Picture of the day: September 19, 2012

Today's picture was posted by NOFX singer and bassist Fat Mike via his Twitter. The photo was taken in downtown of Indianapolis. He also posted funny note:

"But downtown Indianapolis is pretty fucking cool. Took a photo of me and a local Mexican worker"

I hope you all know that "local Mexican worker" is El Hefe - guitarist of NOFX...

Song of the day: Animal Collective - "Today's Supernatural"

Psychedelic band from Baltimore, Maryland - Animal Collective recently released their ninth studio album entitled Centipede Hz. The record got mixed reviews, but I think it is good. I haven't listened to the album a lot though, but based on those couple times I gave it a try, I liked it.

This experimental formation, which consists of David Portner aka Avey Tare, Noah Lennox aka Panda Bear, Josh Dibb aka Deakin and Brian Weitz aka Geologist is currently on tour in support of their latest effort throughout Canada and US. In November, they will head to Europe. To see all their tour dates, visit their website.

YouTube channel of their label, Domino Records, recently posted two videos of their live performances at Prospect Park Brooklyn in 2011. You can now check live performances of "Today's Supernatural" and "Father Time" below. They are awesome. Especially, those effects are sick.

Biffy Clyro revealed new album details

Popular Scottish rock band Biffy Clyro finally revealed details about their very anticipated new, double album. It is called Opposites and it will be out on January 28, 2013 as CD, DVD, limited edition boxset or as a digital download.

The album was recorded in Los Angeles. Two discs are titled The Sand At The Core Of Our Bones and The Land At The End of Our Toes. DVD will feature making of documentary. And limited edition boxset will include 12-inch heavyweight double vinyl, A5 songbook, guitar tab sheets, "Play Along" CD and Super 8 film cells.

Follow-up to 2009's Only Revolutions (this record was platinum selling) will contain 20 new tracks (tracklisting is available at the bottom of the post). Tracks "Stingin' Belle", "Victory Over The Sun" and "Modern Magic Formula" have been previously heard live.

Meanwhile, you can listen to first track revealed from this album:

Opposites tracklisting:

The Sand At The Core Of Our Bones
"Stingin' Belle"
"Sounds Like Balloons"
"Biblical"
"The Joke's On Us"
"Black Chandelier"
"A Girl And His Cat"
"Opposite"
"The Fog"
"Little Hospitals"
"The Thaw"

The Land At The End Of Our Toes
"Different People"
"Modern Magic Formula"
"Spanish Radio"
"Victory Over The Sun"
"Pocket"
"Trumpet Or Tap"
"Skylight"
"Accident Without Emergency"
"Woo Woo"
"Picture A Knife Fight"

Check out new Band of Skulls music video

English alternative rock band Band Of Skulls have a new music video. Song called "You're Not Pretty But You Got It Goin' On"comes from band's last record entitled Sweet Sour. This record was released on February 21, 2012 and it is definitely a good listen.

And if you don't know these guys yet, also check out their debut LP Baby Darling Doll Face Honey, which came out on April 7, 2009. My favorite track of it is "Fires":

Watch uncensored video for Green Day's "Oh Love"

Green Day is about to release first album of their upcoming album trilogy ;Uno! ;Dos! ;Tre! next week (September 25). They are currently streaming this album via their Facebook page. However, when I tried it, it didn't work. I don't know, maybe it is temporary and maybe not. Anyway, if you really wanna listen to it ahead of its release, just google it and you'll definitely find some torrent site where you can download it.

Yesterday, Green Day also debuted uncensored version of their music video for track "Oh Love". It features uncut footage with topless girls. It is pretty cool. To see the video, visit Playboy website.

Tracklisting of ;Uno!:

01. "Nuclear Family"
02. "Stay The Night"
03. "Carpe Diem"
04. "Let Yourself Go"
05. "Kill The DJ"
06. "Fell For You"
07. "Loss Of Control"
08. "Troublemaker"
09. "Angel Blue"
10. "Sweet 16"
11. "Rusty James"
12. "Oh Love"

Green Day is also set to go on US tour throughout November, December, January and February. They will play 28 shows altogether starting in Seattle Paramount Theater on November 26. Tour will end on February 8, when the band will headline the 17,000 capacity Las Vegas MGM Grand Garden Arena.

