cool Linkin Park cover....

 

Linkin Park recorded a live acoustic cover of Adele's 'Rolling In The Deep' at a recent session in Hamburg. Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click to watch the performance.

The chart-topping song was played during an acoustic performance for members of the Linkin Park fanclub in Germany last week, with vocalist Chester Bennington accompanied by co-frontman Mike Shinoda on guitar.

'Rolling In The Deep' has not made it into the band's live set on their current European tour, with the California metallers choosing to focus on material from their latest album 'A Thousands Suns'.

Linkin Park, who recently said they have begun working on their fifth studio album, headlined Download Festival for the third time earlier this month.

Linkin Park LPU Summit Hamburg 2011 Mike & Chester Rolling in the Deep (...

DJ Craze performs on the new Traktor Scratch Pro 2

in another life...i would've loved to do this full time yo

U2 - " Yellow " Coldplay cover at Glastonbury Festival 2011

How cool is this? One of my favorite frontmen covering one of my favorite songs ever? NICE!

Coldplay premiere new track 'Major Minus' –

Coldplay premiered their new track 'Major Minus' online yesterday (June 23), scroll down to the bottom of the page and click to hear it, and go to NME.com/blogs to read NME's review of the song.

The track, which was posted online last night, is the second song to be taken from the band’s new EP ‘Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall’ which will be released digitally on June 26 – the day after they headline the Pyramid Stage at this year’s Glastonbury festival.

The band have not yet revealed whether 'Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall' or 'Major Minus' will appear on their forthcoming fifth studio album, which they have been working on with producer Brian Eno for the last 18 months. However, they did play both songs along with other new material during their headlining slot at German festival Rock Am Ring earlier this month (June 4). 

Check out the track below:

Coldplay - Major Minus (Official)

U2 admit Glastonbury setlist arguments

 

U2 have admitted that there have been arguments within the band about what songs they should play at Glastonbury.

The band are set to headline the festival on Friday (June 24).

Drummer Larry Mullen Jr told Radio 1's Zane Lowe that there have been disagreements about how to approach their headlining shot.

He said: "We've gone through a number of combinations. Everybody seems to have a slightly different opinion, which is not good news."

"Everybody has a view on how it should go. There's the 'Where The Streets Have No Names' camp and then there's the more subtle approach, the 'Achtung Baby' dynamic approach, where you build slowly... Then there are those who think we should open with '40' (from 1983 album 'War'). It goes on. There are an awful lot of opinions."


Check out the video below of when I saw U2 in Tampa, Florida:

U2 360 Tour "City of Blinding Lights" HD Live Raymond James Stadium Tamp...

updated Beady Eye....

Liam Gallagher's Beady Eye Visit America

Just six days ago, Beady Eye were co-headlining the third night of the 65,000-capacity Isle of Wight festival, already the group's fourth major gig abroad since it released its debut Different Gear, Still Speeding in March. Of course, Beady Eye earned those coveted gigs because its four members -- singer Liam Gallagher, guitarist Andy Bell, guitarist Gem Archer and drummer Chris Sharrock -- were once four-fifths of the Britpop sensations Oasis. And while the 1,100 who packed the Metro in Chicago on Saturday night (June 18) for the band's first-ever U.S. performance didn't exactly approach the throngs that doted on Liam's every gesture at Isle of Wight, they certainly matched their fervor.

