Mudhoney announce new album!

Mudhoney is a grunge band from Seattle and was a part of the whole grunge scene alongside bands such as Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains, Screaming Trees or Soundgarden. Their self-titled debut album came out in 1989 and since then they've put out eight studio records. What is admirable about this band is the fact that they've been together all this time and more importantly they've been releasing new albums frequently.

Couple of days ago, they've announced that their ninth studio album will be released on April 2. It is entitled Vanishing Point and it was recorded during April and September at Seattle’s famed Avast! Recording Co.

More information such as tracklisting or cover art are yet to be announced, but what we know is that tracks entitled "What to Do With the Neutral" and "Douchebags on Parade" will be on the album.

Exactly a month ago (November 13), the band released live DVD entitled Live in Berlin 1988. It obviously features the footage of the whole performance form this concert back in 1988. Check out performance of "I Think" from this DVD below.

My 12-12-12 Concert Recap

You all probably know that last night concert for hurricane Sandy relief entitled 12-12-12 Concert took place at New York's Madison Square Garden. I didn't get the chance to watch it live because I live in Europe and the concert started at 1:30 am of my time. However, today I watched it and I summarised the most interesting performances of the night for you. So here we go.

Nirvana reunion with Paul McCartney
It was previously announced (one day before the concert I think) that this is happening, but nobody probably didn't know what to expect from this. Living members of Nirvana and ex-Beatle Paul McCartney together played one new song called "Cut Me Some Slack"and it was actually not bad at all. It was heavy and the sound was like Nirvana as we know it. Of course, Paul's voice is different from Kurt's, but still, it was really nice to see Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear perform together.

Roger Waters & Eddie Vedder performed "Comfortably Numb"

Legendary musician and member of even more legendary band - Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, performed four tracks ("In The Flesh", "Another Brick In The Wall Part 1", "Money" and "Us and Them") before he was joined by Pearl Jam's Eddie Vedder. They performed together "Comfortably Numb" and it was one of the most powerful and memorable performances of the night.

The Who's seven-song set
The Who's performance was really long (unlike The Rolling Stones'), but I don't think anybody minded. They performed seven tracks "Who Are You", "Bell Boy", "Pinball Wizard", "See Me, Feel Me", "Baba O’Riley", "Love, Reign O’er Me", and "Tea and Theatre". I really like the setlist. Especially, performance of my favorite song by The Who - "See My, Feel Me" made me really happy.

Chris Martin & Michael Stipe - "Losing My Religion"
Coldplay' frontman Chris Martin made an solo performance. First he played "Viva La Vida". After that, he was joined onstage by R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe and they together performed classic tune "Losing My Religion". It was really nice moment. Martin then finished his set with "Us Against The World".

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performance
The boss and his band kicked off the night with performances of 4 tracks. He played "Land of Hope and Dreams", "Wrecking Ball", "My City of Ruins" and "Born to Run". During the last one, he was joined onstage by Jon Bon Jovi.

Eric Clapton's performance of "Nobody Knows When You're Down and Out"
Eric Clapton performed three songs ("Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out", "Got to Get Better in a Little While" and "Crossroads"), but the best was performance of firstly mentioned.

The XX announce Night + Day series of gigs

British band The XX, which released new album this year entitled Coexist, announced first three gigs of their Night + Day series of gigs. It is a series of tour dates that will take place at really unusual places. Also, these shows won't be usual concerts, but mini festivals.

The band said about their plans following:

"Night + Day is a series of events, curated by us, to start in the summer of 2013. We searched high and low for unique and beautiful locations to stage these shows and picked the artists that we most respect and admire to join us. The events will run from early afternoon, with some of our favourite music (and food) to take you from day into night."

So far, three dates has been announced, but it is expected that more dates will be added. First, the band will perform at waterfront park in Portugal that has 4.7 hectares of gardens, right on the edge of Lisbon's waterfront Jardim da Torres de Belëm.

Then, the band will perform at an abandoned Berlin theme park with rusty roller coasters, broken rides, crumbling dinosaurs and a 45m ferris wheel.

Finally, The XX will come back to their home city London. They'll perform at Osterley Park & House, which is one of the last surviving country estates in London. It is set to be their biggest headline show to date with capacity of 10,000.

I really like this idea and I am sure that these gigs will be unforgettable for both, the band as well as fans.

