antiMusic reports: Alternative rockers ism's great new sophomore album 'Urgency,' just hit stores last week and to celebrate the release we asked frontman Andre Mistier to tell us a little about his five favorite tracks. Andre went well beyond the call of duty! So let's cut this intro short and let Andre tell you about today's song:
Resistance Lullaby: The last song written for the album. We started pre-production in the end of fall, then took a break. Our A & R guy, Michael Caplan, told me to write at least one new song while I was away. I came back with Animadversion and Resistance Lullaby. The cellist Marika Hughes did a fantastic job on this song, using the cello both as a swelling pad and to make the eerie somewhat percussive noises.
This song is about the abyss and uncertainty many people feel upon graduating college. A lot of people I know spent the first year or two out of school just dealing with this rising dread- what do I do now? Aren't I supposed to already have succeeded? And the rest. The big issue to me about liberal arts educations is that they don't explain what they are useful for. I mean, in most cases, what you've learned is really not that important to what you do next. An English, French, literature, history, psychology, or anthropology major is equally qualified to go to law school, work for a non-profit, work for a bank, hitch-hike, or become an actor. So what do you actually learn?
Metal Sucks reports: Well, it was only a matter of time: yet another song from Axl Rose's revamped Guns N' Roses has leaked online, and, as usual, it's surrounded in some mystery:
It would seem obvious that the song is "Shackler's Revenge," which is scheduled to appear on the new edition of the Rock Band video game next month but the mp3 is actually labeled "Chicken Dinner."
Could this be some sick joke by a misguided Buckethead fan (the guitar playing on the track is pretty clearly by the former GN'R guitarist)?
House of Rock reports: With swimming sensation Michael Phelps breaking records and winning gold medals left, right and center, the latest news from the Beijing Olympics sees Jimmy Page and Leona Lewis set to unite for the closing ceremony on 24 August.
In an event set to bring the curtain down on the 2008 games and mark the handover to London 2012, Led Zeppelin legend Page will duet with Leona Lewis, although it's not yet clear what song has been chosen for the collaboration.
According to UK tabloid reports, David Beckham is set to arrive on a red London bus and kick a football into the crowd, while hundreds of dancers perform ballet and breakdance routines.
BW&BK reports: While performing Saturday night, August 9th at Goodfellas in Pottsville, PA, new L.A. GUNS frontman Marty Casey collided onstage with the head of Tracii Guns' guitar.
Marty received a gash to the head and was taken for medical attention. After an hour and a half trip to the ER, Marty received 5 staples to the close the gash.
Tracii accompanied Marty to the ER and sat waiting with him throughout the ordeal. There were also fans waiting at the hospital.
antiMusic reports: The new version of AC/DC's No Bull (Live at Plaza de Toros, Madrid, July 10, 1996) will be released on September 8 (or 9 depending on the country). It will be available both in DVD and Blu-ray format. bonus features
System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian tells RollingStone.com that there are currently no plans for him to reunite with his SOAD bandmates and work on new music. more
Fallen British rock star Gary Glitter will be deported to Britain on Tuesday after completing a 27-month sentence for molesting two young girls, his lawyer said.more
With song stealing rumors in the air, one band is making up fake accusations against themselves to try and pimp their new CD. Watch their bogus claim here.
With his band KoRn on the backburner right now, frontman Jonathan Davis has turned his focus on solo touring and his first solo LP. After his Ozzfest performance, Davis returned home to continue work on his album and plans to follow its release with another solo tour. lots of words from the man about his plans
Radiohead have denied reports that they have written the soundtrack to a new film from the writer of Fight Club. Chuck Palahniuk, whose 2001 book Choke has been adapted for the big screen, told BBC 6 Music that Radiohead had written the score. But spokesperson for the band said they had only contributed a song to the film more
Batman star Christian Bale will not face charges over an alleged assault on his mother and sister during a row, the Crown Prosecution Service has said. more
Queens Of The Stone Age will host a benefit concert in Los Angeles this weekend to celebrate the life of musician Natasha Shneider. PJ Harvey, Tenacious D and members of Pearl Jam and ZZ Top will also perform at the benefit gig more details
Tickets for Andrew Bird's pair of intimate underplays October 6 and 7 at New York's Hiro Ballroom sold out completely within two hours of going on sale yesterday morning. The October shows mark Bird's first NYC headline engagement since his sold out November 30, 2007 Beacon Theater date and are likely to feature selections from his as yet untitled next record, due out in early 2009 on Fat Possum.
Due to circumstances beyond our control, Dream Theaterhas been forced to pull out of the festival in Quebec City on August 31st. more
'80's Metal Pioneer, Willie Basse recently mastered his new single "(Love So) Far Away" with Eddy Schreyer at Oasis Mastering. Schreyer has worked with everyone from Queen and Iggy Pop to metal legends Slayer and Thin Lizzy. The track will be available online for fans to preview in coming weeks.
