Forever 27 Club

In the following September the London’s Proud Camden art gallery is planning to open a photo exhibition that will be dedicated to those musicians who died at the age of twenty seven. Most of them were previously included in the infamous Forever 27 Club, wrote The Guardian. The art gallery wishes to expose sixty photographs of five personalities who made a significant influence on rock music. All of them have passed away at twenty seven.

Visitors will see one of the best photo collections of Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain. Originally, Forever 27 Club included only Hendrix, Morrison and Joplin who died one after another in ten months (1970–1971). Later this list was added with The Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones, who had drowned in 1969, and Nirvana’s frontman Kurt Cobain who had committed suicide in 1994.

In the popular culture it’s widely considered that twenty seven is a critical age for artistic personalities, and now some researchers are trying to back this theory by the certain facts.

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AC/DC And The World Tour

AC/DC is going to make the world tour, said Billboard linking this information to the Creative Artists Agency, which is specializing in concert arrangements. A tour shall begin in October and may last for the following year and a half. Venues and schedules are not confirmed yet, but it should become available soon.

The world tour is dedicated to the AC/DC’s first album in eight years.  The release of this disc, which is staying without the name so far is planned on October. It’s possible that the album’s title should be announced in August with the release of a new single. Previously it was rumoured that the album will be called “Strap It On”, but the band had denied everything. It was recorded in Vancouver with the help of their new producer Mike Fraser.

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Franz Ferdinand

The new Franz Ferdinand’s album shall be more “wild and oriented toward disko”, than any of their previous albums, said the band’s leader Alex Capranos in his interview to BBC. They’ve almost finished working with it in their Glasgow studio, but the release which is without the name yet, will most likely be out in the beginning of 2009.

Franz Ferdinand had already announced a few new songs that should be incorporated into the upcoming album during their recent concert performances. However, Capranos had promised their fans more surprises on the following release.

While recording this album, Capranos was also producing other music projects. Those may include the third album made by The Cribs “Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever”. He said that in the future, he would like to spend more time doing this.

The last album made by Franz Ferdinand “You Could Have It So Much Better” was released in 2005.

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David Gilmour Makes It Live

Pink Floyd’s guitarist David Gilmour is releasing the new album, “Live in Gdansk”, said New Musical Express.  A disk will become the first concert record in his solo career. It shall be produced by Columbia Records on September 16.

This album was recorded during Gilmour’s performance in the Polish city of Gdansk on August 26, 2006 dedicated to the 26^th anniversary of the Solidarity movement. During that concert he was playing songs from his solo album “On an Island”, and of course legendary Pink Floyd’s stuff: “Breathe”, “Time”, “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”, “High Hopes”, “Echoes”, “Wish You Were Here,” and “Comfortably Numb”. Rick Wright (keyboards), who is another Pink Floyd’s member, plus Polish Baltic Orchestra directed by Zbigniew Preisner also took their part in this show.

The album “Live in Gdansk” will be produced in various forms: regular double-disk format, DVD, and as special edition that should include other concert records from “On an Island” tour.

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Metallica Spreads More Magnetism

Metallica had announced their upcoming album’s cover and the full track list, said Rolling Stone. It should include ten songs, and the best part is that one of them is the continuation of their classic, “The Unforgiven III” –probably the biggest hit made by Metallica in the 90’s. The first “Unforgiven” came out in 1991 (Black Album), and the second one in 1997 as part of “Reload”.

The release of “Death Magnetic”, Metallica’s ninth studio album is planned on September 2008. This time the band had hired a new producer – Rick Rubin, instead of almost legendary Bob Rock.

The full track list goes as follows:

Death Magnetic

"That Was Just Your Life"
"The End Of The Line"
"Broken, Beat & Scarred"
"The Day That Never Comes"
"All Nightmare Long"
"Cyanide"
"The Unforgiven III"
"The Judas Kiss"
"Suicide & Redemption"
"My Apocalypse"

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Cortney Love Faces Court

A Los Angeles firm London & Co, which is specializing in giving assistance for running business and accounting issues had brought an action against Kurt Cobain’s widow Cortney Love, said Associated Press.

