Gimme Some by Peter Bjorn and John

You've gotta love a band that goes by the abbreviation PB&J, and it only helps matters that they're from Sweden, that stronghold of catchy tunes from across the sea. Gimme Some by Peter Bjorn and John ($13) eschews the darker sound of their last effort, Living Thing, instead offering up 11 tracks filled with foot-stomping beats, satisfying hooks, and upbeat tunes that are perfect for long drives on sunny days, or for brightening up a decidedly gray, nasty day.

Peter Bjorn and John - Second Chance (Gimme Some)

Beastie Boys - Make Some Noise (Preview)

New stuff drops on May 3rd..here's a quick 30 sec preview!

New Depeche Mode news...

Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan
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Depeche Mode releasing 1981-2011 remix album in June

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Depeche Mode are releasing a new remix compilation album in June.

The album, 'Remixes 2: 81-11', will be out on June 6. It follows their 2004 collection, 'Remixes 81-04'.

UNKLE , Peter, Bjorn and John, Eric Prydz, and Röyksopp are among the acts whose remixes feature on the album.

It will be available as a one-disc and three-disc set. See Depechemode.com for more information.

The tracklistings of Remixes 2: 81-11 are:

One-disc version:

'Dream On' (Bushwacka Tough Guy)
'Personal Jesus' (The Stargate)
'Suffer Well' (M83)
'John The Revelator' (UNKLE)
'In Chains' (Tigerskin's No Sleep)
'Peace' (SixToes)
'Tora! Tora! Tora!' (Karlsson And Winnberg)
'Never Let Me Down Again' (Eric Prydz)
'I Want It All' (Roland M.Dill)
'Wrong' (Trentemøller)
'Puppets' (Röyksopp)
'Everything Counts' (Oliver Huntemann And Stephan Bodzin Dub)
'A Pain That I'm Used To' (Jacques Lu Cont)

Three-disc version:

Disc One:

'Dream On' (Bushwacka Tough Guy)
'Suffer Well' (M83)
'John The Revelator' (UNKLE)
'In Chains' (Tigerskin's No Sleep)
'Peace' (SixToes)
'Lilian' (Chab Vocal)
'Never Let Me Down Again' (Digitalism)
'Corrupt' (Efdemin)
'Everything Counts' (Oliver Huntemann And Stephan Bodzin Dub)
'Happiest Girl' (The Pulsating Orbital Vocal Mix)
'Walking In My Shoes' (Anandamidic Mix)
'Personal Jesus' (The Stargate Mix)
'Slowblow' (Darren Price)

Disc Two

'Wrong Trentemøller' (Club)
'World In My Eyes' (Dub In My Eyes)
'Fragile Tension' (Peter Bjorn and John)
'Strangelove' (Tim Simenon/Mark Saunders)
'A Pain That I'm Used To' (Jacques Lu Cont)
'The Darkest Star' (Monolake)
'I Feel You' (Helmet At The Helm)
'Higher Love' (Adrenaline Mix)
'Fly On The Windscreen' (Death Mix)
'Barrel Of A Gun' (United Mix)
'Only When I Lose Myself' (Dan The Automator)
'Ghost' (Le Weekend)

Disc Three:

'Personal Jesus' (Alex Metric)
'Never Let Me Down Again' (Eric Prydz)
'Behind The Wheel' Vince Clarke)
'Leave In Silence' (Claro Intelecto 'The Last Time')
'In Chains' (Alan Wilder)
'When The Body Speaks' (Karlsson And Winnberg)
'Puppets' (Röyksopp)
'Tora! Tora! Tora!' (Karlsson And Winnberg)
'Freestate' (Clark)
'I Want It All' (Roland M Dill)
'A Question Of Time' (Joebot Presents 'Radio Face')
'Personal Jesus' (Sie Medway-Smith)


I had hope they put the remix of this vid below....but enjoy it nonetheless!

Depeche Mode _ Strangelove ( ZB remix)

Noel working on some tunes.....

Ex-Oasis man Noel Gallagher 'banging out tunes' in LA studio

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Noel Gallagher is working on new material in Los Angeles, according to You Me At Six singer Josh Franceschi.

