The "Forever Night Never Day" tour will be 30 Seconds To Mars' first official headlining tour. According to the band's website, one can purchase tickets for select shows by clicking here. Along for the ride are fledging bands Aiden and Emanuel.
The Financial Times reported that the retailer has met with representatives from major labels and is at work putting the final touches on its system. The site plans to launch the service as early as this summer, according to the Times’ report.
Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos is confident legal downloading will shake up the music industry - because lazy pop and rock stars will no longer prosper.
The Take Me out singer thinks choosy fans will stop buying records just because they like certain acts, and start purchasing the songs they like instead.
He says, "I like the idea that, because of downloading, people are gonna buy songs only if they are good.
"It means lazy bands aren't going to get away with giving you the one hit single and an album full of filler."
Johnny Cash has three Top 25 albums in Australia even though he's dead. Due to the popularity of biopic Walk the Line, Cash has experienced posthumous success as viewers of that film take to stores and buy his records. The recordings currently on the Australian Top 25 list include two compilations and the soundtrack to Walk the Line.
Rap phenomenon and Bush-basher, Kanye West, has another grievance. Despite picking up three Grammys from the rap category, Kanye feels he should have been the one to take home Album of the Year. Instead, the honor went to U2 while Kanye cried about it to the press."I didn't win it by a technicality, not because I didn't deserve it. Even [U2 lead singer] Bono was like 'Come on.' Everybody knows it." - Kanye West
"Now it gives me another goal to go and work on Graduation and show them 'Yo, I really deserve this album of the year,'" he said. "I'm gonna keep on delivering albums of the year that are so undeniable to the point where you finally let a rapper come up and accept this award."
For those people out there with tickets to the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival, consider yourselves extremely fortunate to witness such a star-studded line-up. It has recently been confirmed that "The Best Band in the World" (according to Q Magazine), Radiohead, has agreed to perform at the festival. This will be Radiohead's first U.S. festival appearance since headlining Coachella in 2004. Bonnaroo is a three-day music festival that will take place June 16th through 18th in Manchester, Tennessee."You shouldn't just slag people off just because you don't like their music, when you don't even know them or when you'll bump into them next week."
A near priceless piece of Beatles memorabilia will be hitting the auction block in the days to come. The original lyric sheet for "A Day In the Life," off of the classic Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, will be available for bidding until March 7."It's absolutely the finest rock and roll artifact to survive the 20th century," Martin Gammon, a book and manuscript analyst at Bonhams & Butterfields, said Thursday
The value of the manuscript has increased exponentially in a little more than a decade, Gammon said. An unidentified American collector purchased the lyrics for "A Day in the Life" for roughly $100,000 in 1992 — considerably less than the likely winning bid in 2006. They originally belonged to former Beatles road manager Mal Evans.
Massive Attack has recently announced that they will be joining the already stellar line-up of the seventh annual Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, to be performed in Indio, CA. This will be the trip-hop band's first U.S. appearance in more than eight years."We are playing Coachella, dusk till dark, before Tool on the Sunday night. It's going to be a blast," announced Robert Del Naja on the band's website forum. Continuing his comment on the band's plans for the summer, "the main bulk of the tour will be June-September in Europe, USA, Middle East, Africa and Japan with recording and mixing in-between."
In an effort not to buck my trend of only posting Canadian-related posts this week, I bring to you an article on funny man from the north, Rick Moranis. After a ten year absence from making movies, Moranis has reemerged with, of all things, a country album!"As much as it is somewhat of a departure, it's not completely a departure because I've always done a lot of music," said Moranis, who started out as a radio DJ in Toronto before moving on to standup comedy."I don't know if I'm capable of writing anything straight. I just can't take myself that seriously."
Moranis said country music seemed a natural genre for his humour.
"Country music is a place where from time to time you hear some really funny stuff," he said pointing to artists like Johnny Cash, The Statler Brothers, Roger Miller and Ray Stevens.
"We're not sure how she got out of the yard, perhaps a gate was ajar," Lieberman said in a statement Monday. Canvassing nearby animal shelters and putting up some 500 signs failed to turn up any trace of Lucille so the 80-year-old musician decided to offer a signed guitar as a reward.
Canadian hero, Bryan Adams, will be inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame this April. While the award ceremony will be held in Halifax, the Canadian Music Hall of Fame will reside in Toronto upon that museum's completion in the summer of 2007.
The awards ceremony will be hosted at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on February 8th. For more information on the artists and awards, check out www.grammy.yahoo.com.The Gorillaz and Madonna join previously announced performers U2 and Mary J Blige; Mariah Carey and the Hezekiah Walker & Love Fellowship Choir; John Legend; Kanye West and Jamie Foxx; Bruce Springsteen; Coldplay; Faith Hill and Keith Urban; Christina Aguilera and Herbie Hancock; Sugarland; and an all-star tribute to Sly And The Family Stone featuring Maroon 5, Will.I.Am of the Black Eyed Peas, Robert Randolph, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith, Joss Stone and John Legend.
