Oct 25
Super Furry Animals star goes solo again
[source: NME.com] Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys will release his second solo album in January.
Candylion, the follow-up to 2005's Yr Atal Genhedlaeth, will be preceded by a single of the same name on Monday December 4, featuring guest vocals from Lisa Jen (Welsh medievalists 9 Bach).
The single will be available on 7" vinyl, CD and download, with additional songs "Colossal Smile" and "Somewhere Or Other" as B-sides.
The album was recorded mainly with Gorwel Owen in Llanfaelog, Wales, with additional recording and mixing occurring in Rio de Janeiro with Mario Caldato Jr, producer of the last two Super Furry Animals records.
Super Furry Animals are currently mixing their eighth studio album, which will also be released in 2007 on their new label, Rough Trade.
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The Kooks discuss tour-stopping illness
[source: NME.com] Kooks singer Luke Pritchard has spoken about the tonsillitis and laryngitis that forced the band to postpone the first four dates of their current UK tour.
"The specialist said that if I carried on singing, the tonsillitis would keep coming back," he told NME.com. "I would have got something called chronic tonsillitis where you have to have your tonsils out. If you have them out, it changes the sound of your voice."
Pritchard avoided the operation and made do with painkillers but couldn't avoid cancelling the shows.
"It's been so frustrating, especially when we turned up at Brighton, our hometown. I felt so bad for all the people who'd bought tickets."
He also said he had been working on new material.
"I've been writing quite a lot recently," he said. "It's probably quite different stuff. I've been listening to a lot of folk music and more roots-based stuff."
He said the band hope to have an EP of new material released early next year.
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3544180
Snoop Dogg caught with weapon
[source: NME.com] US authorities are considering charges against rapper Snoop Dogg after a 21-inch collapsible baton was discovered in his bag as he boarded a New York-bound flight from California.
According to the LA Times, Snoop had the baton in his laptop case as he went through a security checkpoint at John Wayne International Airport on Wednesday September 27.
Sheriff spokesman Jim Amormino said the rapper told his deputies the baton was a prop for a movie he was filming.
"He had a collapsible baton and it is classified as a dangerous weapon," Amormino said.
District attorney spokeswoman Susan Kang Shcroeder said prosecutors had not yet decided whether to charge the star.
Earlier this year, Snoop Dogg was involved in a fracas at London's Heathrow Airport that led to the rapper and five of his associates spending a night in jail.
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Pixies to begin work on new album
[source: NME.com] Pixies are preparing to begin work on their first studio album in 15 years.
Singer Frank Black confirmed the band will start work in January on their first record since 1991's Trompe Le Monde. But Black said they still have a lot of work to do before an album appears.
"We're rehearsing in January, if we can persuade Kim [Deal, bassist] to come out of her house," he told NME.com. "We offered to go to her but we figured if we book the rehearsals she'll show up.
"Since we got back together we've played almost everywhere we can. I know we like playing and everyone likes touring together, so to keep doing that and not record anything is kind of like being a county fair band. We don't want to do that, so the only thing we can do is become a vital band again. So it's just a matter of doing it, I guess."
Black also revealed the band are planning a best-of collection for 2007 and criticised the forthcoming DVD release of Pixies documentary LoudQUIETloud.
"David [Lovering, drummer], who was rock solid for a couple of years, his dad died. He was okay, but as it got towards the end of the tour he started drinking heavily. He messed up a couple of songs and it was all caught on film," he said. "But they re-edited this to look like it happened in the middle of our tour and it looked like this whole tour careened into this drunken stupor with David. It really wasn't like that at all. He was really solid for, like, 90 per cent of it."
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AIR nominees announced
Lovers of independent Australian music will have a brand new set of accolades to celebrate in 2006.
AIR – the national Australian Independent Record Label Association – has announced the establishment of their inaugural AIR Charts Awards. The AIR Charts measure record sales of local acts released on indie labels.
The awards will feature four categories: Best Performing Independent Album, Best Performing Independent Single/EP (both measured in sales), Independent Artist Of The Year and Most Outstanding New Independent Artist.
Nominees include Ben Lee, Hilltop Hoods, The Grates, John Butler Trio, The Herd and Lior. Winners will be announced at a ceremony in Sydney on Wednesday November 29.
Ben Lee: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3517375
JBT: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3517257
Hilltop Hoods: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3518210
The Grates: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3538997
Lior: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3501598
The Herd: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3503093
Smashing Pumpkins reveal new LP
Nine months ago, Billy Corgan, chief songwriter and frontman for one of the most seminal bands of the 90s, Smashing Pumpkins, revealed via an advertisement in the Chicago Tribune newspaper that he was planning on resurrecting his former band.
