Billy Corgan hints that Smashing Pumpkins could end if 'Oceania' fails 

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Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan has said he feels the release of their new album 'Oceania' will be a make or break moment for the band.

The band, who have taken to releasing single tracks online as part of their 'Teargarden Of Kaleidoscope', will put 'Oceania', their ninth studio record, later this year and Corgan has said how it is received will define the future of the band.

He told Billboard: "If we're able to get that sense that something is happening again and get people to rally behind us a bit, I think the next three, four years will be very interesting for the band. I think if ['Oceania'] basically hits the same wall a lot of the other stuff has hit, we're going to have to step back and really evaluate where we're going, because it's a tremendous amount of energy to put out to just feel like you're throwing a pebble in the ocean."

Corgan has said that he overestimated the impact that releasing music straight on to the internet would have and felt that he needed to go back to making an album in the traditional manner again to have a real impact.

Asked why the band had gone to releasing music in a traditional album format:

I just saw we weren't getting the penetration in to everybody that I would have hoped. I mean, we have 1.3 million followers on our Facebook page, right? So you think you put a song up and 1.3 million people are going to see it, but only if they're looking at the exact moment it goes up. They're not necessarily searching and they're friends aren't necessarily going to tell them about it. I just saw that we weren't reaching the sort of casual person who still gets their information from traditional sources. So I thought, 'What do I need to do?' and then I thought, 'OK, I'll go back to making an album.

The singer also spoke about the album and said it features: "Some of the most melodic work I've ever done, but somehow it rocks pretty hard, too. It's probably the most open-sounding album I've ever made. The general description I've heard from people who have heard it is that it reminds them of the Pumpkins in the way they like the Pumpkins, but somehow it sounds new."

Coldplay- tribute to REM

Watch Coldplay Cover R.E.M.'s "Everybody Hurts"

By Marc Hogan on September 26, 2011 10:30 AM Comment

Michael Stipe / Chris Martin (Photo: Retna, Martin)

Everybody hurts, it's true, but not everybody gets to attend one's own funeral. R.E.M. find themselves in that strange and enviable position, as the legendary alt-rock band's decision last week to throw in the towel has led to a wave of tributes. One of the highest-profile salutes came Saturday night at the Music Midtown Festival in Atlanta, where Coldplay covered R.E.M.'s ballad "Everybody Hurts"

Coldplay's Chris Martin introduced the song, from R.E.M.'s 1992 classic Automatic for the People, by asking fans to "appreciate the gesture" rather than judge the performance for its merits. "One of our favorite bands of all time, R.E.M., for some crazy reason have finished -- and it's sad," he says in the fan-made video. "So with the most respect in the world … this is just to show how much they meant to us." The crowd can occasionally be heard singing along during this strummy, subdued cover of R.E.M.'s melancholy yet reassuring tear-jerker.

Watch: Coldplay, "Everybody Hurts"

Coldplay's new album Mylo Xyloto arrives October 24. The recently played album cut "Paradise" on The Late Show With David Letterman.

R.E.M. will release a career-spanning greatest hits album on Nov. 15. Titled Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage, 1982-2011, the collection includes tracks from the band's years at both Warner Bros. (1988 to 2011) and the IRS label (1982 to 1987). As Warner Bros. announced this morning, the release will also feature three new tracks the band recorded this summer with producer Jacknife Lee, who also oversaw their final two albums, Accelerate and Collapse Into Now. Check out the tracklist below.

R.E.M., Part Lies, Part Heart, Part Truth, Part Garbage tracklist:
Disc 1
1. Gardening At Night
2. Radio Free Europe
3. Talk About The Passion
4. Sitting Still
5. So. Central Rain
6. (Don't Go Back To) Rockville
7. Driver 8
8. Life And How To Live It
9. Begin The Begin
10. Fall On Me
11. Finest Worksong
12. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
13. The One I Love
14. Stand
15. Pop Song 89
16. Get Up
17. Orange Crush
18. Losing My Religion
19. Country Feedback
20. Shiny Happy People

Disc 2
1. The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite
2. Everybody Hurts
3. Man On The Moon
4. Nightswimming
5. What's The Frequency, Kenneth?
6.New Test Leper
7. Electrolite
8. At My Most Beautiful
9. The Great Beyond
10. Imitation Of Life
11. Bad Day
12. Leaving New York
13. Living Well Is The Best Revenge
14. Supernatural Superserious
15. UeBerlin

Watch: Coldplay, "Everybody Hurts"

No Doubt - Trapped In A Box



Update From No Doubt

Dear Friends,
We've been incommunicado for the past few weeks so we wanted to reach out and say hi. Work on the new No Doubt album is well underway and we can't wait to share it with you. The past twelve months have been eventful; we performed for Paul McCartney and President Obama at the Kennedy Center Honors, three beautiful new No Doubt babies were born, and we've recorded in studios all over Los Angeles. Ideally our new record would be coming out this year but it's just not ready yet. We don't want to rush this album just to get it out. This collection of songs means everything to us and our only priority right now is to make sure that it's the best album we can possibly make. There is still more work for us to do...

We love our fans and are doing this for your ears and want you to know how much we appreciate your patience and support. We'll keep you updated here at nodoubt.com and on our Twitter and Facebook accounts.

Love,
Gwen, Tony, Adrian and Tom
No Doubt

DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect World

DJ Shadow unveils tracklisting for new album 'The Less You Know The Better'

DJ Shadow has unveiled the tracklisting for his fourth studio album 'The Less You Know The Better'.

The album, which is set for release on October 3, features collaboration with Tom Vek, Little Dragon and rapper Talib Kweli. It is a lengthy 16 tracks in total.

