Caught in the Crossfire

After last year’s Writers Block album, Peter Bjorn And John are releasing the albums Peter Bjorn And John and Falling Out. The tracklistings are:

Peter Bjorn And John

I Don’t Know What I Want Us To Do
Failing And Passing
People They Know
A Mutual Misunderstanding
From Now On
Matchmaker
Collect. Select. Reflect
100m Of Hurdles
Education Circle
Please Go Home
Firing Blanks*
Don’t Be Skew*
Le Crique*
The Fan*
Saturday Night At The Parties*

Falling Down

Far Away, By My Side
Money
It Beats Me Every Time
Does It Matter Now?
Big Black Coffin
Start Making Sense
Teen Love
All Those Expectations
Tailormade
Goodbye, Again Or
(I Just Wanna) See Through*
The Traps, My Trip*
Punks Jump Up*
Unreleased Backgrounds*
Fortune Favours Only The Brave*

* = bonus track

www.peterbjornandjohn.com

Former Test Icicle, Devote Hynes’ new band Lightspeed Champion are recording their debut album with production handled by Mike Mogis, who has worked with Bright Eyes.

The album is due this year with Christmas Song available on their website and another track, Everyone Is Listening To Crunk, confirmed on the album.

www.lightspeedchampion.com

Canada’s Arcade Fire have announced that their second album, Neon Bible, will be released on March 5th, the day their tour kicks off in Dublin. Tickets go on sale this Friday [12th] at 9am. The gigs are:

March:

5th & 6th – Dublin Olympia
8th & 9th – Manchester Apollo
11th & 12th – Glasgow Barrowlands
14th & 15th – London Brixton Academy

www.arcadefire.com

Jeff Turner, frontman of Cockney Rejects, has challenged Donny Tourette of Towers Of London fame [well, maybe fame isn’t the best word] to a fight. The band,who refer to his band as the Showers Of London have said on their official site:

“Now they pop up everywhere claiming to be the ‘new’ Cockney Rejects, even though tough hardman Donny Tourette was so tough and so hard that he ended up leggin’ it over the wall after failing to go two rounds with Jade and her mum in the ‘Big Brother’ house. G&R Records are prepared to sponsor a bout between Donny Tourette and Mr Turner at West Ham Boxing Club to raise money for charity (the St. John’s Ambulance being the obvious choice, as they will have the job of scraping him off the floor when it’s over)”.

www.cockneyrejects.net

News is filtering through that NOFX will be making a documentary of their upcoming tour which will see the band play in Israel, South Africa, Russia and Taiwan. Fat Mike said:

“2007 for NOFX is playing countries we’ve never been to, we are planning on playing Taiwan, we got permission to play Beijing and we’re doing Russia, Israel and South Africa. We’re bringing a film crew and we’re actually making some kind of documentary about all the weird places we’re going to.”

www.nofxofficialwebsite.com

Cansei De Ser Sexy have announced a number of tour dates in support of their album on March 5th, with the tickets going sale on Friday [12th] at 9am. The dates are:

April:

21st – Dublin Ambassador
22nd – London Astoria
24th – Manchester Ritz
25th – Edinburgh Liquid Rooms
26th – Glasgow Barrowlands

And make sure you check out the Crossfire Best Of 2006 Radio Show which features Alala as one of our picks of 2006!

www.csshurts.com

Following the jam-packed Zero DB/XXXChange night they put on last year, Ninja Tune will be hosting another You Don’t Know night at the Big Chill House in Kings Cross, on February 3rd. The line up is as follows:

Matt Black & Raj Pannu (AV Set)
Jonathan More (DJ Set)
Ross Allen
Mixmaster Morris
The Qemists (2 x decks, 2 x laptops, 3 x heaviness)
Juice Aleem
VJ Mox

Last year’s effort was absolutely wicked so make sure you get along to this one – but be warned, the place gets choca early, so head down there as early as you can – Doors are at 9 and until 11 its free, with the price being £6 after 11.

www.myspace.com/youdontknowclub

Wolfmother have begun work on their second album, and whilst they’ve yet to enter the studio, they have announced the name of a new track – Love Attacker. Singer Andrew Stockdale said of the new record:

“We do have a lot of jams, like incoherent pieces of music, that at least could get the ball rolling. And I have a few ideas I’ve been working on in hotels and stuff, which is kind of the way half the record was written last time. Sometimes it can be a long process and sometimes it can happen really quickly.”

www.wolfmother.com

Kaiser Chiefs have announced their second album will be called Yours Truly, The Angry Mob and is due for release on February 26th, with the effort being produced by Stephen Street. The tracklisting is:

‘Ruby’
‘The Angry Mob’
‘Heat Dies Down’
‘High Royds’
‘Love Is Not A Competition (But I’m Winning)’
‘Thank You Very Much’
‘I Can Do Without You’
‘My Kind Of Guy’
‘Everything Is Average Nowadays’
‘Boxing Champ’
‘Learnt My Lesson Well’
‘Try Your Best’
‘Retirement’

www.kaiserchiefs.co.uk