Now, drummer Jimmy Chamberlin has revealed more details about the group's plans in a MySpace posting.
"Great things are on track for the future," Chamberlin writes. "As some of you know, we are indeed creating music again – music that comes from a place so pure it will burn the lies off the very souls of those who try to discount it.
We have arrived at a place in our lives where truth and honesty prevail and we are creating from that place. Things are sounding fantastic."
Corgan and Chamberlin are working with long-time Queen/Cars producer Roy Thomas Baker and producer Terry Date (Pantera, Soundgarden). There is, however, no word on whether guitarist James Iha and bassist D'Arcy Wretzky are back on board.
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Blind Melon in shock comeback
Eleven years after the tragic death of frontman Shannon Hoon, early 90s outfit Blind Melon are working with a new singer on fresh material.
The group – who shot to fame following the famous dancing bumblebee film clip for "No Rain" – saw their career ground to a halt after Hoon's death from a cocaine overdose in 1995. But they've recently unveiled a new singer, 25-year-old Texan Travis Warren.
Guitarists Christopher Thorn and Rogers Stevens, bassist Brad Smith and drummer Glen Graham are currently planning a third album and US tour.
"I was really sceptical in the beginning about doing anything, and none of us are into doing any kind of nostalgia trip," Stevens said. "We started playing, and I knew within the first half of a song that [Warren] was nailing it. It was something about the way he did it that immediately disarmed my scepticism."
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3507410
Gwen Stefani winds up for new LP and Oz tour
No Doubt frontwoman Gwen Stefani says her new album is "surprisingly different" to her 2004 solo debut.
The Sweet Escape, due for release in December, will be preceded by a single, the catchy "Wind It Up".
"I started recording it last year before [son] Kingston was born and it's definitely evolved over the last year," Stefani revealed.
"The dance sound is very 'now'. It's modern… not so retro."
Stefani had originally planned to release an album before she discovered she was pregnant. She then shelved a bunch of material and later teamed with songwriters Linda Perry, Pharrell Williams, Dave Stewart, Nellee Hooper and… her mum, Patti, who inspired the lyrics to one track.
Stefani says she plans to embark on a tour in April, which will include a visit to Australia.
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[source: NME.com] Super Furry Animals frontman Gruff Rhys will release his second solo album in January.
Candylion, the follow-up to 2005's Yr Atal Genhedlaeth, will be preceded by a single of the same name on Monday December 4, featuring guest vocals from Lisa Jen (Welsh medievalists 9 Bach).
The single will be available on 7" vinyl, CD and download, with additional songs "Colossal Smile" and "Somewhere Or Other" as B-sides.
The album was recorded mainly with Gorwel Owen in Llanfaelog, Wales, with additional recording and mixing occurring in Rio de Janeiro with Mario Caldato Jr, producer of the last two Super Furry Animals records.
Super Furry Animals are currently mixing their eighth studio album, which will also be released in 2007 on their new label, Rough Trade.
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3508179
The Kooks discuss tour-stopping illness
[source: NME.com] Kooks singer Luke Pritchard has spoken about the tonsillitis and laryngitis that forced the band to postpone the first four dates of their current UK tour.
"The specialist said that if I carried on singing, the tonsillitis would keep coming back," he told NME.com. "I would have got something called chronic tonsillitis where you have to have your tonsils out. If you have them out, it changes the sound of your voice."
Pritchard avoided the operation and made do with painkillers but couldn't avoid cancelling the shows.
"It's been so frustrating, especially when we turned up at Brighton, our hometown. I felt so bad for all the people who'd bought tickets."
He also said he had been working on new material.
"I've been writing quite a lot recently," he said. "It's probably quite different stuff. I've been listening to a lot of folk music and more roots-based stuff."
He said the band hope to have an EP of new material released early next year.
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3544180
Snoop Dogg caught with weapon
[source: NME.com] US authorities are considering charges against rapper Snoop Dogg after a 21-inch collapsible baton was discovered in his bag as he boarded a New York-bound flight from California.
According to the LA Times, Snoop had the baton in his laptop case as he went through a security checkpoint at John Wayne International Airport on Wednesday September 27.
Sheriff spokesman Jim Amormino said the rapper told his deputies the baton was a prop for a movie he was filming.
"He had a collapsible baton and it is classified as a dangerous weapon," Amormino said.
District attorney spokeswoman Susan Kang Shcroeder said prosecutors had not yet decided whether to charge the star.
