Lily Allen Vs Jesus

"I don't like Christianity much." Allen says, "I was brought up in a Catholic school and they told me gays, adultery and drugs were bad. All my mum's friends were gay, my dad was having affairs and there were drugs in the house when I was a kid, so it was a bit cruel." [So was the school cruel or was it her parents gay drug affairs?] - more on this story

Morrissey Flirting With Retirement?

Filter reports: In a recent interview with Filter magazine, Morrissey talked about his music, his life, the new record (Years of Refusal, February 17), and as you will find below, the prospect of quitting the biz. Here's the nugget:

How many more years do you want to continue making music? Morrissey: "I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also. There has to reach a point where you've said enough, I think."

For the complete interview and cover article, check out the next issue of Filter, hitting the stands in February. - More Filter

Rocker Killed In Car Accident

punknews.org reports: Andrew Martinez, aka Andy DeMize of Nekromantix passed away early Sunday morning as a result of a tragic car accident in in Fullerton, California. His bandmates made this statement:

"My thoughts and Condolences go out to his Family and Everybody that knew Andrew. There is no words to describe the shock......

"Andrew was probably the most loveable guy I ever met and truely the only person I've met in my life that was loved and liked by everybody met. It's just typical Andrew to pull off this "rockstar death" way too early. " - more on this story

Britney Ban- Winehouse Divorce- U2 Brits- New Found Tour Plans- Deep Purple Kansas- Black Moses Revisited- Smiths Star Goes A&R- Conan M83d and more

antiMusic reports: Another slow music news day. Some poptards made big headlines but there are a few odds and ends from credible and semi credible artists as well. You decide who is who as you read on.

Britney Spears faces her new single 'If U Seek Amy' being banned by US radio stations, due to its lyrics being misunderstood. The track is the third single from 'Circus' and the questionable lyrics causing concern are when Spears sings the phrase 'If you seek Amy', which actually sounds like she is saying 'F U C K me'. more. And here we started reading and expected something about lesbians.

A lawyer for Amy Winehouse's jailed husband said Monday his client will be seeking a divorce on the grounds of the soul diva's alleged infidelity.more

U2 are to perform their new single Get On Your Boots live at the Brit Awards on 18 February. The track is taken from the Irish band's forthcoming album No Line on the Horizon, due out in the spring. more

New Found Glory, Set Your Goals, Bayside, and Verse will be touring the U.S. this spring. more

Kansas celebrate their 35th anniversary this year with a gala performance February 7th, 2009 at the White Concert Hall in Topeka, the eponymous state of Kansas. Both founding guitar player Kerry Livgren and current Deep Purple guitarist Steve Morse are confirmed as special guests.more

Isaac Hayes' landmark 1971 album 'Black Moses' is set to be reissued next month. The late soul man's original label Stax Records is set to re-release the album on February 24 more

The MuseBox is proud to announce that former Smiths member Andy Rourke will join the New York City and Toronto-based music marketing firm as its Director of A&R. We'd send you to their site for more info but it crashed Internet Explorer when we tried going there.

Mute Records is proud to announce that M83 will be performing "Kim and Jessie," on Late Night With Conan O'Brien January 27th. In addition to playing Madison Square Garden with the Killers on January 25th, M83 will play a solo show in New York at Irving Plaza on January 24th.

Kicksville have reworked The Talking Heads' 'Once In A Lifetime' into an electro-rock whirlwind of bizarre sound effects and polyrhythmic. Listen to "Once In A Lifetime," Kicksville's eight digital single in 'Season 1,' here

Primary Wave has purchased the publishing interest in the Tennessee Ernie Ford catalog that has reverted to the late singer's estate, Tennessee Ernie Ford Enterprises.more

Abigail Williams has announced a string of headline dates for the US with Rose Funeral, Burning The Masses and The Breathing Process as support. dates

G. Love and Special Sauce will return to the road in support of Superhero Brother now that the G-man has recovered from vocal chord surgery, which he had in November.more

A few more Glenn Hughes live dates have been released, in both the USA and Europe. details

Primer 55 (remember them?) have tentatively titled their new album "The New American Gangsters." There is no word on a possible release date. more

To coincide with the release of the new Doro album Fear No Evil on January 30th, two release parties will take place with the Metal Queen in Ludwigsburg and Nürnberg. - more on this story

Hey Pantera Fans: Wanna Own Vinnie Paul's Cell Phone?

MusicRadar reports: Ex-Pantera and current Hellyeah drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott is selling his first cell phone on eBay. This might sound strange, but compared to the oven he sold last summer, it's relatively normal…

There is, of course, more to it than that: the mobile phone – a Motorola Micro T-A-C UTE II – was a birthday gift from Vinnie's brother and guitar legend Dimebag Darrell.

It's signed (by Vinnie, not Dimebag) in several places and it comes complete with batteries, a charger and a car-charger adaptor. - more on this story

Limited Edition Radiohead Vinyl

NME reports: Twelve Radiohead singles are reportedly set to be reissued on limited-edition vinyl. They singles are due out on April 21

After reissuing several of Radiohead's albums on vinyl last year, Capitol Records intends to release a handful of the band's singles on 180-gram vinyl, reports Atease.

The vinyl covers will feature the original 5" CD artwork printed as a sticker on the record jackets. - more on this story

Guess Who? Surprise Daltrey and Pete Doherty Jam

NME reports: The Who's frontman Roger Daltrey performed a one-off joint gig with Babyshambles Monday night (January 12), at Bristol's O2 Academy.

The gig, performed to raise awareness of Teenage Cancer Trust and raise money for Moonfest, saw Daltrey share vocal duties with Pete Doherty on a number of Who classics including 'Substitute' and 'Magic Bus'.

The two vocalists were backed by Doherty's Babyshambles bandmates throughout the gig, and the collective also performed a series of ad-hoc Johnny Cash covers part way through. - more on this story

Sevendust Reality TV This Friday

PR reports: Sevendust's Morgan Rose and his wife, Teri Rose, star in the latest installment of E! True Hollywood Story, "Rock Wives" which premieres this Friday, January 16th at 8pm ET/PT on E!

The ninety-minute special features exclusive new interviews and unprecedented access into the lives of a new round of Rock Star Wives whose husbands hail from legendary bands including Poison, Sevendust, Anthrax, Foreigner and Guns N' Roses.

Sevendust hit the road for an arena tour with Disturbed starting this Wednesday, January 14th with a hometown show in Atlanta. They'll follow up the Disturbed tour supporting Black Label Society for a month starting in late March. - more on this story

The Cure and The Who DVDs Get Blu-Ray Treatment

Kayos reports: Eagle Rock Entertainment will release two major Blu-ray events next month when Trilogy by The Cure hits streets February 3 and The Who's Live At The Isle Of Wight Festival 1970 lands February 24.

As one of the most enduring and popular bands of the post-punk era, The Cure, led by eccentric visionary singer/songwriter/guitarist Robert Smith, excelled at the art of the slow burn. Their doom'n'gloom affectations, exacerbated by Smith's ghoulish public persona, hipped a whole generation to the ironic stance of positive negativism, pre-dating emo by over a decade.

Trilogy is just that: three classic Cure albums—Pornography (released 1982), Disintegration (released 1989) and Bloodflowers (released 2000)—all performed in their entirety on three straight nights in 2002. Bonus footage includes a 30-minute interview with the entire band and a special two-song encore set consists of "If Only Tonight We Could Sleep" and "The Kiss." Total running time for this Blu-ray DVD is approximately 223 minutes. - more on this story

Yo Ne-Yo Says He's No Homo

Angry Ape reports: Ne-Yo has hit back at allegations he is gay, after comments he made in an interview were taken the wrong way. Talking to People Magazine, the 'Miss Independent' singer said Atlanta rapper Young Jeezy had moved next door and advised him to keep his clothes on.

