antiMusic reports: Concert promoters are battling to block Michael Jackson's series of live concerts in London this summer - accusing the star of breaking an earlier agreement to make his comeback with them.more
Eighties pop star Boy George is a free man - the singer has left prison after completing just four months of a 15 month sentence.more
Bob Dylan started a second week atop the U.K. album chart yesterday (Sunday) with "Together Through Life" (Columbia/Sony BMG)more
The Killers are set to perform with a full orchestra on US late-night talk show 'Late Show With David Letterman' tonight (May 11).more
Eminem has announced that he will perform on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' for three nights beginning on Friday (May 15).more
The Dead Weather, Jack White's new outfit with Allison Mosshart of The Kills, have announced some North America tour dates for the summer. more
Stephen Bruton, the Texas-based guitarist and vocalist renowned for his work with Kris Kristofferson, Alejandro Escovedo and many others, died Saturday (May 9) at age 60 due to complications from throat cancermore
Former Deep Purple keyboard legend Jon Lord plans to kick off 2010 with a concert in Postdam, near Berlin.more
The Zutons' saxophonist Abi Harding has revealed that the band are starting work on their new album.more
U.S. album sales were down 9.2% in April 2009 (the five weeks starting March 30 and ending May 3) versus April 2008, according to data at Nielsen SoundScan.more
NME claimsThe Police may yet reform once again, after drummer Stewart Copeland refused to rule out further shows.... But don't hold your breath, read his comments in context here
Behemoth has finished recording their forthcoming album, "Evangelion," at Radio Gdansk in Poland. Frontman Adam "Nergal" Darski will be flying to the UK tomorrow to join Colin Richardson for final mixing at Miloco Studios in London.more
Alice In Chains will support Kid Rock at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan on Saturday, July 18.more
Social Distortion, The Replacements and Elvis Costello will be added to Rock Band in the coming weeks. The popular game will be adding songs from all three bands as well as Disturbed and Steely Danmore
Eminem guest stars in a new Punisher comic book, rightly titled "Kill You."more
Unseen lyrics penned by late Beatle George Harrison have been put on display at the London recording studios the Fab Four made their home.more
Children Of Bodom have officially dropped off the "No Fear Energy Tour" with Lamb Of God, As I Lay Dying, God Forbid and Municipal Waste due to injurymore
New Green Day CD trashed as a rehash. A new review reads in part: After salvaging their career with that massively successful 2004 concept album, the Bay Area pop-punks of Green Day have eagerly embraced a classic music-biz rule -- If it's worth doing, it's worth doing again -- for this eagerly anticipated followup. Pity they seem to have neglected another fundamental rule: You can have too much of a good thing.more
Project Strato, the band featuring ex-Stratovarius members are excited to release an early Stratovarius demo: They say in a statement, 'This is really cool, we just found a person who has a demotape of the very early Stratovarius line-up when Tuomo was still handling the vocals as well." more
Thin Lizzy will be "special guest" for AC/DC's shows in London, Dublin and Glasglowmore
Slipknot percussionist Shawn "The Clown" Crahan rejoined the band on stage Friday (May 8) at Oklahoma City's Zoo Amphitheatre after taking several days off following the death of his mother.more
Andrea Devi Forman, the lead singer of the only Sanskrit rock band of the world Shanti Shanti, married an attorney Joel A. Santos in a traditional Catholic church ceremony in Sparks (Nevada, USA) on May eight.
Asphyx renewed its partnership with its long-time label Century Media Records and on June 22nd, 2009 the new studio album will be released in Europe. more
Maroon has announced a make-up record release show that should have been in Nordhausen on April 18th. The show will now take part in Sondershausen (20km from Nordhausen) at the STOCKSEN on May 31st.more
Stone Temple Pilots have confirmed a handful of shows for this summer. Dates are listed here
Live Nation said Thursday that its first-quarter loss widened in part because fewer people attended concerts in its core North America market. Perhaps insane ticket prices and "fees" that can be as high as half the face price of the tickets have something to do it? Things like charging a parking fee for each ticket can't help. more
Last week we were sent the wrong link to the St Helens MP3 for "How To Choose". We now have the correct link so you can check it out right here
Despite a statement to the contrary this week, 50 Cent has not been cleared of involvement in the house fire that saw a $1.4 million property burned to the ground in Long Island, NY.more
Gaza has abandoned plans to hit the road this month. But they did say, "we're still going to play Dudefest this July and will be booking for that." more
Baroness is set to head into the studio next week to begin work on the follow-up to 2007's Red Album.more
Cheap Girls have announced the release date for the remastered reissue of their 2008 full-length, Find Me a Drink Home. The LP will be released on June 23, 2009 via the band's new label, Paper and Plastick.more. Most band wait a few years to remaster and reissue, go figure. This can't be "cheap" for their fans.
