Fucked Up are going to re-record the famous charity song Do They Know It’s Christmas?
The Canadian band have drafted in members of others bands to help out, including Vampire Weekend, TV On The Radio, Broken Social Scene, the GZA, Bob Mould, No Age, and Yo La Tengo according to frontman Pink Eyes. He added that they wanted one of the Jonas Brothers to be added to the line-up.
Proceeds are set to go to charities such as Justice For The Missing.
Diplo has revealed details of the new M.I.A. album.
The producer, who is currently working with Rolo Tomassi, has revealed he is one of a number of producers working on the record, including Switch. He’s described the record as “Gucci Mane meets Animals Collective” which sounds interesting to say the least!
Earache Records have announced they will release Death Metal Live on November 30th.
The set contains four original DVDs combined together in a custom sleeve for just £6.99. The four DVDs which are contained in the sleeve are:
Deicide – When London Burns
Carcass – Wake Up And Smell The… Carcass
Napalm Death – The DVD
Decapitated – Live At The Rescue Rooms
That equates to over 100 tracks and seven hours of music, including documentaries and videos. Make sure you pick up your copy here.
Manchester Orchestra are currently on tour with Biffy Clyro in the UK and they’ve just unveiled the brand new video for forthcoming single ‘Shake It Out’!
Check out the rather tongue-in-cheek video and make sure you head over to their MySpace for full tourdates including a headline show at Heaven in London on 17th November!
Shake It Out (Music Video)
Manchester Orchestra | MySpace Video
Check out a full album stream of the forthcoming soundtrack to Flip’s ‘Extremely Sorry’ which will be released on 7th December.
To say the line-up of this original soundtrack is eclectic is an understatement.featuring the likes of Lemmy from Motorhead and Dave Lombardo from Slayer covering ‘Stand By Me’, as well as appearances from Warren G and Snoop Dogg, the album is produced by DJ Baron and is set to be released by Volcom Entertainment.
It was created in clos collaboration with the skaters appearing on the ‘Extremely Sorry’ DVD release.
Click here to hear the stream.
Ctrl Z are releasing their new single Ruffneck 09 on November 23rd and have lined up some treats in the build up.
The track, which is a reworking of the Freestylers tune, features remixes by High Rankin, Excision & Datsik, Pirate Soundsystem and RacknRuin. The latter is available as a free download which you can pick up here.
As if that weren’t enough, Ctrl Z have a mix for your pleasure featuring the likes of Reso, Drop The Lime, Foreign Beggars, Deadmau5 and more which you can grab here.
Check out the video for the single, including all the remixes, below:
Japandroids have expanded their forthcoming spring 2010 UK tour.
The band will hit the following dates in February:
22nd – Brighton The Freebutt
23rd – London ICA
24th – Leeds Cockpit 3
25th – Manchester Deaf Institute
26th – Glasgow King Tuts
27th- Liverpool Korova
Four Tet has announced details of his new album
There Is Love In You will be released on January 25th and the single Love Cry is out now. The tracklisting for the album is:
‘Angel Echoes’
‘Love Cry’
‘Circling’
‘Pablo’s Heart’
‘Sing’
‘This Unfolds’
‘Reversing’
‘Plastic People’
‘She Just Likes To Fight’
He will also play some UK dates in 2010.
February
12th – London Dome
March
11th – Manchester Club Academy
12th – Leeds TJs
13th – Edinburgh Bongo Club
17th – Brighton Concorde 2
19th – Birmingham Custard Factory
20th – Bristol Fiddlers
Swervedriver have announced some new UK shows this December.
The band, who will be playing the Minehead ATP on December 4th-6th, will play the following shows in November:
26th – Oxford O2 Academy
27th – London ICA
28th – London Relentless Garage
Henry Rollins has announced details of a spoken word tour of the UK.
The Frequent Flyer tour begins on January 12th in Dublin and ends in Wolverhampton. The full dates are:
12th – Dublin Vicar Street
13th – Glasgow Academy
14th – Leicester De Montfort Hall
15th – London Royal Festival Hall
16th – Manchester Lowry
17th – Leamington Assembly
18th – Norwich UEA
19th – Bournemouth Opera House
20th – Liverpool Academy
21st – Newcastle Academy
22nd – Leeds Academy
23rd – Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
Here’s what you might get from the Black Flag man: