Ringo Starr To Play With Oasis?
Ringo Starr, of Beatles fame, is possibly guesting with
Oasis on one of their new songs off of their long-awaited sixth LP. Ringo's son, Zak, is temping as
Oasis' drummer for their untitled new album. Since
Oasis is finishing the sessions in Los Angeles, Noel figured that they could convince ole
Ringo to guest on a song that...
"...sounds like
The Beatles and we’re gonna try and get him and his dad on the same track. Then again,
Ringo might just tell us to fuck off."
If
Oasis' history with former Beatles members are any sort of precursor as to whether or not
Ringo will lend his talents, I would take a wild guess and say he will refuse. If it's evidence you want, here is a taste (this happens to be one of my all-time favorite moments in rock history) of their rocky history together:
"In January 1998, the Gallaghers got George Harrison's son Dhani drunk on a New York-London flight. Arriving at the airport, Noel said to George: 'Hello George, here's your son. You have just been Gallaghered. Go and puke up in your Ashford home, while my stomach gently retches.'"
chandler at 9:15 PM | |
Conan To Replace Jay in 2009!
In HUGE,
BREAKING news,
Conan O'Brien, the current king of late night, will replace
Jay Leno in the Tonight Show spot in 2009.
O'Brien signed a contract today guaranteeing that he will take the spot once
Leno's five year contract runs out. FINALLY some "good" (could be bad if Conan tones down his humor for the earlier time slot) news for
The Tonight Show.
chandler at 4:28 PM | |
Snow Patrol Album Due Next Autumn
Snow Patrol are planning on releasing a new LP in the fall of 2005. Gary Lightbody says that they would have liked to have released one earlier, but their massive stateside tour has kept them from doing so (they are jealous of
Franz Ferdinand, who despite touring nonstop in the US, have "basically finished" the writing of their new album). Autumn of '05 seems awfully early to me anyway, and I wouldn't mind waiting on new material if it meant that it would be of higher quality.
chandler at 3:09 PM | |
Friday Downloads - 9/24/04
The Microphones - I Can't Believe You Actually Died
Stars - On Peak Hill
Murs - 3:16
Belle & Sebastian - I Don't Love Anyone
Andre Ethier - Dear John
Explosions In The Sky - First Breath After Coma
chandler at 5:50 PM | |
New Oasis Album Release Date
Oasis have finally put a release date of May 26 on their long-awaited sixth studio album (which I believe still doesn't have a proper title). It will probably just be a one-disc set, unlike the rumored three-disc or two-disc set that Noel was talking about earlier in the year. Even though it does seem like a long way away, I'm sure it will be leaked somewhere along the way.
chandler at 5:19 PM | |
Cat Stevens Not Allowed Entrance To U.S.?
Yesterday, a flight that was carrying famed folk musician
Cat Stevens was diverted from its initial destination of Washington DC to somewhere in Maine. I understand that he was sort of controversial in the 80's concerning a decision the Ayatollah Khomeini made about executing a man (and accusations that he has donated large sums of money to terrorist group Hamas, even though he has vehemently denied those allegations). C'mon, it's
Cat Stevens for crying out loud.
(Link via
largeheartedboy)
chandler at 1:13 PM | |
The Might Be Giants Kids' Book/DVD?
They Might Be Giants are known for their nearly innate ability to craft a nice, catchy pop song that anyone can enjoy. It makes sense that they are releasing both picture book/CD sets for kids and a DVD. The DVD, entitled "Here Come The ABC's," will be released by Disney Sound as well. Most of the DVD is animated, with it being inspired by the enhanced portion of their 2002 album, "No," which happened to debut at Number 1 on
Billboard's Top Kid Audio chart.
chandler at 5:03 PM | |
Get Your Pixies Fix On Vinyl (Again)
Along with the other million things that The Pixies have done this year, they are also reissuing their first three albums on vinyl (
Come On Pilgrim,
Surfer Rosa, and
Doolittle).The releases will include the original artwork and everything (and in the vein of
Weezer's Blue Album reissue,
Doolittle will now include lyrics to its songs).
chandler at 4:53 PM | |
New Lemonheads?
Evan Dando has recently said that he is almost done writing the new
Lemonheads album. After an eight-year hiatus, I wouldn't have expected them to get back together for another album. If they are going to go through the trouble of putting together a new album, it better be worth it.
chandler at 4:48 PM | |
Explosions In The Sky Score For Thornton?
Billy Bob Thornton is starring in a new movie called "
Friday Night Lights." Also starring in this movie is Neo-Country superstar,
Tim McGraw. The movie is about a poor Texas town and its high school football team, and how the football team is all that the town has. Rock 'n' Roll superstars
Explosions In The Sky are scoring the film. You may ask yourself, "What does this movie and
Explosions In The Sky have in common?" Answer: Texas.
Explosions In the Sky are based in Midland (home of none other than George W.), and the movie is based on a town in Texas.
Explosions In The Sky are combining old pieces of music that have already appeard on their records (
The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place,
Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die...) with new pieces that they have written specifically for the movie (an interesting idea if I've ever heard one, and those
Explosions In The Sky never cease to amaze me with their musical prowess). The only downside to this OST may be the apparent lack of drums, my personal favorite instrument in
Explosions In The Sky. I'm not complaining, and I can't wait for its release on October 15th (I'm not sure when the actual film will be released).
As if you cannot take anymore news about
Friday Night Lights,
here is the trailer (featuring one of my favorite
Beck songs, "The Golden Age").
chandler at 4:22 PM | |
"Blinded By The Lights" Banned!
The new
Streets video for "Blinded By The Lights" was banned today by
Ofcom over in the UK today.
Ofcom banned the video for showing Mike Skinner (
The Streets) taking drugs, receiving oral sex, and being beaten up pretty badly all at a wedding, all of which I can see their reasons for the banning. The video has been completely banned by music video outlets such as
Top Of The Pops and
CD:UK, and they are requesting Skinner to do an edited version of the song for them in their studios.
MTV, on the other hand, can show the video anytime after 11
P.M.
Or, you can go back to
my original post on the video and watch it there.
chandler at 3:54 PM | |
Shortlist 2004
The finalists for this year’s Shortlist Award were announced today, with artists
Wilco,
Air,
The Streets,
Loretta Lynn,
Franz Ferdinand,
Nellie McKay,
Ghostface Killah,
TV On The Radio,
The Killers, and
Dizzee Rascal. Although I would like to say that
Wilco deserves this award, I’m leaning toward
Franz Ferdinand (nothing catchier has been released this year).
chandler at 1:48 PM | |
Another Field Day Festival?
Apparently, there are plans for another
Field Day Festival in New York, this time in the Hudson Valley. Plans for the first
Field Day Festival fell through in 2003, when the city of Riverhead, NY refused to give Andrew Dreskin, the festival organizer, the proper permit right at the last minute (it was moved to Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ, to great aversion). The lineup for the 2003
Field Day Festival looked phenomenal, almost at
Coachella-levels of indie-ness, including
Elliott Smith,
Spiritualized,
Beck,
Radiohead,
Blur,
My Morning Jacket, and
22-20s. Dreskin already has the proper documents in place, with fifty to sixty acts playing either July 16 and 17, or July 23 and 24, 2005. Expect such acts as
Radiohead,
The Beastie Boys, and
Norah Jones.
chandler at 1:12 PM | |
New Streets Video
Check out the new Streets video for Blinded By The Lights
here.
chandler at 7:18 PM | |
Friday Downloads - 9/17/04
The Arcade Fire - Wake Up (one of my favorite tracks from their latest LP, Funeral)
Of Montreal - Doing Nothing
Calla - Televised
Teenage Fanclub - Dumb Dumb Dumb
Teenage Fanclub - What You Do To Me
Mary Lou Lord - Camden Town Rain
chandler at 3:40 PM | |
Thom and Chris
Thom Yorke and
Chris Martin recently appeared on stage with music-legends REM in London. Chris came along and sung parts of "Man On The Moon" on the 14th, while Thom sung the REM classic, "E-Bow The Letter" last night at an apparent "secret" concert at St. James' Church.
In other REM news, they will be touring the UK twice in 2005, both in February and June, in support of their new album "Around The Sun."
chandler at 10:21 PM | |
Hurricane? More like hurri-LAME!
Hurricane Ivan was supposed to be terrible in Auburn. I'm not denying the fact that terrible things did not occur, just nothing happened in our neighborhood. The only really bad part was the lack of electricity, a necessity for my sister and I. A few of my friends actually went to the creek today to go swimming during the storm, that is how much of a pansy this storm was. I hope everyone is safe, etc etc.
One bonus that came with this storm was the visitation by my immediate relatives that reside in Fairhope, AL. I thought that this visit would be a bad experience, but I was wrong [aside from the 10 animals they brought with them. The dogs were barking so much two nights ago that some dillweed called the police with a noise complaint (they weren't barking
that loud)]. With them came my cousin, Hunter, who is very cool. She let me borrow ALL of her CDs for a solid week (I'm talking A LOT of music -- 4 garbage-bag loads of it!). Major props to her.
chandler at 7:36 PM | |
"Are Boxing Reality Shows Down For The Count?"
We can only hope so.
chandler at 6:17 PM | |
Elliott Smith Biography
An
Elliott Smith biography is being released on October 30. I am vaguely interested in this book, despite biographies such as this being lame nine times out of ten.
chandler at 6:00 PM | |
More Oasis News
As if you couldn't handle any more
Oasis posts in one day, new news about
Oasis' new album appears. Noel explains that they scrapped the sessions with
Death By Vegas because they ran out of time to help produce the new album. Noel, etc. tried to finish what they had started with
Death By Vegas, but came up with nothing. So, they started from scratch, and apparently have four new songs written already. Unfortunately, there aren't any plans to release a new single until February of '05.
chandler at 9:24 PM | |
Definitely Maybe DVD
If you know me, and I mean even vaguely know me, you must know that I am a huge
Oasis fan (does the term "Oasis-head" exist? If it does, that's me). I've casually liked
Oasis for a while now, but I really started to love this last school year in Journalism class, along with my pals Richard,
Matt, Honoré, and Britney. I have been a rabid fan since then.
