Nov 2
Blink-182 singer calls former band bullshit
[source: NME.com] Former Blink-182 frontman Tom Delonge has lashed out at his former band's sound.
The trio went on "indefinite hiatus" in 2005 after 11 years together, although bassist Mark Hoppus has since said they split because Delonge couldn't decide on whether he wanted to tour or not.
However, in a live video posted on YouTube, Delonge made his true feelings known.
"I do not want to be in a bullshit pop band with some bullshit pop songs while you drive your fucking bullshit car and sing along to it like you're some 14-year-old girl," he said.
Hoppus and drummer Travis Barker have since formed (+44), while DeLonge set up new band Angels And Airwaves.
Blink-182: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3503153
Angels and Airwaves: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3545687
Prince hits Vegas
[source: NME.com] Prince is set to open a nightclub in Las Vegas at the Rio Hotel. The singer will host concerts at the venue and feature acts signed to his NPG label.
On his website (3121.com), there is a photo of the Rio, plus pictures of Prince and affiliated artists like Shelia E, Maceo Parker, Floetry, Patti LaBelle, Esthero and Cee-Lo. However, it's not yet clear if and when these acts will be involved in the new venture.
Meanwhile, Billboard have reported the singer's track "Song Of The Heart" will feature on the soundtrack for new animated film Happy Feet.
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3500335
Madonna's adoption row continues
[source: NME.com] Madonna has revealed she offered to support the baby she eventually adopted and leave him in Malawi. Yet the child's father, she claimed, refused.
The singer also denied baby David Banda had regular visits from his family at the orphanage.
Asked if it would have been an option to merely support the baby from afar, Madonna explained she had considered that.
"Yes, I offered that option to the father and he declined," she said. "And I never met a granny and I was told… from the day that he was left in the orphanage he was not visited by any extended family members and that's really why I became interested in him.
"If someone had said to me, 'His dad comes every week', or, 'His granny visits on a regular basis and he's well looked after', I would not even have given it another thought."
Madonna added that there were "many conditions" that made her "worry for his life".
"One was the fact that, according to the reverend who ran the orphanage that David came from, his father never visited him," she told the BBC's Newsnight programme.
"His father lived 50 or 60km away, had no car, no money and, as far as I was told, had remarried and moved on with his life."
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3534378
U2 unveil new hits compilation
[source: NME.com] Websites have posted the tracklisting for U2's forthcoming best-of compilation, U218.
The album, out on Monday November 20, features 16 of the band's classic singles, plus new tracks "The Saints Are Coming" (a collaboration with Green Day that will be released as a single on Monday November 6) and "Window In The Skies". The UK edition will also contain bonus track "I Will Follow".
The compilation will be released on CD and 12" vinyl, as well as a full-length DVD featuring the singles' promo videos. A limited edition CD (with a bonus ten-track live DVD recorded in Milan on the Vertigo tour in 2005) will also be available.
Tracklisting:
"Beautiful Day"
"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"
"Pride (In The Name Of Love)"
"With Or Without You"
"Vertigo"
"New Year's Day"
"Mysterious Ways"
"Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of"
"Where The Streets Have No Name"
"Sweetest Thing"
"Sunday Bloody Sunday"
"One"
"Desire"
"Walk On"
"Elevation"
"Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own"
"The Saints Are Coming"
"Window In The Skies"
U2: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3504356
Green Day: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3501383
Good Vibrations acts announced
Summer 2007 is heating up already, with the first line-up announcement for the annual Good Vibrations festival revealed today.
Topping the bill at next year's event are hip-hop legends Beastie Boys, LA party band Jurassic 5 and percussive "wet funk" honcho Timo Maas.
Rahzel & JS-one, Cassius, Thunderball & Fort Knox Five, Ursula 1000, London Elektricity, Nightmares On Wax, DJ Dan, Kraak & Smaak, Desyn Maseillo, Cicada & DJ Yoda and local outfit Cut Copy will also appear.
"This is Jam Music's fourth Good Vibrations Festival," Jam CEO Justin Hemmes said. "Each year it's bigger, better and more beautiful! This year's calendar and line-up is definitely going to be our best yet, with many more announcements on both the local and international front still to come."