Following the given information, Cortney Love has received the exclusive rights on her husband’s intellectual property after his suicide in 1994. At the same time she made an oral agreement with London & Co to give them five percents of her total income. Possibly, they were helping her on various things dealing with her dead husband’s heritage.

As this firm’s representatives say, in 2006 Cobain’s widow has sold some parts of the Nirvana’s album catalogue for 19,5 million dollars, but forgot about those five percents she has promised to pay. Therefore, right now London & Co wants to sue Cortney for 975 thousand dollars.  

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Ozzy Is Flying High Again

In the following November Ozzy Osbourne is going to receive an honourable prize – “Classic Rock n’ Roll Of Honour” in the nomination called “living legend”, says BBC. This exclusive information was given by the last year’s winner Alice Cooper.  “Seriously, it’s a great honour and I’m looking forward to going to my first Classic Rock Awards in November. Can’t wait to see you there,” said Ozzy, also adding that, “I couldn’t be happier to know that Classic Rock haven’t written me off!”

The other nominees appointed by the “Classic Rock” magazine shall be announced right during this honourable ceremony, which should take place in London on November 3. “An event of the year” category now belongs to Led Zeppeling (thanks to their reunion concert in London), Def Leppard and Whitesnake (recently they’ve made a joint tour), “Hard Rock Hell” music festival, the Iron Maiden’s world tour, and Kiss’s performance at the “Download” music festival.

“The album of the year” nominees are Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Black Crowes, Alice Cooper, Big Linda and Stone Gods, and some other participants. “A group of the year” will include Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Led Zeppelin, Kiss and Foo Fighters.

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Mercury Prize And Radiohead

The whole list of the Mercury Prize nominees was announced in London on Tuesday (July 22), says New Musical Express.  Radiohead together with their album “In Rainbows” is considered to be the favourite out of twelve musicians who were nominated. In many ways this is due to the band’s recent innovative activity in selling of the mentioned above album. It was going for any price which fans were ready to pay.

Besides that, good chances for winning go to Robert Plant and Alison Krauss with their joint work “Raising Sand”. Other Mercury Prize nominees include Alex Turner’s and Miles Kane’s side project The Last Shadow Puppets with the album “The Age Of The Understatement”, anonymous electro DJ who’s hiding under the name Burial (“Untrue”) and a new work made by Elbow – “The Seldom Seen Kid”.

Mercury Music Prize was established in 1992 as an alternative to the Brit Awards. Twenty thousand pounds are given to the best album author that was recorded in Britain or Ireland. Traditionally, a jury gives more attention to those artists who didn’t have a large commercial success. Primal Scream, Pulp, Portishead, Suede, Antony and the Johnsons, Arctic Monkeys and Klaxons were winning this prize during the past years.

A 2008 year winner shall be announced in London on September 4.

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Johnny Rotten Is Accused Of Being Racist

Vocalist from the legendary punk-rock band Sex Pistols Johnny Rotten (real name is John Lydon), and his security were accused in attacks and racist exclamations against the Bloc Party’s leader Kele Okereke. As writes The Guardian, this incident took place during the last weekend on Summercase music festival in Barcelona where both groups were performing live.

As Okereke says, him and a few more musicians from the other bands were quietly speaking with Rotten somewhere in the backstage area. However, when Okereke had asked a punk music veteran about his artistic plans on reforming Rotten’s side project Public Image Ltd., suddenly Sex Pistols’ lead singer  turned to be very angry. Eventually, Kele Okereke, Liverpool’s native with the Nigerian roots has heard racist remarks addressed to him. Three men from Rotten’s security crew overthrew him on the floor while beating his face.

