U2 Will Go Out Later

U2 is postponing the release of their new album due to the lack of two songs that should be on it, said New Musical Express. What actually had happened to them and why this is the only reason not to release it? Originally, the release of their 12th album was planned on November 14, but in September musicians have announced the fact that everything will be going out later – approximately in the beginning of 2009. At the same time the band’s leader Bono kept on saying that they have up to 50/60 new songs. However, they still don’t have those two additional songs to make the new release moving on. Most likely the new album will be called “No Line On The Horizon”, and it’s being produced by Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, including Steve Lillywhite. Also U2 was co-working with the infamous Rick Rubin, but as the band’s guitarist The Edge told the press everything what was made together with him is now thrown away and will not appear on the album. “He [Rick] gave us great advice as much as anything. His whole thing is, ‘Don’t go near the studio until you know exactly what you want to do’, which of course, is the opposite of how we usually work.”

The previous U2 album “How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb” was released in 2004.

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Metallica Backs The Internet

Metallica is looking at the possibility of releasing their new record through the Internet. This information was given to a Rolling Stone magazine by Lars Ulrich (drummer). This is quite amazing, especially after the scandal which surrounded Metallica after their legal battle with Napster. Many people began to see this band as greedy as no one else in the music industry. Such an interesing move sounds extremely promising and cool. “We’re free of our record contract. We have that element of complete freedom with the next record, so we can do whatever we want. We could do an Internet thing or even put it on Andy Greene’s record label.” Could they free themselves ten years ago? Probably not… Besides that, Metallica is not planning to return to a studio right now because they’re still very tired from the previous recording process (“Death Magnetic”). Currently the band is touring in around the US in support of it.

Isn’t it amazing that Metallica wants to spread it’s next album through the Internet? Nevertheless, “Death Magnetic” (2008) saw the first light exclusively online just ten days before it’s official release. It sounds like Ulrich began to believe in progress and the irreversibility of it’s influence on music.

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Elizabeth Fraser Comes Back

Cocteau Twins vocalist Elizabeth Fraser had created the ‘super band,’ said NME. This cool project is going to be called The Hookham Boys, which should include a lot of musicians who have once worked together with Massive Attack, Spiritualized, post-punk group Echo And The Bunnymen, and the British electronic band Goldfrapp. Particularly, Fraser’s new band shall incorporate the following list of musicians: Damon Reece, Alex Lee (Placebo, Suede and Goldfrapp), Sean Cook, Joe Allen from Strangelove, and Jake Brockman. The first concert where The Hookham Boys shall perform is going to take place today (November 26) in London. Money that will be earned from this event should go to the charity organization called the Teenage Cancer Trust.

A lot of fans see this project as the revival of The Cocteau Twins, or another page in the life story of Elizabeth Fraser. This band fell apart back in 1997 after the release of their last album, “Milk and Kisses” (1996). In 2007 Twins’ began to work with the new studio material spreading rumours about the upcoming release. In October 2008 Cocteau Twins have appeared at Q Awards ceremony receiving the Inspiration Award. So far everything sounds very promising, and lets hope that Fraser will keep on going with The Hookham Boys.

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Slash Is About To Record With Ozzy

  

 

An ex-Guns N’ Roses guitar player and a current member of Velvet Revolver Slash is planning to release the solo album. This information was spread by NME with the reference to his wife Perla Hudson. Recently, she gave an interview to The Rockerrazzi, which later posted it on the YouTube. Hudson told them that Slash wants to invite his friends to make this new record, and it turned out that Ozzy Osbourne is most likely will be participating. Also, Slash’s best friends list may include Black Eyed Peas vocalist and a solo performer Fergie. The exact date is of course not known so far because all this information is extremely unreliable and uncertain. However, it is well known that Hudson was never caught up lying about his husband’s music career, so lets believe everything she said. Plus there are good rumours taken out from some other sources on the fact that Slash had already recorded fourteen songs which most likely will be presented on the album.