Last night (March 23) Franceschi wrote on Twitter.com/joshmeatsix that the ex-Oasis man was working in the same studio as his band.

"Can hear Noel from Oasis blasting his new tunes from the studio next door," he wrote. "Absolutely mental."

The Surrey quintet are currently recording their third album in the US city.

Last month Gallagher claimed that he hadn't started work on his solo album yet. His brother Liam, now fronting Beady Eye, said he reckoned that he had, though.

Also last November Miles Kane said he'd been working with Noel on his first post-Oasis solo album.

Noel Gallagher - where did it all go wrong

Liam not afraid of Julian...

Liam Gallagher: 'Beady Eye aren't fucking scared of The Strokes' 

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Liam Gallagher has declared that he and his Beady Eye bandmates aren't scared of the competition at this summer's Reading And Leeds Festivals.

Beady Eye are set to headline the NME/Radio 1 Stage at the August events. The Strokes, Muse, My Chemical Romance and Pulp will all play Main Stage headline slots.

When asked about The Strokes Gallagher told NME: "We weren't fucking scared of them the first time we heard them. We're not fucking scared of them now!"

Speaking about how he thought he'd adapt to playing one of Beady Eye's first festival shows, he added: "I'll comfortably fucking fit back into that dress."

Beady Eye - The Roller [Live from Abbey Road]

Jack White on White Stripes split: 'I don't know what Meg is up to'

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Jack White has admitted that he doesn’t know what his former White Stripes bandmate Meg is up to these days.

The frontman and Meg announced that they were no longer a band on February 2 .

When quizzed about what Meg was doing in the wake of the split by Pitchfork he replied: "I don't know. I've never known."

Speaking at the South By Southwest festival, he also revealed why it took so long for the group to announce details of their split, pointing to their 2010 live album and film 'Under Great White Northern Lights'.

"That box set and movie, that took a lot of time," he said of the project, which was recorded in 2007. "People don’t really know how much time that stuff takes. More than albums, I mean, albums we make in two weeks, but films and editing and box sets and premieres and all that, that was a long project."

He added: "We had thousands of hours of footage that we went through. Any time I wasn’t working with The Raconteurs or The Dead Weather that's what I worked on. So that swallowed up a lot of time. So it kind of seemed like we hadn’t done anything in a couple of years."

Last week White spoke more about the split announcement as he arrived at the Austin event. 

Check out the old school vid "Fell in Love with A Girl"

The White Stripes - "Fell in Love with a Girl" Sympathy for the Record I...

Ryan Adams news....

Ryan Adams working on new album with Glyn Johns

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Ryan Adams is working on a new studio album with producer Glyn Johns.

No details about the album beyond the fact that Johns is producing have been revealed yet, with Billboard

Veteran producer Johns has worked with acts including The Who, The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan

Adams' last album release was 2010's 'Cardinals III/IV', which he put out with his band The Cardinals. Before that he released 'Orion', a heavy metal album only released on vinyl.

Adams is set for a UK acoustic tour this June. first reporting the news. before.

Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Fix It on Letterman

A quick review of the new Strokes album....

from the pages of Stereogum.com:


A miserable experience recording an album doesn’t always equal a miserable album. So often the opposite happens: Big Star, Arcade Fire, Bon Iver, and Fleetwood Mac all made brilliant albums under internal or external stress. So the early clues into the Strokes’ fourth album, their first in five years, weren’t so bad. Sure, it had been a while, and Casablancas was recording in a separate studio, and he told any reporter he spoke with that the band was touring for the money alone. But some good things happen when band members hate each other. Listening to Angles now, it seems like hate would have been good, actually. Instead the band was working under much worse feelings: boredom, apathy, alienation. You can hear bits of what you loved about the Strokes in many songs, and some promising new ideas in others. Overall, though, Angles is an uneven album. The only thing that connects the separate pieces is the palpable apathy..
But guitarist Nick Valensi describes that feeling even better in a recent Pitchfork interview:

I won’t do the next album we make like this. No way. It was awful– just awful. Working in a fractured way, not having a singer there. I’d show up certain days and do guitar takes by myself, just me and the engineer. Some of the third album was done that way, but at least we were on the same page about what the arrangements and parts were. Seventy-five percent of this album felt like it was done together and the rest of it was left hanging, like some of us were picking up the scraps and trying to finish a puzzle together.

