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Kernaghan hails The New Bush
Australian country star Lee Kernaghan will release his eighth studio album, The New Bush, at the end of this month. The album title was inspired by the technological changes implemented in the country over the last few years. "As I travel around I am seeing something new emerging… It is a new way of doing things – taking the great traditions that made the bush what it is today and blending it with the new. There's innovation, new technology and new potential… it's almost as if there's a quiet revolution going on… some people call it 'the new bush'." Kernaghan said the album took a year to make and, as with his previous releases, represents another chapter in his life story. "In many ways, these 13 new songs mirror how I feel about life, love and spirit. [It's about] the stories I've encountered and the mood of things out there."
You can have it so much better with $67m… Franz can't!
The Scotsman newspaper reports Franz Ferdinand have refused an advertising deal that would have netted them a cool $67 million. Singer Alex Kapranos told the newspaper: "The advert meant we had to completely surrender all of our identity and integrity to this product that was being advertised. It wasn't… Coca Cola or anything like that. It was just a thing that needed some music associated with it. We just had to say no because of the gut reaction. It wasn't because we didn't want to sell more records. It was just because it didn't feel right."
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Neil Young: "Let's Impeach the President"
Neil Young has revealed in a ticker on his website that he's set to release a ten-track anti-war album called Living With War. The album was recorded over three days with a "power trio" and features trumpet and a 100-strong choir. Young describes the album as "a metal version of Phil Ochs and Bob Dylan… Metal folk protest?". The song "Impeach the President" features excerpts of Bush's voice set against a choir chanting "flip-flop". Other tracks on the album include an acapella version of "America the Beautiful" and "Looking For a Leader". The title track includes the following lyrics: "I'm living with war every day. I'm living with war in my heart every day. I'm living with war right now and when the night falls I pray for peace. Try to remember peace (visualise). I join the multitudes, I raise my hand in peace, I never bow to the laws of the thought police. I take a holy vow to never kill again, to never kill again." This is Young's second attack on a Bush presidency: Young's 1989 classic, "Rockin' In The Free World", was a scathing attack on the policy of George Bush Sr.
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White Stripes' message of love
You can hear the long-awaited White Stripes-penned Coca Cola anthem here. Called "Message of Love", the minute-long song features these lyrics: "Love is as good as it gets. And you'll get more if you give it. It's the right thing to do, and you know it. It's inside of you, so just show it… In the arms of a mother and father, in the eyes of a son and a daughter – it's everywhere, you just have to care." The song premiered in an-ad break during the recent Australian MTV Music Awards.
Link for clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWoLu_Hvbbw
Elvis home for sale on eBay
The first home bought by Elvis Presley is for sale on eBay. Elvis purchased the four-bedroom home at 1034 Audubon Drive in Memphis on March 8, 1956, and lived in it for a year before privacy concerns saw him move to the larger Gracelands estate. Bidding is set to end Sunday May 14.
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P!nk tells KFC to kick the bucket
Don't expect to see P!nk hoeing into a KFC bucket when she arrives in Australia next month. The singer has jumped on board a Kick The Bucket campaign by PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) that targets the fast food chicken giant. On her website, P!ink made her feelings clear. "[The campaign] is simply asking KFC to modernise its methods and stop boiling birds alive in the defeathering tank and stop pumping them so full of growth drugs that they cripple under their own weight."
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Australian country star Lee Kernaghan will release his eighth studio album, The New Bush, at the end of this month. The album title was inspired by the technological changes implemented in the country over the last few years. "As I travel around I am seeing something new emerging… It is a new way of doing things – taking the great traditions that made the bush what it is today and blending it with the new. There's innovation, new technology and new potential… it's almost as if there's a quiet revolution going on… some people call it 'the new bush'." Kernaghan said the album took a year to make and, as with his previous releases, represents another chapter in his life story. "In many ways, these 13 new songs mirror how I feel about life, love and spirit. [It's about] the stories I've encountered and the mood of things out there."
You can have it so much better with $67m… Franz can't!
The Scotsman newspaper reports Franz Ferdinand have refused an advertising deal that would have netted them a cool $67 million. Singer Alex Kapranos told the newspaper: "The advert meant we had to completely surrender all of our identity and integrity to this product that was being advertised. It wasn't… Coca Cola or anything like that. It was just a thing that needed some music associated with it. We just had to say no because of the gut reaction. It wasn't because we didn't want to sell more records. It was just because it didn't feel right."
/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3503189
Neil Young: "Let's Impeach the President"
Neil Young has revealed in a ticker on his website that he's set to release a ten-track anti-war album called Living With War. The album was recorded over three days with a "power trio" and features trumpet and a 100-strong choir. Young describes the album as "a metal version of Phil Ochs and Bob Dylan… Metal folk protest?". The song "Impeach the President" features excerpts of Bush's voice set against a choir chanting "flip-flop". Other tracks on the album include an acapella version of "America the Beautiful" and "Looking For a Leader". The title track includes the following lyrics: "I'm living with war every day. I'm living with war in my heart every day. I'm living with war right now and when the night falls I pray for peace. Try to remember peace (visualise). I join the multitudes, I raise my hand in peace, I never bow to the laws of the thought police. I take a holy vow to never kill again, to never kill again." This is Young's second attack on a Bush presidency: Young's 1989 classic, "Rockin' In The Free World", was a scathing attack on the policy of George Bush Sr.
/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3500364
White Stripes' message of love
You can hear the long-awaited White Stripes-penned Coca Cola anthem here. Called "Message of Love", the minute-long song features these lyrics: "Love is as good as it gets. And you'll get more if you give it. It's the right thing to do, and you know it. It's inside of you, so just show it… In the arms of a mother and father, in the eyes of a son and a daughter – it's everywhere, you just have to care." The song premiered in an-ad break during the recent Australian MTV Music Awards.
Link for clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWoLu_Hvbbw
Elvis home for sale on eBay
The first home bought by Elvis Presley is for sale on eBay. Elvis purchased the four-bedroom home at 1034 Audubon Drive in Memphis on March 8, 1956, and lived in it for a year before privacy concerns saw him move to the larger Gracelands estate. Bidding is set to end Sunday May 14.
Elvis: /artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3501580
P!nk tells KFC to kick the bucket
Don't expect to see P!nk hoeing into a KFC bucket when she arrives in Australia next month. The singer has jumped on board a Kick The Bucket campaign by PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) that targets the fast food chicken giant. On her website, P!ink made her feelings clear. "[The campaign] is simply asking KFC to modernise its methods and stop boiling birds alive in the defeathering tank and stop pumping them so full of growth drugs that they cripple under their own weight."
/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3504108
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