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Post by rockkid on Feb 18, 2006 12:28:26 GMT -5
A place for breaking recording news.
If you hear something new you’d recommend post it here.
That said………. I had the distinct privilege yesterday to hear a cut off of Exile & The Kingdom. This is the new offering from former Tea Party lead Jeff Martin.
Boy oh boy will I be buying this CD.
Viva la resurrection of Zeppelin.
I was amazed!
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Post by rockkid on Feb 23, 2006 14:52:56 GMT -5
Leaked Guns N' Roses Tracks Give Fans Hope
NEW YORK - Guns N' Roses fans went into frenzied overdrive when three studio-quality tracks from the mythical "Chinese Democracy" album were leaked onto the Internet.
The leaks came just weeks after frontman
Axl Rose ended his hermit-like lifestyle by venturing out to a Korn tour launch party in Los Angeles and to trendy nightclubs for some post-birthday bashes (his 44th) in Manhattan.
Asked at the Korn bash about "Chinese Democracy," which has been in the making for a decade, Rose told Rolling Stone.com that "people will hear music this year."
The tracks leaked Wednesday take a different direction from Rose's traditional raunchy Sunset Strip-style rock. "Better" has emo/industrial touches mixed with Rose's trademark vocals and hard rock backdrop. "There Was A Time" is a rough studio mix of a power ballad with similarities to GNR's classic "Estranged." "IRS" is closer to the sound of yesteryear, with powerful guitar solos and classic rock flavor.
Rose's manager, Merck Mercuriadis, ordered the Internet sites to remove the links, but declined to comment on them. Fans also sent one of the leaked tracks to radio stations. Mercuriadis said cease-and-desist orders were sent to the stations, but some, such as WAAF in Boston, still had "IRS" in heavy rotation Monday night.
News also surfaced Monday that several music festivals, such as the Rock in Rio-Lisboa and the NovaRock festival in Austria, had booked the band to play in May and June, respectively.
Lisa Reed, wife of keyboard player Dizzy Reed, said on her husband's web site that "all signs point to (the album) getting closer and closer," and she pleaded with fans not to leak the rest of the album.
"It's like shaking all your Christmas presents on the 23rd of December," she wrote, "and figuring out what they are."
Personally after the last very very sad performance I saw from Mr Rose I don’t know how much I really want to see/hear this.
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Post by Kensterberg on Feb 23, 2006 14:58:49 GMT -5
Our local rock station played all three of these tracks last week on their morning show ... and they were pretty sad. I'm not a GNR fan, so I'll leave my own opinion out of this, but all four people there (at least two of whom were big GNR fans) had the same reaction. None of 'em sound like singles, nor do they really sound like anything you'd want to hear twice.
Worst of all, the tracks don't even sound current ... they sound like stuff Axle came up with six or seven years ago (or more!) and has just been screwing around with ever since. Really sad in a way.
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Post by Paul on Feb 23, 2006 15:02:21 GMT -5
Our local rock station played all three of these tracks last week on their morning show ... and they were pretty sad. I'm not a GNR fan, so I'll leave my own opinion out of this, but all four people there (at least two of whom were big GNR fans) had the same reaction. None of 'em sound like singles, nor do they really sound like anything you'd want to hear twice. Worst of all, the tracks don't even sound current ... they sound like stuff Axle came up with six or seven years ago (or more!) and has just been screwing around with ever since. Really sad in a way. I haven't heard them, but what you said is pretty much what I was thinking.... Although, I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for the venerable Appetite for Destruction |
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Post by rockkid on Feb 24, 2006 14:04:44 GMT -5
Appetite for Destruction was their finest hour. I think poor Axle is long past his prime and sadly fails to realize it. What a waste, such pipes……….now such waste  |
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Post by maarts on Feb 25, 2006 4:07:55 GMT -5
Glad Axl disppeared up his own anal cavities. Good riddance once and for all.
Seems that the most anticipated things for me are re-releases! Squeeze's back cat gets the remaster-plus-bonusdisc-treatment, starting with ArgyBargy next month. The Jam's All Mod Cons should be out in the same format next month. Porcupine Tree's masterpieces Stupid Dream and Lightbulb Sun are the last two albums that will be remastered and being accompanied with an extra CD- having a lot of outtakes and demos from the band already I know that extra material in PT's case means quality.