Unfortunately that 25% weighs the album down considerably. You can just watch their SNL performances and compare Strokes in 2001 to 2011 to see the subtle but significant differences that color Angles. That effortless cool and uncaring has crossed over into genuine boredom. You can tell they’ve grown apart, not just as friends or a band, but as musicians. They all contributed to the songwriting on Angles, but the mix of these different voices and styles doesn’t create variety, it creates disconnection. There are some very good moments on each song, but none of those moments add up to few great songs; the songs don’t connect to an album, and the songs don’t present any larger vision, and there’s no build-up or tension to give the record shape.
“Machu Picchu” sets up the album’s auspicious and dubious start. There are great things here: the upbeat and slight reggae influence, the rhythmic bridge, the catchy lead guitar hook. But already you can hear the break between the instruments and Casablancas’ voice, which hangs above the song, as it does on most of Angles. “Under Cover of Darkness” and “Two Kinds Of Happiness” also have lots of life in them, and shows the one thread you can follow from track to track: strong 70s/80s pop influences, from the Cars to Tom Petty (which you can hear in the latter especially) and Men At Work, Police, Thin Lizzy, and Steely Dan(!). “You’re So Right” creeps in a darker direction for the band (which Casablancas explored in his solo album), but it feels incomplete, as does “Taken For A Fool.” “Taken For A Fool” reads as if it’s about feeling disconnected (the line about his weekend being Monday/Tuesday seems like it’s about how he’s out of sync with others, and once again Casablancas sounds as if he’s hovering about the song, never engaging with it, as if the parts weren’t only recorded in different spaces, but mixed differently as well.
If The Strokes have a “Reelin’ In The Years” (and every band needs one), it’s “Gratisfaction,” and it’s one of the most fun tracks on the album. What I like about “Gratisfaction” is that it also sounds like a band working together, enjoying each other’s energy, especially when all of their voices show up on the chorus. Elsewhere the band introduces more creative ideas and influences that feel aimless after a bit. The light Brazilian guitar in “Call Me Back” is a romantic contrast to tracks like “You’re So Right” and “Gratisfaction;” it sounds a bit like drummer Fabrizio Moretti’s adorable Little Joy project. The band invented a boiling psychedelic groove for “Metabolism” that should have set this song up for bigger things instead of Casablancas’ yawning vocals (even his ending shout sounds like a stifled yawn.
Casablancas singing “What’s the point?” in ambling closer “Life Is Simple In The Moonlight,” is appropriate — the album and the band lack purpose. That list of good bands that’s you sort of hear in Angles? You could add The Strokes to it. Angles is the band you loved, in ghost form. The Strokes’ many side projects prove that the band clearly love writing and playing music. They just don’t enjoy writing and playing with each other, and unless they can undergo a Some Kind Of Monster-type group therapy that gets them in the same room again, all these ideas might be better explored by those side projects. What’s the point in keeping the Strokes going? In the same Pitchfork interview Casablancas ends by saying “The best thing we can do right now is put out another [album] really quick.” It’s only the second best thing they can do.
Angles is out 3/18.

The Strokes 'Under Cover of Darkness' - SNL 2011.mpg

RIP Nate Dogg....

Snoop Dogg pays tribute to 'best friend' Nate Dogg

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From the pages of NME.COM:

Rapper Nate Dogg passed away last night (Mar 15) aged 41

Nate Dogg, real name Nathaniel Dwayne Hale, was 41. The cause of his death is as yet unconfirmed.

Writing on his Twitter page, Twitter.com/snoopdogg, Snoop Dogg hailed his rapper friend, who he met as a teenager.

"We lost a true legend in hip-hop and R&B," he wrote. "One of my best friends and a brother to me since 1986 when I was a sophomore at Poly High [Long Beach Polytechnic High School] where we met."