Good Vibrations kicks off in Melbourne on Saturday February 10 before travelling to the Gold Coast, Sydney and Perth.
Jurassic 5: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3502710
Cut Copy: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3535151
Beastie: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3503159
Timo: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3502290
Rahzel: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3502429
Cassius: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3502033
Cut Copy: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3535151
Courtney Love: Mel Gibson helped me kick drugs
After 16 months free from drugs and alcohol, Courtney Love has revealed a visit from actor Mel Gibson was pivotal in setting her on the road to recovery.
"Mel kept coming to the hotel door with this cheesy grin, going, 'Hi!'," Love told TV interviewer Diane Sawyer.
"I know him and he's a nice guy. It didn't matter who it was. It could have been Jesus. I didn't care."
Love was doing drugs with several men when Gibson, accompanied by addiction counsellor Warren Boyd, left with the men "to have a cheeseburger". Boyd then convinced Love to seek treatment.
The singer is about to publish a memoir called Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love.
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3517800
Pete Townshend faces Stern test
Shock-jock Howard Stern got more than he bargained for when he recently interviewed English rock legends The Who.
Guitarist Pete Townshend stormed out of the interview after Stern's co-host brought up the topic of his 2003 police warning for accessing a paedophile website.
Singer Roger Daltrey was left alone to complete the interview.
"Can you imagine you're accused of this stuff and then you're found not guilty?" Daltrey said. "The wounds are so deep on the man, and it's just tragic because he's got so much to offer."
Stern later said he was "very sorry" and Townshend left a reply on his website, inviting the DJ to lunch.
The Who's new album, Endless Wire, is released next week.
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3502431
Michael Jackson to accept award
Michael Jackson will make a rare public appearance on November 15 at the World Music Awards in London.
The pop star will be honoured at the ceremony with a Diamond Award for selling more than 100-million albums, a gong previously handed out to the likes of Rod Stewart, Mariah Carey and Celine Dion.
Jackson hasn't performed in the UK since 1997 and has been laying low in Ireland and Bahrain after being cleared of child molestation charges in June 2005.
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3500107
[source: NME.com] Former Blink-182 frontman Tom Delonge has lashed out at his former band's sound.
The trio went on "indefinite hiatus" in 2005 after 11 years together, although bassist Mark Hoppus has since said they split because Delonge couldn't decide on whether he wanted to tour or not.
However, in a live video posted on YouTube, Delonge made his true feelings known.
"I do not want to be in a bullshit pop band with some bullshit pop songs while you drive your fucking bullshit car and sing along to it like you're some 14-year-old girl," he said.
Hoppus and drummer Travis Barker have since formed (+44), while DeLonge set up new band Angels And Airwaves.
Blink-182: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3503153
Angels and Airwaves: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3545687
Prince hits Vegas
[source: NME.com] Prince is set to open a nightclub in Las Vegas at the Rio Hotel. The singer will host concerts at the venue and feature acts signed to his NPG label.
On his website (3121.com), there is a photo of the Rio, plus pictures of Prince and affiliated artists like Shelia E, Maceo Parker, Floetry, Patti LaBelle, Esthero and Cee-Lo. However, it's not yet clear if and when these acts will be involved in the new venture.
Meanwhile, Billboard have reported the singer's track "Song Of The Heart" will feature on the soundtrack for new animated film Happy Feet.
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3500335
Madonna's adoption row continues
[source: NME.com] Madonna has revealed she offered to support the baby she eventually adopted and leave him in Malawi. Yet the child's father, she claimed, refused.
The singer also denied baby David Banda had regular visits from his family at the orphanage.
Asked if it would have been an option to merely support the baby from afar, Madonna explained she had considered that.
"Yes, I offered that option to the father and he declined," she said. "And I never met a granny and I was told… from the day that he was left in the orphanage he was not visited by any extended family members and that's really why I became interested in him.
"If someone had said to me, 'His dad comes every week', or, 'His granny visits on a regular basis and he's well looked after', I would not even have given it another thought."
Madonna added that there were "many conditions" that made her "worry for his life".
"One was the fact that, according to the reverend who ran the orphanage that David came from, his father never visited him," she told the BBC's Newsnight programme.
