Picture of the day: September 26, 2012

Freshly reunited No Doubt just released their first new studio record in eleven years. It is entitled Push and Shove and it came out on September 21. Singer of the band Gwen Stefani posted this picture recently with a tweet "This is really happening!New album in 6 days!!!".

The record features these 11 tracks:

"Settle Down"
"Looking Hot"
"One More Summer"
"Push And Shove (featuring Busy Signal and Major Lazer)"
"Easy"
"Gravity"
"Undercover"
"Undone"
"Sparkle"
"Heaven"
"Dreaming The Same Dream"

You can also stream the entire album here before you decide to buy it.

This is really happening!New album in 6 days!!! twitter.com/gwenstefani/st…
— Gwen Stefani (@gwenstefani) September 20, 2012

Song of the day: Muse - "Madness"

New album from Muse entitled The 2nd Law isn't out until next week (October 1). However, you can now stream it in its entirety. I gave it a try couple of times and I have mixed feelings about it. It is good - they definitely discovered new sounds once again, but I kind of don't like it as a whole. I don't know, maybe it'll grow on me over time.

Anyway, they appeared on Later... with Jools Holland last night (September 25). They performed their first single of their upcoming record "Madness". Actually, it is my favorite track of the album.

First when I heard this track though, I was wondering how the hell they will play this live. I was afraid that they will just play most of the music from synthesizers and computers, but I was wrong. I am really happy they do all this music with actual instruments.

Listen to new track from Avenged Sevenfold

American rock/metal band Avenged Sevenfold has been pretty busy touring basically since release of their last studio album in July of 2010. They've been pretty much on the road since Nightmare came out. Obviously, they didn't have much time working on new tracks while being on the road so all their fans had to wait for new music from them for a while.

However, yesterday they finally released new track called "Carry On". It will be featured on very anticipated new video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II, which comes out on November 13.

I hope that this new song also means new album in near future. I really like their last two studio albums and I hope they will keep up good work even without The Rev... Based on this song, it seems like they still got it because it sounds awesome.

Watch new Crystal Castles video

In July, I informed you about new track from Canadian electronic duo Crystal Castles called "Plague". It is first track revealed form their forthcoming album. The album should come out sometime in November. However, exact release date is still unknown. Also, the title is yet unknown, but based on their previous two records (they were entitled simply Crystal Castles), there is no need to announce the title...

Now they revealed a music video for this song. It is dark and twisted just like we expect from this duo. It features a female going crazy... That's pretty much the whole video.

Song of the day: Green Day - "Jesus of Suburbia"

This is actually pretty awesome performance of Green Day's track called "Jesus of Suburbia". It obviously comes from their seventh grammy-winning concept album American Idiot, which came out eight year ago - on September 21, 2004.

During this performance, 21-year old guy (who probably had a birthday on day of this concert or something) is asked to go on stage, drink a whole beer and then perform "Jesus of Suburbia" with the band. I love how happy he looks and how well he enjoys this one-time-in-a-life moment.

Green Day is actually pretty nice band because they do this quite often during their live shows. I think it is awesome that they try to connect with their fans.

Picture of the day: September 25, 2012

I know that it is unbelievable, but it is exactly 21 years and 1 day since Nirvana's legendary album Nevermind was released. This album probably changed the whole music.

It came out on September 24, 1991 via DGS Records. It was produced by current Garbage's drummer Butch Vig (he also produced records like The Smashing Pumpkins' Gish, Sonic Youth's Dirty and Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, Jimmy Eat World's Chase This Light and, of course, Foo Fighters' Wasting Light). It was recorded during May and June in Sound City Studios (Dave Grohl is making a movie about this studio).

I think that this album don't feature a song that is bad. All tracks are awesome or at least good and I know that this album has changed a lot of people.

Cover of the album has also interesting story. It was Kurt Cobain's idea to make such cover after he watched water births with Dave Grohl. First, they wanted to use real water births images, but they were too vivid for the record company. Therefore, they settled to shoot babies in a pool. Then they chose image of an infant named Spencer Elden. However, there was again a problem with a penis, which was too big. The only compromise that Kur Cobain would agree on was to put a sticker over it with a sign "If you're offended by this, you must be a closet pedophile."

What do you think of the album?

Watch: Green Day - "Stay The Night"

I know that I write about Green Day a lot lately. But it won't probably change in near future because there is just too much hype about this band these days - their upcoming album trilogy, today's release of ;Uno! or Billie Joe Armstrong's recent meltdown are all pretty hot news in music world.

Last Friday, they also revealed new music video for track called "Stay The Night". It obviously comes from ;Uno!. You can now check it out below.

Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong enters rehab after recent on-stage meltdown

Green Day's ninth studio album and also first album of their ;Uno! ;Dos! ;Tré! album trilogy - ;Uno!, is out today (September 24). For me, the album is really good. It's got variety of different sounding songs, which in the end fit together really well. It's got faster, old-school Green Day sounding songs such as "Nuclear Family" or "Let Yourself Go". But there are also songs with new Green Day sound on the album - "Oh Love" or "Kill The DJ".

It is shame though that release of this LP overshadowed other news. Last Friday (November 21), Green Day performed at iHeart Radio Festival alongside artists like Taylor Swift, Pink, Rihanna, and Swedish House Mafia (I don't even know why they played this "festival" but that doesn't really matter now). During their set, frontman of the band Billie Joe Armstrong got really pissed and smashed his guitar because apparently their 45-minute set was cut short so Usher could play longer.

I don't know if Billie Joe's loss of his shit was acted or not, but this is what he said:

"Oh, fuck this shit. I’m gonna play a fucking new song. Fuck this shit. Give me a fucking break. One minute left. One minute fucking left. You’re gonna give me one fucking minute? Look at that fucking sign right there — one minute. Let me fucking tell you something, let me tell you something, I’ve been around since fucking 198-fucking-8. And you’re gonna give me one fucking minute? You’ve gotta be fucking kidding me! You’re fucking kidding me. What the fuck! I’m not fucking Justin Bieber, you motherfuckers. You’ve gotta be fucking joking. This is a fucking joke. I got one minute — one minute left. Oh, now I got nothing left. Let me show you what one fucking minute fucking means. [smashes guitar] One minute. God fucking love you all. We’ll be back."

However, that's not everything. Two days after this incident, Armstrong entered rehab for substance abuse treatment. Obviously, they canceled all upcoming promotional activities.

This is kind of sad because I quite like Billie and his band. I hope he gets well soon.

Listen to Muse's The 2nd Law

Muse are going to release their long-awaited sixth studio album entitled The 2nd Law on October 1 in UK and one day later in the US. They have already revealed three tracks of the album: 2012 Olympic Games official song, "Survival", "The 2nd Law: Unsustainable" and first single of the album, "Madness".

Also, if you want to hear final track of the album - "The 2nd Law: Isolated System", visit connectome.muse.mu where you can also watch pretty cool animation while listening to the song. The track itself is obviously continuation of "The 2nd Law: Unsustainable", but without dubstep elements.

However, that's not everything because you can tonight (September 24) hear the album in its entirety. Just visit their website for more information.

UPDATED:
Stream the album easily here (via Guardian).

Song of the day: Incubus - "If Not Now, When?"

Awesome band Incubus released their seventh studio album entitled If Not Now, When? last year. This record was little different than their previous albums mainly because it wasn't as heavy. However, it is great record with some heavier tunes as well.

Title track is one of my favorites of this album and you can now watch its performance from Incubus HQ Live concert, which took place in Los Angeles last summer.

It is unbelievable how good singer Brandon Boyd sounds live. His singing skills are just incredible.