friday april 7
Damon Albarn set to split Gorillaz
[source: NME.com] The future of Gorillaz has been thrown into doubt after Damon Albarn admitted 2005's Demon Days is "probably the last album we make". The star was speaking after the fourth show of the cartoon outfit's five-night New York Harlem Apollo residency. Albarn told BBC 6 Music that, although he was happy with the way things were going within the group, he thinks they may have taken the concept as far as it can go. "At the moment… that's probably the last album we make," Albarn admitted. "I don't think we could make a better album than Demon Days, for what this is and how it works." However, he left a door open. "Last night we thought, 'Surely this isn't the end'. And I don't know… We're saying it's the end again, but it's quite a hip-hop thing to retire and come back, you know." The issue has been clouded further by the revelation this week by Blur bassist Alex James that the band reconvened recently to make new music, their first since the release of 2003's Think Tank LP. The grand finale of Gorillaz' NYC residency takes place tonight. As at their Manchester Opera House residency in late 2005, guests De La Soul, Ike Turner, Neneh Cherry, Shaun Ryder, Roots Manuva and Martina Topley-Bird all joined the band to perform Demon Days in full. However, last night actor Dennis Hopper joined the band onstage to perform live vocals on "Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head" for the first time.
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Eminem divorce drama
[source: NME.com] Eminem is to divorce wife Kim less than three months after they married for the second time. Court papers filed in Michigan reveal a "breakdown" in the relationship. The pair wed in January this year after initially marrying in 1999. Eminem and Kim have a daughter, Hailie Jade Scott, and the rapper is seeking joint custody. "I can confirm the divorce papers have been filed," the rapper's US spokesperson told Reuters. "Beyond that we have no comment." Eminem's relationship with Kim has been the motivation behind a number of songs over the years, most famously "Kim". Their original divorce was in 2001.
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Peaches names new album
[source: NME.com] Peaches has roped in some famous friends to help out on new album Impeach My Bush. The follow-up to 2003's Fatherfu#ker is set for release in July. Among the guests helping out on the record are Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, former Hole drummer Samantha Maloney and Joan Jett, one-time member of The Runaways who scored a massive worldwide hit with The Blackhearts in 1982 with "I Love Rock 'N' Roll". Songs confirmed to appear on the album include "Tent In Your Pants", "Hit It Hard", "Fu#k Or Kill", "Boys Wanna Be Her", "Downtown" and "Rock the Shocker". Peaches will return to live duty in June when she joins Nine Inch Nails on the second leg of their US tour. The dates kick off on June 16 in New Jersey. She's then expected to hit the UK.
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From Raconteurs to Saboteurs
The Raconteurs, the new band fronted by Jack White from The White Stripes and singer/songwriter Brendan Benson, will now be known as The Saboteurs in Australia to avoid any confusion with an Australian band already operating under the name. Jack and Brendan's band will continue to be The Raconteurs in all other countries around the world. The name change comes only weeks before their debut album Broken Boy Soldiers is issued and ensures the Australian release remains in synch with the rest of the world. The decision to mutate into The Saboteurs was made days after the band were informed of the existence of an Australian group already using the name.
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Gomez reveal how they operate
Soulful and experimental British sextet Gomez will release their fifth studio album in May. How We Operate is the follow-up to last year's live album Out West. Producer Gil Norton said How We Operate marks the first time the band have actually done any pre-production. "We got together in a room to really work out each song before we recorded them in the studio," Norton said. In a blog on the band's official site, guitarist/vocalist Tom Gray said they've made a "different" kind of Gomez album. "That is sort of the point of Gomez. If we had a manifesto it would read something like: Gomez will try really quite a bit more than somewhat to avoid doing the same thing twice." Gray also hints the album is more linear than previous releases. "We left the bells and whistles of sound experimentation [behind] and we tried hard to create a more universal kind of sound without losing our uniqueness. I really hope you all love it. Indeed, I'm very optimistic about that, but if you don't… well, we'll be around making music forever and you can jump back on board somewhere else in the creative arc." How We Operate's tracklisting:
"Notice"
"See The World"
"How We Operate"
"Hamoa Beach"
"Girlshapedlovedrug"
"Chasing Ghosts With Alcohol"
"Tear Your Love Apart"
"Charley Patton Songs"
"Woman! Man!"
