During Queens of the Stone Age‘s European Tour 2007, the band played an exclusive unplugged set one mile underground in a former salt mine in Erfurt, Germany.
Open to worldwide competition winners only, the November 20 set saw QOTSA breaking out songs they’ve never played live (going «deep», in the words of frontman Josh Homme, who is always quick with a pun).
Check out photos of concert on www.qotsa.com.
Album in stores today!
Since Brody Dalle, the tattooed Amazon goddess of a frontwoman, disbanded her So-Cal punk outfit, the Distillers, in 2006, her focus has been more maternal than nocturnal: She got hitched to Josh Homme – the Queens of the Stone Age frontman with whom she had a daughter, Camille, that same year. But that’s all about to change. As her new band, Spinnerette, made its NYC debut last night at the Bowery Ballroom, Dalle aimed to wrestle some of the spotlight away from her domestic life and put it back firmly where it belongs: on her voice.
But that voice, as Dalle explained to the Bowery crowd, didn’t quite make the trip with her to New York: The singer said she woke up hoarse, alluded to having laryngitis, and claimed, jokingly, that openers Band of Skulls had given it to her. But no worries: Dalle coerced someone to «stick a needle in [her] ass» – full of what we don’t know. And while that medicine probably helped her walk on stage with her trademark raspy alto intact, a major side effect appeared to be general fatigue.
Read full story on spin.com.
More infos: www.spinnerettemusic.com
Your favourite Kiddie-Band is back!
Tiny Masters of Today are immediately handicapped by their age. Not that there’s anything wrong with being in a Brooklyn band in your early teens, it’s just hard for sibling duo Ivan and Ada (born in 1994 and 1996 respectively) to expect anything but huge jealousy from critics and public alike. At an age when most kids are bored and frustrated with acne and homework, TMoT are releasing their second album.
For the most part «Skeletons» doesn’t flaunt its producers’ immaturity and is a scuzzy, lo-fi mess of hisses, scrapes, distortion and industrial beats and occasional Go! Team vocals. «Two Dead Soldiers» is typical of the whole album in both quality (average) and sound (cheaply soiled) with its askew Pixies riff, schoolyard cheering and nursery rhyme lyrics. «Big Stick» is a far more interesting concoction of scratching, atonal Public Enemy noise and dub atmospherics.
The title track is perhaps the most commercial song present, all sickly vocal from Ada and broken-amp guitar abuse. A perfect theme tune for Skins, should the cult teen sex ‘n’ drugs show be remade in the US. «Pop Chart» is another album highlight, insofar as it sounds like Cornershop’s «Brimful Of Asha», crossed with beats last heard on an old Wiseguys bigbeat track and a laughable lyric. «It’s all about the money/so rich it isn’t funny». Naomi Klein won’t be caused sleepless nights by such analytical rigour, but hey, the band are younger than her even with a combined age.
«Skeletons» has trash moments of fun, fizzy punk and packs a certain visceral punch but ultimately is as forgettable and naïve as the legion of X-Factor hopefuls who never make it past the audition stage.
More Infos: www.tinymasters.net
References: Taken from bbb.co.uk, © 2009 BBC
Metric is a four piece band formed in NYC that has been based at various times in Toronto, Montreal, Los Angeles, and London. Their fourth full length studio album «Fantasies» is a much anticipated follow up to 2005′s highly acclaimed «Live it out». «Fantasies» was written by the band in a farmhouse outside Seattle, and by frontwoman Emily Haines in exile in Argentina. The album was recorded at guitarist Jimmy Shaw’s own Giant Studio in Toronto and mixed at Electric Lady in NYC by Grammy winner John O’Mahony (Coldplay, The Strokes). A densely textured modern mix of psychedelia, electro and rock, this album s dream like quality stays true to the band’s aesthetic while venturing into more accessible musical territory.
More infos: www.ilovemetric.com
Gossip (aka The Gossip) got very creative and made a funny infomercial for their forthcoming new album «Music For Men» out on June 22.
Gossip was formed in 1999 in Olympia, Washington with vocalist Beth Ditto, guitarist Brace Paine, and drummer Kathy Mendonca. The band is pretty indie and clearly not girlie pop. They have toured with the likes of the White Stripes, Sonic Youth, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Sleater Kinney.
Beth Ditto, who fronts the band, describes herself as a «fat, feminist lesbian from Arkansas,» whose powerful voice has been compared to female greats such as Etta James, Janis Joplin and Tina Turner. Her lyrics are explicitly girl-love related and the band’s latest single «Standing in the way of control» is a fiery disco/punk/blues/soul attack on the Republicans’ attitude to gay marriage.
Muse have named their fifth album via their Twitter. The album will be called «The Resistance» and it is due for release in September with a full arena tour planned.
The trio then confirmed via their official website that one of the song titles on the follow-up to 2006’s «Black Holes And Revelations» will be «United States Of Eurasia». Fans deciphered the title from a photo of Matt Bellamy holding some sheet music.
No matter which way you write it – with a Mecca dauber or a betting pencil – it’s good news: the Arctic Monkeys release their third album on Monday, August 24.
The as-yet-untitled album features 10 brand new Arctic Monkeys’ songs and was produced by Josh Homme in the Mojave Desert and Los Angeles and James Ford in Brooklyn. Does this mean we are to expect a stodgy rock epic in the mould of ‘Standing on the Shoulders of Giants’? Is Alex likely to be trading in his SBA Zip Hoody for a bi-cep-bustin’ cap-sleeve T-Shirt and some ‘muscular’ riffin’?
Well let’s fooking hope not. Hope rests on the input of Ford, whose recent production credits include The Last Shadow Puppets, Test Icicles, Peaches and Mystery Jets.
Can you take the Monkey’s out of High Green and still have him swingin’ from all the right branches? Only time will tell.
The album will be available on CD (WIGCD220), vinyl (WIGLP220) and via digital download (WIG220D).
More Info: www.arcticmonkeys.com
EELS will release their first new album since 2005’s acclaimed double BLINKING LIGHTS AND OTHER REVELATIONS. The new album, HOMBRE LOBO, set for June 2nd, 2009, features 12 new songs recorded in EELS leader Mark Oliver Everett, aka E’s studio in Los Angeles. Stay tuned to EELStheband.com and myspace.com/eels for more info.
Line up 2009 of the St. Gallen OpenAir festival from June 26-28, 2009:
More acts will be announced soon. More Info: www.openairsg.ch
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