The Pixies film, LoudQUIETloud, which shows a back-stage in depth look at the band’s reunion in 2004, will be released on DVD on November 6th.
The film, which was directed by Matthew Galkin and Steven Cantor, was premiered earlier this year at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. It’s blatantly a great watch, so pick it up!
And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead will be releasing their So Divided album on November 13th.
The album has been produced by longtime friend Mike McCarthy, who has recently worked with Sound Team, with Conrad Keely of the band providing artwork and creative direction for the album’s booklet.
Guests include Grammy winning violinist Hilary Hahn and vocals by Amanda Palmer of the Dresden Dolls. The group have announced a US tour with the Blood Brothers to promote the new album, and there should be a UK tour in early 2007.
Dirty Pretty Things are supporting the Make Roads Safe campaign this year and have participated in a brand new amazingly addictive free game if you visit www.roadierunner.com
The campaign is set up to raise awareness world wide on the amount of innocent young people who are killed on them every day. 3000 people, and 500 children, are killed every day on the world’s roads and someone dies in a road crash every 30 seconds. Politicians are ignoring global road deaths and this is one way of getting their attention so they can take the matter more seriously.
Hopefully this game should help and winners will also be able to win tickets to the forthcoming Dirty Pretty Things Tour in November.
Click the image to play the game and send to friends…
As you might have guessed from their name, Fucked Up aren’t out to make friends, or to fit into someone else’s preconceptions of what constitutes ‘punk rock’.
This – their debut album – takes in the fury of early American hardcore, shout-along choruses reminiscent of British street-punk and passages of drawn-out instrumentation allegedly inspired by (ahem) Pink Floyd.
Bizarre as it might sound, this mix of influences works a treat; with the band creating a raw, twisted sound that is both confusing and deeply compelling. If you like your punk rock to be dangerous and unpredictable, then it’s time to get Fucked Up.
Scottish newcomers The Dykeenies are to release their new EP, Waiting For Go, on November 20th. The double A side single New Ideas/Will It Happen Tonight which was released in July this year features brought them airplay and support from the likes of Steve Lamacq.
The band are now about to embark on the NME Rock N Roll Riot Tour with The Horrors, The Fratellis and The Macabees. The group will then head out on their own headline tour.
After their rapturously received Carling Stage headline slots at the recent Reading and Leeds festivals, Canadian reggae trio Bedouin Soundclash have returned to give us our first taste of new material since the release of last year’s highly acclaimed ‘Sounding A Mosaic’ album.
Taken from the band’s forthcoming ‘Street Gospels’ LP, ’12:59 Lullaby’ is one of the band’s finest efforts to date – a mellow, understated number with beautiful vocal harmonies and an almost folky overtone. In an ideal world, you’d be listening to it whilst sat on a quiet hillside, watching the sun rise; but it’ll still sound great on a bedroom stereo. There’s also an excellent cover of The Maytones’ ‘One Way’ and a remix of ‘…Mosaic’ track ‘Jeb Rand’ as B-sides.
The band will return to these shores at the end of the month as part of the Eastpak Antidote Tour (also featuring Gogol Bordello, Danko Jones and Disco Ensemble). Dates are as follows:
31st Oct – Leeds Metropolitan University
1st Nov – Glasgow Barrowlands
2nd Nov – Birmingham Academy
3rd Nov – Manchester Academy
4th Nov – London Brixton Academy
6th Nov – Brighton Dome
Whilst no details are yet known about the new release, Turbonegro are working on the new album at the Fagerborg Studio in Sweden.
Watch this huge gaping space. You could be there a while.
Blondie’s Debbie Harry is to make an apperance at the legendary CBGBs before it closes this weekend.
Patti Smith, as we’ve already told you here at Crossfire, will headline the last ever show at the venue on Sunday, but Debbie Harry and Chris Stein will play an acoustic set ahead of the main group on the Saturday, The Dictators.
Californian punks Rancid will be kicking their way across the UK in a tour which will run alongside the free online release of Tim Armstrong’s debut solo album. The support will be from The Unseen who will also play a few headline dates whilst over here. The dates are:
Rancid Tour – November:
6th – Manchester Academy
7th -Birmingham Academy
8th – Barrowlands, Glasgow
9th -Studio 24, Edinburgh
11th – Leeds University
12th – Rock City, Nottingham
13th – Newcastle Academy
16th – Brixton Academy, London
18th – UEA, Norwich
19th – Bristol Academ
20th – Brighton Dome
The Unseen headliners – November:
5th – Charlotte, Leicester
10th – Adelphi, Hull
14th – Roadkill, Liverpool
15th– Cavern Club, Exeter
17th – The Fighting Cox, Kingston
Panic! At The Disco have taken a swipe at Motley Crue, claiming that they have stolen the P!ATD boys’ ideas. Spencer Smith, the drummer in P!ATD stated that Crue have taken on some of the performers used by P!ATD on a previous tour, and that this happened because one of Crue read a review of a P!ATD performance and saw they were doing everything Crue were trying to pull off. He then had another little dig by saying:
“When you’re like, 50 years old, you can’t come up with any good ideas anyway. You’ve just gotta pay for other people’s ideas.”
Gather round the music playground and start that chanting: FIGHT. FIGHT. FIGHT. FIGHT.