antiMusic reports: During a recent interview on Zane Lowe's show on MTV 2, Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor said that Coldplay's latest album, "Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends" is "One of the most self-celebratory pieces of sh*t I've ever f*cking heard in my entire f*cking life." "I f*cking hate that album," he added. "It's music to wipe your ass to."Music biz folks in the UK don't seem to agree: Coldplay and Welsh singer Duffy head the field at the 2009 BRITs, the country's top pop music awards, with four nominations apiece, organizers announced on Tuesday. more
All the old dudes
Mott The Hoople have confirmed that they are to reunite and play together for the first time in 35 years, to celebrate their 40th anniversary this year. The group featuring all original members; Ian Hunter, Verden Allen, Dale Griffin, Overend Watts and Mick Ralphs will play two shows at London's Hammersmith Apollo on October 2 and 3, 2009. more
A coroner in Los Angeles has found that an "American Idol" hopeful found dead outside Paula Abdul's home committed suicide with prescription drugs. Assistant Chief of Coroner Ed Winter says Paula Goodspeed died in November after of a prescription drug overdose. more
Jennifer Hudson's brother-in-law pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges he shot to death the Oscar-winning actress's mother and brother and the 7-year-old son of his estranged wife.more
Aerosmith's Joe Perry issued a statement about his recent emergency knee surgery. Read it here
The video for the Wes Borland/Renholder remix of William Control's "Deathclub" is now on MySpace! The track features Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio on backing vocals and Wes Borland on Guitar. The video has a lot of footage from the upcoming Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. You can check it out more
It looks like Lily Allenagrees with a lot of people about her debut album. Allen admitted she can't stand hearing her acclaimed debut album 'Alright, Still'. "When I listen to that record I cringe. I am five years younger on that record. I can't bear listening to it." Lily told BBC 6 Music. more
D'Angelo is expected to collaborate with Prince on his long-awaited first new album since 2000, reportedly titled "James River" and due this summer from J Records.more
IGA Digital sent us over this little treat for U2 fans: Listen to the new single from U2"Get On Your Boots" here. Want an MP3 of the song instead? Pre-order the new album No Line On The Horizon (out March 3rd), now at iTunes and receive "Get On Your Boots" instantly here
Download festival organizer Andy Copping has told Classic Rock magazine that Heaven And Hell - the band featuring BLACK SABBATH members Tony Iommi (guitar), Ronnie James Dio (vocals), Geezer Butler (bass) and Vinny Appice (drums) - is not yet confirmed to play this year's event, despite the group's announcement to the contrary more
The late guitarist Jeff Healey and the Jeff Healey Blues Band were the big winners at the Twelfth Annual Maple Blues Awards handed out Monday night in Toronto, taking home seven awards in total.more
Danish thrashers Artillery have replaced Destruction on the billing of the "Chris Witchhunter Tribute Concert", which is scheduled to take place on Saturday, April 11, 2009 at Turbinenhalle in Oberhausen, Germany. more
To coincide with the band's international touring schedule, Equal Vision & Sire Records have partnered together to release Chiodos' breakout sophomore album Bone Palace Ballet: Grand Coda in the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, and Japan. United Kingdom - January 26th (CD/DVD) Germany - February 6th (CD/DVD)
Australia - February 15th (CD only) Japan - January 26th (CD/DVD import from U.K.) - March 25th (Japanese CD only)
A German distributor can no longer sell two early albums by U.S. singer-songwriter Bob Dylan as the rights are owned by Japan's Sony, the European Union's top court ruled on Tuesday. Falcon Neue Medien distributes the two albums, Blowin' in the Wind and Gates of Eden, featuring famous tracks such as "The Times They Are A-Changin'" and "Highway 61 Revisited." more
Bomb the Music Industry! has delayed the release of their new album, Scrambles. The record is now due for release on February 15, 2009more
On Monday, January 19, Zakk Wylde's (Ozzy Osbourne, Black Label Society) father passed away due to complications from his fight against cancer. Condolences to Zakk and his family. more
The parent of Clear Channel Communications Inc. told workers on Tuesday that it is cutting 1,850 jobs as the nation's largest owner of radio stations grapples with the economic meltdown more
Hatchet have issued the following update regarding their split with vocalist Marcus Kirchen: 'Due to Personal and Musical differences, We regret to inform you that vocalist Marcus Kirchen has parted ways with Hatchet." more
Mickey Mouse does not like metal: The Faceless, who will be on tour with Meshuggah and Cynic in February, have been banned from playing the Anaheim, California House of Blues date, which is the first show. The kick-off date, to take place February 1st, will continue without The Faceless who will join the tour on February 2nd. The Disney owned venue, must approve of all bands playing and The Faceless were not approved for undisclosed reasons. That's just goofy. That venue sucks anyway.
Walmart has joined forces with Nashville-based merchandising and marketing company Richards & Southern to launch a non-exclusive 8 act Country Legends T-shirt pallet display program. This program features cool, nostalgic style designs featuring The Oak Ridge Boys, Conway Twitty, Alabama, Charlie Daniels, George Jones, and Kenny Rogers and will be available for $7.99 in 1500 stores across America through May 2009.
Mark Mason, lead singer and bassist for the rock band "Ampage" and triathlete, is currently in the studio with his band working on their 5th album titled "Don't Shoot The Wounded". Mason has also written and recorded a new song for the album about Ironman Triathlons and brought in drummer Rick Allen from Def Leppard to perform on this song more
DC4 has been added to the Keel Reunion show taking place in Hollywood, CA on Saturday, January 31, 2009. The show is being held at Club Vodka at The Knitting Factory. Tickets are $18 in advance and $20 day of show.
Country singer Jo Dee Messina and her husband have announced the birth of their first child, a boy. The singer's spokesman says Noah Roger Deffenbaugh was born Monday afternoon at a Nashville-area hospital.
antiMusic reports: Welcome to Singled Out! where we ask artists to tell us the inside story of their latest. Today Decky Hedrock from electro rockers The Japanese Popstars tells us about how the title track from their new album, "We Just Are," came to be. We now turn it over to Decky for the story: After about 2 years of playing out and gigging, we realised that we had enough tracks to compile an album of our own material. We had written lots of pieces of music and ideas over the last while, we thought "Lets do it, we could put these tunes out as The Japanese Popstars album!". So we set our goals to produce a 12 track long player. The problem was that we had more than 12 tracks. I think it was somewhere around 24 tracks that we had to choose from! So the next job was to agree on the music which we felt best represented what The Japanese Popstars were about.
We wanted something that reflected our live show that we had been so well known for, and built up a following from, over the past two years but we realized that we could not have something so uptempo and in-your-face as an album, because most people would get a little bit bored listening to repetitive beats constantly. So, we decided to give the album a more euphoric and chilled out approach, in particular areas, so to bring down the tempo and feel of the running order. Basically to give the album more texture, contrast and diversity!
The hardest and worst part came next. Which order do we place the tracks? This took about 1 month to finally decide what tracks ran next to each other. No joke, we got very annoyed with each other, some harsh words where said, people cried, ran away and lots of group hugs came about, until we all decided on a track list that we were all happy with. So, were did we get the name for the album? Well.... When we meet people for the first time, one of the questions they always ask us is "Why are you called The Japanese Popstars?". So we thought it would be funny to call the album something that explains that.
So we say "We Just Are".
Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself and learn more about the album
