AFI have announced the tracklisting for their new EP.
The EP will contain five songs and will feature Carcinogen Crush, which made its debut on Guitar Hero III last year. The full tracklisting is:
1. Fainting Spells
2. Carcinogen Crush
3. The View From Here
4. Ether
5. 100 Words
Goldfinger have posted a full album stream of their new full length.
The record, titled Hello Destiny, is due out next week and will be released on SideOneDummy. You can check out the album in its entirety by clicking the link below.
Classic LA hardcore band The Adolescents will be visiting the UK for 2 dates.
Expect to be singing thew backing vocals to classics such as Wrecking Crew, LA Girl, Self Destruct and Rip It Up at the Casbah in Sheffield on July 20th and at the Underworld in London on July 23rd.
The band played in Switzerland just before Xmas and Pete Craven reviewed for Crossfire here if you want to see if they still cut it.
Wikipedia says that the band are recording a new album in timer for Spring 08.
Enter Shikari have been announced as the MySpace Secret Show performers at this year’s Camden Crawl.
The band will play on the Crawl on Friday April 18th and you can be a part of it by clicking here and following the instructions about where to go to get involved in the gig. The Crawl has also announced that Hadouken! and Wiley will also be playing in North London.
Kenna is to release his first single in the UK on April 28th.
Out Of Control [State Of Emotion] is taken from his Make Sure They See My Face album, which will follow on May 5th. If you want to check out the man who appeared on Ronson’s Version album as well as being Abjekt Approved on his New Sacred Cow album, then watch below:
Qwel is returning with a new album.
The New Wine will be produced by Kip Killagain and will be the third record in a series that began with the Maker produced The Harvest and Meaty Ogre’s beats on Freezerburner. The album comes with this foreboding spiel:
“The New Wine is an expose of contrasts. The third horseman in Revelation is called forth – the black horse. His rider wields a balance proclaiming loudly ‘A week’s wage for a loaf of bread, a week’s wage for a serving of grains, but don’t harm the wine or oil’. Half the world slaves away to starve while the other wages war for its thirst for oil and wine. Man’s wine has gone spoiled.”
You can check out an mp3 mix of the record by clicking here.
One Two are releasing a new single.
Annie Mall is taken from their second album The Story Of Bob Star and is released on May 12th with Radioclit on remix duties. Check out the French duo’s video below.
6th April 2008
Islington Carling Academy, London
No Use For A Name gave a vigorous, powerful and enjoyable performance at the Islington Carling Academy, resulting in the crowd leaving the venue breathless and on a buzz high. Whether you were a teen with your parent, hanging out with your mates, or a parent their supporting the passions of your child, no one could deny the atmospheric pressure and electricity running though everyone. It didn’t matter if you were a fan of the band, or just there in support of another, a great time was guaranteed.
If you had been supporting the band since their explosion into the crazy world of music back in 1987, or on the other hand if the music had only recently found its way into your heart, it was definite that you find something to sing along to on this occasion. The band went in all directions of their discography to sing something for everyone. From hits such as “Bright From The Jacket“, ‘Let Me Down’ and ‘I Wanna Be Wrong’ to covers of Bob Marley’s ‘Redemption Song‘, a Misfits cover and one that got EVERYONE in the audience worked up into a frenzy. The atmosphere became static when the lads performed a special rendition of the Pogues ‘Fairytale Of New York‘.
Some would say the best way to immediately catch and retain the attention of a live audience would be to hit them fast and furious with a well know sing a long number as an opener. True as it may be, No Use For A Name didn’t follow this method, and decided upon promoting the new album ‘The Feel Good Record Of The Year‘ through the incredibly catchy ‘Biggest Lie‘. Whether you had heard the new release or not, you couldn’t help getting attached to those infectious songs. The lads also rejected the normal encore as many musicians have within their set, stating this was just a way for bands to take a breath and waste time; to this I have to agree.
The entire set sent the crowd stark raving nuts by the end, but the beginning was another matter. One aspect that was very disappointing was the inability to make the microphones work. Matt Riddle was left for four songs screaming down a microphone with no luck in making his vocals travel the crowd, likewise Tony Sly have a few mishaps on the first track. Having said this, the lads overcame it quickly and never let it decrease the supremacy of the set. The show ended with an explosion, and the crowd left feeling knackered but pleased; these lads certainly know how to entertain.
Michelle Moore
This is the follow up to 2002’s “Do The Pop” compilation (on Shock Records) which set to educate the masses on the veritable explosion of music that shook the Antipodes back in the late Seventies and on thru the Eighties.
“Redux Part One” uses the latter platter as a template, and includes those two big hitters The Saints and Radio Birdman, as well as post-Birdman member’s collaborations in The Visitors, New Christs, Hitmen and New Race. But compiler Dave Laing casts his net wide over the two discs, to further expose a plethora of underexposed but no less infectious hi-energy sounds from across the country, as Australia’s youth tuned in and turned on to produce their own primal rockNroll.
Enthusiasts will be familiar with material from the likes of The Psycho Surgeons, Fun Things, Chosen Few, Victims, X, Scientists, Leftovers, Razar, Rocks and The Manikins. from the “Killed By Death” albums, and the excellent “Murder Punk” comps, but there’s a whole bunch of real obscurities here including the hi-octane ME 262 with their ace “Gonna Die“, raw ’77 rumblings from Perth’s The Geeks, Sydney spikey tops The Last Words (who would record for Rough Trade), a filthy raw blast in “Nothing to Say” by Melbourne’s The Reals, the super primal and catchy “Heard it on The Radio” by The Orphans (another Perth outfit) and it was good to hear Hitmen singer (and ‘Birdman MC) Johnny Kannis with his spunky rendition of The Seeds classic “Pushin’ Too Hard“.
To close, things get downright primordial, as we’re transported way back to 1974, with cuts from Deniz Tek’s pre ‘Birdman combo TV Jones and a scuzzy garage recording of “(I’m) Stranded” by Kid Galahad and The Eternals, who would become better known as The Saints.
The music is complemented by a massive booklet that extensively details each track, as well as photos and flyers from the era. Fine piece of work, looking forward to Part Two already… yeah hup!
Pete Craven
As on their debut album from 2005 (In the Bottles) this Orange County quartet continue to mine the rich heritage of their SoCal roots. In 1981 Broken Bottles would have been found on the latest “Rodney on the Roq” compilation, alongside their peers Shattered Faith, Social D, Agent Orange, et al. With “Hospital” they’ve produced another shot of straight forward and well-tuned Punk tunes that peel back the lid on the plastic realities of life in Suburbia, and failing to attain the American Dream.
This time around they’ve switched their fixation from “Gothic Chicks” to “Psychobilly Girl’s“, recall days getting drunk in the “California Sun” and hanging out under Santa Monica Pier. And they strongly advocate the practice of Skate and Destroy. There’s also a reprise of “Poor Me” that originally surfaced in 2002 on the flipside of killer seven-inch “Radioactive San Onofre“… which incidentally liberates the distinctive riff from epic D.I. anthem “Falling Down“. Yet another direct link to their ancestry… there’s no doubt, Broken Bottles are products of their environment.
Pete Craven