Picture of the day: September 14, 2012

British indie rock band The Wombats is currently on US tour. Their next stop is Red Rocks Ampitheatre in Colorado (recent Mumford & Sons music video features footage from this beautiful venue).

This photo was taken during one of their recent show in the US. To see all dates, head here.

Gary Clark Jr. revealed new album details

Let me introduce you one awesome artist that I recently discovered. Gary Clark Jr. is an american singer and guitarist who's music is mainly influenced by rock and roll and blues music.

He has already released some EP's and LP's in the past, but his major label debut is yet to come. He recently revealed details about this album.

Record entitled Blak and Blu will contain 13 tracks and will be out on October 22 via Warner Bros. It will contain 12 own compositions and one cover, which is actually cover of two songs - Little Johnny Taylor’s "If You Love Me Like You Say" and Jimi Hendrix’s "Third Stone From The Sun". The album was produced by Mike Elizondo (Mastodon, Fiona Apple, Dr. Dre) and Rob Cavallo (Green Day, My Chemical Romance).

First single of the record is track named "Ain’t Messin ‘Round". And I gotta say that it is awesome track that makes me very excited about this record. Listen to this song below.

Tracklisting of Blak and Blu:

01. Ain’t Messin ‘Round
02. When My Train Pulls In
03. Blak and Blu
04. Bright Lights
05. Travis County
06. The Life
07. Glitter Ain’t Gold (Jumpin’ For Nothin’)
08. Numb
09. Please Come Home
10. Things Are Changin’
11. Third Stone From The Sun/If You Love Me Like You Say
12. You Saved Me
13. Next Door Neighbor Blues

Song of the day: Enter Shikari - "Arguing With Thermometers"

Today's song of the day is Enter Shikari's track called "Arguing With Thermometers" from their last studio record entitled A Flash Flood Of Colour (read a review of it here). It is a great record.

Watch awesome performance of this song from this year's Reading Festival:

Watch new Mumford & Sons music video

Mumford & Sons are releasing their new studio album entitled Babel on September 25 via Glassnote. Their first single of the album is called "I Will Wait".

They also recently made a music video for this track, which you can watch below. It features band's footage during their concert at beautiful concert venue called Red Rocks Ampitheatre in Morrison, CO.

Tracklisting of Babel:

01. "Babel"
02. "Whispers in the Dark"
03. "I Will Wait"
04. "Holland Road"
05. "Ghosts That We Knew"

06. "Lover of the Light"
07. "Lovers’ Eyes"
08. "Reminder"
09. "Hopeless Wanderer"
10. "Broken Crown"
11. "Below My Feet"
12. "Not With Haste"

Picture of the day: September 13, 2012

Pretty cool photo of Paramore and british You Me at Six.

Watch new Sigur Rós music video

Sigur Rós revealed another music video as part of their ongoing Valtari Mistery Film Experiment. The band has decided to give dozen film makers the same budget and ask them to make video which will capture their feelings during listening to Valtari. Interesting thing is that they have given complete freedom to these film makers. Fans can also vote, which video is the best.

Video called "Seraph" is the ninth video. It was made by Dash Shaw (comic book artist) and John Cameron Mitchell (cult film director). It features snippets of Valtari tracks "Rembihnútur" and "Ekki Múkk".

The video is pretty wild because it features a lot of depressing and gritty surrealism. You can watch it below.

You can also watch all other videos entitled "Ég anda" 1, "Ég anda" 2, "Varúð" 1, "Varúð" 2, "Fjögur píanó", "Rembihnútur", "Varðeldur" and "Dauðalogn" via the website mentioned above.

According to that website, next video is coming on September 24 and I will definitely inform you about  it right after it comes out.

Song of the day: The XX - "Angels"

The XX released their sophomore album entitled Coexist earlier this month. They continued with their minimalistic sound based on both female and male vocals accompanied by simple guitar and bass on this record.

