Song of the day: Kings Of Leon - "Use Somebody"

Probably their biggest hit. It is really awesome.

Metallica to release new EP

Metallica were celebrating their 30th anniversary last week. They played every night during that week. They revealed three previously unheard songs from Death Magnetic recording sessions, which didn't make it on the album. They are called "Hate Train", "Just A Bullet Away" and "Hell And Back" (you can listen to them all at the bottom).

However, that is not everything. Metallica have decided to release these three songs + "Rebel Of Babylon"(you can hear live version below) on EP entitled Beyond Magnetic.

Metallica said about the EP:

"During the Death Magnetic album sessions in 2007 and 2008, we originally recorded 14 songs. When it came time to pick the songs for the final album, we decided on 10 songs that you’ve all come to know over the last three years… Some of you may have heard bits and pieces of those other songs on ‘Mission Metallica’ (remember ‘Mission Metallica’?!) or heard rumors about them during the recording process, and wondered, ‘What ever happened to those other four songs???.’ We kept them in the vault and decided to pull them just for this special celebration, so here are the four leftover tracks from the Death Magnetic sessions. They are ROUGH mixes, unfinished to their original degree of mixing from March ’08. These four songs were released as gift to our closest fans, the members of our Fan Club, to enjoy. Now they’re being made available to you."

Tracklisting of Beyond Magnetic:

1. “Hate Train”
2. “Just A Bullet Away”
3. “Hell And Back”
4. “Rebel Of Babylon”

Sinéad O' Connor to release new record next year

Irish singer Sinéad O' Connor will release her 9th record in two months. It will be called How About I Be Me (And You Be You)?. She announced it one week after celebration of her 45th birthday during which she married Barry Herridge. She did so two months after she met him.

How About I Be Me (And You Be You)? will officially be out on February 20, 2012. It will be her first new album in long five years. She is also set to tour in support of this new album. O' Connor will also release reissue of her debut The Lion and the Cobra in 2012.

Best Albums of 2011: The Strokes - Angles

The Strokes is a band, which showed everybody back in 2001 after releasing their debut Is This It that guitar scene is not dead. I think that it is one of those memorable, unique albums that will still kick your ass even after 10 years after its release. There is no doubt that they will never release as good record as Is This It, however, this band shouldn't be considered dead and they proved it when Angles came out this year.

The Strokes were almost done after their third record First Impression Of Earth, which was released in 2006. After the tour in support of this LP, band went on hiatus and many believed they may not come back. Some also thought that it wouldn't be worth it to come back because their last record didn't earn much success. I have to agree that it is probably their worst album, even though I like there a several songs like "Electricityscape" or "Vision of Division".

However, they started working on their fourth record in 2009 and released Angles in March, 2011. Band stated that it is their first album on which everybody from band contributed. Funny thing is that they communicated mostly via internet because they were away from each other. I really can't imagine such collaboration, but maybe some people like it that way. Anyway, the album is really diverse probably because almost all members of the band worked on different projects during the break. That way everybody brought something else to the table and you can really hear it.

I like diversity of this album a lot, but in my opinion, it is little short when we consider they were working on it almost two years. Despite that, there is nothing I can bitch about. I enjoy listening to every single song - it's got catchy songs ("Under Cover Of Darknes", "Taken For A Fool"), weird songs ("Machu Picchu", "Games"), slow song ("Call Me Back", "Life Is Simple In The Moonlight") and typical The Strokes tracks ("Metabolism", "Taken For A Fool").

They proved that they are not done yet and can still make a great record. We will have too see if they will continue in this trend with their next, fifth record.