Earlier this year, Snoop Dogg was involved in a fracas at London's Heathrow Airport that led to the rapper and five of his associates spending a night in jail.
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3501761
Pixies to begin work on new album
[source: NME.com] Pixies are preparing to begin work on their first studio album in 15 years.
Singer Frank Black confirmed the band will start work in January on their first record since 1991's Trompe Le Monde. But Black said they still have a lot of work to do before an album appears.
"We're rehearsing in January, if we can persuade Kim [Deal, bassist] to come out of her house," he told NME.com. "We offered to go to her but we figured if we book the rehearsals she'll show up.
"Since we got back together we've played almost everywhere we can. I know we like playing and everyone likes touring together, so to keep doing that and not record anything is kind of like being a county fair band. We don't want to do that, so the only thing we can do is become a vital band again. So it's just a matter of doing it, I guess."
Black also revealed the band are planning a best-of collection for 2007 and criticised the forthcoming DVD release of Pixies documentary LoudQUIETloud.
"David [Lovering, drummer], who was rock solid for a couple of years, his dad died. He was okay, but as it got towards the end of the tour he started drinking heavily. He messed up a couple of songs and it was all caught on film," he said. "But they re-edited this to look like it happened in the middle of our tour and it looked like this whole tour careened into this drunken stupor with David. It really wasn't like that at all. He was really solid for, like, 90 per cent of it."
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3520326
AIR nominees announced
Lovers of independent Australian music will have a brand new set of accolades to celebrate in 2006.
AIR – the national Australian Independent Record Label Association – has announced the establishment of their inaugural AIR Charts Awards. The AIR Charts measure record sales of local acts released on indie labels.
The awards will feature four categories: Best Performing Independent Album, Best Performing Independent Single/EP (both measured in sales), Independent Artist Of The Year and Most Outstanding New Independent Artist.
Nominees include Ben Lee, Hilltop Hoods, The Grates, John Butler Trio, The Herd and Lior. Winners will be announced at a ceremony in Sydney on Wednesday November 29.
Ben Lee: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3517375
JBT: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3517257
Hilltop Hoods: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3518210
The Grates: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3538997
Lior: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3501598
The Herd: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3503093
Smashing Pumpkins reveal new LP
Nine months ago, Billy Corgan, chief songwriter and frontman for one of the most seminal bands of the 90s, Smashing Pumpkins, revealed via an advertisement in the Chicago Tribune newspaper that he was planning on resurrecting his former band.
Now, drummer Jimmy Chamberlin has revealed more details about the group's plans in a MySpace posting.
"Great things are on track for the future," Chamberlin writes. "As some of you know, we are indeed creating music again – music that comes from a place so pure it will burn the lies off the very souls of those who try to discount it.
We have arrived at a place in our lives where truth and honesty prevail and we are creating from that place. Things are sounding fantastic."
Corgan and Chamberlin are working with long-time Queen/Cars producer Roy Thomas Baker and producer Terry Date (Pantera, Soundgarden). There is, however, no word on whether guitarist James Iha and bassist D'Arcy Wretzky are back on board.
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3529494
Blind Melon in shock comeback
Eleven years after the tragic death of frontman Shannon Hoon, early 90s outfit Blind Melon are working with a new singer on fresh material.
The group – who shot to fame following the famous dancing bumblebee film clip for "No Rain" – saw their career ground to a halt after Hoon's death from a cocaine overdose in 1995. But they've recently unveiled a new singer, 25-year-old Texan Travis Warren.
Guitarists Christopher Thorn and Rogers Stevens, bassist Brad Smith and drummer Glen Graham are currently planning a third album and US tour.
"I was really sceptical in the beginning about doing anything, and none of us are into doing any kind of nostalgia trip," Stevens said. "We started playing, and I knew within the first half of a song that [Warren] was nailing it. It was something about the way he did it that immediately disarmed my scepticism."
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3507410
Gwen Stefani winds up for new LP and Oz tour
No Doubt frontwoman Gwen Stefani says her new album is "surprisingly different" to her 2004 solo debut.
The Sweet Escape, due for release in December, will be preceded by a single, the catchy "Wind It Up".
"I started recording it last year before [son] Kingston was born and it's definitely evolved over the last year," Stefani revealed.
"The dance sound is very 'now'. It's modern… not so retro."
Stefani had originally planned to release an album before she discovered she was pregnant. She then shelved a bunch of material and later teamed with songwriters Linda Perry, Pharrell Williams, Dave Stewart, Nellee Hooper and… her mum, Patti, who inspired the lyrics to one track.
Stefani says she plans to embark on a tour in April, which will include a visit to Australia.
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3509466
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3507929
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