Night + Day tour dates:

May 5 - b]Jardim da Torres de Belëm, Lisbon
May 18 - Spreepark, Berlin
June 23 - Osterley Park & House, London

Song of the day: Jack White - "I'm Shakin'"

Last night, Jack White made an appearance on Conan TV show. However, it wasn't an ordinary performance of this guitar magician because he performed track "I'm Shakin'" taken from his debut solo album Blunderbuss (one of my best albums of 2012 + review here) for the first time ever.

Jack White this time performed with his all-female band Peacocks (he has one all-male band and one all-female band, which is really cool). As usual, the performance is awesome and the track maybe sounds even better than the studio version. Check it out below.

Dave Grohl won't tour with QOTSA

As I informed you last month, Dave Grohl is recording drums with Josh Homme's The Queens Of The Stone Age. And it is really cool that he will appear on another record of QOTSA (he has previously recorded drums on 2002' Songs for the Deaf - in my opinion the best album from QOTSA).

Even though, this fact is really awesome, many people (including me) were wondering if he will actually appear live with Homme and cos. However, in an interview with CBS Local, he ruled out this option.

Everything is not so bad though. He pointed out that his side band Them Crooked Vultures (which he formed with QOTSA's Josh Homme and Led Zeppelins' John Paul Jones) will reunite at some point in the future.

He explained:

"We’ve talked about it, I know that someday we’ll get back together and do stuff, because we love playing with each other."

Dave Grohl is currently preparing for premiere of his directorial debut Sound City, which is set to premiere Sundance Film Festival, which takes place from January 17 – 27 in Park City, Utah. Worldwide premiere is set to be on February 1 of the next year.

Jimi Hendrix's lost record will be released next year

Fans of legendary american guitarist and singer Jimi Hendrix (who is probably everybody who knows at least something about good music) can be happy because they will hear tracks that haven't been released so far. Album entitled People, Hell and Angels will contain songs that were recorded during 1968 and 1969. They were supposed to be featured on album First Days Of The New Rising Sun.

In that times, this phenomenal artist experimented with his music (and also with drugs) quite a lot. He didn't play just the guitar but percussions, flutes and keyboards as well. Jimi died on September 18 1970 and therefore, he never got the time to finish the record. First Days Of The New Rising Sun did come out in 1997 though.

People, Hell and Angels will feature 12 rarities and according to Rolling Stone Magazine it will be in stores on March 5 in the US. European date of release will be probably March 4, but it hasn't been officially announced yet.

I'm actually really happy about this because I admire Jimi Hendrix a lot. He gave the rock the right direction, which was later followed by many artists. I think that rock wouldn't exist in such form as we know it today. It is sad that such great artists die very young. Well, maybe we wouldn't admire them as much if they had still lived...who knows...

At least, let's remind his greatness with his performance of "Wild Thing" at Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. Yes, this is the legendary performance during which he famously puts his guitar on fire. This concert actually really started his career.

New Music: Paul McCartney - "Christmas Song"

Legendary ex-Beatle Paul McCartney revealed recording of "Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)". Cover of this classic Christmas tune can be found on special edition of his latest record entitled Kisses On The Bottom - Complete Kisses, which will come out next week (November 26) on iTunes. It will feature all original 14 tracks + 4 bonus tracks and DVD of a concert filmed at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles earlier this year.

Speaking to NME he said about the song:

""Doing 'Chestnuts" was a bit intimidating because when you do these old songs, there's so many good versions of them – particularly Nat King Cole's in this case. So, I thought, 'You know what, I'm not even going to listen to it, I'm not going to see who's done it, I'm not even going to figure out how I'm going to sing it. So it was just done in one afternoon in New York. And I'm quite pleased with it, because it's not like anyone else's version."

By the way, already mentioned concert featured on special edition of his last album is the first one that Paul performed completely without playing any instrument. That's quite interesting.

Paul said about this experience:

"It was a bit naked, you never realise how much your guitar or piano is protection. There's something between you and the sound. Like you're plugged into the music, because you've got your hands on the keys, or you've got your hands on the fret. When you haven't got anything, it's like: what do you do with your hands? They feel very awkward. So there was a bit of hand waving here or there, but that was it. No mic techniques. No [Roger] Daltrey swirling."

So watch the "Christmas Song" here and don't forget that the Capitol concert will be aired on british public tv called ITV tomorrow (November 24).

Green Day announced ;Quattro!

Couple of days ago, Green Day announced ;Quattro!. Because why not, right?

Well, it's not a new album featuring new tracks like some of you (including me) could have expected, but it's a documentary movie. It will obviously feature footage of making their ongoing album trilogy.

It was directed by Tim Lynch and according to a press release, the film "pulls back the curtain and takes fans inside the world of Green Day, from the various spontaneous live performances in select cities across the U.S. to the chronicling of their creative process while conceptualizing and recording their current trilogy of albums."