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Strolling on stage wearing a Union Jack frock that started at the neck and ended at the knees, Liam et al launched into "Four Letter Word," the first of a 16-song set. From the outset, if you blurred your eyes, you'd think you were watching Oasis. Still tilted upright, with his hands around his lower back, Liam bellows out every lyric with conviction and nasally amplification, like his son's namesake-on-eleven. He's added a blue scarf to his repertoire, which he mostly kept wrapped around his right fist, like he was bracing himself for a swift uppercut. Where's brother Noel when you need him?
Over an 15-year period from 1994 to 2009, Oasis were as famous for their infectious radio smashes like "Wonderwall," "Live Forever" and "Don't Look Back in Anger" as they were infamous for their constant infighting -- mostly between Liam and older brother and Oasis guitarist/singer Noel. The Gallaghers' proverbial front-stabbing culminated in a well-publicized dust-up backstage prior to a festival appearance in Paris on August 28, 2009 and, consequently, Noel's imminent departure from the band and the demise of Oasis.
The assumption was Noel would be first to cultivate the post-Oasis harvest. After all, it was Noel who wrote virtually every Oasis hit, the biggest of which were recorded before Bell, Archer, and Sharrock even joined the band. Instead, "Team Liam" is first to sow the seeds. Speaking of which, "Team Liam" would certainly be a less dreadful band name than the one they chose, we're assuming at gunpoint. Hell, BDI would have been better.
At first, Liam indicated Beady Eye wouldn't perform any Oasis songs live that were written by Noel (well, at least there's "Songbird") and then revised his plan to include no Oasis songs (wait, not even "Little James," about Liam's stepson?). But, true to Oasis lore, Beady Eye has barely altered its set list throughout its European tour, in most cases playing Different Gear in its entirety, plus a B-side or two, and cover tune (not a Beatles one!). That was the case Saturday night.
And all that friction detected between Liam and Noel on-stage because they never acknowledged one another? Well, it's the same deal between Liam and Archer, who stands in his stead to Liam's left. Like Oasis, Archer, Bell (switching from bass to guitar), Sharrock, along with touring bassist Jeff Wootton and keyboardist Matt Jones, all feel like sidemen. No matter who played alongside Liam and Noel in Oasis, everyone else just seemed sorta in-the-shadows (like Russell Hammond and those other guys in Stillwater). And even though Archer, Bell, and Sharrock are founding Beady Eye members, that sense remains.
It's compounded by the fact that, unlike many Oasis songs, there's little adventure to Beady Eye songs (meaning nothing in the ilk of "Champagne Supernova"), and thus not much room for the rest of the band to take center stage. But don't confuse blustery solos for chops; clearly, Beady Eye can move a room this size as well as Oasis ever could, all without resorting to pleas for noise or other cheerleading tricks of the trade. Many of the songs may not be arena worthy, but Beady Eye already is.
As we already know, Liam has an unhealthy obsession with the Beatles and, in particular, John Lennon (Liam has an 11-year-old son named Lennon), and it can't be a coincidence that the band name "Beady Eye" just happens to fall right before the Beatles alphabetically. Too many Oasis songs either borrowed heavily from the Fab Four or referenced Beatles songs. It'd be easy to credit (or discredit) Noel for the artistic larceny, since he wrote most of the songs, if not for the fact that Beady Eye does the same. Much of Beady Eye's derivativeness is of a fledgling Beatles (we're talking Hamburg-era). Songs like the B-side "Two of a Kind" and, duh, "Beatles and Stones" are simple, rote rockers that seem ideally fit for a small club like the Metro -- or the Cavern Club. Others like "For Anyone" pleasantly harkens even further back to Buddy Holly, while "Bring the Light" swings like a lost Jerry Lee Lewis gem, and one of those rare occasions where Sharrock and Jones are allowed to shine.
Other songs like "The Roller" and "Four Letter Word" have immediacy, but they seem a little too easy, and not long for the memory bank. And you'll have to excuse the non-descript "Standing on the Edge of the Noise" and "Millionaire," two songs that seem destined for set-list oblivion once Beady Eye has another album under its belt.
Where Beady Eye shows most promise is with songs with more sophisticated melodies, like the charming "The Beat Goes On," echo-y, psychedelic "The Morning Sun" and "Kill for a Dream," the most Oasis-sounding song performed. The latter, written by Bell, features weeping guitar fills eerily reminiscent of Noel, courtesy of Archer.
It'd have been so easy for Beady Eye to toss in an Oasis standard or, at the very least, a Beatles cover just to win over anyone who came just to see Liam, but that's just not their style. As per usual, Liam has already promised Beady Eye will be bigger than Oasis and judging by riveting performance and torrid reaction, you definitely maybe believe him.
Setlist:
Four Letter Word
Beatles and Stones
Millionaire
Two of a Kind
For Anyone
The Roller
Wind Up Dream
Bring the Light
Standing on the Edge of the Noise
Kill for a Dream
Three Ring Circus
The Beat Goes On
Man of Misery
The Morning Sun

Wigwam
Sons of the Stage (World of Twist cover

Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run

RIP Clarence Clemons....

updated RHCP news...

Red Hot Chili Peppers announce tracklisting for new album 'I'm With You'

Band will release 10th studio album on August 29

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Red Hot Chili Peppers have announced the tracklisting for their 10th studio album 'I'm With You'.

The LP, which is the band's first since their 2006 double album 'Stadium Arcadium', will come out on August 29, with a single 'The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie', dropping on July 18.

The album, which has been produced by longstanding knob twiddler Rick Rubin, was originally thought to be titled 'Dr Johnny Skinz's Disproportionately Rambunctious Polar Express Machine-head'.

'I'm With You' is the band's first album since 1995's 'One Hot Minute' not to feature guitarist John Frusciante. He quit the band in 2009 to be replaced by former touring guitarist and ex-Warpaint six stringer Josh Klinghoffer.