A 1989 Porsche 911 Carrera 4 car that once belonged to Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett is once again being auctioned on eBay.more
Tank is teaming up with legendary NWOBHM act Praying Mantis for a May 24 concert at The Peel in Kingston Upon Thames, U.K. more
Joyful Noise has signed long-running Indianapolis indie rock act Marmoset. Their Joyful Noise debut, Tea Tornado, is set for an August 4th, 2009 release. more including an MP3 link
Nightrage will release their new album, "Wearing A Martyr's Crown", on June 22 (Europe) and August 4 (USA) on Lifeforce Records. The band is previewing the album with a stream of the song "Shed The Blood" on their Myspace
New Kids On The Block performed on "The Today Show," and announced that Jesse McCartney will be joining their summer tour. McCartney will spend almost six weeks on the road with the middle-aged boy "band" performing across the US and Canada including stops in Boston, Chicago, Atlanta and Toronto.
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antiMusic reports: Welcome to Singled Out! where we ask artists to tell us the inside story of their latest single. Today Stacey Quinealty from Carbon 9 tells us about "My Friend" from their brand new album "The Bull". We now turn it over to for the story:Carbon 9 is a production band that generally writes songs in the studio, but "My Friend" was one of the songs that was created by letting loose as a group in the band's rehearsal facility. As we constructed twenty eight songs for the new album, (only to allow ourselves room to cut down to the top fifteen), "My Friend" was one we just couldn't let go. In rehearsal I kept singing the words, "My friend, my friend", and I really wasn't certain what it meant. I am one of these people that believe in a purpose for everything and I contemplated the value of this lyric constantly reoccurring in my head. I was struggling with the value of a current relationship I was engaged in and it soon made sense. Living in Los Angeles and working in the entertainment industry, no different than any other industry, I soon came to the realization that the energy and aggression of this song was being driven by my personal emotions referencing this relationship. There are so many people that we encounter in our lives that actually bring value to our everyday experiences, but there are also a few that are in it for themselves. "My Friend" is about these people! The ones that call you their friend and actually make you think they care but really don't give a s**t about you.
"My Friend"is directly about that one person that constantly stabs you in the back yet we continue to keep them close within the circle. They generally do this to keep themselves feeling powerful and in complete control, while we gloat in the knowledge and wisdom that we know exactly what they are doing and therefore we are better than them. It may be a sadistic thought; to be better than another, but are all men really created equal? Some people only feel as if they are moving upwards by bringing others down and I made a personal decision not to engage in these relationships. You are the same as your environment and you must make decisions that correctly guide your life's path. The starts, stops, and dynamic changes in this track represent the ups and downs of any ongoing relationship. "My Friend," in a nutshell, is really asking the question, "Why do I feel that I need to keep this person in my private circle?" The answer is, "I don't!" There is nothing that they can bring to me in a positive manner that their negative energy will not override. There is no room in life to allow individuals to bring you down and must be avoided at all times. A real friend does not need to call you his / her close friend, for this is understood on both sides of the table. We must stand our ground and be the individual in which we were designed to be! This individual is the true self, the one that looks deep inside and lives his / her life to the fullest. As a collective society, we must avoid these negative people and come to the realization that this is their world, not mine. It is not the word, "friend" that has value, but the actions that each individual portrays on a daily basis that enhances your life. We are an evolving species, and to evolve means to move forward. It is time to let go, it is time to EVOLVE.
ev.o.lu.tion: the gradual development of something to a more complex form.
Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself and learn more about the album
