Check out new song from Death Cab for Cutie's Ben Gibbard

Frontman of alternative rock band Death Cab for Cutie, Ben Gibbard, is releasing his debut solo album entitled Former Lives on October 16 via Barsuk. It will feature 12 previously unreleased or remade tracks also with host appearances from Jon Wurster, Mark Spencer, and Aimee Mann.

He said about the album:

“It wasn’t a goal and it certainly wasn’t a reaction to any sort of dissatisfaction to recording with Death Cab or anything like that. In the past whenever I’ve put out any solo recordings it’s just been of a function of the time in which I was in. I’m a songwriter and that’s my job, and with every record that we’ve made there would always be a couple of tunes that just didn’t seem to fit in with the band.”

Recently he also revealed first track of the album. Song is entitled "Teardrop Windows" and it sounds a lot like Death Cab for Cutie song. That brings me to thinking that he could just record all these songs with his band. However, maybe other tracks sound completely different and are nothing like Death Cab for Cutie - we'll see.

First when Ben Gibbard announced this solo album, I thought that it will be really dark, sad and twisted album because he recently broke up with actress Zooey Deschanel. But based on this track, I was mistaken...

Tracklisting of Former Lives:

01. "Shepherd’s Bush Lullaby"
02. "Dream Song"
03. "Teardrop Windows"
04. "Bigger Than Love"
05. "Lily"
06. "Something’s Rattling (Cowpoke)"
07. "Duncan, Where Have You Gone?"
08. "Oh, Woe"
09. "A Hard One to Know"
10. "Lady Adelaide"
11. "Broken Yolk in Western Sky"
12. "I’m Building a Fire"

Song of the day: Frank Turner - "I Still Believe"

Folk-punk british artist Frank Turner did a huge gig at Wembley Arena earlier this year. He performed in front of 12,000 people, which was so far his biggest headline show.

On October 2, he will release DVD from this gig entitled Last Minutes and Lost Evenings. You can pre-order it at http://www.epitaphstore.com.

Also, you can now watch the performance of "I Still Believe" (in my opinion his greatest track ever) from this DVD below.

Picture of the day: September 3, 2012

This week, I decided to dedicate the whole segment "Picture of the day" to Reading and Leeds festivals.

First photo features great Dave Grohl rocking out at Reading. Reading and Leeds gigs were Foo Fighters' last shows for some time. I hope that not for long though. Rock scene needs them...

Check out new music video from Green Day

There has been a lot of news about Green Day lately, but it doesn't seem like it's over. They always come up with something new these days so yeah, I'm gonna talk about them as long as they keep doing that.

Now they revealed new music video for their previously heard new track from ;Uno! called "Kill The DJ". It features all band members riding motorcycles across some desert.
The music video is not as good, but I like the song actually. Main guitar sounds really great. What do you think of Greey Day's new music?

Listen to new Stone Sour!

You all probably know that Stone Sour is Corey Taylor's (singer of Slipknot) second band. During their career they released three studio albums and two other are on the way.

Yes, Stone Sour is releasing not only one new record, but two new albums. They are entitled House of Gold and Bones Part 1 and House of Gold and Bones Part 2 and they will be released via Roadrunner Records. First one will be out on October 23 and the second one in the early 2013 (exact release date hasn't been announced yet).

Couple of days ago, band revealed first two tracks of the album. They are called "Gone Sovereign" and  "Absolute Zero". You can check them both out by watching video at the bottom.

I think that both songs are pretty good. In fact, I like everything Corey Taylor does. I think he's an amazing artist.

iPUNKed

iPUNKed is a brand new series, which is made by czech punk website called ipunk.cz. So far, there are three parts of the series.

iPUNKed is usually 30-minute long video (posted on YouTube), which features one popular punk band and one upcoming smaller band. First part featured american pop punk band Set Your Goals, second part featured canadian SUM 41 and third featured Yellowcard.

Interviewer asks the band usual questions about band members, plans and near past or future. However, iPUNKed is special because interviewer also asks the band questions about current music news. It is really entertaining to watch what famous bands have to say about other bands.

I will post here on my blog every new part of iPUNKed because I feel like these videos should be seen by more people.

Check all three parts here:

Picture of the day: August 31, 2012

I think that this picture is really great. It features two female artists - Paramore's Hayley Williams and The Subways' Charlotte Cooper. Photo was taken at Reading Festival 2012.

Song of the day: Reignwolf - "Bycicle"

This guy is just incredible. He by himself is able to create such great sounds that some 4-piece bands don't sound as good as Reignwolf. He is very talented and his ability to play on drums and guitar at the same time while singing is very unusual. I think that we will hear about this artist more in the future because his skills can't be neglected.

Song of the day: Lostprophets - "Last Train Home"

Lostprophets performed their classic track "Last Train Home" acoustically at this year's Warped Tour. Track comes from their sophomore album Start Something, which was band's breakthrough album. I think that this version is really great.

Song of the day: John Butler - "Kimberley"

I know that I've been writing about John Butler quite a lot lately. However, I feel like you should know about this great man and his work.

He publicly supports activists at Kimberley who try to preserve the nature and animals in this area. He performed this track dedicated to Kimberley in front of the crew of the Steve Irwin.