The band will also headline a huge venue on June 1, 2012 - London's 60,000 capacity Emirates Stadium. To see all tour dates, visit their website.

The Kills revealed new music video

Duo The Kills has been celebrating their 10th anniversary this year. For this occasion, they played an amazing gig at New York City's Terminal 5 at the beginning of this year and they also just recently released a photo book, which features a lot of photos from their 10-year existence as a band.

During their career, they have so far released four studio albums - Keep on Your Mean Side (2003), No Wow (2005), Midnight Boom (2008) and Blood Pressures (2011) (you can read a mini review here).

Track called "Wild Charms" comes from their latest effort. They recently made a music video for this song. Piece directed by Kenneth Cappello is a simple, short music video, which features just Jamie Hince smoking and drinking. Check it out below.

Placebo will release new EP

British band Placebo is one of my favorite bands of all times. I really love these guys and love how passionate they are about their music. I also love their love performances, which are many times better than studio versions. I had a chance to see them live in 2009 in Czech Republic at Rock for People festival.

Their last sixth studio album entitled Battle For The Sun came out in June of 2009. Since then they released redux edition of this record, EP Live At Angkor Wat (which is an amazing live EP),  and also live DVD We Come in Pieces (it came out on October 31, 2011).

This means that all the Placebo fans have been waiting for new full-length album for more than 3 years and it seem like they will have to wait more - band has recently announced that they will release new EP.

It is entitled B3EP and it will be out on October 15, 2012. It will feature five brand new tracks: "B3", "I Know You Want To Stop", "The Extra", "I.K.W.Y.L." and "Time Is Money".

The band also announced interesting competition where people are asked to create their own artwork of the album. Winner will be picked by the band itself and will receive a framed test print of the B3EP artwork, signed by Placebo.

To preorder the album and also listen to snippets of all tracks featured on the EP, visit itunes store. Based on previews, the album sounds good.

Watch Lana Del Rey sing "Blue Velvet" in new H&M ad

As you may already know, Lana Del Rey has become a face of popular clothing company H&M. Her first 30-second long spot is now airing in Scandinavian H&M stores.

In the advertisement spot she appears in two outfits from her recent H&M lookbook.

In the commercial she sings 1950s classic song "Blue Velvet" written by Bernie Wayne and Lee Morris. Since then, the song has been recorded by many other artists. Film of the same name was also made in 1986.

Although creators of the spot tried to reference David Lynch's film, they didn't get it quite right. The H&M ad is a direct homage to Lynch's early 90s TV series Twin Peaks.

Anyway, watch the commercial below.

Song of the day: The Tallest Man on Earth - "Revelation Blues"

Swedish singer Kristian Matsson aka The Tallest Man on Earth performed "Revelation Blues" for Pitchfork Magazine. This track comes from his last third studio album entitled There's No Leaving Now, which came out on June 11, 2012.

I actually found out about this folk artist only recently and I really like him. He reminds me Ben Howard a lot.

Picture of the day: September 18, 2012

Bad Religion updated their cover picture on their Facebook page couple of days ago. The photo features all band members (including Brett Gurewitz) except guitarist Greg Hetson in the studio.

They've been recording new, yet-untitled, album since July when I informed you about it. Well, it's been over two months since they started recording it so I assume we can expect sixteenth studio album from this legendary punk band later this year or in early 2013.

The band also posted this exact photo on their official website with a note saying:

"The band just sent out an e-mail with a photo of the band (except for Greg Hetson) in the studio to all Bad Religion fans that registered to the mailing list on badreligion.com.

Again produced by Brett and Joe Barresi, the photo appears to be taken at Joe's House of Compression. In contrary to the process that went into making The Dissent of Man, this time no demos were recorded in smaller studios (such as Sunset Lodge in January 2010).

Also, this is the first time since The Process Of Belief (2001) that a Bad Religion album is recorded analog!"

I'm so excited about this record and I am really looking forward to the sound of this record since it's been recorded analog. To follow all the news about recording process, go here.