The Decemberists announce two-disc live album

The Decemberists have announced that they will release their first live record. It is called We All Raise Our Voices To The Air (Live Songs 04.11-08.11), it will be double-album and it will be out March 13. Of course, it will be available not only on CD, but also on vinyl and digitally.

The Decemberists have been kind of busy last year - they recorded three records: The King Is Dead LP, Long Live The King EP, and the iTunes Session EP.

We All Raise Our Voices To The Air (Live Songs 04.11-08.11) tracklisting:

Disc 1
01. The Infanta (5:15)
02. Calamity Song (3:57)
03. Rise To Me (4:55)
04. The Soldiering Life (3:58)
05. We Both Go Down Together (4:30)
06. The Bagman’s Gambit (8:05)
07. Down By The Water (3:59)
08. Leslie Ann Levine(4:15)
09. The Rake’s Song (3:34)
10. The Crane Wife 1, 2, and 3 (16:20)

Disc 2
01. Oceanside (3:15)
02. Billy Liar (6:33)
03. Grace Cathedral Hill (4:35)
04. All Arise! (4:30)
05. Rox In The Box (3:15)
06. June Hymn (4:20)
07. Dracula’s Daughter > O Valencia! (5:49)
08. This Is Why We Fight (4:35)
09. The Mariner’s Revenge Song (10:20)
10. I Was Meant For The Stage (10:00)

Anberlin working on new record

Anberlin have announced that they are currently working on their seventh, yet untitled, studio album via twitter. The band tweeted on January 13 following:

"Just listened through our 20 demos for this album. So ready to get into the studio, in my favorite city.. -NY"

So it looks like they've got lots of material to choose from. According to latest and unconfirmed information Anberlin should again work on their new record with producer Aaron Sprinkle.

Watch videos from Velvet Revolver reunion show

A week ago, I informed you about Velvet Revolver reunion show which took place on January 12 at House Of Blues. It was their first appearance in long four years. The show wasn't just reunion show, but also charity concert for Kushner’s friend, musician John O’Brien.

Velvet Revolver performed four tracks during the gig. They played three original songs ("Sucker Train Blues", "She Builds Quick Machines", and "Slither") and one cover - Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here".

You can check performances of all fours songs below.

"Sucker Train Blues":

"Slither":

"Wish You Were Here":

"She Builds Quick Machines":

Song of the day: Queens Of The Stone Age - "You Think I Aint Worth A Dolla"

First track of, in my opinion, their best record Songs For The Deaf. It was released in August, 2002 and it features Dave Grohl on drums and Mark Lanegan as singer of several songs of the album. This album always blow my mind when I listen to it. I love the uncompromising sound of it.

Trent Reznor finally writing music for NIN

A month ago, I informed you about Trent Reznor writing new music. However, nobody was sure if the new music will be for his main band Nine Inch Nails, which went on hiatus in 2009.

Well, now it looks like he's definitely going to get together with Nine Inch Nails. In his recent interview with Pitchfork he said following:

"I'm going to be writing for Nine Inch Nails this year... [I don't] have any particular goal in mind other than... my voice as a songwriter feels like it needs to speak up or at least work out a little bit to not atrophy. I think I have something to say that feels unique to who I am right now, and that's when it tells me it's time to do something... I enjoy the challenge of moving that kind of brand forward, that identity, shaping it to who I am now instead of who I was a few years ago when I last left off... It's all kind of hypothetical right now. When I sit down with a notebook and a little mini-recorder is when my bluff will be called, and then it might not happen at all."

I really hope these guys will release new record sometimes this year.

Song of the day: Arctic Monkeys - "Fake Tales Of San Francisco"

Listen to new Kasabian demo

The band have posted new demo on the Web site. However, it is only 44-second long track and it is very unlikely that it will get official release in future.

Track called "Table Tennis Boom Box" is probably just a joke recorded backstage at Yokohama Blitz venue in Yokohama, Japan during their latest Japanese tour. Funny thing about the song is that ping pong ball is featured as percussion.

You can listen to the song here (via soundcloud).

Song of the day: The Flaming Lips - Convinced Of The Hex

These guys are just great. I found out about them just recently, but I know by now that they are awesome. Enjoy live version of their first track of their latest album Embryonic, which came out in 2009.

The Flaming Lips working on collaborative LP

Rolling Stone magazine reported that the band is working on collaborative LP with Bon Iver, Yoko Ono, Nick Cave, Ke$ha, Lykke Li and Erykah Badu. Yet untitled The record should be out in April

Singer Wayne Coyne has confirmed that he has already recorded new material with Nick Cave and Plastic Ono Band. Bon Iver is set to send two tracks to the band in near future.

Coyne said about the LP:

"All these things happen within a couple of days. You set up these [collaborations] in your mind and immediately get to work. Sometimes it just takes a matter of connecting."

He also talked about Ke$ha:

"We knew that she was a fan. There are a lot of these sort of druggy outlets out there that people get connected through."

The Flaming Lips is a band, which always do something different and funny. This collaborative LP looks very special and I'm looking forward to it.

Alkaline Trio's Matt Skiba to release new record with his sideproject

Matt Skiba, frontman of Alkaline Trio, has recently spoken about his side project called Matt Skiba And The Sekrets. My Chemical Romance's drummer Jarrod Alexander and bassist of AFI Hunter Burgan are also in this band.

Skiba talked about band's current and future plans:

"To create a record by myself, pick who is gonna play on it, and create its sound - that was a lot of fun. Of course, I love my friends from Alkaline Trio, however, to create my own rock record has been my dream for a long time."

The band should release its debut record entitled Babylon later this year.