CMT Crossroads: 38 Special And Trace Adkins will tape before an invitation only audience in Nashville on August 19 and premieres Wednesday, September 24 at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT on CMT. more
David Gilmour will release Live In Gdansk on September 16 via Columbia Records. The album was originally supposed to be a live album of his whole recent tour, but all the best recordings came from the performance in Gdansk more
According to a posting on the unofficial Rush site RushIsABand.com, the legendary Canadian rock trio is negotiating a new record deal with Rounder Records to take effect following the completion of the band's longtime relationship with Atlantic Records. more
T.I. looking for more friends? Check out this press release: MySpace Music is excited to announce Grammy award winning rapper, T.I., has recently passed the 2 million friend mark on his official Music page (http://www.myspace.com/trapmuzik), setting a new record by a hip hop artist. As T.I. gears up to release his highly anticipated Grand Hustle/Atlantic album, Paper Trail, which hits stores on September 30, this only further solidifies T.I.'s wide fan base across the world. With a new offering right round the corner and 2,035,117 friends and going strong, be sure to add T.I. to your friend list.
Not really news as it seems to happen every other day but here it is: a lawyer for DMX says the rapper has been arrested in Miami on a warrant for failing to attend a Phoenix court hearing. more on this shocking story
Divine Heresy have returned with a new vocalist, Travis Neal (The Bereaved, Pushed), who will join them on their upcoming tour of Mexico, which will be followed by a string of U.S. dates.
PR reports: Lamb Of God has commenced recording on the follow up to 2006's Grammy-nominated Sacrament. Their new album is scheduled for release in February 2009 and will be produced by Josh Wilbur.
Josh Wilbur is well known for his Grammy Award winning work with Steve Earl. The album will be recorded in New York City; Virginia Beach, VA; Richmond, VA; and New Hampshire.
The album will see a North American release on Epic Records. Following production, Lamb Of God will head out on an extensive world tour commencing with their support slot in December with Metallica.
PR reports: Vocalist Joe Lynn Turner (Deep Purple/Rainbow/Yngwie Malmsteen), bassist Phil Soussan (Ozzy Osbourne), guitarist Carlos Cavazo (Quiet Riot) and drummer Simon Wright (ACDC) will bring their band Big Noize to Iraq and Kuwait in September.
The tour includes a show on September 11 which will mark the 7th anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attacks in the USA. What makes Big Noize unique is its heritage and concept. All members have a related and connected past.
The band plays a power-packed set of favored hits that its individual members were known for because they wrote or performed them during their times of biggest chart success. A Big Noize concert is a tribute to the bands that the members were integral parts of and a reunion for its extensive and loyal fan base. The set list is a explosion of anthems that topped rock and pop charts in the 70s and 80s and includes: Crazy Train Ozzy, Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple, Come On Feel The Noize - Quiet Riot, Stone Cold - Rainbow and more.
PR reports: Kid Rock is returning to the VMA's for more crazy and unforgettable moments! MTV has confirmed the badass will perform his monster summer hit "All Summer Long" off his latest album Rock N Roll Jesus, which has been on the Billboard Top 200 for the past 45 weeks since it debuted at #1 and is currently sitting in the top 5.
Lil Wayne and the Jonas Brothers have already been added to the list of powerhouse performers at this year's show.
As previously announced, MTV's 25th annual Video Music Awards will be hosted by comedian/actor Russell Brand and will air live and only one time in its original incarnation, on Sunday, September 7, 2008 at 9PM SHARP (Live ET/Tape Delayed PT). Presenters and additional performers for the "2008 Video Music Awards" will be announced at a later date.
NME reports: Ben Folds has revealed he released fake versions of six songs online in order to avoid the leak of his new album
Folds said he recorded the six tracks over eight hours in Dublin, Ireland, and had his friends release the material in a spoof online leak.
However, Folds tells Rolling Stone that he reckons the 'fake' material was good enough to have made it onto the actual record, entitled 'Way To Normal'.
EMI reports: Hot Chip have spent much of the last 12 months compounding their status as one of the hardest working bands around. Apart from numerous musical side projects, remixing duties and running a record label, they have had sold-out tours in the UK, Europe and the US. Now the band are set to return to the US for a second tour this Fall. The dates include two shows each at the Wiltern in L.A., the Metro in Chicago, and Terminal 5 in NYC.
In addition to the music making partnership of Alexis Taylor, Joe Goddard, Owen Clarke, Al Doyle and Felix Martin, the band will be adding a live drummer on these dates. The drummer, Leo Taylor has played with the bands Zongamin and Gramme and is sure to add another dimension to their already pulsating, propulsive, and unequivocally fun live shows.
If the band aren't playing in your area, you can enjoy a slice of their live experience from their new EP entitled iTunes Live: Berlin Festival. Recorded at Radialsystem V in Berlin on May 8, the 6 track EP features: "Over and Over", "Out At The Pictures", "One Pure Thought", "Don't Dance", "No Fit State", and "Ready for the Floor". It is available now exclusively on iTunes.
antiMusic reports: Who hasn't misheard a song lyrics. We thought it might be fun to feature some favorites here for you to enjoy.
Today's misheard lyric is to Bob Dylan's "Blowin' In The Wind" and the line "The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind. The answer is blowin' in the wind." That lyric has been misheard as "The ants are my friends, they're blowin' in the wind. The ants are a-blowin' in the wind."