This accident was seen by fifty witnesses including Kaiser Chiefs’ frontman Ricki Wilson and Foals’ lead singer Yannis Filippakis who tried to help Okereke.  Johnny Rotten said that this fight was totally provoked by Okereke, and rumours on his racist statements were absolutely faked by the Bloc Party’s leader in order to make this band more popular.

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"Brother Metal" Changes Traditional Ways

An Italian Capuchin-monk Cesare Bonizzi also known as “brother metal” (fratello metallo) has released his second heavy-metal album, said BBC News.

Following Cesare’s own words, his love for heavy metal had developed after he has visited one of the Metallica’s concerts fifteen years ago. Another influence he is pointing at is the band Megadeth. Right now, a 62–years old monk is living in Milan singing for his own band, which recently made it’s new album called “Misteri”.

In the beginning the other band members were pretty sceptical about an idea of taking a monk into their group. However, any doubts faded only after five minutes of talking to Brother Cesare. “Five minutes after meeting Brother Cesare I decided to go ahead, because he manages to convey so much energy, that other musicians and youngsters often don’t manage to express,” noted guitarist Cesare Zanotti.

Recently, “brother metal” has participated in the “Gods of Metal” music festival in Italy, while performing together with Iron Maiden, Judas Priest and Slayer. Soon, he is planning to send the band’s new album as a gift to the Pope.

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The Police Is Making The Last Tour

The Police is going to release a concert disk and DVD following their 2007/2008 world tour dedicated to the band’s 30th anniversary. Drummer Stewart Copeland has recently told this news to the Billboard.

He said that the base of these two disks will include a performance in Buenos Aires that was recorded on 1–2 December last year. DVD should also incorporate a documentary under the name of “Better Than Therapy” created by Copeland’s son, Jordan. The release is planned on the end of this summer.

The world tour had started in Vancouver on March 28, 2007. The last show must take place in New York on August 7 this year. However, after the following concert The Police wants to quit their music career.

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Ronnie Wood Went Wild (pt.2)

On Wednesday The Rolling Stones guitar player Ronnie Wood has agreed to go through a therapy in order to get rid of his alcohol dependency, said Times Online. This ‘addictive’ problem had troubled Wood in the past decades. As his secretary told the press, Wood is “seeking help” in solving this itchy question, and hopes to win no matter what shall face him.

Before, it was said that a 61–years old guitar player had locked himself up in his home in Ireland together with a 19–years old girl from Moscow Ekaterina Ivanova while drinking way over the limit.

Wood’s relatives and the other band members, including Mick Jagger kept on convincing Wood to walk out from his Irish mansion and go to the rehab. It is also noted that his 30–years old son Jesse was visiting Wood right before he took this decision.

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Ronnie Wood Went Wild

The Rolling Stones guitar player Ronnie Wood has locked himself up in his home in Ireland together with the 19–year old girl from Moscow, and as was reported by his relatives drinks two bottles of vodka every day. This news was announced by The Telegraph on previous Friday.

Sixty-one-year old musician came to know Ekaterina Ivanova in London were she was working as a waitress. She is saing that by then Wood already had various problems with his fifty-three-year old wife, ex model Jo. When Jo has told Ekaterina that she is stealing her husband, a Russian girl simply explaimed, “I’m not taking him away, he is going by himself.” Jo Wood thinks that Ekaterina is “totally insane” and “a terrible alcoholic”. The ex-model has lived together with Ronnie for thirty-one years.

Currently, all other members of The Rolling Stones, including Mick Jagger are trying to convice Wood to go through a therapy. Wood’s relatives, (he is a father of four children) are afraid for his life.

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Carla Bruni Faces Criticism

Wife of the French President Nikolas Sarkozy, super-model and a singer Carla Bruni has told the press that she is “deeply offenced” by the criticism surrounding her new album. As it was expected most of the critics belong to the anti-Sakozy political groups, says AFP.