Ne-Yo was heard saying: "Just chillin' one day, I was like, 'Is that... Jeezy? I hit him up: 'Yo, you probably shouldn't walk around naked - I can see you."

The statement then hit the internet with various websites suggesting the 'Closer' star was homosexual - a claim he has responded to on his MySpace blog. "The whole gay thing. For goodness sake it's been 4 years!!!! Y'all still on that huh?" Ne-Yo writes. "The whole 'boys' song, and the song 'go over there'. See this is what happens when people steal. These songs were clearly written for women… suddenly everybody forgets that I write songs for women." - more on this story

Duncan Sheik Returns with Whisper House

PR reports: Grammy and Tony award winning songwriter and composer Duncan Sheik returns with his new album Whisper House, due January 27 on Victor Records/Sony BMG.

The collection of songs was written for a forthcoming theatrical piece. Whisper House marks Sheik's first solo album since 2006's critically-acclaimed White Limousine and comes on the heels of the success of the Broadway musical Spring Awakening for which Sheik collaborated with lyricist Steven Sater and composed an original score.

Described by Variety as "the most startling and exciting rock tuner to hit the boards since 'Rent'," Spring Awakening won eight Tony awards, with Sheik earning two Tony awards for "Best Orchestration" and "Best Original Score" as well as a Grammy award for "Best Musical Show Album." In February, Sheik will embark on a nationwide tour featuring original Spring Awakening cast member Lauren Pritchard. - more on this story

New Royksopp Coming In March

PR reports: Norwegian duo Royksopp, Svein Berge and Torbjørn Brundtland have announced the release of their 3rd studio album, Junior, set for release by Astralwerks Records on March 24th, 2009.

Junior follows the band's 2001 platinum break-through Melody A.M and 2005's critically acclaimed The Understanding.

As always, Berge and Brundtland wrote, performed, arranged, mixed and produced the 11 tracks on Junior which features guest vocals from Swedish artists Robyn, Lykke Li and Karin Dreijer as well as fellow Norwegian Anneli Drecker, who appeared on Röyksopp's debut Melody A.M. - more on this story

Willie Nelson & Asleep At The Wheel's Jerry Wexler Concept Album Coming Out At Last

PR reports: Willie Nelson & Asleep At The Wheel will release Willie And The Wheel in stores and digitally on February 3, 2009 via Bismeaux Records. Jerry Wexler's long-overdue concept album takes Willie Nelson back to his musical roots. Teamed up with Ray Benson and the master musicianship of Asleep At The Wheel, this instand classic celebrates the timeless appeal of a most unique and spirited American music genre. Fall in love with Western Swing... again.

Thirty years after the idea was first introduced, Willie Nelson has teamed up with Asleep At The Wheel for a western-swing album, and its February release will coincide with a 10-date joint tour.

The album, titled Willie And The Wheel, features a dozen classic songs from the swing genre, which was most famously represented by Bob Wills, a fiddler and band leader who influenced both Willie and Wheel founder Ray Benson. The duet album was originally suggested by legendary record producer Jerry Wexler during the 1970s, when Willie briefly recorded for Atlantic Records. Wexler, who produced such hits as Aretha Franklin's "Respect" and Wilson Pickett's "In The Midnight Hour," died in August, but he produced Willie And The Wheel before his passing.
- more on this story

Singled Out: Saxon

antiMusic reports: Welcome to Singled Out! where we ask artists to tell us the inside story of their latest single. Today Biff Byford from Saxon tells us about "Live To Rock" from their brand new album "Into the Labyrinth". We now turn it over to Biff for the story:

The song is inspired by my days at school. A teenager of 13 my friends brother was a guitarist in a band and I would sit in lessons at school day dreaming of being in that band parents and teachers said I should get a real job but I had the unstoppable feeling of wanting to be involved in music .

The idea of the riff is something close to our 80s song wheels of steel and the who it sounds a strange mixture but I think it works really well.

Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself and learn more about the album - right here!

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