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”
I have been an avid Green Day fan since Dookie was released in 1994. I have seen the band many times and after almost five years since “American Idiot,” the new album, “21st Century Breakdown” is almost here and will be released on May 15th.
“Know Your Enemy,” the first single from Green Day’s upcoming eighth studio album, will be released digitally on April 16th. The video for Know Your Enemy will premiere on MTV and VH1 worldwide from April 24th.
Green Day have been gauging the reaction to their new album with guerrilla-style gigs at random venues across the US, with some gigs only being announced hours ahead on a first come first served basis.
For those of you who can’t wait to see the band again, in the tour section of the band’s official website, the message “World Tour coming soon!” is shown. I for one am eagerly awaiting the tour dates here in the UK as Green Day are probably the best live band I’ve ever seen - and I’ve been to a lot of gigs and concerts over the years.
The track listing and song lyrics can be found on the website at www.greenday.com.
Marylin Manson has now revealed the name of his new album to Rolling Stone.com. He is quoted:
“My new record is done, man. It’s called ‘The High End of Low’ — it’s a self-described state of being that I’m in. You’re going to be f#*$ng freaked. It’s the sh%t.”
Please excuse the language but after all, it is Mr. Manson speaking. Would we expect anything less?
He will be shooting the video this month for the first video to the new album. The song will be titled “I Want To Kill You LIke They Do In The Movies” The song itself is 9 minutes long and is about murder, sex and death.
Another uplifting and upbeat tune then!!
The album is due for release in May 2009 and Manson, along with Slayer, are co-headlining the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival Tour starting in July 2009 in Sacramento, California.
Talk About Rock Music says: We may joke about Marylin Manson sometimes and his rather odd and satirical sense of humour and direction of music but we adire him greatly for at least he is daring to be different.
