Monday, September 24, 2012

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.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Watch The Hives perform at KEXP

Swedish garage rock band (which I absolutely love), The Hives, have released awesome record on June 1. It is entitled Lex Hives (it supposedly means "law of The Hives") and it features 12 fast, straight-forward rock'n'roll songs.

On September 8, they appeared on KEXP radio. During the great 30-minute show, which was broadcasted live, they performed 7 tracks:

"Come On"
"Try It Again"
"Take Back The Toys"
"Hate To Say I Told You So"
"Go Right Ahead"
"Wait A Minute"
"Tick Tick Boom"

KEXP was kind enough to put the whole show on their YouTube channel and therefore we all can enjoy this great music.

Song of the day: The Kills - "My Passion Is Accurate"

This is a rare music video for 2005's B-side "My Passion Is Accurate". The video is so rare because of the fact that it has never been officially released. I really don't know how and why this video got out after all this time.

However, I like both track and video and I wonder why they didn't officially release it back in 2005. What do you think of it?

Watch entire The Killers' UNSTAGED show

American Express UNSTAGED is a music series created by Vevo, YouTube and American Express. In this series, full live shows are streamed live via YouTube. Afterwards, some of these live streams are available to be watched.

On Tuesday this week (September 18), american well known band The Killers performed live from Paradise Theater in NYC as part of this music series. Don't worry if you missed to watch the show live.

Today, it was posted online on The Killers Vevo channel in its entirety. I don't know if the show stays there permanently or for limited time only. Anyway, now you can watch it below.

I haven't watched it yet, but I plan to do so later tonight. Based on playlist, it is an awesome show because they included new tracks from their newest record Battle Born, which came out this week, but also older classics like "Somebody Told Me", "Human" or "Mr. Brightside".


Setlist:

"Runaways"
"Somebody Told Me"
"Smile Like You Mean It"
"Spaceman"
"Flesh And Bone"
"Reasons Unknown"
"Miss Atomic Bomb"
"Confessions Of A King"
"Human"
"Here With Me"
"A Dustland Fairytale"
"Read My Mind"
"Mr. Brightside"
"All These Things That I Have Done"
"Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine"
"When You Were Young"

Download new track from Deftones + new album tracklisting


In April, I informed you that Deftones are set to go to the studio in July and start working on new record. Well, at the beginning of this month, they revealed album title and release date.

And now they revealed first track of the album and give it as free download for a limited time! So visit, deftones.com and download for free new track called "Leathers". It is actually good song with everything you expect from this band.

Deftones also made available tracklisting of Koi No Yokan. It will feature these 11 songs:

1. "Poltergeist"
2. "Romantic Dreams"
3. "Leathers"
4. "Swerve City"
5. "Entombed"
6. "Graphic Nature"
7. "Tempest"
8. "Gauze"
9. "Rosemary"
10. "Goon Squad"
11. "What Happened To You?"

Are you excited about this record? I definitely am...

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Picture of the day: September 19, 2012

Today's picture was posted by NOFX singer and bassist Fat Mike via his Twitter. The photo was taken in downtown of Indianapolis. He also posted funny note:

"But downtown Indianapolis is pretty fucking cool. Took a photo of me and a local Mexican worker"

I hope you all know that "local Mexican worker" is El Hefe - guitarist of NOFX...

Song of the day: Animal Collective - "Today's Supernatural"

Psychedelic band from Baltimore, Maryland - Animal Collective recently released their ninth studio album entitled Centipede Hz. The record got mixed reviews, but I think it is good. I haven't listened to the album a lot though, but based on those couple times I gave it a try, I liked it.

This experimental formation, which consists of David Portner aka Avey Tare, Noah Lennox aka Panda Bear, Josh Dibb aka Deakin and Brian Weitz aka Geologist is currently on tour in support of their latest effort throughout Canada and US. In November, they will head to Europe. To see all their tour dates, visit their website.

YouTube channel of their label, Domino Records, recently posted two videos of their live performances at Prospect Park Brooklyn in 2011. You can now check live performances of "Today's Supernatural" and "Father Time" below. They are awesome. Especially, those effects are sick.