Song of the day: Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Never Is A Long Time"

Red Hot Chili Peppers just released their third pair of nine pairs of 7'' singles. These all comes from I'm With You sessions and are released over period of 6 months. New singles all called "Never Is A Long Time" and "Love Of Your Life". You can now check them both below. These singles are actually all pretty good and I even think that some of these "b-sides" are better than the actual tracks included on I'm With You.

 

Previously released pairs of singles were: "Strange Man/"Long Progression" and "Magpies On Fire"/"Victorian Machinery". You can check them all here.

Listen to new song from Soundgarden!

You all probably know that legendary band Soundgarden will release new album called King Animal on November 13. It will be their first full-length album since 1996's Down on the Upside (that's long 15 years).

You could previously hear new track called "Live to Rise", which was also featured on The Avengers movie soundtrack. The song itself was not bad at all.

Now they revealed first single of new record. It is called "Been Away Too Long" and holly shit, it's awesome. It is heavy and fast and I just love it. Give it a listen below.

Picture of the day: September 28, 2012

Head Count is a non profit organization that promotes participation in democracy. It does it by working with musicians of different genres of music. Of course, they are currently running programs regarding upcoming presidential elections in the US.

They go to many festivals and concerts and encourage people to register to vote so they can participate in upcoming elections. According to their website, they "translate the power of music into real action". So far, Head Count has registered 200,000 voters since 2004. They attend 1,000 festivals and concerts a year.

The Kills is one of many musicians that work with this organization. They recently posted a picture of Alison Mosshart (singer of the band) with a sign "Register To Vote Here". By this, of course, they want to encourage people to register.

Picture of the day: September 27, 2012

American punk rock band Alkaline Trio is a band that plays mainly darker tracks. They are also influenced by satanism. Singer of the band Mike Skiba is a member of Anton LaVey's Church of Satan and believes that it's not all about fire, brimstone and threats of eternal damnation.

Here is a part of an his interview for MTV in 2005:

"Really, the faith's simply about theatrics, how to comport yourself when you're out and about (for instance, one of the church's Ten Commandment-like mandates forbids followers from bothering others in open territory, but "if someone bothers you, ask him to stop — if he does not stop, destroy him") and maintaining a cool, sinister image. And, doggonit, it's "really fun."

Anyway, I like their music and I like how they're not afraid to say what they think and what they believe in and most importantly - they are not afraid to express these things in their music.

They have recorded so far 8 studio albums. The last one called Damnesia was little different though. It contained only older tracks, but recorded acoustically. It sounds actually pretty cool. Exciting news is that new album is coming pretty soon because yesterday they posted this picture via their Facebook page with a note "Today we begin making our next record with Bill Stevenson, a long time hero and friend. We couldn't be more excited."

Song of the day: Public Image Ltd. - "Reggie Song"

You all probably know that leader of legendary punk band Sex Pistols (funny thing is that they released only one studio LP - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols) , John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten, established Public Image Ltd. right after Sex Pistols broke up. Interesting fact about this band is that 17 studio members and 12 live members have played in this band so far. That's quite a lot. Of course, John Lydon is the only former member of the band.

So far, they have released 9 studio albums. The latest was released only recently - on May 28, 2012. This is Pil is band's first new album in 20 years. "Reggie Song" is also featured on the record. You can now watch the performance of it below.

Watch Green Day's concert at Irvin Plaza

Like I recently said, Green Day is just all over the news and it doesn't seem like it will change in near future. Yesterday, there was released first track from second album of the trilogy ;Dos! and Alanis Morissette covered their classis song "Basket Case" during Jimmy Kimmel Live performance. Three days ago, they revealed new music video for "Stay The Night" and the same day, Billie Joe Armstrong entered rehab for substance abuse treatment.

The band also recently posted first part of their concert at Irvin Plaza. This first part is 22 minutes long and features these tracks: "Welcome to paradise", "Murder city", "Know your enemy", "Nuclear family" and "Stay the night". Check it out below.

!UPDATE!

Below you can watch second (and probably the last) part of this great show. The second part features tracks "Burnout", Hitchin' A Ride", "Letterbomb", "When I Come Around", "She" and "American Idiot".

Hear first track from Green Day's ;Dos!

Well, Green Day's first album of their upcoming trilogy, ;Uno!,  has been officially out for 2 respectively 3 days (depending on whether you're from the US or UK) and so far, it hasn't got much positive reviews. However, I like it because it's got everything I expect from this band - nothing more nothing less.

Second album entitled ;Dos! isn't out until November 13, but already now you can listen to half of the first track revealed form this record. It is entitled "Lazy Bones" and it is unlocked after you reach Level 15 at Angry Birds Green Day Facebook game, which has been recently updated. The song itself is decent. You can hear it here via Green Day Authority website.

Hear Alanis Morissette cover Green Day's "Basket Case"

Alanis Morissette released new studio LP entitled Havoc and Bright Lights last month (August 28). This week she appeared at Jimmy Kimmel Live and performed songs from this new record as well as some older tunes.

Surprising to me was when she performed Green Day's classic track "Basket Case". She probably did so because of Billie Joe's drug addiction problems. She even said at the end of the song "I love you Billie Joe", which is kind of nice.

You can watch this slow performance as well as performances of "Guardian" and "Right Through You" below.

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.