Song of the day: Billy Talent - "Viking Death March"

Canadian Billy Talent are releasing their fourth studio album entitled Dead Silence (you can stream it at the bottom of the page in its entirety). It will be out on September 11. Interesting is that they didn't name this album Billy Talent IV...

They have already released two singles from this album. First is "Viking Death March" and the second is "Surprise, Surprise".

You can now watch performance of firstly mentioned from recent Reading Festival 2012. It is pretty great performance.

Stream Dead Silence:

Picture of the day: September 6, 2012

Green Day made a surprise show at this year's Reading and Leeds festivals during which they performed their legendary Dookie in its entirety.

This record, which came out in 1994 was Green Day's breakthrough record and with The Offspring's Smash, it was a record that completely changed punkrock scene.

Watch new music video from The Black Keys

American rock duo The Black Keys, which got a lot of attention lately after release of their latest record El Camino (read my mini review of it here), couple of days ago revealed a new music video for their current single "Little Black Submarines".

Music video features band playing in this really small music club. In fact, this club is typical place for starting bands. It's got small stage, sparkling stuff behind the band and quite a few people who probably don't even care for the band that is playing.

The only thing about this video is that they used radio edit version of the song, which is like one-minute shorter. I think that this wasn't necessary because no TV stations these days broadcast music videos and therefore they can be as long as artists want.

Anyway, watch the video here:

Song of the day: Got Blue Balls - "Devil in Bed"

Got Blue Balls is a band from my country - Slovakia. However, they sound like some british rock band. They make great music with dirty bass and guitars.

So far, they released only one self-entitled LP, but it is great LP. Check out their "Devil in Bed" for which they recently made promo video.

Picture of the day: September 5, 2012

This photo was taken on Saturday at Reading Festival. It captures Enter Shikari's Roughton Reynolds in his typical position during a live show.

I had a chance to check out these guys at this year's Rock for People festival and I gotta say they were awesome. There is so much energy in their live shows and that's what I like.

Enter Shikari also put out an awesome record this year entitled A Flash Flood of Colour. You can check my review of it here.

Watch new music video from Muse

Today, Muse revealed new music video for their current single "Madness", which you can watch the the bottom of the post. "Madness" is also the first single of their very anticipated new record The 2nd Law, which comes out on October 1.

The video was directed by Anthony Mandler who previously directed music videos such as Lana Del Rey's "National Anthem", The Killers' "A Dustland Fairytale", "Tranquilize", and "When You Were Young" and also Muse's "Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)".

However, most of the time he collaborates with artists like Rihanna, Drake, Jay-Z, Usher, or Enrique Iglesias.

Deftones announce new album

In April of this year, I informed you about new album from Deftones. However, there was no official release date, album title or tracklisting revealed in that time. But that all has changed.

The album is called Koi No Yokan and it will be out on November 13 via Reprise Records. The album was recorded in Los Angeles and was produced by Nick Raskulinecz, who also produced band's last effort - 2010′s Diamond Eyes.

Even though, tracklisting is still unknown, band recently debuted two new tracks - "Roller Derby" and "Rosemary".

If you live in the US, you will be happy because Deftones will go on North American tour later this year. Check out all the tour dates below.

09/22 – Irvine, CA @ Epicenter
09/23 – Sacramento, CA @ Aftershock Festival
10/09 – Ventura, CA @ Ventura Theatre
10/10 – San Francisco, CA @ Warfield
10/12 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Ballroom
10/13 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox SODO
10/14 – Vancouver, BC @ Commodore
10/16 – Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory
10/17 – Salt Lake City, UT @ In The Venue
10/19 – Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium
10/20 – Kansas City, MO @ Harrah’s
10/21 – Columbia, MO @ Blue Note
10/23 – Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom
10/24 – Royal Oak, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre
10/26 – Baltimore, MD @ Rams Head Live
10/28 -Philadelphia, PA @ The Electric Factory
10/29 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues
10/30 – New York, NY @ Terminal 5

Stream new album from The XX

New album from minimalistic indie pop band The XX entitled Coexist isn't out until next week (September 10). However, the band made available to stream the record in its entirety.

And it is actually pretty cool stream because it also features map of the world showing all the people who stream the album and their location.

The album itself is pretty obvious follow-up to their self-titled debut record, which came out in 2009. Thinking that these guys would change their unique style and sound is in my opinion just absurd.

Anyway, stream the record here over their official website or below via embed code.

Tracklisting of Coexist:

01. Angels

02. Chained

03. Fiction
04. Try
05. Reunion
06. Sunset
07. Missing
08. Tides
09. Unfold
10. Swept Away
11. Our Song

The Rolling Stones will release two new tracks

You all probably know that legendary band The Rolling Stones is celebrating their 50th anniversary. To mark this occasion they released a book entitled The Rolling Stones 50, which features over 1000 illustrations. Furthermore, documentary movie called Crossfire Hurricane featuring never-before-seen footage will hit UK theaters in October, and will be premiered on HBO at the end of the year.

The band also changed their logo (which you can see on top of the post) for this occasion.

But that's not everything. The Rolling Stones are also releasing new career-spanning compilation called GRRR!. It will feature 50 tracks on three discs (deluxe edition will contain 80 tracks).

As a bonus, compilation album will as well contain two brand new tracks. They are entitled "Gloom and Doom" and "One Last Shot". They were both recorded in Paris last month (August). It is their first new material since their 2005's album A Bigger Bang.

Well, fans of The Rolling Stones can finally calm down because celebrations are finally taking shape. The only thing that's still missing are tour dates...

Song of the day: Marilyn Manson feat. Rammstein - "Beautiful People"

I think that Rammstein's music perfectly fit Manson's style and therefore this performance is really great and it even seems like Rammstein is Manson's regular backing band.