Lady Gaga got some photo’s with Terry Richardson’s eagle eyes behind the lens and bared all for Supreme in NYC recently. Watch this video of the shoot.
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Dead Confederate Live
23/2/11
Dingwalls,
Camden, London
First up tonight are Kettering quintet Blacklight Pioneer, who deal in an angular art-rock sound with a certain melodic sheen. They’ve been compared to 90s alt-rock mavericks Mansun, and whilst the two bands do share some common ground, BP’s more radio-friendly sound calls to mind more current reference points – a good or bad thing, depending on how you see it.
Dead Confederate, on the other hand, prefer to serve up their tunes with lashings of all-out sonic warfare; kicking off their set with a steadily building, hypnotic wall of distortion that would surely get the Kevin Shields seal of approval. Whilst their sound owes plenty to the leading lights of the late 80s/early 90s grunge scene, the addition of John Watkins’ swirling organ provides a great foil to the fuzzed-up guitar action that has proved a trademark of the DC sound.
The band themselves don’t move too much thorughout their live set, with singer/guitarist Hardy Morris pretty much anchored to the microphone for the duration of their set. He’s clearly happy to hide behind the mop of hair that’s plastered to his face, and when the feedback briefly subsides for the surprisingly catchy ‘Run From The Gun’, he cuts a confident yet reticent figure – not unlike that of a certain alt-rock hero from the early 90s.
Still, with an album as good as last year’s ‘Sugar’ under their belts, they’re more than welcome to invoke the old ‘let the music do the talking’ cliché. Their set doesn’t really end in the traditional sense; rather it gradually dissolves amidst torrents of wailing feedback and strobe lights, and frankly, it’s hard to imagine a finer way to be blasted out of a post-work daze. Keep an ear out for these guys.
Alex Gosman
Watch the video for Giving It All Away here.
Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros have released their 3rd video in the 12 video series, SALVO!
Enjoy 40 Day Dream, – more magical music and film from Alex Ebert’s amazing world.
Rumours that surfaced at the end of last week regarding the passing of Phil Vane have unfortunately turned out to be true.
The 46 year old founding co-vocalist of the British hardcore punk band Extreme Noise Terror and Napalm Death allegedly passed in his sleep last Thursday and will be missed by many in the punk scene.
Extreme Noise Terror were one of the flagship bands from the 80’s punk and hardcore scenes that had notoriety worldwide alongside Napalm Death and were also favourites of BBC radio presenter John Peel who recorded Sessions with the band for the show that introduced so many people to many underground bands that you would not hear anywhere else at the time.
I remember seeing them play Murder when I was 16 on music program covering independent music called Snub TV and it blew me off the fucking earth! My record collection was suddenly filled with the most raging music ever created including ENT, Electro Hippes, Jailcell Recipes, Napalm Death, Conflict and many others so without the likes of Phil’s raging vocals this site would have never have even been thought about. To that end we owe part of this and our lifestyles from the routes we took from people such as Phil Vane.
RIP.
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The Sword announce UK tour for May
Stoner rock legends The Sword have announced UK tour dates for May this morning.
The 4 piece who were derailed somewhat last year when long time drummer Trivett Wingo left the band due to his problems with flying and traveling and has now been replaced by Kevin Fender who previously batted the drums for Texas hardcore legends EMPLOYER, EMPLOYEE.
Check out our video interview with the band below if you missed it last year when the mighty Warp Riders record was released.
The Sword UK tour dates are:
Sun 8-May-2011 SOUTHAMPTON JOINERS
Mon 9-May-2011 BIRMINGHAM ACADEMY 3
Tue 10-May-2011 GLASGOW CATHOUSE
Wed 11-May-2011 MANCHESTERACADEMY 3
Thu 12-May-11 ENGLAND LONDON GARAGE
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Download Festival reveal 17 more acts
Def Leppard were announed as the 3rd main headline act for Donington’s Download Festival last night which destroyed the hopes of Soundgarden fans everywhere.
Many people where hoping that Chris Cornell and his revived crew would have been announced at the top slot this year after reforming but instead, the 80’s soft rockers topped the bill and were of course on the same stage 2 years ago.
The festival also welcomed Bring Me The Horizon, Madina Lake, Southern rock-blues metallers Down, The King Blues, Bowling For Soup, Frank Turner, Trash Talk, All That Remains, Black Stone Cherry, glam rock wankers Twisted Sister and more.
Pur some sugar on yourself and get a ticket.
The mighty Les Savy Fav played a packed out Heaven venue in London last night and covered the Dead Kennedy’s classic California Über Alles in fine style.
The band known as ‘one of the best live acts in the world ever’ here at crossfire are famous for their incredible cover versions and have performed outstanding versions of Debaser by the Pixies, Nirvana tracks and plenty of others over the years. Last night’s show with Pulled Apart By Horses as support was another classic to this year’s shows, look out for them at festivals this year as both bands will give you a good reason to be happy about your life, and that is gauranteed.
Enjoy this video shot by Sherry from the show.
We can confirm that we have been invited back and will be curating the Barfly venue in Chalk Farm/Camden on the Sunday May 1st at the Camden Crawl 2011!
The initial line up has been released this morning including Cloud Control, Dinosaur Pile Up, Bo Ningen and many others, plenty more will be added soon to the full list below so look out for updates on the @thecamdencrawltwitter The festival will be held over the Bank Holiday weekend of 31st April and May 1st, get your tickets here before they sell out.