The tracklisting for 'I'm With You' is as follows:

'Monarchy Of Roses'
'Factory Of Faith'
'Brendan's Death Song'
'Ethiopia'
'Annie Wants A Baby'
'Look Around'
'The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie'
'Did I Let You Know'
'Goodbye Hooray'
'Happiness Loves Company'
'Police Station'
'Even You Brutus?'
'Meet Me At The Corner'
'Dance, Dance, Dance'

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication (Video)

Paramore to release new album in early 2012

 

Paramore are set to enter the studio at the end of this year to record the follow-up to 2009's 'Brand New Eyes'.

Speaking on BBC Radio 1, singer Hayley Williams said the band planned to follow the release of recent single 'Monster' with a full new album, but that the writing process was only just starting.

She said: "We're about to start writing it [the next album]. We're getting down to the core of refreshing our band. We're hoping to have the record out early next year, so hopefully we'll start to record it at the end of 2011."

Williams also spoke about the difficult six months the band have endured after founding members Josh and Zac Farro left the band in December last year after becoming disillusioned with life in Paramore.

She said: "It's been a crazy, crazy six months. I think the best thing is to see how much support we get from our fans."

The singer added that she was desperate to tour the UK again soon. Responding to a question about when Paramore would return to the UK, she said: "Not soon enough! I'm so ready. We only have 15 shows scheduled this year and that is so not cool. I'm pulling my hair out and freaking out with nothing to do at home."

'Monster' was released online last Thursday (June 2). Here's a quick vid of one of their shows I attended last year. Enjoy!

Paramore "Crushcrushcrush" (HD Live) from The House of Blues (LAST SHOW ...

Limp Bizkit – Gold Cobra

Presented is the title track of Limp Bizkit's sixth studio album, Gold Cobra, which is scheduled for release on June 28, 2011 by Interscope Records. You be the judge on whether this song is a worthy successor of their previous material or not. Judging from the stream below, it will be interesting to hear what the band will come up with on their first release since 2005's The Unquestionable Truth.

Limp Bizkit - Gold Cobra

Limp Bizkit - Gold Cobra by thearmpit

Bruce says "Iron Maiden is better than Metallica"

Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson has boldly stated that his band "are better than Metallica."

In a recent interview with Metal Hammer magazine, Dickinson explained: "You've just got to have a sense of fearlessness. I got into trouble for saying that we're better than Metallica… and, it's true!"

"They might be bigger than us," said the Brit singer, "and they might sell more tickets than us and they might get more gold-plated middle-class bourgeoisie turning up to their shows but they're not Maiden."

"I did say it's a bit of a wind-up," admits Dickinson. "I thought, if I'm going to turn into an asshole, I might as well, you know, go for it!"


Check out my vid from their last USA stop in St. Pete a few months ago!

IRON MAIDEN "2 Minutes to Midnight" (HD) Live from St. Pete Times Forum ...

New Red Hot Chili Pepper news!

Red Hot Chili Peppers announced via Twitter that their 10th studio album will be titled , 'I’m With You,' and will be revealed at the end of the Summer on Aug 30 via Warner Bros. Records. The lead single, “The Adventures of Raindance Maggie," will premiere on July 18.

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

Smashing Pumpkins announce tracklisting for new album 'Oceania'

Photo: Pieter M Van Hattem

(VIA NME.COM)

Smashing Pumpkins have unveiled the tracklisting for their ninth studio album 'Oceania', which is set for formal release later this year.

The band's frontman Billy Corgan, wrote on Twitter.com/billy: "I'm assuming those that are Smashing Pumpkins fans in the crowd wouldn't mind me putting up a tentative tracklisting of the 'Oceania' album?" He then wrote the running order which you can see at the bottom of your screen.

The tracks have been released as part of the band's ongoing 'Teargarden By Kaleidyscope' project, which sees the band releasing new songs online in batches and then making them available for download.

Billy Corgan has indicated recently that though he feels the format of an album isn't particularly relevant, he believes the songs set to feature on 'Oceania' are "supposed to go together."

He said in a video on the band's Facebook page: "I still stand by my view that I don't think albums are particularly relevant at this time. That may change. But as far as making music, from a writing point of view, it's really going to focus me to put a group of songs together that are supposed to go together."

The tracklisting for 'Oceania' is as follows:

'O/'
'Pale Horse'
'Panopticon'
'The Chimera'
'Four Winds Chime'
'Glissandra'
'Inkless'
'My Love Is Winter'
'Special K'
'Pinwheels'
'Oceania'
'Violet Rays'
'Quasar'

Unfortunately, Billy and Co. didn't add "The Fellowship" which was a track that was released awhile ago previewing Oceania. Here's the vid below to give you an idea what the new SP will sound like. Enjoy!

Smashing Pumpkins - The Fellowship + Lyrics

Kings Of Leon - Back Down South

NEW MUSIC VIDEO: Kings Of Leon "Back Down South"

Kings Of Leon have revealed their brand new music video for their latest track "Back Down South." Watch the Nashville-shot video below: