The Only Ones have confirmed they will play the ATP weekend in April.
The event, curated by the Dirty Three, will see the band’s first show in 22 years, which came as a surprise after the band’s founding member Peter Perret said that they would reunite over his dead body.
However they have agreed to get back together and can currently be heard on Vodafone’s ads with their single Another Girl, Another Planet and rumours are they could also be playing this year’s Glastonbury.
A former Test Icicle has repped Crossfire in his latest interview with Vice Magazine.
Dev Hynes, who is now musically sound as Lightspeed Champion talks about his new record, which will be coming out on Domino Records, comic books and the content of his blog. But when asked what his proudest moment was, Dev gave a nod to Crossfire who made the bright pink custom Test Icicles decks.
We are stoked to have made this day throughout his short explosive career with Test Icicles.The band all came to HQ for an afternoon of interviews and banter, you can hear their radio show here.
Dev’s interview with Vice here.
Danger Mouse has revealed he has been flooded with offers of production work.
Speaking to MTV News, the producer who shot to fame with The Grey Album and carried it on with Danger Doom, Gnarls Barkley and the last Gorillaz album, said that the past few months have seen him being offered numerous jobs.
The two confirmed will be the new Sparklehouse album and a record with Italian composer Daniele Lupi. He went on to say:
“The stuff I’m working on now is the stuff I’ve been working on before these successes or whatever. I’ll continue to do those, and that’s kinda what I want to do. And, of course, I always like doing whole records with people if I can”.
Mean Fiddler
10.02.07
Having to take the stage at 7pm to play to a barely half-full venue is a somewhat daunting task, but Tat don’t seem particularly bothered. On record, the trio’s early Green Day-isms are nothing particularly remarkable, but in the live setting, the likes of ‘Champagne, Cocaine and Strawberries‘ become endearingly ragged around the edges; with a chorus of fans singing along down at the front.
However, it takes Floridian quartet The Draft to really get this show started. The band’s ‘In A Million Pieces‘ debut was a relatively unsung highlight of 2006, and tonight the anthemic chorus and raw honesty of opener ‘New Eyes Open‘ sets the tone for their whole set; with frontman Chris Wollard visibly delighted at the mass of raised fists in the pit. Hot Water Music’s split was a great shame, but The Draft are continuing their legacy in ultra-fine style.
There’s never much in the way of surprises at a Bouncing Souls show; the band seemingly having settled into their anthemic punk rock niche a long time ago. That said, last year’s ‘The Gold Record‘ album was their best effort in several years, and hence both new tracks and old standards like ‘Hopeless Romantic’ and ‘East Coast! Fuck You!‘ sparkle with a seemingly new-found vigour tonight.
Sure, singer Greg Attonito may not be quite as animated as you’d like, and the band may not be particularly talkative either, but it’s hard not to smile as they rip through song after song with all the energy of the Ramones in their prime. Joey and da bruddas would surely have approved.
Alex Gosman
Photo by Jen Saul
Abjekt Approved rapper Amanda Blank has finally gotten herself a music page on MySpace.
After having just had a personal profile for ages, the Spank Rock collaborator and all round awesome broad has signed up for a music profile so she can share her tracks with the big wide world of the internet.
So, if you want to check out the person that gets Crossfire hot under the collar, then click the link below and get ready for a world of smutty fun.
Manic Street Preachers will be releasing a free track for fans on March 19th.
The Welsh band will be putting up Underdogs as a free download on their new site [see below] marking the first music to be taken from their upcoming album Send Away The Tigers.
The album will be released on May 7th through Columbia. Nicky Wire said of the album:
“All out punk metal – Alice Cooper – Stooges guitar outro. Could have been on Generation Terrorist. A celebration of the unique, a post ‘Everything Must Go’ address to the fans 10 years after the first time we did it. In a Britain dominated by generic, one diametrical multi branding, let us embrace the difference – the downtrodden – the losers and the opposition. Let us fall in love with individuality again”
Queens Of The Stone Age will feature a number of guest stars on their new album.
Era Vulgaris will see Julian Casablancas from the Strokes, Mark Lanegan, ZZ Top’s Billy F Gibbons and Trent Reznor appear on various spots on the record.
The album is expected to include to the tracks Sick, Sick, Sick, Misfit Love, Battery Acid and Into The Hollow and has a June release set in the US.
Dr Dre is to return with a new album this year.
The former NWA man appeared on LA radio show Big Boy’s Power 106 to confirm that his new album, Detox, will be released sometime this year.
He said that he is aiming to put out a 12 or 13 track recording featuring “everybody I’ve ever worked with over the years”. If you did indeed forget about Dre, 2007 will be the chance to remember him again.
Rage Against The Machine will be playing 3 dates with the Wu Tang Clan.
The LA Times has announced that the bands will hook up for Rock The Bells, the hip hop festival that begins in New York on July 28th before moving to California on August 11th and ending in San Francisco on August 18th.
Reports are that the additional shows were added because of the ticket scalping for the Coachella show. Rage Against The Machine ain’t nuttin’ ta fuck wit.
The View have sunk to a new low with reports that frontman Kyle Falconer is facing a drugs charge.
Reports say that the singer is set to appear at Dundee Sheriff Court this Friday after he was apparently caught with cocaine in the band’s home last year. This comes soon after the band had to cancel their trip to North America because of visa problems, as Falconer hadn’t declared his arrest.
This cancellation has meant 8 shows have been wiped out, including the band’s South By South West slot. Good going guys.