In 2009 Slash will perform at the Quart music festival in Norway as the headliner, and soon after everybody may see him touring in around the UK. Everything what deals with Velvet Revolver (which was created by Slash and two other Guns N’ Roses members, bassist Daff McKagan and drummer Matt Sorum in 2002) is noted by it’s search for a new vocalist.

Perla Hudson’s interview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rX9L5zPUQA&eurl=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=109525

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The Vatican And The Beatles

Vatican had openly excused John Lennon for his phrase were he was comparing The Beatles to Jesus by saying that the band is actually more famous. This information is now available at the L’Osservatore Romano webiste – the official Catholic newspaper. Back in 1966 Lennon gave an interview to one of the London’s newspapers saying that, “Christianity will disappear. It shall shrink and go away. We are more popular than Jesus”. “Back than this phrase began to spread a lot of angry talks, but today it sounds like a joke said by a young man who stepped his game up from the working class to the greatest fame of all times”, noted L’Osservatore Romano. According to the Church the real talent behind The Beatles stands in their specific ability to write popular songs which contain happiness and euphoria. In contrast, today popular music is standardised, full of stereotypes and totally lacks what The Beatles were doing. It seems quite true, modern music is the repitition of the same stuff again and again. Since the 90’s there is almost nothing new. Styles are the same, lyrics are the same and of course music videos are the same. Modern times need modern Beatles.

http://www.vatican.va/news_services/or/or_eng/index.html

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Live Earth 2008

An ex-Pink Floyd bassist Roger Waters, who is currently performing as a solo artist shall headline the Live Earth music festival. It should take place on December 7 in the Indian city of Mumbai (former Bombey), said Gigwise. Legendary Waters stands on top, and makes things moving! Also, all kinds of other musicians are planning to show up. Approximately, the list should be quite long, but for right now only two musicians have confirmed their future presence. William Adams from Black Eyed Peas, who is better known as Will.I.Am and Bon Jovi. Of course this event shall include local Indian artists, but their names are not very well known in the Western media. Viewers from India, Hong-Kong and other Asian countries will be able to see this concert live. Others may be able to observe it exclusively on the Internet.

Live Earth was started in 2007. Back then it incorporated various concerts all around the globe including Rio De Janeiro, London, New York, Hamburg, Johannesburg, Shanhai, Sydney and Tokyo. Total number of TV and live viewers included nearly two billion people wordwide. One of the festival’s organizers is the ex-US vice president and the Noble prize laureate Albert Gore.  

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Over The Rainbow

Former The Rainbow musicians Joe Lynn Turner, Tony Kerry, Bobby Rondinelli and Greg Smith are planning to create the joint music project together with Ritchie Blackmore’s son Jurgen (Ritchie Blackmore is the legendary founder of Deep Purple). This new band is going to be called Over The Rainbow, said Blabbermouth.net. Kerry used to participate in The Rainbow during 1975–1978 period, Turner and Rondinelli have joined it in 1980. Smith was the latest guy who played in the band from 1994 to 1997. Over The Rainbow project shall include Turner as a vocalist, Kerry as a keyboardist, Rondinelli as a drummer, Smith as a bassist, and Blackmore Jr. as a guitarist. The last one has agreed to join a group after understanding the impact it had on music fans. The whole idea of reunion changed his mind. Right after The Rainbow fell apart in 1997 all these musicians keep on hearing numerous wishes to make it going again. Also, musicians are designing the world tour and possibly will start making another record. Reunions are great, especially when they’re including new people from the younger generation. Blackmore Jr. perfectly represents this new generation, plus he continues his father’s task by playing rock n’ roll.