Bassist Mike Dirnt said about the film:

"Over the last year while we were recording our trilogy, we posted multiple clips every week so fans can see parts of the recording process of ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tré!. ¡Quatro! brings our fans one step closer by giving them even more access and revealing what it was like for us to make these records."

The documentary movie will be premiered on VH1 on Wednesday, November 28. Later, on November 30, it will be aired on MTV2 and also on Palladia. The full-length version of ;Quattro! will be released sometimes in 2013 (no exact release date is announced yet).

And don't forget, final album of the trilogy ;Tré! hits the stores on December 11.

R.E.M. have a new music video

Legendary rock band R.E.M., which called it quits in September of last year, have a new music video for track called "Blue". Video was directed by actor James Franco. Song that also features Patti Smith on vocals is taken from their last studio album entitled Collapse Into Now (released March 7, 2011).

Franco used footage of Los Angeles, parties in it, walking people and also Hollywood Walk of Fame. It also features controversial Lindsay Lohan during her photo shoot with famous photographer Terry Richardson at Chateau Marmont Hotel.

Famous actor's effort is part of Collapse Into Now Film Project, which started in March of 2011. It gave opportunity to different artists to create short video for each track of the album.

Michael Stipe said about the project following:

"I approached people which I really wanted to work with. This way I could just let them work as they wish. It was just up to them. In many cases, I was surprised and in others, I expected similar results."

The result in this case is really good in my opinion. The footage used for the video really fits the music. In fact, it makes me kind of sad that such an awesome band broke up. But still, we have their awesome music and we can listen to it whenever we want. R.E.M. still lives in our hearts!

Watch the video below.

Hear new track from Biffy Clyro

Biffy Clyro are back! Yes, they are back with new single, new UK & Ireland tour and it seems like they're stronger than ever.

Just today, Scottish rockers Biffy Clyro revealed first single of their upcoming double-album entitled Opposites. Song called "Black Chandelier" is second track revealed from their sixth studio LP (after "Stingin' Belle", which you can check out here), which is set to be in stores on January 28, 2013.

Single will be released physically on January 14. Also, music video for the song is being made as it was revealed by actor Ricki Hall via his Twitter.

Track itself is really good. It's got typical, old-school Biffy Clyro sound mixed with catchy vocals. Check it out below.

Like I previously mentioned, after they finish this year's touring with two shows in Europe (November 26 in Paris and November 28 in Amsterdam) and two gigs in the US (On December 3 in New York and on December 8 in Los Angeles), they will return to UK in March and play 6 shows. For more information, visit their website.

Biffy Clyro 2012 UK & Ireland Tour dates:

Mar 20 - Newcastle Upon Tyne

Mar 21 - Birmingham

Mar 22 - Cardiff

Mar 23 - Sheffield

Mar 25 - Manchester

Mar 26 - Bournemouth

Metric have a new music video

Great indie rock band from Canada called Metric released fifth studio LP entitled Synthetica in July of this year. It features 11 new tracks, which got mostly positive reception. The band basically continue doing what they've been doing for last 14 or 15 years because it obviously works.

The band also recently revealed new music video for second single of the album called "Breathing Underwater". The track is really catchy and in fact, I like it more than the first single "Youth Without Youth".

New music video contains footage from their endless touring. So they basically used well-known concept and used it for their new music video. Though I think it's not bad when a band shows "on-the-road footage" in their music video from time to time.

Check the video below.

Also, if you've got some time to spare, check out Metric perform at Radio Music City Hall here.

Watch new music video from Björk

Icelandic singer-songwritter, well known and well respected, Björk, has released her eighth studio record entitled Biophilia last year. It is once again great record from this incredible artist, which got positive reviews from music critics as well as her fans. Actually, I start to feel that Bjork can hardly go wrong and make something really really bad. I'm not saying that everybody should and does love her, but I definitely think she deserves the respects she receives for her work.

Recently, she teamed up with Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Arts and together made a music video for second single of the album called "Mutual Core".

The music video was directed by Andrew Thomas Huang and it is as weird as Björk and her music. It features 46 years old singer in sand. Around her are these sinister rock creatures. Like I said, it is weird, but these visuals are made with passion and are really incredible. Check this piece of art at the bottom of the post.

Björk is also set to release Biophilia remix album. It is called Bastards and it will be out next week (November 19). Although, all remixes have been previously released as The Crystalline Series of the Biophillia Remix Series, Björk picked quarter of them and put them on single CD.

