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Sunday, January 8, 2012

Listen to Lana Del Rey's leaked track

At the bottom of the post you can listen to leaked track from Lana Del Rey's forthcoming record Born To Die, which is out on January 30.

According to All Music, surfaced track called "National Anthem" should be the closing track of the album. Well, I gotta say that even though I like this young artist and I am excited about her album, I'm not a fan of this song. I really miss her typical sound in this song. It is too pop for me. For example tracks like "Blue Jeans" or even her mega hit "Video Games" are unique songs and you just know it's her song. But "National Anthem" is just bad for me. Hopefully, her album will be still good, but my expectations kind of lowered.

Download new Lostprophets track

Lostprophets have recently announced that their fifth studio album called Weapons will be out on April 2. Yesterday they made available new track to download fo free. It is entitled "Better Off Dead".

You can download it on band's Web site in exchange for an email address.

You can also listen to "Better Off Dead" via YouTube:

Song of the day: Wolfmother - "Far Away"

These guys are just great.

Velvet Revolver are back

Velvet Revolver are reuniting for benefit gig which takes place in LA next week. Original members (ex-Guns N'Roses Slash and bassist Duff McKagan as well as Matt Sorum, Dave Kushner and Scott Weiland) will perform on January 12(Thursday) at House Of Blues.

The band split up in 2008 after singer Scott Weiland left the band. Remaining member have been since looking for replacement.

Reunion show will honor Kushner's friend Josh O'Brien, who died last August.

Kushner said about the show:

"That [having other acts on the bill] will take the pressure off all of the bands, including Velvet. Because we hadn’t played with Scott in a long time I said, 'Look, let's just do three songs'. So we just got a bunch of people. Everyone will do three songs."

Tom Morello, Maroon 5, Sheryl Crow and Crosby, Stills And Nash will also perform during the concert.

Good news also is that Weiland may have decided to stay in band full-time. That would mean full reunion of Velvet Revolver. Let's hope that it will eventually happen.

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Song of the day: Bob Marley - "Is This Love"

Classic...

Hear The Flaming Lips cover The Beatles

The Flaming Lips is a band, which always makes something different and funny. Most recently they covered The Beatles' "I Am The Walrus". You can listen to this cover at the bottom of the post.

The Flaming Lips have previously covered whole Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon album.

The Black Keys: "Nickelback ruined rock'n'roll"

American due The Black Keys think that canadian Nickelback caused death of rock'n'roll. Drummer Patrick Carney told in an interview with Rolling Stone magazine that rock'n'roll is dying because "people started to think that Nickelback is the biggest rock band on the planet".

"Therefore, they are okay with the fact that the biggest rock band is just bad - and who would want to be such biggest band?" Carney think Nickelback is awful post-grunge bullshit, which has nothing to do with rock'nr'oll.

Well, it is kind of strong statement and I agree that Nickelback is awful band, but I'm not really sure if they cause death of rock'n'roll. Anyway, The Black Keys had a great year 2011 - they released new great record El Camino and sold out Madison Square Garden in 15 minutes.

Listen to two new Thom Yorke tracks

Two new tracks from Thom Yorke has surfaced online. Well, one is not really new. They are called "Stuck Together" and "Twist". These two songs were used for Rag & Bone’s show at Fashion Week in New York City last Fall. Therefore, Twist is kind of older and people heard it before. Anyway, you can now listen to both new songs below.