They are set to go on north american tour in support of their latest effort. You can check all their tour dates here.

They also stopped by and played at this year's Bestival, which took place at the Robin Hill country park on the Isle of Wight, England on 6-9 September. You can check performance of Coexist's opener -"Angels", from this festival below.

Picture of the day: September 12, 2012

This picture was posted by Lou Reed via his Facebook with caption "Sectioned" yesterday (September 11). It is a reaction on lawsuit over iconic cover of Velvet Underground's debut album Velvet Underground & Nico, which came out in 1967.

Lou Reed and John Cale initiated that their band should own the copyright to this famous picture instead of Andy Warhol Foundation. However, judge recently threw this claim out.

So the argument about trademarks continues because there is a lot of money in it - the album is celebrating its 45th anniversary and for this occasion six-disc album is set to be released as well as iPhone and iPad accessories.

I think this whole situation is just ridiculous and I think that both Andy Warhol Foundation and Velvet Underground should own the copyright for this picture.

Here is the original cover of the album:

Song of the day: Lana Del Rey - "Born To Die"

I know that Lana Del Rey is an artist, which a lot of people don't like for several reasons. And I understand those reasons. I know that there are a lot of haters, but also plenty of lovers of her. And even though I'm not saying that I listen to her music every day, her style is pretty unique as well as her voice and songwritting.

Her live performances are also pretty good. Example are these two performances from Premises:

And maybe she have fucked up big time her SNL appearance earlier this year, but she can really sing well. I think that she was just too nervous during SNL.

Anyways, this acoustic performance of "Born To Die" was recorded at Poolside at Chateau Marmont and it is really awesome.

Watch: Green Day - "Nuclear Family"

It seems like Green Day are unstoppable these days. They have been all over the news since the announcement of their album trilogy release. They are constantly making new music videos ahead of release of their first record ;Uno!, which comes out on September 25. ¡Dos! will be out on November 13 and ¡Tré!, will be released on January 15, 2013.

Now they revealed new song along with music video. "Nuclear Family" is title of the song. It features simple straight-forward music video, which you can watch below.

Green Day also recently announced plenty of North American tour dates:

09/15 – New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
09/21 – Las Vegas, NV @ iHeartRadio Festival
09/28 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
10/27 – New Orleans, LA @ Voodoo Experience
11/26 – Seattle, WA @ Paramount Theatre
11/27 – Kennewick, WA @ Toyota Center
11/29 – Salem, OR @ Salem Armory Auditorium
12/01 – Sacramento, CA @ Memorial Auditorium
12/02 – Reno, NV @ Grand Theatre
12/04 – Santa Cruz, CA @ Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium
12/10 – Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
01/07 – Green Bay, WI @ Resch Arena
01/08 – Rosemont, IL @ Allstate Arena
01/10 – Wilkes Barre, PA @ Mohegan Sun Arena
01/11 – State College, PA @ Bryce Jordan Center
01/13 – Rochester, NY @ Blue Cross Arena
01/14 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Consol Energy Center
01/16 – Brooklyn, NY @ Barclays Center
01/18 – Manchester, NH @ Verizon Wireless Arena
01/19 – Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena
01/21 – Fairfax, VA @ Patriot Center
01/22 – Philadelphia, PA @ Liacourias Center
01/24 – Providence, RI @ Dunkin Donuts Center
01/25 – Portland, ME @ Cumberland Civic Center
01/27 – Quebec City, QC @ Colisee Pepsi Arena
01/29 – Toronto, ON @ Air Canada Centre
01/30 – Cleveland, OH @ Wolstein Center
02/01 – Moline, IL @ iWireless Center
02/02 – Madison, WI @ Allstate Energy Center Memorial Coliseum
02/04 – Omaha, NE @ CenturyLink Arena
02/06 – Broomfield, CO @ 1STBank Center
02/08 – Las Vegas, NV @ MGM Grand Garden Arena
06/01 – London, UK @ Emirates Stadium