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Neil Finn Is About To Incorporate Everybody

Crowded House vocalist Neil Finn has a wish to record the charity album, said Billboard. He is going to co-work with such musicians as Radiohead’s drummer Ed O’Brien, Phil Selway, the band Wilco in its full line-up, Johnny Marr (The Smiths and Modest), Soul Coughing’s bassist Sebastian Steinberg and a singer Lisa Germano. So far this future album is not carrying any name, but it’s about to be recorded very soon in Oakland with the help of Jimmy Scott, and shall be released in 2009. In January all these musicians will give the joint concert (possibly more than one). This interesting project is the continuation of the concert album “Seven Worlds Collide” (this name was taken from one of the Crowded House’s songs “Distant Sun”), which was released in 2001. “Seven Worlds Collide” was also made up by lots of cool people and bands including Wilco and Pearl Jam frontman Eddy Vedder.

All profits made from the new album will be given to Oxfam charity organization.

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"Carnival of Light" Shall Go Public

Soon Sir Paul McCartney is going to release previously unknown The Beatles’ song “Carnival of Light”, said the British weekly The Observer. The improvised fourteen minutes long composition was recorded way back on January 5, 1967 in the Abbey Road studio (North London) while making the infamous “Penny Lane”. “Carnival of Light” is mixed with the variety of noizes including human voices, psychedelic sounds and the church organ. This song was performed, or actually played as a record during the electronic music festival at the Roundhouse theatre in London. Listeners were not aware of the fact who actually made this record. The Beatles themselves decided not to release it, thinking that it’s just too strange to be understood. However, forty years later McCartney has changed this opinion. In one of the recent interviews to BBC (see it on the following week) Sir Paul said that he still keeps this record and would like to release it. At the same time he added that he was planning to do it in 1996 together with the release of “Anthology”, but George Harrison has convinced him not to continue. 

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A New Drummer For Nine Inch Nails

Nine Inch Nails have found a new drummer to replace Josh Freese who had announced his wish to leave the band just a few months ago. Ilan Rubin from Lastprophets is going to be this new guy, said Blabbermouth.

Freese has told about his idea to leave NIN in October, and specifically underlined the fact that he is about to stay until December, when their North American tour is over. All kinds of rumours are saying that a twenty-year-old Rubin is about to join Nails in the beginning of 2009. Nine Inch Nails’ frontman and unchageable leader Trent Reznor has written on the band’s official web site that Rubin is going to be their new drummer, and later this info was picked up by the others. Reznor has pointed out his admiration of Lostprophets and specifically Rubin’s talent, “I had the chance to see Ilan playing his ass off at Reading and Leeds. a couple summers ago and he blew me away. We recently invited him out to rehearse with us and he blew US away – the perfect guy to pick up the sticks after Josh leaves us at the end of the year.”

Ilan Rubin began to play drums when he was only eight years old when he found his father’s drum set in the garage. Besides drums he’s playing guitar and a keyboard.

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Another Movie About Grateful Dead

Grateful Dead’s leader Jerry Garcia will be the main character in a movie made about him and his band, said Billboard. Albert Berger and Ron Yerxa are going to produce it. These two directors (producers) have already created such movies as “Little Miss Sunshine”, “Cold Mountain” and “Election”. Everyone is sure that they’re capable of making something really good about Jerry. The base for scenario shall include episodes that were described by Robert Greenfield in his book about Garcia “Dark Star”. Robert’s work incorporates various stories about Grateful Dead’s frontman, which were told by his close friends. Who exactly will play Jerry’s role is not know yet. Producers are saying that their movie will show Garcia’s early days when his music interests and talents began to show up. Also, these guys are planning to focus upon the roots of Grateful Dead, this band’s influences and later growth. However, this move is not the first one which shall describe Grateful Dead. Way back in 1977 Jerry Garcia himself made a move about his musical creation called “The Grateful Dead Movie”.

http://www.jerrygarcia.com/ Jerry Garcia’s official website.