Recently, I was excited to learn that one of my all-time favorite metal bands, Nothingface, has reunited. After recording and touring together since the mid-nineties, the group called it quits in 2003; not long after the release of their fourth album, Skeletons. This was a disappointment for me; so when it was announced that they were reforming with plans to record new material, I was quite pleased. With the exception of founding member and bassist/songwriter Bill Gaal being replaced by ex-Deadlights/Danzig bassist Jerry Montano, the band looks and sounds much like they have picked up where they left off. The two new songs they have posted on their website sound like the Nothingface of old. I'm particularly fond of the track 'Walking on Bodies.' Few bands have the ability to successfully be both brutal and delicate at the same time. Here is what vocalist Matt Holt says on their website about the return of Nothingface:"I think I speak for us all by saying that our next record will surpass every other record we had ever been a part of," says Holt, "I feel that our music has grown and has the ability to change the face of our genre, spawning others that will only attempt to achieve what we do so naturally."
There will be no more Rolling Rock Town Fair. Instead, the Latrobe brewing company is partnering with E Street Bander Steven Van Zandt for a series of shows to be played nationwide. It will be called “Garage Rock.” Cities planned for the tour include New York, Chicago, Minneapolis and Seattle, among 26 others.
Mike Shinoda, along with trip-hopsters Tak and Ryu, are set to play Kuala Lumpur March 1. Fort Minor, Shinoda's side project, has been touring the States for the last few months. When the tour raps up later this year, work on a new Linkin Park album is scheduled to begin. Linkin Park is Shinoda's original band.
Forgive my slothiness (is slothiness even a word?) for not discovering Spoon's Gimme Fiction 'till now. The album, which was relased in May of 2005, has been described by the Tuscon Weekly as their "most fully realized album to date." I'd have to agree.Hipster guy #1: No way! I thought I passed you the other day,
but thought, "Nah, it couldn't be him, he wouldn't grow his hair that long."
Hipster guy #2: Yeah. No. I grew it out, man.
Hipster guy #1: You look like Axl Rose!
Hipster guy #2: It's more of a Southern rock thing really. Like a My Morning Jacket look.
--25th & 7th
Last autumn was when Calla released Collisions, the native Texas band's third album. Citing that particular album's influences, frontman/guitarist Aurelio Valle claims Collisions was an experiment and an expression that "succeeded." Bands that Valle said inspired Calla's newest work include Jesus and Mary Chain, the Cocteau Twins, Ride, My Bloody Valentine, Pulp and Radiohead."For the most part, I'm just not one of those dudes who will scream his lungs out. I don't know that I have it in me. Maybe I do, but I haven't found it yet."
Here is a forgotten gem from a time not so long ago. Buckcherry formed in the mid-90s with an affinity for killer metal and tattoos. And when they released their major label debut in 1999, they were sure to combine both. With a cover featuring a tattooed seductress, the self-titled album contained a slew of slicing metal action, including 'Lit Up,' 'Check Your Head,' and this little diddy, 'Dirty Mind.'
Listening to Ethel today, I heard the new Action Action. Only hearing the song once, I can't say what I truly think of the single just yet. I wouldn't say it's bad. However, Rafer Guzman with Newsday has given An Army of Shapes Between Wars a spin or two and he "reacts" to the new Action Action here."...things take a new turn with "The Game," the album's lead single, which brazenly swipes the chorus from Oasis' "Don't Look Back in Anger" and even throws in a George Harrison-esque guitar line. "What Temperature Does Air Freeze At?" goes one better, riding on the lilting flutes from the Beatles' "Strawberry Fields Forever." At times, Action Action sounds like the Dandy Warhols, the Brian Jonestown Massacre and other '60s revisionists."
Zach Rogue's previously one-man-act now consists of three other people. While the recording of his second album Descended Like Vultures occurred prior to its October 2005 release, collaboration with Gram Lebron on several different tunes convinced Rogue that having other bandmates might not be so bad. Gram is now part of Rogue Wave, along with Patrick Spurgeon and Evan Farrell.I'm not one to make resolutions,but, I'd like to spend the first three-quarters of the year performing, and the last quarter of the year recording. Maybe I'll go into a cabin to write...grow a long beard.
Just when you thought terrestrial radio was old hat, the traditional radio industry has innovated a new way to revitalize itself. HD-Radio is in many ways like HD-TV. They’re both high definition, and they both require upper-end devices to decode their respective signals. But unlike HD-TV, HD-Radio doesn’t project a crystal clear image onto a flat screen so lifelike you wanna touch. Instead, the latter provides users with CD quality sound in much the same way the satellite radio signals do. 
This last Thursday it was announced that Napster had reached half-a-million subscribers. Doubling its number of subscribers in the past year alone, the former rogue P2P filesharing program has made gains in cutting into the marketshare of leading legal music vendor iTunes. Unlike iTunes, however, Napster has implemented different strategies in its attempt to lure legitimate customers and to rehabilitate its once scarred image.'With exciting new development in the pipeline and over $100 million on our balance sheet, we are extremely excited about the future of Napster'. ~Chris Gorog, Napster CEO/Chairman
It was in June when I first reported on Nine Black Alps and their resurrection of Nirvanaesque sounds. Now, with an upcoming show in Dublin, Ireland, the band from Manchester has made quite a dent on the UK and US music scene.