Her third album “Comme Si De Rien N’Etait”, which is available on her personal website is facing the cold shoulder from the French music critics. Of course including those who don’t like Bruni’s husband and his policies. “Definitely, it’s offending me, but at the same time it’s quite natural”, she said in one of her interviews, “That is very understandable when people are mixing my music career together with the first lady’s status”. Previously, Bruni has announced that she is going to cancel her concert tour because of the safety issues.

Her debut album “Quelqu’un M’a Dit” was released in 2002, and became very popular in France selling two million copies. The next one “No Promises” (2007) didn’t get that far, possibly because that time she has used English poetry  – it sold only 380 thousand copies.

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Private Rolling Stones

Rolling Stones turned to be the most expensive corporate band, hence their performance at any private party will cost you seven million dollars, says the Internet web edition staff.co.nz. Journalists are linking these conclusions to the facts that were exposed in a book by Imogen Edwards-Jones “Pop Babylon”, where one shall find lots of interesting things about pop and rock stars’ income.

The second most expensive ‘corporate-private party award’ is absorbed by Elton John, Robby Williams, Rod Stewart and Amy Winehouse: their performances have climbed up to two million dollars. Jenis Jackson and Pussycat Dolls take one million for one concert. Sting looks very innocent in this picture - only five hundred thousand.

As Eward-Jones has noted in his book, “No wonder the market is expanding rapidly with indie acts and young pop stars offering themselves up to the highest bidder. Even old favourites such as Rick Astley and the Human League have dusted themselves off and are available for weddings and bar mitzvahs. So no matter how big or small your budget, there appears to be a band to suit you.”

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Metallica Goes Commercial And Generous

Metallica has announced the price for which anyone will be able to purchase their new album – “Death Magnetic”.

Those who shall register on the band’s informatory/official web site, Mission: Metallica, and pay 24,99 dollars should get an access to download the album on the day of it’s release. As always the quality remains the same and quite good - mp3 format with the bit rate of 320 kbps. Besides that, these people will have a chance to reach a so-called “platinum” key, which means that they can download two concert videos, ringtones and 250 exclusive photos.

Those who are ready to pay 32,99 dollars will attain the same thing, plus traditional CD without any delivery fees. Real fans may get the limited edition of this album by paying 124,99 dollars. It includes mentioned above “platinum” access, mp3/CD part and five ‘rarity like’ vinyl copies of the album with some special lithograph(?).

The release of “Death Magnetic”, which is going to be Metallica’s ninth studio work is planned for September with the help of it’s current label Warner Brothers Records. The last album “St. Anger” was made in 2003.

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Jimmy Hendrix's Unknown Record Story

A member of the band Crosby, Stills and Nash, Steven Stills has found a record in his personal archive that was made together with Jimmy Hendrix, says Digital Spy.

Approximately, it was  recorded way back in 1970, not long ago before Hendrix’s death. Another memeber of C.S.N. Graham Nash has acknowledged that Stills could’ve just simply forget about the existance of this joint work because during 1970’s Stills was literally recording with everyone. Nash has noted, “He has an enormous history of recording. In the 1970’s, he was a recording fool. He just found a bloody album he made with Jimi Hendrix.”

Currently, Nash is getting this record ready to be officially released, but the date is not known yet. Hendrix, who is considered to be one of the greatest guitar players in the history of rock-n-roll, has made just three studio and one concert album.

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The Way To Come Back...

Blondie’s drummer Clem Burke has told the press that during the following year they’re planning to release the new album, noted The Mirror (as of July 7).

A new disk is going to be their 12th full studio album. The last one (“The Curse of Blondie”) was released in 2003. Blondie well apart way back in 1982 after the release of six albums, five singles and generally speaking, pretty powerful ‘hit-charts’ fame. By the end of 1990’s they’ve suddenly reunited and began to make new records, even though without going as high in popularity as before.

Currently, Blondie is on tour dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the release of their famous album “Parallel Lines”.

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System Of A Down Is Not Coming Back

System’s guitarist Daron Malakian doesn’t want this band to be reunited again any soon. As he told Gigwise, he and the band’s drummer John Dolmaian are planning their return to the stage activities with the new act called Scars On Broadway repeating System’s Serge Tankian’s success in his solo project.

Following Malakian’s words, all the former members of the ‘System’ are so into their own solo careers right now that they absolutely don’t think about any kind of reunion.  He has said that, “If someday it feels right for us to do then we’ll do it but as of right now I’m really focused on this and I want to take this to different levels and so does John. We don’t talk about System, we don’t talk about doing System. If it does happen I see it being very very far down the line.”

The band “System of a Down” was founded by Tankian and Malakian in Los Angeles back in 1995. All of the five albums that they’ve released went platinum. In May 2006 the band had announced that they’re planning on a long vacation, but then it didn’t mean any kind of collapse. Their last performance took place on August 2006 in Florida after which Serge Tankian said that he would like to persue his solo career. In 2007 Tankian had released his first solo album “Elect The Dead”.

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Shakira Is Making Deals

Columbian pop-star Shakira has signed a ten years contract with the concert organizing company Live Nation, says The New York Times. The sum of this deal is worth of seventy/one hundred million dollars. Following an agreement  Live Nation shall give her the full range of services (so called 360 degrees contract) including album releases, concerts/tours, and selling of souvenirs.

Besides that, Shakira is still connected to the other contract agreement with the label Epic Records, which demands three albums from her – one in English, another one in Spanish, and hits collection. This tide is not going to allow Live Nation to release a musician’s new works.

Just for a reminder – Live Nation possesses a long-term contracts with Madonna, Jay-Z and U2. Previously it was rumoured that the company is planning to make a deal with The Rolling Stones, but it’s management had denied it.

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Bad Company Is Reuniting

The English blues-rock band Bad Company is going to reunite in it’s original lineup to perform at a single concert, says Billboard. This show shall take place on August 8 at the Seminole Hard Rock & Casino in Hollywood, Florida. For the first time since 1999 the band will include vocalist Paul Rodgers, guitarist Mick Ralphs, and drummer Simon Kirke. Bassist Boz Burrell who died in 2006 should be replaced by Lynn Sorenson who used to co-work with Rodgers in his solo projects.

This concert is dedicated to the death of an infamous lawyer Steve Weiss who represented the band in 1970, Led Zeppelin and the record label Swan Song Records. A show should be recorded and later released on DVD.

Bad Company was founded in 1973 producing twelve studio albums during their long muisc carreer. Together with Paul Rodgers the band lasted until 1982, and between 1998–2002 he had partially cooperated with his former collegues. Today, Rodgers is doing some work with musicians from Queen.

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Nokia Keeps On Spreading Music

Recently the phone company Nokia had made a deal with the Warner Music Group to spread music tracks possessed by this label using Come with Music service and Nokia’s music store, says Reuters. This agreement allows Nokia to get an access to the new variety of musicians like Bjork or Sepultura.

It is expected that Comes with Music, which allows Nokia phone holders download music without any limitations for one year will start by the second half of 2008, notes AFP. Phones that incorporate Comes with Music service are a little bit more expensive than the others in purpose to fulfill prices set by the record companies.

Comes with Music is already supported by the Universal and Sony BMG labels. Right now there are no facts on EMI’s agreement to join the major music sharing project, even though back in March this company had voiced it’s intentions to do it.

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Radiohead Goes Live

Radiohead is selling a concert version of their recent album “In Rainbows” using iTunes music service, says Billboard.

Live performances include all the songs contained on the original album except “Faust Arp” and “Jigsaw Falling Into Place”. A bonus disk which goes together with this release includes two newly re-written songs, “Bangers+Mash” and “Go Slowly”.

The record was made during Radiohead’s concert in London’s Hospital club on May 3. Also, recently all their albums became available on iTunes.

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