If you have a misheard lyric we'd love to hear from you. See the contact link at the bottom of the page for how to get a hold of us to tell us about your favorites. If you want to check out more misheard song lyrics like this one you can go
antiMusic reports: This one was just too cheesy to pass up, looks like Tommy Lee is now taking Brett Michael's leftovers. Here is the E! report: Maybe this is how Pamela Anderson and her ex Tommy Lee play dating poker. Pam goes, "I'm dating a member of the Abu Dhabi royal family." Tommy goes, "I'll see your Arab prince and raise you one reality-TV vixen." Or maybe that's all just in our heads.
But in any case, you probably caught our exclusive earlier today about Pam's new man. Now it seems that Tommy's going tit for tat. Literally.
Sources tell E! news that the Motley Crue rocker is dating Rock of Love 2 hottie Daisy De La Hoya. And despite assertions from De La Hoya's rep that the duo are "just friends," our source says they're much more.
PR reports: VH1 Classic is celebrating the 39th anniversary of the 'summer of love' with a weekend of classic rock documentaries and concerts celebrating Woodstock. In tribute VH1 Classic will air Led Zeppelin's The Song Remains The Same, The Last Waltz, Woodstock: The Movie, Lets Spend the Night Together, and U2's Rattle and Hum.
[A few factual problems here. The "Summer Of Love" was in 1967 not 1969 as Vh1 thinks. So that being the case, Led Zeppelin didn't form until a year later and the hippies hated them when they came out! Just go back and read the hippy press like Rolling Stone of the day. Zeppelin helped kill the hippy music trend. The Last Waltz kind of fits since The Band was part of the hippy Frisco scene but this concert didn't happen until well after the "Summer of Love". Woodstock took place two years after the "Summer of Love" and The Stones tour covered in "Let's Spend the Night Together" was almost 15 years after the media glamorized "Summer of Love". Finally, we still have no fricken idea how U2 fits anywhere in the mix, unless the folks at Vh1 writing this stuff are under 25 and think anything before Nirvana somehow fit in with hippies. Now back to the press release]
Air-times: The Song Remains The Same Airs on Friday, August 15 at 8PM ET/PT Led Zeppelin's seminal documentary, The Song Remains The Same, goes behind the scenes of the group's three night run at Madison Square Garden in 1973. The documentary includes concert footage, exclusive behind-the-scenes moments of the band, and the 23 minute-long version of the song 'Dazed And Confused'.
PR reports: ATO Records is proud to announce that the soundtrack to the subversively comedic film "Choke," will be released on September 23, 2008. The album, a digital-only release, will have the seven songs from the film and eight others that are significant to actor, director and screen writer Clark Gregg's vision while he was making it.
Highlights include previously recorded songs by the likes of Radiohead, Death Cab For Cutie, My Morning Jacket, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Fiery Furnaces, The Twilights Singers and Ben Kweller. Most notable additions are the previously unreleased or rare tracks that appear on the record, among them "Orgasm Addict" by The Buzzcocks as sung by the band's original singer Howard Devoto, a great version of The Doors' "Crystal Ship" by the incomparable Nicole Atkins and The Sea, and the original version by The Natural History of Spoon's current hit single, "Don't You Ever." The full tracklisting and comments on each song by Gregg are below.
Fox Searchlight Pictures and ATO Pictures present "Choke," a Contrafilm/ATO Pictures Production, based on the novel by maverick author Chuck Palahniuk ("Fight Club"). Actor-turned-director Gregg shows he is as adept behind the camera as he is in front of it with this wickedly comedic tale of Victor Mancini, con artist, sex addict, Colonial village re-enactor, angst-filled son, serial restaurant choke -- and unsuspecting romantic antihero for our unsettling times.
antiMusic reports: Ludo will be checking in with us all summer as they rock the Warped tour in support of their Island Def Jam CD "You're Awful, I Love You". Here is the band with today's entry:
In preparation for the arrival of Warped Tour, the city of Calgary suspended all grass growth for the spring and summer 2008. They had to make the dust bowl perfectly dusteriffic. And they pulled it off! It was just like a Western out there. A sunny day with variable cloudinesses. Played around 1:00 I think. Taught the trumpet player from Oreskaband, Saki, the notes to play for Epic. She was very excitey and a great player.
Convy and I met the fine people at the Calgary rock station and did an interview with them. We played to a fine crowd, as Byron left the merch attended by a friend while he took in a rare Ludo show. After all, we were finally in his hometown, and we looked to him to translate our culture to the beautiful Calgarians who surrounded us. He did wonderfully well. That evening, we sang Happy Birthday for Megan from Ta-Da Catering. She was embarrassed. Then the ladies from Oreskaband came over to our bus, and we went over all the horn parts to Epic. They were not only transposing all the notes I gave them from concert to their instruments, they were also translating what we were saying from English into Japanese. Smarter than us, they are. They also really liked our Minute Maid apple juice. Ludo truly has the party bus, Warped Tourians. Headed south. We had a date with a border crossing, an accusatory driver of a different bus, and the capital city of Montana.
Find out where you can see them, preview tracks from their new CD and learn more about Ludo here.
