Klaxons want around 100 girls to star in their new video. If you are a “young” girl and free to shoot a video on January 26th, you should email klaxongirls@gmail.com with the following details:
Age
Height
Statistics (eg 34/26/28)
Dress Size
A full body photo
Skin Colour
Job’s a good ‘un!
MySpace have officially launched in France and will have a secret show with London’s Archive playing to mark the occasion tonight. The website said:
“There is something here for everybody and we can’t wait to continue making it relevant for local users in France and everywhere worldwide”.
Plan B have a video teaser out called Live After Death and have sent Crossfire 25 copies of this video that you can only download from the Plan B website.
Either go there and pick it up or enter one of this months competitions we have running here.
You can also find Globe Shoes, Sidewalk Mag subscriptions and Heathen decks up there right now as well, so be quick before someone else takes them home.
Click here to get there.
The East Coast underground company, Coda Skateboards, has taken to the high seas sending their riders far and wide in search of insane terrain.
Pat Smith and Conor Fay (c.f BS Smith ph. Tim Stanton) are off to Spain and Portugal, whilst Jerry Mraz and Dave Michael kick it over to Florida. Speaking of Florida, here is some footage of a recent Coda trip down South.
Big Dave from The Harmony has just set up an online store for you to purchase any goods emblazoned with his Old/New Shit harmony related graphics.
Visit the Big Cartel.
Any good skater will tell you that travel is an essential part to the skateboard lifestyle. So when you’re seasoned veteran and pushing the boundaries of skate terrain, you had better be sitting pretty.
At the Detroit Motor Show this month, Honda unveiled their new line of Scion cars to the public, and if you look carefully you might notice the Lakai people carrier.
Now, can Crossfire claim anything on these guys..?
50 Cent is such a worldly guy that he wants to be able to promote safe sex…through his own brand of condoms. He says that instead of being part of a safe sex campaign, he’s going to bring out these johnnies and donate some of the proceeds to HIV awareness.
In addition to this, the rapper is going to be publishing books based on his crew and will be filiming New Orleans, a film which also starts Robert De Niro, soon.
Maximo Park will be playing three small dates in their hometown of Newcastle, where they will play new material from their untitled forthcoming second album.
The venues are places the band played earlier in their careers and tickets will only be available from certain indy record stores:
January:
18th – Newcastle Head of Steam (tickets from Beatdown Records, Vine Lane, Newcastle)
19th – Newcastle Cumberland Arms (tickets from Alt. Vinyl, Thornton Street, Newcastle)
20th – Newcastle Cluny (tickets from RPM, High Bridge Street, Newcastle)
A brand new Dub Pistols album is going to drop in March. Their third LP will feature collaborations from Terry Hall, Blade and Rodney P. Here’s the tracklist:
Speed Of Light (feat Blade)
Peaches (feat Rodney P and Terry Hall)
Speakers and Tweeters
Running from the Thoughts (feat Terry Hall)
Rapture (feat Terry Hall)
Cruise Control
Open
You’ll Never Find (feat Rodney P)
Gangsters (feat Terry Hall)
Something To Trust (feat Rodney P)
Mach 10
Stronger
Gave You Time
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted hip hop’s Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five along with REM, The Ronettes, Patti Smith and Van Halen. The inductees will be honoured during the ceremony in New York on March 12th.
The inductees were chosen by 600 voters from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation and each artist will be commemorated in the museum and will have a film presentation of their careers.