'The Less You Know The Better' is the producer's follow-up to 2006's 'The Outsider', which featured a collaboration with Kasabian's Serge Pizzorno and rapper David Banner.

The tracklisting for 'The Less You Know The Better' is as follows:

'Back To Front' feat. Circular Logic
'Border Crossing
'Stay The Course' feat. Posdnuos and Talib Kweli
'I've Been Trying'
'Sad And Lonely'
'Warning Call' feat. Tom Vek
'Tedium'
'Enemy Lines'
'Going Nowhere'
'Redeemed'
'Run for Your Life'
'Give Me Back The Nights'
'I Gotta Rokk'
'Scale It Back' feat. Little Dragon
'Circular Logic (Front to Back)'
'(Not So) Sad and Lonely'

Check out his classic "Midnight in A Perfect World" below:

Coldplay - Paradise (Official)

Hear Coldplay's new single 'Paradise'

Coldplay have posted their new single 'Paradise' online, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click to hear it.

The track, which is the second single to be taken from their fifth studio album 'Mylo Xyloto', is available for sale today (September 12).

The band have also revealed the tracklisting for 'Mylo Xyloto', which includes recent single 'Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall'.

The album, which features 14 tracks, also includes 'Hurts Like Heaven', 'Charlie Brown', 'Us Against The World' and 'Major Minus', all of which the band debuted during their summer live shows, including a headline spot at Glastonbury Festival.

The tracklisting for 'Mylo Xyloto' is as follows:

'Mylo Xyloto'
'Hurts Like Heaven'
'Paradise'
'Charlie Brown'
'Us Against The World'
'M.M.I.X'
'Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall'
'Major Minus'
'U.F.O.'
'Princess Of China'
'Up In Flames'
'A Hopeful Transmission'
'Don't Let It Break Your Heart'
'Up With The Birds'

The Killers - Smile Like You Mean It (music video)

The Killers: 'The next album is going to have more guitars' The Killers Tickets

The Killers' next album will have a more guitar-heavy sound, according to drummer Ronnie Vannucci.

Speaking to NME, Vannucci – who makes music as Big Talk – hinted that The Killers' new sound would differ from 2008's Stuart Price-helmed 'Day & Age' album.

He said: "The next album is going to have more guitars. It’s about fucking time!"

Vannucci also confirmed that the band were set to hit the studio. "In October we’re going to start recording in Nashville," he said. "It’s up in the air who's going to produce it, I can’t officially say." He continued:

We have some people in mind, but I don’t want to piss people off and say who it is. All last month we’ve been writing some great Killers songs, it’s really happening. I’m really looking forward to doing this next record, it’s going to sound fucking great

Paramore @ FBR15 - *NEW SONG* "Renegade" (HD) Live in NYC on 9-7-2011

Watch Paramore debut new track 'Renegade' – video

Paramore have debuted a new track 'Renegade', which is likely to be the band's next single, during a recent live show in New York, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click to watch them perform the track.

The band, who have been using the track as their intro music for their recent live performances, played the song in full during a show at New York's Terminal 5 venue last night (September 7), which had been put on to celebrate the 15th anniversary of their record label Fueled By Ramen.

Introducing the song, singer Hayley Williams said:

We are about to play a song we've never ever played before. We'll be putting this song online for you guys to have as soon as we can, as soon as possible, we're working on it. It's called 'Renegade'.

Williams has previously indicated that the band plan to release 'Renegade' soon, writing on the band's official website:

Back in March, we recorded a handful of songs (including 'Monster') with Rob Cavallo which we promised we'd get to you this year. 'Renegade' is the first song of the three that are left to be released.

Love the new track...this band continues to amaze me!

Snow Patrol - Called Out In The Dark

Snow Patrol: 'We've already written our next album'

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Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody has revealed that the band have already finished writing their seventh studio album.

The band aren't set to release their sixth studio LP 'Fallen Empires' until November, but in an interview with BBC Radio 2, the singer claimed that they had already written its follow-up.

He also described 'Fallen Empires' as the band's best album so far, and suggested that the bouts of writers block he had experienced during making the LP had helped him "write better songs".

He said:

We've already written the next album. The last track on 'Fallen Empires' is going to be 'Broken Bottles Form A Star (Prelude)' and that will be the first track on the next album.

When talking about the writing process for 'Fallen Empires', meanwhile, he added:

It's the longest album we've ever made by far but also the best. We took our time and I also had some bouts of writer's block. It's the first time it's happened for such a long time. I've had days when I haven't been able to write. Since 2009 I've gone through three writer's blocks but I'm glad because the results are great afterwards. They probably made me write better songs.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - AKA... What A Life!

Noel Gallagher's new single 'AKA…What A Life!'

Noel Gallagher's second solo single 'AKA…What A Life!' is now streaming online in full, scroll down to the bottom to the page and click to listen to it.

The track will be released formally on Sunday (September 11) and will be accompanied by a brand new B-side 'Let The Lord Shine A Light On Me'.

The former Oasis guitarist has described 'AKA…What A Life!' as a "dance track" in interviews and it is certainly a departure from his more traditional guitar rock as it is built around a repetitive piano groove and chugging bassline.

Gallagher's debut solo album 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' will be released on October 17, with previous single 'The Death Of You And Me' and 'If I Had A Gun', which was made available online last week, both set to feature in the tracklisting.

'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds' features a number of tracks that were written during his years as a member of Oasis and will be released through Gallagher's own Sour Mash Records.

The LP was recorded over the past year in London and Los Angeles with producer Dave Sardy.

A second album, recorded with psychedelic collective Amorphous Androgynous, is due to come out sometime in 2012.

Check out the YouTube vid. Song rocks!