He added: "I love you buddy. You will always be with me forever and a day. You put the 'G' in 'G funk', you put the '1' in '213' and you put your stamp on everybody you ever did it with.

"I miss you because I am so sad but so happy I got to grow up with you, and I will see you again in heaven, because you know the slogan about 'all doggs go to heaven'."

Nate Dogg made his debut on Dr. Dre's 1992 debut solo album 'The Chronic'. As well as Snoop he also collaborated with Eminem, Ludacris, Tupac Shakur and Warren G.

He released three studio albums of his own, most recently his 2004 self-titled effort.

Check out below this old school vid with Warren G....

Warren G - Regulate ft. Nate Dogg

Here's a link to listen to the new Strokes album!

Enjoy!! http://hypetrak.com/2011/03/the-strokes-angles/

New Beastie Boys (Update!)

Beastie Boys' new album cover art  

 

Beastie Boys to release 'Hot Sauce...' album in May -

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Plus 'Too Many Rappers', featuring Nas, has been release online

Beastie Boys have finally set a release date for their long-awaited new album 'Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2'.

The album, which will be the New York trio's eighth full-length effort, will come out on May 3 in the US. A UK release date of May 2 would correspond to this. The cover art is pictured.

The trio have made a song from the new album, ''Too Many Rappers', available to hear online. The track features a guest vocal from Nas – scroll down and click below to hear it.

The album had been due to come out in 2009 but was delayed after rapper Adam Yauch underwent treatment for cancer. In January Yauch told fans that although he hadn't got the all-clear, he was "hoping to be cancer free in the near future".

The tracklisting of 'Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2' is:
'Tadlock's Glasses'
'B-Boys In The Cut'
'Make Some Noise'
'Nonstop Disco Powerpack'
'OK'
'Too Many Rappers' (feat. Nas)'
'Say It'
'The Bill Harper Collection'
'Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win' feat. Santigold
'Long Burn The Fire'
'Funky Donkey'
'Lee Majors Come Again'
'Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament'
'Pop Your Balloon'
'Crazy Ass Shit'
'Here's a Little Something For Ya'

Beastie Boys & Nas - Too Many Rappers [HQ]

MTV First: Foo Fighters' 'Rope'

MTV First: Foo Fighters' 'Rope': "Catch the live premiere of the Foo Fighters' 'Rope' music video, followed by an exclusive Q&A session from one lucky Foo fan's house."

New Foo Fighter vid "Rope"

There was a noteworthy amount of discussion around “Rope,” the first single from the forthcoming Wasting Light, especially given (or maybe because of) how textbook Foo that self-doubting post-grunge radio rock hook felt. Here’s that song’s video, featuring Pat Smear because the album does as well, with the black-clad band inside a Battles “Atlas”-reminiscent cube, with opaque white illuminated slates where the transparent plates and mirrors would be. It’s a slightly refined take on a standard rock video trope, which is to say it is a very Foo Fighters production. It follows that Dave Grohl directed.

Wasting Light is out 4/12, the song “Dear Rosemary” with Bob Mould is one I’m curious to hear. We’ll get you a listen when it’s ready.

Check out the vid above this post!

Nick from The Strokes talks how he hated recording with other members..

Nick Valensi Discusses ‘Awful’ Strokes Album Sessions

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The Strokes‘ guitarist Nick Valensi has shed further light on the drawn out recording sessions which eventually led to their new album ‘Angles‘, describing the experience as ‘awful’

Valensi told Pitchfork.com of the somewhat isolated nature of the New York band’s time in the studio, detailing instances when he would turn up to the studio alone to do his guitar parts.
“I won’t do the next album we make like this,” he declared. “No way. It was awful – just awful. Working in a fractured way, not having a singer there. I’d show up certain days and do guitar takes by myself, just me and the engineer.”
“75 per cent of this album felt like it was done together and the rest of it was left hanging, like some of us were picking up the scraps and trying to finish a puzzle together.”
Originally intended to hit the shelves last year, ‘Angles‘ suffered a series of delays and setbacks, before finally confirming the March 21st release date in January.

Check out last performance from SNL below......

