Atmosphere are releasing another Sad Clown Bad Dub.
The Minneapolis duo, who have release Sad Clown Bad Summer 9 and Sad Clown Bad Fall 10 are now putting out Sad Clown Bad Winter 11, to be released on December 18th.
The EP is described as one that will “make you forget all about those dark cold nights”, and we at Crossfire can’t wait. The group’s sixth studio album, When Life Gives You Lemons…, is due for release in 2008.
You can download Don’t Stop from the new EP by clicking here.
The Strokes have no idea what is happening with their next album.
Guitarist Albert Hammond Jr said that the group have nothing concrete decided for their next album, the follow up to 2006’s First Impressions Of Earth. Speaking recently, he said:
“They’re still my friends. I just talked to them the other day, we definitely talk about things…I just have learned that, unless there’s something in concrete that we’ve all decided, then I can’t really say anything. It wouldn’t be my place. It would be our place as a group.”
As I Lay Dying have confirmed some UK dates.
The band will hit the country in March next year with Evergreen Terrace. You can see them on the following dates:
20th – Fibbers, York
21st – Barfly, Aberdeen
22nd – Barfly, Liverpool
23rd – Barfly, Cardiff
24th – Barfly, Cambridge
Volcom are to bring a vinyl series out.
The Volcom Ent. Vinyl Club will be a subscription based split 7″ series with artists such as Birds of Avalon, Dark Meat, Earthless, Monotonix, Red Fang, RTX, Totimoshi, Turbonegro, Tweak Bird, Valient Thorr, Witch, and Year Long Disaster contributing songs in 2008.
Turbonegro and Year Long Disaster will share the first release, which will ship to VEVC subscribers in February. Subscriptions are $30 for six 7″ which will be released every other month and are available worldwide.
Electric Ballroom
28.11.07
I remember the first time I ever heard Pendulum‘s “Through the Loop“. I was on a bus sitting down like a normal human, when my mate whacks out her iPod and demands I take a listen. As soon as Willy Wonka started speaking I was hooked. Sat on a packed bus on a cold November Saturday afternoon, looking like I’d ingested God only knows when the beat kicked in and I lost control of my limbs. This is exactly what this gig was like. It gripped hold and I had to go with the flow.
When I rocked up about 40 minutes before stage time and scooted my way to the bar I was promptly covered by 2 boys’ enthusiasm, dancing residue and the remnants of the water they kept hurling over their heads. My question “If this is what you’re like before they play, are you not just going to look like jelly by the time they’re on?” received a standard rave Dave “We fucking love it!” The challenge was on and everyone looked up for it. As soon as the lights began and the beats started, it was a mad dash for a spot, to commence with the movement. Dancing like your Cousin who’s clearly the product of an incestuous relationship is totally acceptable at this gig, heck it was positively encouraged and wet dog L’Oreal adverts would have hit gold with the filming opportunity. Everyone looked like the equivalent of one of those Red Noses with hair on speed.
For me, I find that there’s nothing worse than the new album not being out yet and you feeling lost at a gig that should be kicking your ass, but these guys avoided this with a mix-tape of genius. They played the latest single (Granite) and in the car it’s enough to cause me to skirt curbs like a pro skater, but live…you better just hope you’re ready. Some gigs require banter, it brings you that little closer to the band, but here words were not necessary. Filthy beats, dirty guitar and a trio doing their upmost to smash their feet through the stage. What more could you ask for? Drugs? That really would have blown me through the roof of The Ballroom (fitting if it was glass, don’t you think?)
When “Slam” kicked in the force of the bass was enough to send the weak of heart (who should not have attended) running for the hills. Desperately fighting to not fall over, to get as close to the action as possible and the sweaty madness on stage (those boys like to rave) I ended up crowd surfing and then desperately wriggling free when I realised they were going to send me over the barriers. Out? I don’t want out. I want to stay this sweaty and hyped for the rest of my life. When Pendulum describe their sound on MySpace as “a wall of sound” they couldn’t have put it better, because I could have built a house from it.
My only disappointments? That I wasn’t equipped with glow sticks or sweat proof make-up and that Willy Wonka didn’t turn up for an encore. Ladies and Gentlemen, Pendulum have arrived and I’m pretty sure their feet are planted firm.
Keri Stanley
Keith Richards is releasing a Christmas-themed download on December 11.
The Rolling Stones guitarist will be releasing Run Rudolph Run and Pressure Drop as a bundle on iTunes. Run Rudolph Run, a Chuck Berry cover, was recorded in 1979 and was originally available on a limited 7″ whilst Pressure Drop, a cover of a song by Toots And The Maytals, was recorded in 2003.
Kanye West is leading the Grammy Award nominations.
The rapper received eight nominations including Album Of The Year for Graduation. Amy Winehouse weighed in with six and other nominees include Foo Fighters, Jay Z, Timbaland and Paul McCartney.
The 50th Annual Awards are going to take place in LA on February 10th next year.
MxPx have posted a Christmas video called Gimmie Christmas. Check it:
Cyne have put out a free online EP.
The group, who are busy mastering their upcoming album Pretty Dark Things for release in February, have wanted to show a “small token” of their appreciation by putting an online EP up for free download.
The EP includes 4 tracks with their respective instrumentals and features collaborations with Asshole Parade, nice!
Converge’s Jacob Bannon has formed a new band.
Irons also features artist Stephen Kasner and Integrity’s Dwid Hellion and are currently writing for a future release on Deathwise in 2008. The band are described as a: “collaborative effort [to] create apocalyptic, non-linear music from a primal fine art based mindset.”