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Post by Ayinger on Mar 4, 2006 0:18:12 GMT -5
I downloaded a few of the new GnR tracks....yeah, not much to write home about, esp. after all this waiting. I'm betting all the anticipation will turnout to be pretty much lukewarm. Ol' Axl needs to come back home here to Lafayette and get a reality check or something!
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Post by Paul on Mar 7, 2006 11:02:15 GMT -5
www.rollingstone.com/news/story/9438579/sonic_youth_bring_seventies_rockSonic Youth Bring Seventies Rock "Sonic Nurse" follow-up inspired by Blue Oyster Cult, "Friends" After spending last fall and early 2006 in the studio with John Agnello (Dinosaur Jr., Son Volt), New York's favorite avant-garde rockers Sonic Youth are now mixing the follow-up to 2004's Sonic Nurse, set for release on June 13th. The band's latest, as-yet-untitled studio album, says guitarist/vocalist Thurston Moore, drew upon some surprising sources. "What was that band -- the Rembrandts? We're inspired by that!" says Moore with a laugh. This according to his daughter with singer/bassist Kim Gordon, Coco, when she first heard their new song "What a Waste." "Our eleven-year-old said, 'Hey! That's the theme song from Friends!'" he confesses. "And we're like, 'Oh, yeah!' So we're inspired by that -- and [the short-lived NBC comedy series] Freaks and Geeks, which is totally awesome and also early, thrash-era Go-Go's." But overall, the tracks -- which include the titles "Rats," "Lights Out," "The Neutral" and "Turqoise Boys" -- take cues from Seventies efforts by Long Island hard rockers the Blue Oyster Cult. "Like their third, fourth album," Moore explains. Sonic Youth plan to tour America in support of the effort from June through September, pairing up for a handful of dates with pals the Flaming Lips. "We like each other," Moore says. "We've played together -- but it's always at some festival in Brazil or something. So we thought we should really cut across the U.S. together." Before that happens, the band will also release a host of reissues on March 14th: Moore's "only above-ground solo record," Psychic Hearts; the group's 1989's experimental side project Ciccone Youth; and Sonic Youth's 1982 self-titled debut EP, packaged with seven extra songs. "The first EP is really exciting because we actually unearthed a cassette recording from when we were actually first getting onstage somewhere," Moore recalls. "Most of the material was never recorded beyond playing it live. We sound completely different -- we were coming out of this New York No Wave atonal guitar world." Moore himself will follow up the reissues with a handful of solo live appearances, beginning with an experimental guitar set on March 16th at the Table of the Elements record label show at Austin's South by Southwest Music Festival. He'll wrap things up March 18th at Brooklyn, New York's No Fun festival, alongside one of his favorite guitar hopefuls, Ohioan Leslie Keffer. "She's part of this whole burgeoning Midwest subterranean noise scene," explains Moore. "It's great -- you can really see very intense displays of noise music by women there." JOLIE LASH Posted Mar 06, 2006 5:08 PM
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Post by maarts on Mar 7, 2006 14:43:34 GMT -5
Tool- 10.000 Days- out mid-April.