Bastards tracklisting:

1. "Crystalline" (Omar Souleyman Remix)
2. "Virus" (Hudson Mohawke "Peaches and Guacamol" Rework)
3. "Sacrifice" (Death Grips Remix)
4. "Sacrifice" (Matthew Herbert's Pins and Needles Mix) (edit)
5. "Mutual Core" (These New Puritans Remix) [ft. Soloman Is. Song]
6. "Hollow" (16-bit Remix)
7. "Mutual Core" (Matthew Herbert’s "Teutonic Plates" Mix)
8. "Thunderbolt" (Death Grips Remix)
9. "Dark Matter" (Alva Noto Remodel)
10. "Thunderbolt" (Omar Souleyman Remix)
11. "Solstice" (Current Value Remix)
12. "Moon" (The Slips Remix)
13. "Crystalline" (Matthew Herbert Remix)

Song of the day: Trent Reznor - "Black Ops II Theme"

Yesterday (November 13), video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II (alongside its soundtrack) came out as well as Trent Reznor's side project How To Destroy Angels new EP entitled Omen (stream it here).

As you know, Trent Reznor has written a theme track for above mentioned video game. One day ahead of its release date, theme surfaced online. It sounds pretty much the same as preview from July. Really it doesn't evolve anywhere. It's just a mixture of keyboards, pounding rhythms and little distortion.

I'm not saying I don't like it, I just expected something more. Trent Reznor really didn't experiment a lot and instead used practices he has previously used on music scores for The Social Network, Girl With The Dragon Tattoo or on both How To Destroy Angels' EPs.

Anyway, listen to the song below. Do you like it?

Song of the day: My Chemical Romance - "Boy Division"

Song called "Boy Division" is one of two new songs recently revealed by band My Chemical Romance. Second track's name is "Tomorrow's Money".

Both tunes were recorded during Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys recording sessions back in 2009. Although, they didn't make it to the actual album, they will be featured on band's upcoming series of singles called Conventional Weapons.

Conventional Weapons will feature 10 previously unreleased tracks. They will be released as five singles (each containing two songs) between October 2012 and January 2013. The release dates are, respectively, October 30, 2012; November 23, 2012; December 18, 2012; January 8, 2013; and February 5, 2013.

Check out tracks "Boy Division" and "Tomorrow's Money" (they were already released on October 30) below.

Tracklisting of Conventional Weapons:

Number 1:

1. "Boy Division"

2. "Tomorrow's Money"

Number 2:

3. "Ambulance"

4. "Gun"

Number 3:

5. "The World Is Ugly"

6. "The Light Behind Your Eyes"

Number 4:

7. "Kiss The Ring"

8. "Make the Room!"

Number 5:

9. "Surrender the Night"

10. "Burn Bright"

Song of the day: The Rolling Stones - "One More Shot"

The Rolling Stones' celebration of their 50th anniversary as a band will have a peak at the end of this year when they will perform 4 huge shows. Two are set to take place on November 25 and 29 at London's O2 Arena and other two will happen on December 13 and 15 at Newark's Prudential Center.

If they'll continue touring in 2013 is uncertain for now. However, I think they may do it and I even assume they might headline Glastonbury 2013. It would be awesome.

Anyway, their compilation album entitled GRRR! is set to be in stores next week (November 12). However, two new tracks featured on the record are already available on YouTube. You can listen to previously revealed song (also in my opinion better one) called "Doom and Gloom" here.

Second new track "One More Shot" was revealed just couple of days ago. I think it's not as good as "Doom and Gloom", but it sounds like typical Rolling Stones and that's definitely a good thing. Check the track along with official audio video below.

Blink-182 and Angels and Airwaves will both release new music

Finished tracking bass for this batch of songs! instagr.am/p/RyECaiNaYc/
— Mark Hoppus (@markhoppus) November 8, 2012

Great news for fans of both bands! Blink-182, which recently left their major label and have become an independent band, are currently planning to release new music in form of an EP.

Mark Hoppus recently announced via his Twitter account several news such as the band is recording and people should hear new tracks in near future and so on. Tom Delonge also tweeted that new EP will come out by Christmas.

No tracklisting, exact release date or title have been announced yet, but I feel we won't have to wait for them for too long.

Similar plans has also Delonge's second band - Angels and Airwaves. They are even set to release two new EPs. Name of this doubel EP is Stomping The Phantom Brake Pedal and official release date is set to be December 18. It will be the first record on which band collaborated with new drummer Ilan Rubin (former Lostprophets and tour member of Nine Inch Nails).