Oasis released a
DVD commemorating the 10th anniversary of the release of their debut,
Definitely Maybe, this past Tuesday. I had been anticipating this purchase since
I first posted about it in August. I already own
There and Then, have looked for
Live By The Sea, and haven't even bothered with
Familiar to Millions, and was excited to add this to my collection. I went to my local
Hastings directly after school, searched through their music DVD section, and to my disappointment, did not find it. As I walked away in utter disgust of the music DVD selection at
Hastings, I decided to look at the "New Release" wall. I had not thought of looking there previously, because when I looked for the
Belle and Sebastian DVD,
Fans Only, there earlier this year on release day, it wasn't there (it was in the music DVD section). So, as I turned around, I found it. I instantly snatched it up, because it was the only copy present (I know how many people would be looking for it). I checked it out, and went home as fast as possible. When I put disc one in my DVD player, I knew exactly what was in store.
Oasis wastes no time. Right from the get-go, they knock you on your ass with their greatness. There are no introduction screens or flashy menus -- it takes you straight to the first song of the album (Rock 'n' Roll Star). The only way I can describe this DVD is that its setup resembles one of those crappy "
Choose Your Own Adventure" books that you read in elementary school. From the screen with the song playing, you can hit any direction on your remote to go to a different section of the DVD pertaining to that specific song. For instance, if you were listening to Shakermaker, you could press "up" to go to a documentary, "down" to go to the promo video for Shakermaker, "left" to go to a live perfomance of the song, and so on. The live performances of the songs are exceptional, all of them dating from their 1994 tour. The documentaries are comprehensive, and the promo videos are exciting to watch.
Not only do they give you the album with all of that extra stuff added with it, they also throw a bonus DVD at you. Various live performances and documentaries are included on this DVD, and it is only available until the end of 2004. As if you think it can't get possibly any better, the DVD includes commentary from Burt Bacharach. Bam!
This DVD was worth every last red cent I paid for it. For a mere $15.87, you can provide yourself with over four jam-packed hours of
Oasis-goodness. Don't waste any more time -- go and buy it now.
chandler at 5:22 PM | |
Elliott Smith DVD
A new
Elliott Smith DVD is coming out in November of his
performance in Olympia, WA in 1999 at the Yo Yo a Go Go festival. I don't know why, but it is being advertised as one of his last solo shows, even though he toured solo in 2003. I can't wait, considering I wasn't able to attend any of his live performances and there aren't many Elliott Smith videos floating around. Hopefully this will somehow hurt the
business of selling bootlegged live DVDs of Elliott on
eBay.
chandler at 5:08 PM | |
Finally Friday
Sorry about the lack of posts this week - I've had an unusually busy week with a whole lot of stuff going on. I will resume my regular posting habits today, with five new songs for your downloading pleasure.
chandler at 4:05 PM | |
Warning.
Sorry about the lack of posts lately - I've had zero time to do any sort of posting. Normal posting should resume in the next few days.
chandler at 8:38 PM | |
Everyone needs to download the songs to the left by
n.Lannon. I can see where the critics were coming from when they describe him as a cross between
Elliott Smith and
The Postal Service --that's probably why I am so attracted to his music.
chandler at 1:39 PM | |
More Travis News
I don't know how this news passed me by, but
Travis are releasing a new DVD, entitled "
Travis at the Palace." It's a DVD of their December 3, 2003 performance at the
Alexandra Palace in London. Look out for it on store shelves on September 14th.
Travis are also releasing a cover of
Cat Stevens' "Don't Be Shy" for the Everwood soundtrack. I know that they released a song for another WB show (they used "I Love You Anyways" on Felicity one time, if I remember a thread I read on the
Travis messageboard correctly).
chandler at 1:22 PM | |
Poor Ol' Pete
Pete Doherty, formerly of the UK band,
The Libertines, was given his sentencing for carrying a knife with him. He was sentenced to four months of jail time, but his service of those four months has been suspended for 12 months. The judge's reasoning behind the jail time and not something more lenient (such as community sentence) was that he was "suitable." He has had a pretty bad year, considering his
being dropped from the band for his drug problems,
being attacked (the guy who apparently attacked told him he was going to break his nose and stick a knife in his neck), and
being absent from his own concert. Who knows what will happen to poor ol' Pete next.
chandler at 12:38 PM | |
Father of the Pride
Tom Shales was right in
his assessment of NBC's new show
Father of the Pride: "Take the worst idea for a TV show, double it, and there you have Father of the
Pride..."
chandler at 12:32 PM | |
