Category: Music

Idlewild and Arcade Fire release info

Post author By Crossfire
Post date January 19, 2007

Both Arcade Fire and Idlewild have changed release details recently.

Arcade Fire have changed their lead single from the new album from Keep The Car Running to Black Mirror with the release date due to be February 19th. The album is coming out on March 5th.

Meanwhile Idlewild have apparently put their new album and single back a week. Single No Emotion is now due out on the 26th of February with the album, Make Another World on March 5th. They will support these releases with the following live dates:

March:

12th – Newcastle University
13th – Manchester Academy
14th – Norwich UEA
16th – Wolverhampton Wulfrun
17th – Oxford Brookes University
18th – Leeds Met University
19th – Aberdeen Music Hall
20th – Perth Concert Hall
22nd – Northampton Roadmender
23rd – London Hammersmith Palais
24th – Bristol Carling Academy

www.arcadefire.com / www.idlewild.co.uk

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McGregor to play Cobain?

Post author By Crossfire
Post date January 19, 2007

Ewan McGregor is being lined up to play Kurt Cobain in a new biopic about the Nirvana star.

This rumour comes on the back of confirmation from Courtney Love that the film was in development and she also said 2 actors were being considered for the lead role. The film is expected to follow the Heavier Than Heaven biography by Charles R Cross.

www.courtneylove.com

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Hangar 18 tour UK!

Post author By Crossfire
Post date January 19, 2007

Definitive Jux’s Hangar 18 will be the support act for the upcoming Gym Class Heroes UK tour.

The group, who were seen rockin’ it at Scribble Jam last August, will play the following venues:

February:

2nd – Birmingham, Academy
3rd – Oxford, Zodiac
4th – Portsmouth, Wedgewood Rooms
6th – Leeds, Cockpit
7th – Newcastle, The Global
8th – Glasgow, Cathouse
9th – Manchester, Academy 3
10th – Yeovil, Ski Lodge
12th – London, Carlng Academy Islington

www.definitivejux.net

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New Aesop Rock snippet up

Post author By Crossfire
Post date January 19, 2007

Aesop Rock recently updated his myspace blog with a sneak preview snippet of the title track from his upcoming album None Shall Pass.

The track is produced by long-time collaborator Blockhead with DJ Big Wiz providing the cuts. The rapper also said that the track will be featured on the Def Swim release, which will be out on Adultswim on the 26th of February.

Check out the snippet by clicking here.

www.definitivejux.net

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The Prodigy set up own label

Post author By Crossfire
Post date January 19, 2007

The Prodigy will be releasing their new album on their own record label.

The group have set up Ragged Flag and in addition to putting their own music out on it, they’re looking for new talent. It’s being supported by Cooking Vinyl, a UK independent label which houses Billy Bragg and Frank Black.

Liam Howlett said of the new label:

“We have been planning this for a while and we are looking forward to building our label up, starting off with the release of the new Prodigy album. We have recorded a few songs already for this next album and they are sounding big and mean!”

www.theprodigy.com

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Thrice album details

Post author By Crossfire
Post date January 19, 2007

Thrice frontman Dustin Kensrue recently spoke to VH1 about the band’s upcoming quadruple album, saying they were about halfway through the writing and recording of the record.

The collection will be called The Elements and each album will be 30 minutes long and self-produced, called Earth, Air, Water and Fire and hope to have them out by the end of this year. Kensrue is also supporting a solo album. Of the Thrice record, he said:

“It’s definitely a daunting task, and I think we’re starting to realize that now, since we’re not in the beginning phases anymore. It’s a lot of fun and a serious challenge for us, which is what we’re always looking for. This record’s different than what would have been just the next Thrice record, being it has these themes that we’re trying to hit.

It allows for things that wouldn’t have happened on an old Thrice record. We have this one song that’s sort of a bluesy jazz standard, and there wouldn’t have been space for something like that on any of our other records. But we have the freedom to do it here, and it fits.”

www.thrice.net

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Mendeed

Post author By Crossfire
Post date January 18, 2007

The UK underground metal scene is in particularly good health these days, and Scottish quintet Mendeed are arguably amongst the cream of the crop.

‘The Dead Live By Love’ (the band’s second full-length album) is abundant with just about everything that’s great about heavy metal; thrash aggression, punishing blast-beats, epic solos and soaring vocals all thrown into the mix and blasted out in the form of bona fide anthems such as ‘Burning Fear’ and ‘Through Dead Eyes’.

The title track (and future single) is particularly potent; fooling the listener with a slow Sabbath-esque groove before going straight for the jugular with a melodic thrash attack
and a mammoth chorus. Get those fists in the air.

If there’s any justice in this industry, then ‘The Dead Live By Love’ will gain Mendeed similar levels of recognition and adoration as afforded to their former tour-buddies Trivium, Avenged Sevenfold and Slipknot. Check out ‘Burning Fear’ on the link above.

The band have also announced the following shows:

30th March – London Underworld
31st March – Stamford Corn Exchange

DVD Reviews

GG Allin – Hated

Post author By Crossfire
Post date January 18, 2007

A film by Todd Phillips

If there was ever a DVD that could shock your system its this. GG Allin died of a heroin overdose in 1993 after a lifetime of self abuse and hatred to all human beings on the planet. His history was rife with anti social behaviour from an unstable family background and it was not long until he started to divulge into the world of punk rock, but GG had his own idea of how his band was going to perform in front of the public which caused outrage in Cities wherever he toured with his band The Murder Junkies.

Musically the results were a mess compared to other punk bands but they didn’t give a fuck as they had GG Allin on stage who would stagger out of his mind into the audience, who could never predict what he was going to do next. These spontaneously explosive sets consisted of puking and defecating all over the stage, then throwing it into the crowd whilst rubbing it all over himself as he stood in front of everybody in the venue naked.

He would ask the crowd to suck his dick and then kick the crap out of them one by one as assaults and fighting were part of the vicious live performance where GG walked into territory where he could simply annihilate.

These live sets were like nothing else you would have seen propelling him as a living legend. His following saw something of GG in themselves – the loneliness, the squalor, the government rules and the lack to live like society expects. Allin was also fascinated with serial killers and visited John Wayne Gacy various times who thought GG was special. The killer even painted a portrait of Allin as one of his own.

His controversy attracted so much attention that appeared on various TV talk shows in the USA including slots on Morton Downey, Jr, Geraldo and The Jerry Springer Show where he would spread his movement and promise parents that their children were his and had no power once they were introduced to his regime. Click here for a YouTube clip with GG’s last interview on the Jane Whitney show.

HATED gives you an insight into the pain, despair and violence sustained throughout his life with interviews, spoken word studio footage and the life outside of his reckless live shows that led his crusade for abomination.

It also features the last show he played at small club called The Gas Station in New York City. Once the power had cut out at the club, he went on the rampage, causing a riot in the streets and the entire scene from soundcheck to chaos is recorded throughout. The footage is undoubtedly mind-blowing to say the least.

He always said he would die on stage but fate got there first – about 3 hours after this show on June 28th 1993, GG Allin died of a heroin overdose in a friend’s apartment. His discolored, unwashed corpse was set in a casket with no make up, dressed in a black leather jacket holding a bottle of Jim Beam with headphones on.

You see the whole thing in the extras part of the DVD and it’s fucked up. It makes anything other rock and roll DVD documentary look tame and should certainly be one that you will remember as HATED is THE most fucked up documentary you will ever get to see.

Pick one up from here.

Zac
18.01.07

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Biffy Clyro single release

Post author By Crossfire
Post date January 18, 2007

Biffy Clyro will be releasing Saturday Superhouse as the second single from their upcoming album Puzzle on February 26th.

The single will be put out on 2 7″ formats, digital download and CD featuring new tracks Miracle Of Survival and I’m Behind You as well as semi-mental as the b-sides.

The tracklistings are:

CD
1. Saturday Superhouse
2. semi-mental

Vinyl 1
1. Saturday Superhouse
2. I’m Behind You

Vinyl 2
1. Saturday Superhouse
2. Miracle of Survival

www.biffyclyro.com

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