The Strokes Under Cover Of Darkness Full Song (HD)

Arctic Monkeys' new album 'Suck It And See'

Arctic Monkeys' new album 'Suck It And See' out in June

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Arctic Monkeys have named their new album 'Suck It And See', and will release it on June 6.

The album, their fourth, was produced by James Ford at Sound City Studios in Los Angeles. It features 12 new songs including 'Brick By Brick', which you can hear by scrolling down and clicking below.

The album will be the Sheffield band's first since 2009's 'Humbug', which Simian Mobile Disco man Ford also did some production work on, alongside Queens Of The Stone Age's Josh Homme.

The tracklisting of 'Suck It And See' is:

'She's Thunderstorms'
'Black Treacle'
'Brick By Brick'
'The Hellcat Spangled Shalalala'
'Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair'
'Library Pictures'
'All My Own Stunts'
'Reckless Serenade'
'Piledriver Waltz'
'Love Is A Laserquest'
'Suck It And See'
'That's Where You're Wrong'

Arctic Monkeys - Brick By Brick

another cool band ...

Foster The People: Debut Releases & Tour Dates

When I first discovered Foster The People last year they were just a new band, had one “album” on last.fm and had just started touring around. Now a year later they’ve created buzz in the wonderful music blog world and have been tipped as one of name to watch in 2011 by some of the biggest music magazines.

Foster The People has just released their long awaited debut EP “Foster The People” and announced that debut album Torches will be released on May 24th!


Check out the vid below!

Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks

Cool new band - AWOLNATION

AWOLNATION is an American indie rock band, and is the solo project of Aaron Bruno, formerly of Under the Influence of Giants. The band is signed to Red Bull Records^[1], and their first EP, Back from Earth, was released on iTunes on May 18, 2010^[2].
They have performed with Weezer^[3][4] and MGMT.
The band's first single, "Sail," debuted at #30 on the U.S. Billboard Alternative Songs chart on the chart week of February 10, 2011<sup>.

check out their vid below:</sup>

AWOLNATION - "Sail" Red Bull Records

NEW STROKES VIDEO!

The Strokes premiere 'Under Cover Of Darkness' video The Strokes Tickets

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The Strokes have premiered the video for their comeback single 'Under Cover Of Darkness'.

Scroll down now to watch it.

The clip initially sees all of the New York band's members, apart from singer Julian Casablancas, dressed in suits as classical musicians. Casablancas, meanwhile, is seen sitting at a table in a leather jacket before eventually joining the rest of the band dressed in a tuxedo.

'Under Cover Of Darkness' is released in the UK as a limited-edition seven-inch vinyl single on April 16, Record Store Day, while new album 'Angles' is out on March 21.

In other Strokes news, new album track 'You're So Right' is streaming exclusively on NME.COM now – click here to listen to it.

Plus get this week's NME, on UK newsstands today (March 2) or available digitally, for a track-by-track guide to 'Angles' from Casablancas.

Watch 'Under Cover Of Darkness' below:

The Strokes - Under Cover Of Darkness

Liam Gallagher Disses Radiohead: "Give Me a Break" | SPIN.com

Liam Gallagher Disses Radiohead: "Give Me a Break" | SPIN.com

Liam being Liam....as usual

quick update from The Killers....

The Killers' Ronnie Vannucci recording solo album

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The Killers drummer Ronnie Vannucci is recording his first solo album.

The Las Vegas sticksman has flown to London to work on the record while his band are on hiatus. Details are scant, but he has spoken about why he chose to record in the UK.

"The people I trust the most with music, some of those people are here," he told BBC 6music. "From the very first moment we [The Killers] were here it solidified a bond that's undeniable. It's familiar now, it's comforting."

He added: "I felt a connection here personally and I feel most at home [here]."

Vannucci said he didn't know when his album would come out, but did speak about getting back together with his band for a few shows this year.

The Killers are already confirmed to play the new Lollapalooza festival in Chile in April, with the drummer saying there were more "one-off shows" on the cards. He said that new band material was "a way off", though.

Vannucci presented Muse with the Best British Band award at the Shockwaves NME Awards last Wednesday (February 23).