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Foo Fighters new album track is “Heaviest...

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 04:54:39 -0400

Foo Fighters new album track is “Heaviest Yet”

Hear the ‘teaser’ online from their site

http://tease.foofighters.com/#

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Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:17:19 -0400

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This is the new artwork for The Beastie Boys new album, Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2
The release date is set for 3rd May 2011
30 second clip of a new track from the album can be heard here - http://soundcloud.com/1077-the-end/beastie-boys-make-some-noise

Thomas Tantrum - Sleep (RAC Remix)

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:28:56 -0400

Thomas Tantrum - Sleep (RAC Remix):

The sun has come out!!

This is our ‘summers on it’s way’ tune of the day!!

Free Downlaod

The Pet Shop Boys Are Writing a Ballet!!! The Pet Shop Boys...

Fri, 18 Mar 2011 06:32:35 -0400

The Pet Shop Boys Are Writing a Ballet!!!

The Pet Shop Boys have turned their talents to the ballet, setting author Hans Christian Andersen’s fairytale, The Most Incredible Thing, to music.

The British electro-pop duo worked with choreographer Javier De Frutos and playwright Matthew Dunster to create the ballet. The fairytale focuses on a competition, in which the winner gains half of the kingdom and, of course, the hand of the princess in marriage.

The ballet will open for a five-night run on March 22. The score for The Most Incredible Thing was released earlier this week in the U.K. via EMI.

“I would regard this project as part of a long career of putting pop music in a theatrical context,” Neil Tennant recently told Reuters in an interview prior to a preview of the work.

“We’ve always liked this thing of putting pop music in a theatrical context, really to make it more enjoyable. The theory is not very complicated: (it) is to make it more enjoyable and maybe to make you think about it slightly differently.”

Mariah Carey’s dogs are in therapy to prepare them for the...

Tue, 15 Mar 2011 05:58:16 -0400

Mariah Carey’s dogs are in therapy

to prepare them for the arrival of her twins.

The singer is currently expecting her first children with husband Nick Cannon but is so worried about the psychological impact their birth will have on the couple’s four Jack Russell terriers – JJ, Cha-Cha, Dolomite and Jackie Lambchops - she has taken them to a pet psychologist.

An expert on Jack Russells said they “can be jealous and possessive about their owners”.

Mariah, 41, has previously revealed her pooches lead a pampered life and even had their own entourage when they once took part in a video shoot with her.

She said: “I had my team with me but the pups had a mini entourage of their own, of course! And why wouldn’t they? It was a big shoot and even my entourage had an entourage - my stylist had an assistant, my security had extra security.”

Neil Young Announces Spring Solo Tour You lucky lucky...

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 09:19:54 -0500

Neil Young Announces Spring Solo Tour

You lucky lucky Americans!!

Neil Young has announced a 10-city American theater tour kicking off April 15th in Durham, North Carolina. The show will be a continuation of his 2010 Twisted Road tour, which featured Young performing most of the songs from the Daniel Lanois-produced Le Noise alongside many of his greatest hits, including “Ohio,” “Down By The River,” “Cinnamon Girl” and “Helpless.” Unlike Young’s previous solo theater tours, many of the songs were performed on electric guitar – though he does play the piano, organ and an acoustic guitar throughout the evening.

URIAH HEEP are set to release a new studio album “Into...

Fri, 25 Feb 2011 05:20:00 -0500

URIAH HEEP are set to release a new studio album “Into The Wild” on April 5th (Europe) and Mat 3rd (USA)

Mike Paxman Produced (Status Quo and Asia) and artwork by Ioannis (Lynyrd Skynyrd, STYX)
Videos and tour dates are starting to appear now also, check website for all the details
Also video diarys have been made and posted in the relevant locations.

www.uriah-heep.com / www.frontiers.it / www.myspace.com/frontiersrecords

Catch them live if you can. I saw them once about 10 years ago and I can tell you they rocked!!!!!!

New Florence And The Machine album on its way In an interview...

Mon, 21 Feb 2011 10:33:53 -0500

New Florence And The Machine album on its way

In an interview with Gibson.com Rob (guitarist) confimed the band have already met with previous producer Paul Epworth and even talked about booking out Abbey Road for a month in April.

New RJD2 album out now released under the alias ‘The...

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:15:15 -0500

New RJD2 album out now released under the alias ‘The Insane Warrior’ called ‘We Are The Doorways’.

Its a kinda homidge to 70’s and 80’s science fiction and horror, but he will explain it better than I can from his website.

http://www.rjselectricalconnections.com/home/84-sowho-is-the-insane-warrior

Anyway - Its sick and making Rick Wakeman jealous as hell with the synths!!!!

The Flaming Lips have announced details of the release of a...