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R.E.M., Stipe And T-Shirts

R.E.M. vocalist Michael Stipe had participated in the project organized by Lacoste (clothing designers and producers). This information just showed up on the Rolling Stone website. Stipe had personally designed the whole line of t-shirts. He has noted that, “I’ve created a monumental two tone photographic image depicting a crowd at a stadium concert from the perspective of a performer on the stage”. In order to see how this new stuff looks like anyone can check it out on the Lacoste web page: http://www.lacoste.com/michaelstipe/. T-shirts that were designed by Stipe are made in four colour variations: grey, deep red, black/white and deep green. An approximate price (men and women models) may go up to three hundred dollars. Pretty expensive, and again sounds less like rock n’ roll because everything what belongs to the real rock culture should be way cheaper. High society culture is on the move, not the real rock n’ roll, but cool anyway.

R.E.M. itself is currently on tour in South America. On November 11 they’ve performed at a concert in Brazil.

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Fatboy Slim Puts Everyone Together

DJ Norman Cook who is better known under his nickname Fatboy Slim had announced the release date of his new album. This work is the first product made by his side project Brighton Port Authority (BPA), said New Musical Express. “I Think We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat” shall become available in February, 2009. Surprisingly, BPA was made with some valuable help from Iggy Pop, David Byrne (ex-leader of the British new wave band Talking Heads), and the British house-rap star Dizzy Rascal. Dizzy was participating in the Basement Jaxx’s production of “Lucky Star”. Besides these musicians, “I Think We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat” incorporates Martha Wainwright (folk singer), and two other British musicians Jamie T and Jack Penate. The best part about this thing is that so many brilliant people are taking part in it. Fatboy Slim will never stop innovating and changing himself, and that’s why so many fans shall never stop admiring him.

Anybody can check out more about this incredible music project on this web page – http://www.thebrightonportauthority.com/

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Ultravox Comes Back

The British band Ultravox had reunited in it’s “classic” line-up, said Billboard. In April 2009 they’re planning to start touring around the UK, and so far it is confirmed that they shall visit London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Bristol and some other cities (totally fourteen concerts). Right now there is no information on the fact that Ultravox is planning to record the new album. Vocalist/guitarist Midge Ure,  keyboardist Billy Currie, bassist Chris Cross and drummer Warren Cann will perform together for the first time since 1985. Practically, nobody remembers them playing together after the infamous Live Aid concert. Ultravox which always produced the “new wave” sounds was formed in London (1976). During their career they’ve recorded ten studio albums, among which “Vienna” (1980), and “Quartet” (1980) may be called the most prominent. In 1988 the band fell apart and came back again in 1992–1996, but with the different line-up. This time they’ll look original.

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The Last Shadow Puppets (It's Over Now)

The British musicians Alex Turner and Miles Kane have finished their joint project – The Last Shadow Puppets, said The Sun. On November 3 the band had performed at it’s last concert in Los Angeles, (North American tour) after which they’ve officially stated a wish to go back to their original groups – Arctic Monkeys and The Rascals. The Last Shadow Puppets were pretty good, and like it often happens may come back sometimes later. It was formed in the beginning of 2008, producing “The Age of the Understatement”  and three singles. This album was warmly welcomed by the fans and critics while conquering a number one on the British charts. “The Age of the Understatement” was nominated for the prestigeous Mercury Prize award, but failed due to Elbow’s victory (“The Seldom Seen Kid” album). Turner and Kane are not sure what they’re going to do with this project. At least it is confirmed that Turner will soon start recording the Arctic Monkey’s third album, and The Rascals shall do the same.   

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Damon Albarn Wants To Reunite Blur

The British performer Damon Albarn had announced a wish to reunite his first music project - Blur, said The Guardian. Seriously, what a great news for those who like this band. Just a few days ago Albarn has told BBC that recently he met with the former Blur guitarist Graham Coxon to discuss these plans. In the 90’s Blur was one of the most prominent brit-pop bands, which was formed in London (1989). During their career they’ve released seven studio albums, and the last one “Think Tank” was produced in 2003. Practically, it was recorded withon Coxon, and since then this band did not exist anymore.

