Slayer have put up some new live videos of their performance in Vancouver, which took place on July 13th.
If you think you can handle that much thrashing verocity, then head on over to www.slayer.net and check them out.
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New Planes Mistaken For Stars Track
Planes Mistaken For Stars have put up a new track, entitled Little Death, online.
The track is due to be on the new album Mercy, which will be hitting the shops in early October. To check out Little Death, click here.
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New Member Of Zulu Nation Crowned
Afrika Bambaataa has officially dubbed rapper the1shanti as India Bambaataa.
Afrika Bambaataa said:
“You have our blessings (Afrika Bambaataa and The Universal Zulu Nation) as long as you use your name in the good of your people and the good of yourself.”
The rapper was one of the first rappers out of New York of Indian descent to bring hip hop to India and claims Afrika Bambaataa has a huge influence on his career and actions. the1shanti’s album, which will be also called India Bambaataa, is due for release in late autumn.
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Writers wanted
We are thinking of expanding our writing team this month and are looking for people oozing creativity to join us here at Crossfire.
Over the last 3 years, 2 of our writers are now fulfilling their dreams of writing for skate and music magazines using us as a springboard. Since then, the site has become a lot larger and we are sent more and more stuff to review.
We are looking for 5 new people to be involved (especially fans of indie, punk and metal) to take part in the following:
– Album and single reviews
– Live reviews
– Band Interviews
– Book reviews
– Film reviews
– Video game reviews
If you have been looking for an outlet for your words, then don’t hesitate to contact sam@caughtinthecrossfire.com today.
He will ask you to send in a couple of examples of your writing skills and get back to you. Spread the word…
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To My Boy Dates
To My Boy, who recently supported Tapes N Tapes on their UK tour, will be playing some headline shows in September. They will also be gearing up for the release of their forthcoming debut single, the double A-side I Am X-Ray/Outerregions. The tour dates are:
September:
6th – Birmingham Sunflower Lounge
7th – Hull The Lamp (Transmission)
8th – Brighton Sumo (She Likes Parties)
9th – Southampton Lennons (Long Live Rock & Roll)
11th – Coventry Colleseum
14th – Manchester Jabez Clegg
15th – Northumbria University
16th – Glasgow Barfly
17th – Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire
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Blue Scholars new album
Seattle’s Blue Scholars have posted a blog on their myspace saying that work on their new LP is underway. Rapper Geologic stated:
“Folks returning from the third world, folks leaving for school, folks gettin laid off, folks looking for work. Summer is dying a slow death in Seattle. Perfect for a series of late night sessions in the lab concocting what will eventually become the 2ND BLUE SCHOLARS LP. If the first LP was on some summer vibe and the Long March EP invoked autumn, then this next one is – you guessed it – wintertime. Saba’s coming into his own with these melancholy hopeful beats and I’m just trying to stay focused.”
Look out for a Blue Scholars track on the next Hip Hop Radio Show here on Crossfire…
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Banksy Vs Paris Hilton
Awesome street-artist and all round genius Banksy has struck again. This time he’s been fucking with Paris Hilton’s new album.
The social kitten’s album have been tampered with and left in indy record shops and even branches of Virgin and HMV. It was confirmed by a spokeswoman for Banksy that he’d swapped Hilton’s CD for one of his own, featuring titles like “What Have I Done?”, “What Am I For?” and “Why Am I Famous?”.
He also tampered with the sleeves, making Paris naked and having a dog’s head. However, he left the bar code on the 500 doctored albums so that customers wouldn’t realise something was wrong. So far, HMV have said no-one who bought the changed CD has complained and Virgin have said that they tip their hat to him – we wonder what they would have said if we had gone in and tagged them up and drawn a poo-stache on her slapable, useless face?!
Keep it up Banksy…you can find his stuff at www.banksy.co.uk
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Billy Talent And Reuben Tour
Billy Talent have invited the awesome Reuben to be the support on their European tour, which will include a number of UK dates. If you want to check out this great line up, then get yourself to one of the following shows:
September:
7th – Southampton Guildhall
8th – London Hammersmith Palais
9th – Bristol Academy
13th – Wolves Wulfrun Hall
14th – Dublin TBMC
15th – Glasgow ABC
16th – Manchester Academy
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Kelly Stoltz live dates
Crossfire favourite Kelley Stoltz returns to the UK to play dates this month at the venues below.
Check www.electriccity.org for his site and click here to listen to his track Please Visit Soon that kicks off the last Hangover Session radio show we delivered for you – click the flag on entry.
14 Sep 06 Spitz London
17 Sep 06 End of the Road Festival Dorset
18 Sep 06 Bonaventure Bristol
19 Sep 06 Flapper & Firkin Birmingham
20 Sep 06 Boardwalk Sheffield
21 Sep 06 The Junction York
24 Sep 06 The Tunnels Aberdeen
25 Sep 06 King Tut’s Glasgow
27 Sep 06 Crawdaddy Dublin
28 Sep 06 Central Station Wrexham
29 Sep 06 Clwb Ifor Bach Cardiff
30 Sep 06 West End Centre Aldershot
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Comets on Fire
OK, light one up and then press the ‘play track‘ button on this page as you need to read this whilst tuning into the music for it to have the best effects.
Comets on Fire are back with a new album on Sub Pop records that needs your attention, especially if you like vegging out to psychedelic rock under the influence. ‘Avatar‘ is a 7 track LP that boasts 70’s rock and blues from start to finish reminding you that stoner rock never ages, it just matures. And if maturity is waht you are looking for in your quest for the unltimate bong load then look no further as tracks such as the opener ‘Dogwood Rust’ is a psychedelic trainride plummetting into an abyss of continuous dirty basslines and snazzy guitar noodling – a real winner to kick start such a wonderful journey.
But this is just 7 minutes of 45 merging into ‘Jaybird’ that builds into chaos and then allows your heart beat to calm down whilst birds sing out the mellow jams that follow. Fuzzy guitars are not all what this album is about though as the delightful piano come-down of ‘Lucifer’s Memory‘ clears the air. This is a temporary lull though as the rolling drums of ‘The Swallows Eye‘ builds towards the rip roaring ‘Holy Teeth‘ where the band go mental with screaming vocals and solo’s that could shave a mans balls. Avatar then ducks out with the meandering ‘Sour Smoke‘ and the rock filled ‘Hatched Upon the Age‘ completing this trip with magnitude and style.
This album is out right now and has a bit of everything, from the golden years of the 70’s acid rock to the early 80’s rocking warlords of metal, go find it and have a night in with the devil…
Live dates:
06-Oct London ICA
07-Oct Nottingham TBC
08-Oct Glasgow Mono
10-Oct Galway Roisin Dubh
11-Oct Belfast, Auntie Annie’s
12-Oct Dublin, Whelans