"His father lived 50 or 60km away, had no car, no money and, as far as I was told, had remarried and moved on with his life."
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3534378
U2 unveil new hits compilation
[source: NME.com] Websites have posted the tracklisting for U2's forthcoming best-of compilation, U218.
The album, out on Monday November 20, features 16 of the band's classic singles, plus new tracks "The Saints Are Coming" (a collaboration with Green Day that will be released as a single on Monday November 6) and "Window In The Skies". The UK edition will also contain bonus track "I Will Follow".
The compilation will be released on CD and 12" vinyl, as well as a full-length DVD featuring the singles' promo videos. A limited edition CD (with a bonus ten-track live DVD recorded in Milan on the Vertigo tour in 2005) will also be available.
Tracklisting:
"Beautiful Day"
"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"
"Pride (In The Name Of Love)"
"With Or Without You"
"Vertigo"
"New Year's Day"
"Mysterious Ways"
"Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of"
"Where The Streets Have No Name"
"Sweetest Thing"
"Sunday Bloody Sunday"
"One"
"Desire"
"Walk On"
"Elevation"
"Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own"
"The Saints Are Coming"
"Window In The Skies"
U2: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3504356
Green Day: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3501383
Good Vibrations acts announced
Summer 2007 is heating up already, with the first line-up announcement for the annual Good Vibrations festival revealed today.
Topping the bill at next year's event are hip-hop legends Beastie Boys, LA party band Jurassic 5 and percussive "wet funk" honcho Timo Maas.
Rahzel & JS-one, Cassius, Thunderball & Fort Knox Five, Ursula 1000, London Elektricity, Nightmares On Wax, DJ Dan, Kraak & Smaak, Desyn Maseillo, Cicada & DJ Yoda and local outfit Cut Copy will also appear.
"This is Jam Music's fourth Good Vibrations Festival," Jam CEO Justin Hemmes said. "Each year it's bigger, better and more beautiful! This year's calendar and line-up is definitely going to be our best yet, with many more announcements on both the local and international front still to come."
Good Vibrations kicks off in Melbourne on Saturday February 10 before travelling to the Gold Coast, Sydney and Perth.
Jurassic 5: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3502710
Cut Copy: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3535151
Beastie: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3503159
Timo: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3502290
Rahzel: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3502429
Cassius: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3502033
Cut Copy: http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3535151
Courtney Love: Mel Gibson helped me kick drugs
After 16 months free from drugs and alcohol, Courtney Love has revealed a visit from actor Mel Gibson was pivotal in setting her on the road to recovery.
"Mel kept coming to the hotel door with this cheesy grin, going, 'Hi!'," Love told TV interviewer Diane Sawyer.
"I know him and he's a nice guy. It didn't matter who it was. It could have been Jesus. I didn't care."
Love was doing drugs with several men when Gibson, accompanied by addiction counsellor Warren Boyd, left with the men "to have a cheeseburger". Boyd then convinced Love to seek treatment.
The singer is about to publish a memoir called Dirty Blonde: The Diaries of Courtney Love.
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3517800
Pete Townshend faces Stern test
Shock-jock Howard Stern got more than he bargained for when he recently interviewed English rock legends The Who.
Guitarist Pete Townshend stormed out of the interview after Stern's co-host brought up the topic of his 2003 police warning for accessing a paedophile website.
Singer Roger Daltrey was left alone to complete the interview.
"Can you imagine you're accused of this stuff and then you're found not guilty?" Daltrey said. "The wounds are so deep on the man, and it's just tragic because he's got so much to offer."
Stern later said he was "very sorry" and Townshend left a reply on his website, inviting the DJ to lunch.
The Who's new album, Endless Wire, is released next week.
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3502431
Michael Jackson to accept award
Michael Jackson will make a rare public appearance on November 15 at the World Music Awards in London.
The pop star will be honoured at the ceremony with a Diamond Award for selling more than 100-million albums, a gong previously handed out to the likes of Rod Stewart, Mariah Carey and Celine Dion.
Jackson hasn't performed in the UK since 1997 and has been laying low in Ireland and Bahrain after being cleared of child molestation charges in June 2005.
http://bigpondmusic.com/artistDisplay.asp?artistid=3500107
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