Cat Power will be playing in Europe this spring, with some dates in the UK.
Chan Marshall and her Dirty Delta Blues will be kicking off in Glasgow with a date in London and an appearance at All Tomorrow’s Parties, before heading out into Europe. She returns to Dublin for her last show on May 10th. The full tour dates are:
April:
25th – Glasgow Ferry, Triptych Festival
27th-29th – Somerset Butlins, Minehead, All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival
May:
1st – London, Forum
Alert Hammond Jr has admitted The Strokes’ plans are unknown at the moment.
The guitarist, who has released his solo album Yours To Keep last year, said that the band are currently “hanging out and doing life things.” When asked if the band would get together for a follow up to last year’s First Impressions Of Earth, he said:
“I have no idea. I always get in trouble when I speculate about stuff. So I have zero clue. If I did know I would tell you, though.”
In the meantime, Hammond Jr has written a script and will be touring his solo album around the States.
Cursive recently premiered their latest video online.
The video for Big Bang, which is taken from last year’s album Happy Hollow can be seen by clicking here.
The Happy Hollow album was viewed by many as one of the best albums of the year so make sure you check out the video!
The tracklisting for the Sick Of It All tribute album has been announced.
The record, Our Impact Will Be Felt: A Tribute to Sick Of It All, will be released on April 24th and will feature 20 tracks performed by the likes of Comeback Kid, Napalm Death, Pennywise and more. The full tracklisting is:
Built To Last – Rise Again
Clobberin Time/What’s Going On – Unearth
Ratpack – Hatebreed
Give Respect – Madball
The Truth – Bleeding Through
Step Down – Comeback Kid
Cease Fire – Ignite
Good Lookin’ Out – Bouncing Souls
My Life – Pennywise
Friends Like You – Kill Your Idols
Scratch The Surface – Sepultura
Maladjusted – Himsa
Alone – Most Precious Blood
Just Look Around – First Blood
Busted – Stretch Arm Strong
Us Vs. Them – Walls Of Jericho
Goatless – Suicide Machines
We Stand Alone – Bane
World Full Of Hate – No Redeeming Social Value
Who Sets The Rules – Napalm Death
Faster Than Sound, an experimental connection between music and digital art, is back.
Having made its first foray in June 2006, Faster Than Sound returns to Bentwaters airbase in June, as artists look to collaborate and blur the lines between electronic music and interactive visual art.
With attractions like a wireless walk in the woods, illuminated cold war buildings and an inspiring sound-fuelled dome, Faster Than Sound is going to be something definitely worth checking out.
With Plaid taking part, amongst a large number of others includinng Colleen, Dat Politics and ยต-Ziq, it promises to be a very interesting experiment.
‘Joseph Donald Mascis’ is a legend in his own way. He has written some of the best songs ever throughout the many years that his bands and solo projects have been performing worldwide.
He started out in a hardcore punk band called Deep Wound, he formed the legendary Dinosaur Jr and now, here he sits in front of 250 people at Metro’s in Oxford Street on a windy Wednesday night in his very own signature Nikes and an Adidas track suit top ready to churn out a solo set that blew the entire crowd away. The crowd is made up of journalists and grade-A blaggers as tonight is all about a showcase apparently and it’s only industry heads in this venue.
So as he tucked into ‘Thumb‘ followed instantly by ‘Flying Cloud‘, both lifted from Green Mind, the crowd realised that this was going to be special, especially as the epic ‘Freakscene’ was thrust into the spotlight 3rd song in and J turned on the pedals to full solo guitar effect. The spine tingle i had when this kicked in matched the first time i heard this tune at college, absolutely amazing. I was not alone. The crowd was in awe of this opportunity and free beer only fuelled the feeling.
The solos rained on as ‘This Is All I Care To Do‘ from the new album Beyond kicked in. You will discover soon that this album is back to where they left off and this tune is definitely one of the best with J’s lazy vocals dipping in and out of classic 3 riff choruses. He then played another classic in ‘Little Fury Things‘ which brought the crowds attention to a stand still followed by ‘Amma Ring‘, one of J’s tunes with The Fog.
It’s funny how we register new songs. Once upon a time, the likes of imaginitive roll of ‘‘The Wagon’‘ was just another tune that whispered it’s beautiful chords though ears whilst people pondered on it’s quality, and here we are again 20 years alter doing it all over again! The accoustic sounds of ‘I Got Lost‘ is another tune from Beyond that was in this set and you could hear a pin drop as no one has really heard the record yet. Here Mascis does his high pitched, shoegazing vocal job to perfection, you know the one, there’s only one, it could not be anyone else if you heard it in the street. ‘Get Me’ from the ‘Where You Been‘ album is dropped next until ‘Quest‘ takes the limelight and rightly so, it’s a classic.
By now, 30 mins into this show, i’m realising i am really pissed and actually in heaven, but the cover of ‘Just Like Heaven‘ doesn’t make the cut tonight, i guess he could have played so many more, like my personal faves such as ‘Let It Ride’ or ‘They Always Come‘ from ‘Bug‘ but he ends tonights secret shindig with ‘Not You Again’ and ‘Alone’. For the record, the lyrics to the former go like this:
I thought of the Blob today
I thought of you
I thought of the mess I made again
How do I do it
Now when it leaves your hand
Just understand
…and on Thursday morning i felt like the blob due to the free Stella!
Look out for Beyond when it comes out this month, you should not be disappointed.
Zac Slack
To read a Crossfire interview with J.Mascis from 2005 click here…
The Police are to follow up their comeback dates with a European tour.
The group will be playing four dates in the UK as part of the tour, which will see its completed itinerary completed soon. The UK gigs are:
September:
4th – Birmingham
8th – London
October:
15th – Manchester
19th – Cardiff
The Left Field Stage of Glastonbury have announced they will stage two pre-festival nights in London.
The two nights will be held at the Islington Academy in association with Virtualfestivals and in support of Shelter.
The nights will happen on the 11th and 12th of June, a week and a half before the festival itself actually kicks off. No official line up yet but its thought that CUD will headline the 12th.
Ill Nino are back with their fourth album, Enigma.
The album will be released in June in the UK but to support the album, the Latin metallers will be playing a tour over here with Drowning Pool. You can check them out at the following dates:
April:
8th – Wolverhampton, Wulfrun
9th – Nottingham, Rock City
10th – Newcastle, Academy
11th – Glasgow, Cathouse
12th – Aberdeen, Moshula
14th – Dubling, Ambassador
15th – Belfast, Spring & Airbrake
16th – Liverpool, Academy
17th – Leeds, Rios
18th – Cardiff, Solus
20th – Peterborough, Cressent
21st – Sheffield, Corporation
22nd – Southampton, Nexus
23rd – London, Koko
Ryan Adams new album, Easy Tiger, will be released this year.
The singer has revealed that his ninth studio, the follow up to last year’s 29, will have 13 tracks and will be released on June 5th. The tracklisting is:
Goodnight Rose
Everybody Knows
The Sun Also Sets
Halloween Head
Off Broadway
Two Hearts
Tears Of Gold
These Girls
Two
I Taught Myself How To Grow Old
Oh My God, Whatever, Etc.
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