Cat Power will play Shepherds Bush Empirewith her full band, The Dirty Delta Blues.
The London date is the only UK date planned for this year to showcase her upcoming release Jukebox. Chan Marshall will hit Shepherds Bush on January 27th and you can check out some in-studio footage below:
Dizzee Rascal is back touring the UK in February.
Dizzee will play 6 dates, including 2 NME Awards Shows to support his Mercury Prize nominated album Maths & English. Check out the dates and then watch the video to his new single Flex, because it’s nanas.
15th – Preston 53 Degrees
16th – Newcastle Academy
17th – London Shepherd’s Bush Empire (NME Awards Show)
18th – Sheffield Leadmill
19th – Manchester Academy (NME Awards Show)
23rd – Portsmouth Pyramid Centre
The Go! Team have announced UK tour dates.
You can check the Brighton sextet’s show at:
February
23rd – Bristol, Carling Academy
24th – Southampton, University
25th – Cambridge Junction
28th – Stirling, Fubar
29th – Inverness, Ironworks
March
1st – Aberdeen, Moshulu,
2nd – Dundee, Fat Sams Live
4th – Oxford, Carling Academy
5th – Leeds, Metropolitan University
6th – Sheffield, Plug
7th – Nottingham, Trent University
Arctic Monkeys are planning to record new material soon.
Drummer Matt Helders went on to explain that the band want to record new songs and release them as one-off non-album singles including Sandtrap which was debuted live on their recent tour. Helders said:
“There’s really nothing planned. It just depends how it goes, which is a nice change. We can go into the studio and not necessarily have to have something done by, like, the end of the month. It’ll be like, ‘Just see what happens'”
New York’s psychedelic warlords MGMT have posted their ‘Electric Feel‘ video online this week at www.whoismgmt.com.
This wonderful band is one of Crossfire’s Top Tips for 2008 and we can safely say that the promo copy of their album ‘Oracular Spectacular’ is played daily here at HQ and has a tendency to turn people on from first listen. The video below is interactive for you to get stoned to and make your own video – seriously you could be there for days, so much fun, do it.
Look out for an interview with vocalist and guitar strummer Andrew Vanwyngarden and keyboard wizard Ben Goldwasser on this very site soon as this band will blow your fucking mind.
Morrissey is to tour in January to support his new single.
That’s How People Grow Up is out on 28th January, one week prior to a 15 track Greatest Hits which spans his 20-year solo career. Check him out at these days:
21st, 22nd, 23rd, 25th, 26th, 27th – Roundhouse, London
30th – Dome, Doncaster
1st Feb – Sunderland Empire
2nd Feb – Edinburgh Playhouse
Explosions In The Sky will hit the UK in 2008.
Check them out at the following dates in January:
23rd – Concorde 2, Brighton
24th – Anson Rooms, Bristol
27th – Barrowland, Glasgow
29th – Academy 2, Manchester
30th – Astoria, London
Protest The Hero have posted a new track on their MySpace.
The track, Sequoia Throne, is taken from the upcoming album Fortress which is due out on January 29th. Meanwhile, check out the making of the video for Bloodmeat by clicking here. Get right in.
Iron Maiden have renewed their contract with EMI.
The announcement came that they have renewed and extended their historic 28-year recording relationship in a deal for the world, excluding the USA, which also includes other revenues such as touring, merchandise and sponsorship.
Signed to EMI Records in November 1979, Iron Maiden quickly became one of the biggest rock bands in the world and have gone on to sell some 70 million albums including three No 1 and 15 Top 10 albums in the UK alone.
Bonde Do Role have parted ways with MC Marina Vello, it is being reported.
The band who recently cancelled an Australian tour, announced the news via Myspace, in a bulletin which has been since removed. It said:
“Due to several internal problems between us, we had to cancel a lot of our shows from the European tour, and we also had to cancel the scheduled Australian tour (everyone knew how excited we were about it!). For that we’re really really sorry. And we also announce that Marina is no longer with us, due to these internal problems.”
According to Pitchfork, the post was written by DJ Gorky and Pedro D’eyrot who continued:
“We wish her all the best in whatever she decides to do with her future, and she can always count on us as friends. We are working these issues [out] right now as we speak, and we hope we can make it up to everyone who we let down this year, in the most awesome way we can!”