below.
Side 1:
Puss
Seasick
Boilermaker
Gladiator
Destroy Before Reading
Mouthbreather
Side 2:
Blue Shot
Glamorous
Killer McHann
One Evening
Then Comes Dudley
Chrome
Side 3:
Nub
Blockbuster
Monkey Trick
7 vs 8
Side 4:
Thumbscrews
Fly on the Wall
My Own Urine
Dancing Naked Ladies
Bloody Mary
Wheelchair Epidemic
Kingston Peel
23.08.11
Wander over to the merch table tonight, and you’ll see copies of Face To Face’s excellent new album ‘Laugh Now, Laugh Later’ for sale; each bearing a sticker that reads: “For fans of Green Day, Rancid, The Offspring, NOFX, Blink 182 and Pennywise!”. Indeed, Face To Face would and should appeal to any fan of what is increasingly being dubbed ‘90s skate-punk’ (damn, we’re getting old), and even if they’ve never shifted tickets on quite the same levels as the aforementioned bands, they’ve put their name to enough quality tunes to pack out the Peel. Not bad, considering it’s their first proper UK jaunt in almost a decade.
The Arteries get things off to a fine start, ripping through the kind of raw but melodic set that befits one of the UK’s best new punk bands; with vocalist Miles jumping down into the crowd to screeh his words into the faces of the early birds. Canadian quartet the Flatliners are a similarly abrasive bunch; taking the tired old ska-punk blueprint and re-routing it into darker territory via a heavy rock n’ roll edge. Worthy of a headline slot here in their own right, for sure.
But of course, the real treat is yet to come, and as Trever Keith’s crew rip into ‘You’ve Done Nothing’, the floor explodes into a pogoing, finger-pointing mass of folks who can hardly believe that Face To Face are playing their local. It’s tempting to wonder if they’d have gained a bigger UK following by touring here as often as, say, their former label-mates No Use For A Name and Lagwagon used to do; but then, Face To Face have always been about quality rather than quantity.
The shoulda-been-hits come thick and fast, and the sweat soon starts to drip down the walls of the Peel as the crowd clamber over each other to share backing vocal duties with Scott Shiflett (arguably one of the most underrated bassists in punk rock). New songs like ‘It’s Not All About You’ are replete with the band’s trademark melodies and smart lyrics, and by the time they sign off with ‘It’s Not Over’, it’s clear that Face To Face could teach some of their more popular peers a thing or two about maturing in fine style.
Alex Gosman
Sims has released a free EP called Wildlife for all to share.
The Doomtree rapper, who released his Lazerbeak produced album Bad Time Zoo earlier this year, recorded the five songs between 2009 and 2010 and has asked all fans to share the link around as much as possible, adding that if they do it on twitter, they should add the hashtag #wildlife.
Check out the EP by heading to his Bandcamp page, where you can both stream and download it. Most definitely worth your time, get involved
Yelawolf has dropped a new video.
The Alabama rapper, who releases his new album Radioactive in October, has teamed up with Ubisoft, who make the Driver computer game.
Mixing in Yela with footage from the game, the track No Hands bumps hard and we’re big fans here at Crossfire already.
Those who love metal will literally be dying to buy one of these chairs designed by Pool Nocc that featured this year at the Milan Design Furniture Fair.
Unfortunately, the Remember That You Will Die chair is not going to be available in bulk any time soon but expect someone to rip it off as everyone we have shown this to so far has been clucking to own one!
Want a taste of the new Gallows material today?
The band have posted up a 37 second track that you can download for free right now called True Colours, the very first offering of new music recorded with former Alexisonfire vocalist Wade MacNeil fronting the band.
Head over to www.gallows.co.uk to pick it up and expect raging hardcore. Watch this explosive video below!
Odd Future’s rapper Tyler the Creator turned up on stage at Reading Festival on a pink girls bike this weekend with fellow band mates, made a few thousand middle class, white teenagers who were out celebrating their private school GCSE results think they were gangsters for 45 mins and left the stage stoked with their performance without their clothes after stagediving.
Today though, OFWGKTA’s front man celebrates winning the Best New Artist award at the VMA’s in the US. In classic style Tyler slammed Bruno Mars once again by saying: “He put on a good performance, but I still hate that dude’s fucking music.”
Read our review of his debut album Goblin here.