"All Too Much"
"Cry On Demand"
"Don't Make Me Laugh"
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Troy Cassar-Daley announces tour dates and new single
After winning four Golden Guitar awards at the Tamworth Country Music Festival earlier this year, Troy Cassar-Daley has announced new show dates and details of a new single. "Getaway Car" is lifted from his gold-selling album Brighter Day and was written with the legendary Don Walker (Cold Chisel; Tex, Don & Charlie). The track also features long-time friend and fellow artist Kasey Chambers. "[The song] is the story of a Bonnie & Clyde couple who decide to do one last job." Cassar-Daley said he found the last verse quite distressing. "I really wanted to paint a picture of pain. The line that still gets me is where he's obviously been shot and it goes, 'I say keep driving, she says don't let go'. That is the thing that makes you proud to be a songwriter, when you can describe things that way." Tour dates:
Sunday April 16 – Byron Bay East Coast Blues & Roots Festival, NSW;
Thursday April 20 – The Vanguard, Newtown, NSW;
Friday April 21 – Rooty Hill RSL Club, NSW;
Saturday April 22 – Canterbury-Hurlstone Park RSL, NSW;
Saturday April 29 – Urban Country Music Festival, Caboolture, QLD;
Saturday May 6 – Ord Valley Muster, WA;
Tuesday May 9 – Oenpelli Community, NT;
Saturday May 20 – Mossman Music Festival, QLD;
Friday June 9 – Victorian Blues Festival, VIC;
Sunday June 11 – Mean Fiddler (venue opening), Sydney, NSW
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System of A Down head to Washington
System Of A Down vocalist Serj Tankian and guitarist John Dolmayan will spend three days in Washington DC seeking Congressional recognition of the Armenian Genocide. The Armnenian Genocide refers to the death of more than one-and-a-half-million Armenians at the hands of the Turkish government between 1915 and 1923. "It's important for people to be aware of the Armenian Genocide," Tankian said. "Those actions continue to be covered up by the Turkish government, the US State Department, Turkey's allies in the defence and oil industries, and by our present US Administration. Had the Armenian Genocide been acknowledged as a Crime Against Humanity, Hitler might not have thought he could get away with the Jewish Holocaust. History does and will repeat itself unless we stop that cycle."
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[source: NME.com] The future of Gorillaz has been thrown into doubt after Damon Albarn admitted 2005's Demon Days is "probably the last album we make". The star was speaking after the fourth show of the cartoon outfit's five-night New York Harlem Apollo residency. Albarn told BBC 6 Music that, although he was happy with the way things were going within the group, he thinks they may have taken the concept as far as it can go. "At the moment… that's probably the last album we make," Albarn admitted. "I don't think we could make a better album than Demon Days, for what this is and how it works." However, he left a door open. "Last night we thought, 'Surely this isn't the end'. And I don't know… We're saying it's the end again, but it's quite a hip-hop thing to retire and come back, you know." The issue has been clouded further by the revelation this week by Blur bassist Alex James that the band reconvened recently to make new music, their first since the release of 2003's Think Tank LP. The grand finale of Gorillaz' NYC residency takes place tonight. As at their Manchester Opera House residency in late 2005, guests De La Soul, Ike Turner, Neneh Cherry, Shaun Ryder, Roots Manuva and Martina Topley-Bird all joined the band to perform Demon Days in full. However, last night actor Dennis Hopper joined the band onstage to perform live vocals on "Fire Coming Out Of The Monkey's Head" for the first time.
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Eminem divorce drama
[source: NME.com] Eminem is to divorce wife Kim less than three months after they married for the second time. Court papers filed in Michigan reveal a "breakdown" in the relationship. The pair wed in January this year after initially marrying in 1999. Eminem and Kim have a daughter, Hailie Jade Scott, and the rapper is seeking joint custody. "I can confirm the divorce papers have been filed," the rapper's US spokesperson told Reuters. "Beyond that we have no comment." Eminem's relationship with Kim has been the motivation behind a number of songs over the years, most famously "Kim". Their original divorce was in 2001.
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Peaches names new album
[source: NME.com] Peaches has roped in some famous friends to help out on new album Impeach My Bush. The follow-up to 2003's Fatherfu#ker is set for release in July. Among the guests helping out on the record are Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme, former Hole drummer Samantha Maloney and Joan Jett, one-time member of The Runaways who scored a massive worldwide hit with The Blackhearts in 1982 with "I Love Rock 'N' Roll". Songs confirmed to appear on the album include "Tent In Your Pants", "Hit It Hard", "Fu#k Or Kill", "Boys Wanna Be Her", "Downtown" and "Rock the Shocker". Peaches will return to live duty in June when she joins Nine Inch Nails on the second leg of their US tour. The dates kick off on June 16 in New Jersey. She's then expected to hit the UK.