For those wondering which bands will be playing in our venue, we will be heading to the traditional bun fight meeting in March to ‘fight’ over the bands that have been confirmed by the organisers with other guest curators.
This year’s curators and venue hosts are listed here, see you there!
1234 • ARTROCKER • BACKSTREET • BUGBEAR • CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE • CITY SLANG • CLUB FANDANGO • COMMUNION • FEAR & RECORDS • FLOWERPOT • GRECO ROMAN • LES INROCKUPTIBLES • JOHN KENNEDY XPOSURE • LANTERN SOCIETY LAST.FM • LEAF LABEL • THE MAGPIE’S NEST • MOSHI MOSHI • ROCK A ROLLA ROCKFEEDBACK • ROUGH TRADE SHOPS • RWD MAGAZINE • SCHMOOZE • STEVE LAMACQ’S GOING DEAF FOR A LIVING • SUPERCHARGED • 2RYPE • URBAN NERDS • XFM
This year’s initial evening line up (many more to be added plus very special guests)
SAINT ETIENNE • TODDLA T • THE KING BLUES HADOUKEN! • VILLAGERS • BANJO OR FREAKOUT • BO NINGEN • CATE LE BON • COCKNBULLKID COMANECHI • DANANANANAYKROYD • DINOSAUR PILE UP • FRANKIE & THE HEARTSTRINGS • HUDSON MOHAWKE • KONG • LETHAL BIZZLE MNDR • SBTRKT • THE PHANTOM BAND • THE QEMISTS • S.C.U.M THOSE DANCING DAYS • PVT • 2:54 • THE AGITATOR • BEAR’S DEN • BECOMING REAL • BENJAMIN FRANCIS LEFTWICH • BETH JEANS HOUGHTON • THE CHAPMAN FAMILY • CHICKENHAWK • CIVIL CIVIC • CLOUD CONTROL • THE COMPUTERS CROWNS • D/R/U/G/S • DAM MANTLE • DELS • DIVORCE • DJANGO DJANGO • EAGULLS • FEVER FEVER • FICTION • FLATS • FOREIGN OFFICE • GHOST POET • HEDONIACS • HOLY STATE • HOUSSE DE RACKET • JAPANESE VOYEURS • JOHN & JEHN • JOHNNY FOREIGNER • LET’S BUY HAPPINESS • LITTLE COMETS • LU LU & THE LAMPSHADES • MARQUES TOLIVER • MARTYNA BAKER • MAVERICK SABRE • MIRRORS • MUMS OF DEATH • P MONEY • PEGGY SUE • PINEY GIR • POLARBEAR • RAINBOW ARABIA • SARABETH TUCEK • SISSY & THE BLISTERS • SOUND OF RUM • SPECTRALS • STAR SLINGER • TANLINES • TEAM GHOST • TEETH • TOM WILLIAMS AND THE BOAT • TREETOP FLYERS • TURBOWOLF • TWO WOUNDED BIRDS • VERONICA FALLS • VISIONS OF TREES • WARRIOR ONE • WILD PALMS
UK Thrashcore fiends will be stoked to know that Liverpool skaters Short Sharp Shock (SSS) have announced that they are about to go back into the studio to record their new album titled PROBLEMS TO THE ANSWER.
Liverpool’s most famous thrash band are so famous now that even blonde bombshell Pamela Anderson is said to be dating singer Foxy and is in a line of female celebs that include Cheryl Cole who can’t wait to make hardcore badges and whisper Black Flag lyrics in his ear whilst he is covered head to toe in poster glue. Finding a minute to himself in a local internet cafe to avoid the local paparazzi he posted the following message online this week:
“We’re back! Had to knock things on the head for a bit, but we’ve opened up shop again. Finishing the lyrics to the last few songs then next week we record some vocals with a special guest star! We finish recording the LP on March 1st/2nd, then mix for four days from the 4th March, then we’re DONE! Release date to be confirmed, but we’re looking at June/July. Looking forward to getting out again and touring. If you want us to play in your town, let us know.”
PROBLEMS TO THE ANSWER is being recorded at Whitewood Studios in the band’s hometown of Liverpool and is being produced by ROB WHITELEY and SSS bassist MARK MAGILL. Get in.
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New Does it Offend You Yeah video
Does it Offend You Yeah are back with a new video for ‘The Monkeys Are Coming‘, a new single lifted from their forthcoming new album ‘Don’t Say We Didn’t Warn You’ scheduled for March 14th via Cooking Vinyl.
The band have worked their socks off around Europe over the last few months and are about to drop another full length album that is once again stuffed with off-the-wall tunes. Have a taste from this video, ‘The Monkeys Are Coming‘ is released on Feb 28th.
DON’T SAY WE DIDN’T WARN YOU UK TOUR
March 2011
Wed 02 Cardiff The Globe.
Thu 03 High Wycombe Bucks Student Union.
Sat 05 Peterborough Club Revolution.
Sun 06 Brighton Coalition.
Mon 07 Leeds The Cockpit.
Tue 08 Leicester Sub91.
Wed 09 Sheffield The Leadmill.
Fri 11 Glasgow ABC2.
Mon 14 Newcastle Academy 2.
Tue 15 Stoke Sugarmill.
Wed 16 Birmingham Academy 2.
Thu 17 Liverpool Academy 2.
Fri 18 Manchester Academy 3.
Sat 19 Preston 53 degrees.
Mon 21 Reading Sub89.
Tue 22 Southampton The Talking Heads.
Wed 23 Bristol The Fleece.
Thu 24 Kingston New Slang @ Hippodrome.
April
Mon 04 London Heaven