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Post by Paul on Mar 30, 2006 10:30:06 GMT -5
www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002274305Exclusive: Replacements Reunite For New Songs Paul Westerberg March 29, 2006, 4:40 PM ET Jonathan Cohen, N.Y. As tipped yesterday (March 28) on Billboard's Jaded Insider blog, Replacements members Paul Westerberg, Tommy Stinson and Chris Mars have reunited to record two new songs for an upcoming retrospective, "Don't You Know Who I Think I Was?: The Best of the Replacements." Due June 13 via Rhino, the set will feature "Message to the Boys" and "Pool & Dive," the band's first new recordings in 16 years. Session drummer Josh Freese was behind the kit for the new recordings, while Mars, who in recent years has foregone music for an art career, contributed backing vocals. The songs were written by Westerberg and were recorded at producer Ed Ackerson's Flowers studio in Minneapolis. At deadline, it is unclear if any further activity is brewing within the Replacements' camp. Westerberg told Billboard.com in 2005 that he still reflects fondly on the Replacements' early days, especially "when we were riding in the van and we ripped the seats out and would just listen to tapes and listen to Black Flag. [We would] sort of slam dance and stuff around in the back of the van and be drinking hard liquor at noon and it was just, you know, carefree times. We didn't give a damn." Westerberg also said he tried to reunite the Replacements for an October 2004 benefit concert for Soul Asylum's Karl Mueller, who later died of cancer. "I didn't call the guys myself," he admitted. "One of our old roadie pals came over who owns a bar now and runs a club and was asking if I would do a benefit for Karl and I said, 'See if the boys want to play.' And he kind of went around and got various answers and it didn't come back real strong like, 'Hey let's do it.' And I felt like that was the opportunity, that was the chance and we just missed it. "Now I say, there's probably no chance we'll get back together again," he said, without pinpointing which of his former colleagues were not interested. "It bothered me for like an afternoon," he laughed. "But, it did bother me for that long because I was secretly excited and some of them weren't." Meanwhile, sources say the long-awaited Replacements boxed set is still in the planning stages and will not be out until 2007 at the earliest. Rhino is also working on expanded editions of the Replacements' albums, but no release date has yet been announced for those packages either. Here is the track list for “Don't You Know Who I Think I Was?”: "Takin a Ride" "Shiftless When Idle" "Kids Don't Follow" "Color Me Impressed" "Within Your Reach" "I Will Dare" "Answering Machine" "Unsatisfied" "Here Comes a Regular" "Kiss Me on the Bus" "Bastards of Young" "Left of the Dial" "Alex Chilton" "Skyway" "Can't Hardly Wait" "Achin' To Be" "I'll Be You" "Merry Go Round" "Message to the Boys" "Pool & Dive"
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Post by Galactus on Mar 30, 2006 10:33:00 GMT -5
A Box set! Yay! About time.
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Post by Paul on Mar 31, 2006 12:09:45 GMT -5
Can't wait for this one....
Three 6 Mafia Collaborating With Paris Hilton
March 30, 2006, 6:30 PM ET
Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
Three 6 Mafia Collaborating With Paris Hilton
Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
Socialite Paris Hilton is working on tracks for her debut album with recent Oscar-winning hip-hop trio Three 6 Mafia. Hilton met the group at a William Morris Agency party and asked if they could work together, Three 6 Mafia's "Juicy J" Houston told the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
"We let her listen to a dance track and she really liked it and plans to record it tonight," Houston said.
Hilton has been working on the album for the past year and has already recorded with rappers Fat Joe and Jadakiss. The songs "It's Like That," "Jealousy" and a cover of Rod Stewart's 1978 No. 1 pop hit "Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?" are also tipped to appear on the set, which will be released later this year via Warner Bros.
Producer Scott Storch has been behind the boards for several tracks. "I think Paris's album is going to take everyone by surprise," he told the New York Times last year.
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Post by Thorngrub on Apr 4, 2006 13:14:18 GMT -5
The new album by Japan's post rockers in mono will be released next Tuesday, April 11. It will be titled YOU ARE THERE here is the tracklist: 1. The Flames Beyond... 2. A heart has asked for the pleasure 3. Yearning 4. Are you there? 5. The remains of the day 6. Moonlight Here is the 'editorial review'/Product Description I got off Amazon.com: "Throughout their six-year career, this Japanese quartet has ascended consistently in both popularity and critical acclaim. But still elusive is the successful translation of their powerful and violently beautiful live performances to their recordings, until now. Once again recorded by Steve Albini, the album extends the cinematic drama of 2003's "Walking Cloud And Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered And The Sun Shined" while surpassing the sinister heaviness of 2002's lauded "One Step More And You Die". If "Walking Cloud" was a nuclear winter, then "You Are There" is the post-war rebirth. This band isn't heavy like Black Sabbath. They're heavy like Beethoven." Heavy like Beethoven. Yeah  |
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Post by skvorisdeadsorta on Apr 4, 2006 13:39:26 GMT -5
Ohhh......that sounds pretty good.
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Post by Kensterberg on Apr 4, 2006 14:24:33 GMT -5
FYI, there's a live Blind Melon disc hitting stores today. AMG's review calls it nothing special and gives it three stars, but there are some folks here who might find it worth their time and money.
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