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 06:43:37 -0500

The Flaming Lips have announced details of the release of a five-disc vinyl boxset.

‘Heady Nuggs: The First 5 Warner Bros. Records 1992 - 2002’ is due out on Record Store Day (April 16).

The collection is made up of 1992’s ‘Hit To Death In The Future Head’, 1993’s ‘Transmissions From The Satellite Heart’, 1995’s ‘Clouds Taste Metallic’, 1999’s ‘The Soft Bulletin’ and 2002’s Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots’.

Two different editions of the boxset will be released, a ‘standard version’ on black 140 gram vinyl and a ‘special limited edition’ which will have each album pressed on a different colour vinyl.

“Both editions will be extremely limited,” the band said on their official website FlamingLips.com. “Once they are gone, they are gone, so don’t delay; these will sell out.”

For more information visit, FlamingLips.com.

Blur’s bassist Alex James is putting on a country style...

Fri, 04 Feb 2011 05:11:03 -0500

Blur’s bassist Alex James is putting on a country style food and music fest - The Harvest festival at his Oxfordshire farm

Musician turned farmer’s four-day event will showcase music and food, with appearances from KT Tunstall and Richard Corrigan.

Full article - http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/feb/03/alex-james-host-harvest-festival

Paul Roderick single ‘Russian Reggae’ fet Neville...

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 05:06:54 -0500

Paul Roderick single ‘Russian Reggae’ fet Neville Staples (The Specials)

The version above is the Bobby Wottnot (Dreamscape,Gods Kitchen) Remix

The single is out sometime in April but is live and streaming from the Paul Roderick page right now (link below)

http://www.isongs-promotions.co.uk/paul_rodericks.html

Buck 65 new album announced.

Wed, 02 Feb 2011 05:01:15 -0500

Track listing and artwork aviliable now, you have to wait for anything else.

http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2011/01/buck-65-announces-new-album

After a string of Canadian awards for music and aid it has been...

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 04:50:00 -0500

After a string of Canadian awards for music and aid it has been announced that Neil Young will be collecting the 2011 Allan Waters Humanitarian Award for his contributions to Farm Aid, Live 8 and other fundraising events.

Good old Neil….

Former Happy Monday Bez had a not so happy Wednesday yesterday...

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:52:05 -0500

Former Happy Monday Bez had a not so happy Wednesday yesterday when he was thrown in jail for a month. The jail sentence related to that previously reported assault conviction dished out earlier this month after an altercation between him and the mother of his two year old son back in May. He would have got away with community service and a fine, but he chose to represent himself in court, which is never a good idea, especially if you’re a space cadet with a vocabulary of just under 60 words.

Van Halen have entered the studio to record their first album in...

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 06:31:08 -0500

Van Halen have entered the studio to record their first album in 27 years with original frontman David Lee Roth.

Full article in Rolling Stone - http://bit.ly/fcrE9e

MF Doom will reissue the first complete version of his debut...

Mon, 24 Jan 2011 05:25:54 -0500

MF Doom will reissue the first complete version of his debut album, Opertaion: Doomsday, this spring through his own Metalface Records. The set will include the “original album, alternate versions, b-sides and instrumentals - 51 tracks total - with all new artwork and two deluxe, metal formats.” The said “metal formats” are a 2-CD lunchbox or a 4-LP metal box, which you can check out on the Stones Throw website.

Don’t know about anyone else but Talib Kweli is dropping 2...

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 04:57:00 -0500

Don’t know about anyone else but Talib Kweli is dropping 2 albums this year and my toes are curling.

Free download ‘cold rain’ is hopefully a sign of the good good things to come.

http://www.spin.com/audio/download/82387/

Bjork has revealed that she has reached the halfway point in...

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:51:59 -0500

Bjork has revealed that she has reached the halfway point in recording her new album.
Speaking in an interview with Icelandic newspaper Fréttabladid, the singer also said she is hoping to showcase the new material live on tour before the end of 2011.

The new release will be Bjork’s first since 2007’s ‘Volta,’ though she claimed to be weary of giving too much detail on what fans can expect, saying, “I have had some bad experiences with a number of things before. I’m very superstitious. I go into the studio with a plan to go do what I have in mind, and then the idea is half-dead.”

However, the eccentric singer did give one clue as to what has inspired some of her latest material: a conference she attended that was organized by National Geographic magazine.

“I saw 100 talks and met eccentric people who had been in Africa for four years with lions and insects,” she said. “Then one night after drinking whiskey with them I began to hear stories. This is one of the collaborations I can talk about.” Right…

28 clip from new Foo Fighters Album

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:45:25 -0500

28 clip from new Foo Fighters Album:

No release date, name, track titles…. nothing. Just a whisper and a prayer…. and this clip…