Song of the day: Sting - "Englishman In New York"

Awesome song.

Watch new Noel Gallagher music video

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds released new 19-minute music video called "Ride the Tiger". It is a video trilogy featuring his current single "If I Had A Gun...".

Red Hot Chili Peppers announced first North American tour dates

Red Hot Chili Peppers revealed first North American tour dates for 2012. Their tour starts on January 25 in Charlotte, NC. There will be more dates announced during next couple of weeks. So far, there are six dates announced.

RHCHP North American tour dates so far:

1/25 – Charlotte, NC, Time Warner Cable Arena
1/27 – Raleigh, NC, RBC Center
1/28 – Columbia, SC, Colonial Life Arena
1/30 – Duluth, GA, Gwinnett
1/31 – Greensboro, NC, Greensboro Coliseum
2/03 – Memphis, TN, FedEx Forum

Beady Eye announced North American tour dates

Today, ex-Oasis Liam Gallagher's Beady Eye announced nine-date North American tour. They still tour in support of their debut Different Gear, Still Speeding. After this tour, the band announced they will begin work on their new album.

Beady Eye North American tour includes the following dates:

29th November - VANCOUVER, Commore Ballroom
30th November - SEATTLE, Showbox Market
02nd December - SAN FRANCISCO, The Warfield
03rd December - LOS ANGELES, Wiltern Theatre
05th December - MINNEAPOLIS, First Avenue
06th December - MILWAUKEE, The Rave Ballroom
08th December - WASHINGTON, 9:30 Club
09th December - NEW YORK, Terminal 5
10th December - BOSTON, House Of Blues

Watch NOFX perform at Occupy LA

Below you can watch NOFX perform "Perfect Government" during their acoustic set at Occupy LA yesterday (November 27). It is actually pretty cool video.They joined many artists that joined Occupy movement throughout the US.

New releases: 48th week

This week we have only three new albums that interest me. However, PJ Harvey's DVD of her Let England Shake, which contains 12 short films looks really good.

Asking Alexandria – Stepped Up And Scratched

Gorillaz – Singles Collection: 2001-2011
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake - 12 Short Films By Seamus Murphy (DVD)

Lana Del Rey announced name of her debut LP

New YouTube star Lana Del Rey has named her debut LP. It is called Born To Die.


She has become popular after putting online her low-budget video of her song "Video Games". Del Rey named her album after her forthcoming single "Born To Die".

Her debut record will be released on January 23 according to Amazon.

She has also recently revealed that she hired a tiger for her video for "Born to Die".

She said:

"Tigers don't come cheap. It's a controversial video. You'll have to wait to see it but I got a generous budget. I wasn't allowed to be alone with the tiger at any time, for obvious reasons. It was a special experience."

Watch her video for song "Video Games" below.

Song of the day: White Lies - "Death"

"Death" is first song of their successful debut album To Lose My Life, which came out in 2009. They released their second record Ritual earlier this year. It is not as good as their first record, but still good. We'll see how they cope with their third album. Enjoy this great performance of "Death" at Reading Festival 2009.

Artists donate items for auction

Several artists donated special items for online auction Music Beats Mines. Arctic Monkeys, Elbow, Primal Scream, Klaxons, Kaiser Chiefs, Dizzee Rascal and Mick Jones of The Clash all donated items to support war victims. The auction runs until December 4.

Among the items available are Arctic Monkeys t-shirts, Elbow's The Seldom Seen Kid disk set or signed Klaxons booklet. To check all the items go to Music Beats Mines Web site.

Frontman of Elbow said about the auction:

"You can get your mitts on loads of exclusive musical memorabilia without even having to leave your chair. So get bidding and don't be cheap, think of the Christmas karma. You'll be supporting an amazing cause."

The Promises Ring announce reunion shows and rarities album

Emo legends The Promise Ring have announced two reunion shows. They wrote on their twitter account "Hello again...". Later, they announced these two shows. They did this announcement almost 10 years after their initial split up in 2002 (since then they reunited for Flower 15 Festival in 2005).

They are set to play on February 24 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and one day later in Chicago.

Drummer Dan Didier stressed that this is not full reunion. However, he revealed that they plan to release album with rarities in summer next year.