There has been a lot of new news from the Interpol camp in the last few days...
First off there is a release date. July 10th has been stamped as the release date by Capitol Records.
Second there is now an album name and track listing. The album will be named Our Love To Admire, and the tracklisting will be as follows:
01 Pioneer to the Falls 02 No I in Threesome 03 The Scale 04 The Heinrich Maneuver 05 Mammoth 06 Pace Is the Trick 07 All Fired Up 08 Rest My Chemistry 09 Who Do You Think 10 Wrecking Ball 11 The Lighthouse
Bonus: Here is a clip of Interpol performing "The Heinrich Maneuver" in Canada.
Here is the performance of Morrissey on the Jimmy Kimmel Show this past Friday. The portion aired was "I Just Want To See The Boy Happy." The set included a new song, "All You Need Is Me."
The complete performance included: I Just Want To See The Boy Happy First Of The Gang To Die Disappointed You Have Killed Me All You Need Is Me (NEW SONG) Ganglord
If anyone has a recording of this new song it would be much appreciated if you could pass it along.
It appears that Sigur Ros has a busy time ahead according to NME.com. A book documenting their free concert series across their native Iceland will be released on June 1st. In a Frozen Sea, will contain photographs taken of that cross country trek that found them performing in places urban and rural as well as large and very small venues. A limited edition of the book will contain several of the bands full albums on 12" records, including Smaskifa, which has been re-released for the first time for this project.
It is also indicated that there will an EP released near the end of this Summer with a full acoustic album to be released in the Fall.
Everyone has known about YouTube for a long time now, but there are just some bands/people, that I had totally overlooked in looking them up. Richard Ashcroft is one of those people. My friend DP pointed me in the right direction the other day...
Science of Silence - Live at Rockpalast. By far my favorite Ashcroft solo song (Notice how his intro music is a remix of "Check the Meaning" - amazing...)
"Check The Meaning" - Live "I'm Like a fish with legs, I fell from the tree."
Bonus - Chemical Brothers - "The Test" feat. Richard Ashcroft Awesome Chemical Brothers song with Ashcroft's vocals
I have just recently rediscovered the KLF'sThe White Room. The fact that I haven't listen to this album in like 10 years baffles me. It really is as good as I first remember it with unbelievable jams such as "3Am Eternal" and "Last Train To Trancentral."
Now, the KLF had a ridiculous past in the music industry. Although they had little impact in the US, the British Duo of Bill Drummond (King Boy D) and Jimmy Cauty (Rockman Rock) had an interesting and somewhat shocking career as the KLF. They were one of the first big bands of the Rave scene in the UK. (A good move on the rise of that scene, even though there is no mention of the KLF, is 24 Hour Party People. This movie is worth a watch).
One of the great stories I remember about them is when upon receiving a cease and desist order from ABBA for sampling "Dancing Queen." Instead of complying with the order they decided to travel to Sweden with an NME reporter in hand to confront ABBA to convince them to allow them to use the sample. Along with the NME reporter, the duo brought along all known copies of that single that they had pressed with them. They were ultimately unsuccessful in meeting with ABBA so in protest they took the albums and burned them in a field in Sweden. They then took the remaining records and dumped them off of a ferry in the North Sea. Amazing...
Another story is how they ultimately retired. The KLF were always "anti-establishment" and "anti-music industry" so many were shocked to hear that they agreed to perform at the 1992 Brit Awards. Along with Drummond and Cauty, the hard core band Extreme Noise Terror, played a rendition of "3am Eternal." During the performance Drummond loaded a real machine gun and fired a whole round of blanks at a terrified crowd. The original plan was to also throw buckets of sheep blood at the crowd, but the blood was confiscated before they were able to go through with the act by Brit Award security. At the end of the performance, they had a member of their entourage hijack the PA system of the theater and announced, "The KLF have now left the music business." The announcement wasn't truly believed at that time, but a week or two later Drummond destroyed all of the master tapes and back catalogue of any KLF material that existed. That makes it difficult for any remastered new releases of any of their material...
Their most noted antic would be the time they decided for the sake of art they would burn the remaining 1,000,000 pounds they had left in earnings from their days as the KLF. This was to give notoriety to their newly established K Foundation which was to give a prize annually to the worst artist of the year.
Presales for these 2 shows will be today, Friday 4/20, at 10am. The info is as follows:
Presale password: GREATESTHITS
June 30 NEW YORK, NY : MSG Onsale 10 a.m., April 30 Presale 10 a.m., April 20 - 10 p.m. April 22 www.ticketmaster.com
July 6 HOLMDEL, NJ : PNC Bank Arts Center Onsale 10 a.m., April 30 Presale 10 a.m., April 20 - 10 p.m. April 22 www.ticketmaster.com
As for the discrepancy between Morrissey playing the Theatre at Madison Square Garden or the Arena itself, my hunch is that it is going to be the Arena. The seating chart shown on ticketmaster shows the layout for the arena. Also, the word "Theatre" has never been mentioned on True-To-You.net.
UFOs at The Zoo, the live concert recorded at the Oklahoma City Zoo, by the Flaming Lips will be released on July 10th.
This will expose those who haven't seen the Flaming Lips live, to their ridiculous stage show. Possibly the best I have ever seen. For example, their shows include multiple confetti launchers, dancing aliens and frontman Wayne Coyne crowd surfing in a giant bubble. Strong visuals...
The DVD will include extra features, including a program that you can use to create Flaming Lips ring tones. Interesting.
Also, I have heard that the DVD will include the MP3s of the performance so that you can take this great live show to go...
Songs are for sampling purposes only.
Please visit your local music store (preferably a independent record store) to purchase any songs that are here for trial purposes only...
There has been a lot of new news from the Interpol camp in the last few days...
Here is the performance of Morrissey on the Jimmy Kimmel Show this past Friday. The portion aired was "I Just Want To See The Boy Happy." The set included a new song, "All You Need Is Me."