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Hole: /artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3502983
NIN: /artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3502720
From Raconteurs to Saboteurs
The Raconteurs, the new band fronted by Jack White from The White Stripes and singer/songwriter Brendan Benson, will now be known as The Saboteurs in Australia to avoid any confusion with an Australian band already operating under the name. Jack and Brendan's band will continue to be The Raconteurs in all other countries around the world. The name change comes only weeks before their debut album Broken Boy Soldiers is issued and ensures the Australian release remains in synch with the rest of the world. The decision to mutate into The Saboteurs was made days after the band were informed of the existence of an Australian group already using the name.
/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3502670
Gomez reveal how they operate
Soulful and experimental British sextet Gomez will release their fifth studio album in May. How We Operate is the follow-up to last year's live album Out West. Producer Gil Norton said How We Operate marks the first time the band have actually done any pre-production. "We got together in a room to really work out each song before we recorded them in the studio," Norton said. In a blog on the band's official site, guitarist/vocalist Tom Gray said they've made a "different" kind of Gomez album. "That is sort of the point of Gomez. If we had a manifesto it would read something like: Gomez will try really quite a bit more than somewhat to avoid doing the same thing twice." Gray also hints the album is more linear than previous releases. "We left the bells and whistles of sound experimentation [behind] and we tried hard to create a more universal kind of sound without losing our uniqueness. I really hope you all love it. Indeed, I'm very optimistic about that, but if you don't… well, we'll be around making music forever and you can jump back on board somewhere else in the creative arc." How We Operate's tracklisting:
"Notice"
"See The World"
"How We Operate"
"Hamoa Beach"
"Girlshapedlovedrug"
"Chasing Ghosts With Alcohol"
"Tear Your Love Apart"
"Charley Patton Songs"
"Woman! Man!"
"All Too Much"
"Cry On Demand"
"Don't Make Me Laugh"
/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3502031
Troy Cassar-Daley announces tour dates and new single
After winning four Golden Guitar awards at the Tamworth Country Music Festival earlier this year, Troy Cassar-Daley has announced new show dates and details of a new single. "Getaway Car" is lifted from his gold-selling album Brighter Day and was written with the legendary Don Walker (Cold Chisel; Tex, Don & Charlie). The track also features long-time friend and fellow artist Kasey Chambers. "[The song] is the story of a Bonnie & Clyde couple who decide to do one last job." Cassar-Daley said he found the last verse quite distressing. "I really wanted to paint a picture of pain. The line that still gets me is where he's obviously been shot and it goes, 'I say keep driving, she says don't let go'. That is the thing that makes you proud to be a songwriter, when you can describe things that way." Tour dates:
Sunday April 16 – Byron Bay East Coast Blues & Roots Festival, NSW;
Thursday April 20 – The Vanguard, Newtown, NSW;
Friday April 21 – Rooty Hill RSL Club, NSW;
Saturday April 22 – Canterbury-Hurlstone Park RSL, NSW;
Saturday April 29 – Urban Country Music Festival, Caboolture, QLD;
Saturday May 6 – Ord Valley Muster, WA;
Tuesday May 9 – Oenpelli Community, NT;
Saturday May 20 – Mossman Music Festival, QLD;
Friday June 9 – Victorian Blues Festival, VIC;
Sunday June 11 – Mean Fiddler (venue opening), Sydney, NSW
Troy: /artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3536353
TDC: /artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3535959
Kasey: /artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3502032
System of A Down head to Washington
System Of A Down vocalist Serj Tankian and guitarist John Dolmayan will spend three days in Washington DC seeking Congressional recognition of the Armenian Genocide. The Armnenian Genocide refers to the death of more than one-and-a-half-million Armenians at the hands of the Turkish government between 1915 and 1923. "It's important for people to be aware of the Armenian Genocide," Tankian said. "Those actions continue to be covered up by the Turkish government, the US State Department, Turkey's allies in the defence and oil industries, and by our present US Administration. Had the Armenian Genocide been acknowledged as a Crime Against Humanity, Hitler might not have thought he could get away with the Jewish Holocaust. History does and will repeat itself unless we stop that cycle."
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