At this time Albarn had started to produce and manage some side projects, which included Gorillaz and The Good, the bad and the Queen. “Monkey: Journey To The West” opera also belongs to his creative talent. Graham Coxon had released the number of solo albums, and currently helps Peter Doherty (The Libertines and Babyshambles) in making of some fresh sounds. Blur’s drummer Dave Rowntree keeps on trying to enter the London’s city council (The Labour Party), but so far without any success. Bassist Alex James is doing an unusual business, he’s producing the new type of cheese which is called “Blue Monday”.

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MTV Europe Music Awards 2008

MTV surprised Sir Paul McCartney with granting him an honourable award, which is designed specifically for him, said BBC News. The “Ultimate Legend” is going to be given to him in his hometown of Liverpool today (November 6) during the MTV Europe Music Awards ceremony. As the music channel’s representatives say, McCartney turned to be one of the most influential artists of all times and definitely deserves this prize. Generations of people were growing up with his music and the Ultimate Legend should belong to him. The British newspaper The Mirror says that this award will be given to an ex-Beatle by a U2 frontman Bono. There is no information about McCartney’s upcoming performance at the ceremony, but it’s organizers believe that he shall sing a few ones just with the help of his guitar and no other musicians. 

The band Coldplay is now foreseen to be the favourite of this year’s ceremony. Also, the list of favourites may include Britney Spears and Duffy. Beyonce, Pink, Take That and The Killers should be just performing, and will they steal a few trophies too is not known so far.

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Ozzy, Foo Fighters and Rock N' Roll Fame

On November 3 London was witnessing another Classic Rock N’ Roll Of Honour ceremony, which is always greatfully organized by the “Classic Rock” magazine, said The Daily Telegraph. As the result of it a lot of great bands have received cheers and gifts. Foo Fighters were proclaimed to be the coolest band of this year, and the best album went to Whitesnake’s “Good To Be Bad”. The most ‘successful new band’ nomination was given to the Australian group Airborne. Led Zeppelin was honoured for their O2 Arena concert in London, and Ozzy Osbourne was named to be the living legend. This prize was given to Ozzy by another legendary figure Slash (Guns n’ Roses lead guitarist). After receiving it Ozzy began to joke, “I hope I don’t die on the way home,” also noting that, “I couldn’t be happier to know that Classic Rock haven’t written me off!”. In other words, legends, fame and cool jokes, things are moving in their traditional direction, and maybe that’s exactly the way it should always be, even if they’re often the same.

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AC/DC and Excel

AC/DC turned to be the first band to release a video for the computer software program. They’ve produced one for the Microsoft Excel, said Rolling Stone. Their song “Rock N’ Roll Train” was written with the use of symbols, letters and numbers. It can be activated right in the mentioned above program, and may look very surprising to many of AC/DC’s fans. XLS format shall perform some extra fun. “Rock N’ Roll Train” became the first single on their new album ‘Black Ice’, which was long awaited since the release of “Stiff Upper Lip” in 2000. ‘Black Ice’ proved to be quite successful by climbing towards number one during the first week of sale in twenty nine countries. AC/DC guys have already started the world tour in support of this new release.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9_YkXHCkgA

http://www.acdcrocks.com/excel/

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Armin Van Buuren Rules Over The Trance Scene

DJ Mag magazine was recently making some cool charts in order to identify and name the world’s best DJ (as of 2008). The first three spots were taken by the Dutch guys: 1) Armin van Buuren, 2) DJ Tiesto, 3) Paul van Dyk. It definitely means that trance music still remains to be the most popular dance/party style, and nothing seems to be moving it away from the scene.  At least a lot of music experts are actually agreeing on such a fact. Armin himself was becoming better as a musician since 1995 and eventually was voted to be the number one. Practically, the European dance music stands on him and the following two sound creators. This list also includes David Guetta, Sasha, John Digweed and of course Infected Mushroom.

The second chart (11–20) includes Carl Cox, Paul Oakenfold, Richie Hawtin and James Zabiela. A French group Daft Punk ended up only at the 38^th place. Benny Benassi and Bob Sinclair went down to numbers 39/40.  

http://www.djmag.com/

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