Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Stream new album from The Smashing Pumpkins

Very anticipated (and many times postponed) new record from The Smashing Pumpkins Oceania comes out next week. However, you can listen to it in its entirety now via iTunes.

The record is part of their monumental 44-song project, Teargarden By Kaleidyscope. This record is in the middle of it. That means, more new songs will come out later as part of this project.

I gotta admit that I didn't believe this band anymore and thought that this record will sound like shit. However, I was mistaken and I can proudly say, it is really good record and I am glad that this band is back with such good record.

Tracklisting of Oceania:

1. Quasar
2. Panopticon
3. The Celestials
4. Violet Rays
5. My Love Is Winter
6. One Diamond, One Heart
7. Pinwheels
8. Oceania
9. Pale Horse
10. The Chimera
11. Glissandra
12. Inkless
13. Wildflower

Listen to new song from The Vaccines + music video

My favorite band of 2011, The Vaccines, have just recently revealed first new track from their forthcoming, yet-untitled, record. This unusually long song for this band (their average song is 2-minute long) is called "No Hope" and it is pretty good. The band also made nice music video for this track, which you can check below. I really hope these guys will release new record this year.

Album Review: Jack White - Blunderbuss


Jack White is a man who is always busy making some new music. He is obviously best known for his rock duo The White Stripes, which officially split in February, 2011. He is also known for his work with The Racounters, The Dead Weather and many other occasional collaborations.

He announced that he will release his debut solo album in late 2011 and everybody was really excited about it. When this very anticipated record came out in late April, it got mostly positive reviews. Although, fans may have expected more rock on the record and sound similar to early White Stripes. But honestly, we couldn't expect that from this man.

The record is influenced by jazz, blues, rock and even country music. Basically, the record is mixture of all his musical influences. There are definitely more keyboards on the album, which doesn't necessarily mean a bad thing though.



Tracks were written for other artists, however, he decided that these songs best fit himslelf so he decided to finally released a solo album. The record contains 13 tracks. The first one called "Missing Pieces" is a great opener with great guitar work and solo. Also, the keyboards kind of remind me of The Doors.

Second track on the album "Sixteen Saltines" is my favorite song of the record. It was released before the whole album came out and it is by far the heaviest song on the album with great and crazy music video, too. This track is probably the only one that kind of reminds the early White Stripes.



Third song "Freedom at 21" was released as a single little unusually - via helium balloon. What I like about this song is the retro sound of it.

Fourth track "Love Interruption" is the first acoustic track of the album and the first song released. It features female singer and it is just great mellow song, which got into me more and more as I listen to it.

Fifth track is title track and another acoustic song with nice piano. "Hypocritical Kiss" and "Weep Themselves To Sleep" are tracks that continue in that piano sound like "Blunderbuss". Especially "Weep Themselves To Sleep" has sick piano line.

Eighth track "I'm Shakin'" has awesome drums at the beginning. It is track featuring electric guitar after four acoustic track. It's got really good rhythm that makes me want to dance.

I kind of feel that five last tracks are losing their power and are not as good as previous ones. However, the ending of the last track - "Take Me With You When You Go" is just awesome. It is a great closer of the album.

Overal, I like the record a lot. I'm not saying that it is Jack White's best work, but it is pretty decent record. I like that it contains variety of different sounds and genres, which makes the record colorful.

Tracklisting:

1. "Missing Pieces"
2. "Sixteen Saltines"
3. "Freedom at 21"
4. "Love Interruption"
5. "Blunderbuss"
6. "Hypocritical Kiss"
7. "Weep Themselves to Sleep"
8. "I'm Shakin'"
9. "Trash Tongue Talker
10. "Hip (Eponymous) Poor Boy"
11. "I Guess I Should Go to Sleep"
12. "On and On and On"
13. "Take Me with You When You Go"

Picture of the day: June 13, 2012

Alison Mosshart of The Kills going crazy during one of their earlier performances.

Song of the day: Slash - "Fall to Pieces"

Slash's recent acoustic performance at GuitarCenter featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators. This is performance of Velvet Revolver track "Fall to Pieces", which originally features singer Scott Weiland (of Stone Temple Pilots). Good thing is that Velvet Revolver recently announced that they are back after Weiland rejoined the band. I'm excited about it a lot.