The eighth album from the LA rockers is almost here and it will be released next month under the title – Hurley.
The follow up to ‘Raditude’ is out in the UK on September the 13th and the band has decided to move to a lesser known label in Epitaph Records. This is certainly a bit of a departure from the Universal Music Group owned Geffen.
Weezer are all set to play at the Reading and Leeds festivals at the end of August, so lucky festival goers should be able to get to hear what the new songs sound like.
My all time favourite Weezer track still has to be “Say It Ain’t So” from the Blue album.
The tracklisting for Hurley is listed below:
01 Memories
02 Ruling Me
03 Trainwrecks
04 Unspoken
05 Where’s My Sex?
06 Run Away
07 Hang On
08 Smart Girls
09 Brave New World
10 Time Flies
11 All My Friend Are Insects (bonus track on the deluxe edition)
12 Viva La Vida (bonus track on the deluxe edition)
13 I Want To Be Something (bonus track on the deluxe edition)
14 Represent (bonus track on the deluxe edition)
The news all ‘idiots’ (Green Day fans) have been waiting for has now finally arrived: a release date has been set for the Green Day standalone version of the popular Harmonix Rock Band video game.
The game, entitled Green Day: Rock Band will be available worldwide for all leading games consoles (Xbox 360, Sony PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii) from 8th June. The disc will contain an outstanding 47 tracks and will cover the whole of the band’s journey from 1994’s Dookie to last year’s 21st Century Breakdown.
Billie Joe explains:
“Seeing ourselves through the lens of this videogame has been mind blowing… From the soundtrack setlist and venues to the unlockable video footage and photos, Green Day: Rock Band undeniably manages to capture the best moments and work of our insane careers. We can’t wait for our fans to experience it.”
So, mark that date in your calendars Green Day fans, and get ready to rock out to your favourite tracks!
The band may have taken a break over the last year, with Dave Grohl providing the beats as a drummer for Them Crooked Vultures, Foo Fighter fans needn’t worry. The successful rockers are now ready to return with new material.
Grohl explained at the Independent Spirit Awards that the band’s 7th album in 16 years is already in the pipeline. This is great news for FF fans everywhere.
A number of demos are already underway and the new album is expected to be very loud!
Grohl admitted, “I think this could be our heaviest album yet.”
The album release date is yet to be announced but it is looking like it could be September at the moment. Watch this space for further details…
The new Guitar Hero game will be released on the 1st of September for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Wii and Xbox 360 platforms, with a new array of features to build on the World Tour – four-person band experience.
The main new feature allows players to play together in the band using ANY combination of instruments – including all four players on the same instrument! I can just imagine four mates on guitar rocking along to Rammstein’s “Du Hast”, but hopefully not all wailing together to Coldplay!
Star Power is now tracked separately you’ll all be pleased to hear. No more gritting your teeth in anger as your hopeless mate fails during the ‘Beat It’ intro for the tenth time! But you can bring that player back into the game by playing your own part successfully.
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I was watching Detroit Rock City again the other night - you know, the one with the four young metalheads trying to get to a KISS concert in Detroit, which is set in the 1970s. The 1999 film may have been an ‘American Pie’ style road movie but it did have its moments.
Well, I wondered what KISS were up to these days and so Googled them – I was interested to find out that the band seem to have patched up their differences and are now looking to release a new album.
The album will be produced by Paul Stanley and the band is currently on their 35th anniversary tour, which include concerts in Europe for the first time since 1999.
After much debate in previous blog posts there is finally some news on the release of Pearl Jam’s self released album – I even got taken in by a bootleg CD advertised!
Ever since Pearl Jam announced they had terminated their 18-year association with Sony there have been many rumours as to the album’s release. Some thought the album would arrive unannounced.
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I got a strange email from Amazon yesterday offering me the chance to pre-order “The Lowdown” from Pearl Jam to be released on 25th May. Like most Pearl Jam fans in the UK I’ve been waiting for news on their new album which is due some time this year. I’m also looking forward to the upcoming concerts in August. After receiving this email I immediately searched for more information to check what it was. I suspected it to be a new compilation CD.
The snippets of information I’ve read here and there do suggest that Pearl Jam will just drop the new album on us with no pre-release promotion – except generated by these rumours – and the album may be finished now after all.
However, this ‘new release’ certainly does not look like what we’ve been waiting for. The label is Sexy Intellectual and rumours on Pearl Jam’s Ten Club forum “The Porch” suggest that it may just be another bootleg album.
There have already been some internet leaks, not least news from an NME reviewer who has listened to the new album and describes it as “punchy,” “raspy” and “honeyed”; make of that what you will.
Here is a pic of this CD cover. More news to follow shortly…
A lot has been said about Green Day recently prior to the launch of the new album on 15th May. Billie Joe has now given a frank interview regarding the effects the making of the album have had on the band.
Billie Joe said:
“This is the album that could have killed us. We had set the bar so high with American Idiot.
“We all became sick as dogs. I was close to being hospitalised but they caught me in time. I had the boogie woogie flu.
“I got a BlackBerry and started to write down every idea for a lyric on it.
“I had many a sleepless night where I’d get something and have to get up and tap it into my BlackBerry.”
Green Day has also announced plans to re-release their back catalogue on vinyl through 2009. Dookie is the first up for a re-release.
The band has just released their single Know Your Enemy and the incredible video is exclusive to mtv.co.uk and MTV channels.
The video basically shows Green Day performing amidst whooshing helicopters in an urban setting. Billie Joe and the band look like they mean business with the usual Green Day massive hooks. Of course, Green Day are hardly just punk anymore and do infuse some classic rock into the mix. There is certainly some Bruce Springsteen to be heard within this powerful song. Green Day do exactly what they like to do: they rock.
An official DVD release of Nirvana’s legendary performance at the 1992 Reading Festival is set to follow the release of a bootleg version entitled ‘Life Takes No Prisoners’ out on May 4th.
I was initially fooled into thinking the bootleg version was the “official” DVD and have since cancelled my –pre-ordered copy. I am waiting with anticipation for the re-mastered 5:1 surround sound version entitled ‘Live At Reading’ and set for a November release by record label Universal Music. This official DVD release, which will feature restored footage and as yet unrevealed bonus features, has been officially sanctioned by the remaining members of the band.
The festival set is famous for front man Kurt Cobain coming onstage wearing a hospital gown while sat in a wheelchair. It was fifteen years ago this month that the 27-year-old Cobain committed suicide.
Dave Matthews Band, who will be supporting Bruce Springsteen at the Hard Rock Calling Festival in June (see previous post), have now revealed the track list to their new album Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King which is out on June 2nd.
The first single “Funny The Way It Is” is still available as a free download over at DMB’s official site and the new album features 13 songs (listed below). The band also unveiled the hand-drawn cover artwork.
Dave Matthews, when speaking with Rolling Stone Magazine, explained that; “This is a good record. Even people who don’t like Dave Matthews Band are going to like this record — and if they don’t, then they just don’t like music.”
Rolling Stone also called Big Whiskey “DMB’s heaviest album yet, both musically and emotionally” so it is certainly something to look forward to. The album is also a tribute to saxophonist LeRoi Moore, who passed away early in the album’s recording as a result of injuries sustained in an ATV accident. The album’s title, “GrooGrux King” is a reference to LeRoi’s nickname.
Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King track list:
“Grux”
“Shake Me Like A Monkey”
“Funny The Way It Is”
“Lying In The Hands Of God”
“Why I Am”
“Dive In”
“Spaceman”
“Squirm”
“Alligator Pie (Cockadile)”
“Seven”
“Time Bomb”
“My Baby Blue”
“You And Me”