First track revealed from Stomping The Phantom Brake Pedal is song called "Diary". They recently also revealed new music video for it. Check it out below.

Dave Grohl will drum on new Queens of the Stone Age album!

This is pure awesomeness. Dave Grohl and QOTSA recording new album together? Hell yes!

First of all, exciting news is that Queens of the Stone Age are recording new album, which should be out prior to their Download Festival 2013 appearance. I think only this fact made a lot of people happy.

However, when all the fans found out that Dave Grohl is back in the band, everybody probably was like: "Holy Shit, this is even more awesome!". At least that was my reaction...

Anyway, I think this is great and really unexpected news. I mean, Dave Grohl drummed on QOTSA's best album called Songs for the Deaf (2002), but nobody probably thought he could be on their new effort as well. Well, dream of many came true.

I wonder if he will perform live though. It would be awesome and since Foo Fighters are on hiatus, I think it is not impossible.

Dave Grohl also recently revealed poster for his documentary movie Sound City. It looks pretty cool.

Stream new albums from Deftones, Soundgarden and How To Destroy Angels

I'm finally back writing new post to my blog. Even though, it's been only like a week or so, a lot of new stuff have happened during the time I wasn't writing anything new. Here are all the new upcoming albums that I think you should check out.

Deftones - Koi No Yokan

I think that many people have been waiting for new album from awesome band Deftones entitled Koi No Yokan. Although it isn't out until next week (November 13), you can listen to it now in its entirety. Follow-up to 2010's Diamond Eyes features 11 tracks, which you can check here (via RollingStone).

Tracklisting of Koi No Yokan:

1. "Poltergeist"
2. "Romantic Dreams"
3. "Leathers"
4. "Swerve City"
5. "Entombed"
6. "Graphic Nature"
7. "Tempest"
8. "Gauze"
9. "Rosemary"
10. "Goon Squad"
11. "What Happened To You?"

Soundgarden - King Animal

Soundgarden's very anticipated new album is also going to be out next week (November 13). It is their first LP featuring new songs in long 15 years. And I know they made a lot of people happy after they announced their new record. People started to be even more excited when they revealed first song of the album "Been Away Too Long". The track's really really good.

Anyway, stream King Animal here (via NME). I've listened to the album twice so far and I like it. Of course, it has to grow on me more over time (I'm sure it will), but so far, it is really good and I think they still got it.

How To Destroy Angels - Omen EP

Last new album, which you can stream is from Trent Reznor's side band called How To Destroy Angels. Their second EP entitled Omen features 6 new tracks and are driven by beautiful voice of Reznor's wife Mariqueen Maandig. You probably know that this band's music is very experimental electronic music, but I think it is damn good. However, I also get that this kind of music isn't for everyone... Anyway, stream their new EP below.

New video: Paul Banks - "Young Again"

You all probably know very awesome post-punk band from New York called Interpol. Their musical style could be best compared to bands such as The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Franz Ferdinand or Talking Heads. However, Interpol's music is little darker, so for a lot of people they are very similar to Joy Division and I agree.

Anyway, during their career they've released four studio albums. Their debut entitled Turn On The Bright Lights is considered as one of the most important albums of this genre. The album was very unique back in 2002 and it still sounds brilliant. Sad thing though is, they haven't made such good record anymore. The latest is self-titled and was released in 2010. After touring behind this record in 2010 and 2011, the band announced they will go on hiatus

Main reason is probably frontman's (Paul Banks) focus on his solo career. He previously released debut solo album under the name Julian Plenti called Julian Plenti Is... Skyscraper in 2009. He also released 5-track EP earlier this year. Couple of days ago, he released his very anticipated sophomore record simply called Banks.

It features 10 new tracks and based on my two listens to it, I don't actually like it as much. To me, it is kind of boring and maybe also pointless. I mean, it is very similar to his main band and it just brings nothing new.

Anyway, Paul Banks recently revealed new music video for the first single of the album called "Young Again". You can now check it out below. In my opinion, the music video is better than the song itself.

Check out new song from Bullet For My Valentine

Yesterday, I wrote about Bullet For My Valentine's new album called Temper Temper. Well, yesterday I didn't know that they will actually reveal first track of this album couple of hours after my post. It is title track of the album and I feel that we will get more news about their upcoming album in near future, because so far we haven't got any details about Temper Temper and I think that it is time when we consider they want to release it in early 2013.

The track itself is alright... I guess. But like I wrote yesterday, I didn't like their previous album called Fever and I won't probably be a big a fan of this one either. Anyway, check "Temper Temper" below.