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The excitement of big name album releases this year continues, with Dr. Dre’s latest project, Detox being considered for release in “November or December”.
Dre hasn’t released a full solo album since 1999’s 2001 (confused?), but considering it took him 7 years between The Chronic and 2001, you can be fairly sure that the Doc has been putting his heart and soul into the production of this album.
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After being unintentionally outed by retailer Music Dispatch, Metallica have officially announced the track listing for Death Magnetic, due out in September.
But if an over-enthusiastic retailer is what it takes to get the low-down on the highly anticipated Death Magnetic, then shouldn’t we all just be grateful?
The song titles are suitably foreboding, and could easily hark back to the golden era of thrash that we’ve all been hoping for. Titles after the jump…
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Alice Cooper. What a legend. With his trademark theatrical make-up and a gallows or guillotine always on hand to dispatch his fiendish stage persona straight to hell, Alice has left an indelible impression on the history of rock.
To celebrate the release of Alice’s 25th studio album, we thought it was a good time to look back over some of the best songs of his career. This is our Top Ten - feel free to add your own favourite Alice Cooper songs in the comments section.
10) I’m Eighteen
I’m Eighteen is the coming of age song that launched the Alice Cooper band into the limelight. Featured on their major label debut, “Love It To Death”, it’s become a heavy metal classic through the years - and the teenage angst theme would feature in future Cooper tracks like School’s Out and Teenage Lament ‘74.
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Oh dear. It seems that The Zutons had an ice cold reception from fans at their recent T4 On The Beach gig.
We’ve always had a soft spot for The Zutons here at Unreality Music, and were looking forward to the release of their third album. However, with the release of Always Right Behind You, we got that sinking feeling that the band had made some bad musical decisions.
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We’ve been saying it for a while now - the Indie music scene is a joke and bogged down in all-too-similar bands flogging the same dull by-the-numbers music.
How fitting that The Independent newspaper should be laying the smackdown on Indie music:
John Niven was an indie fan in the 1980s, an A&R man in the Britpopping 1990s, and is now the author of Kill Your Friends, a sadistic satire of the record industry of which he was once an enthusiastic member. “I was in Gap a few weeks ago and there was some sort of generic indie music playing,” he says. “I was with a friend who’s a promoter and a bit younger than me. After about three or four tracks I asked him: ‘Whose LP is this?’ And he said, ‘No, it’s a compilation.’ Every track sounded identical. The guitars, the production; all these bands sound like they’re made in the same studio with the same producer. It’s such a ball-less, soulless, generic whitewashed indie sound. You could probably take a member from each band and throw them together in a new group and no one would be able to tell the difference. They’re completely interchangeable. Scouting for Girls are like the sound of Satan’s scrotum emptying. They’re abysmal.”
Another excellent quote about the new wave of Indie bands choking the charts…
When I glance around the bands that are supposedly ‘indie’ today, I don’t see any attitude. I don’t see any content in their records, any political interest in the band members. They’re a terrible generation, unfortunately, but they’re becoming famous overnight and selling a lot of records.
Plenty of scathing remarks about Scouting For Girls, and an impressive history of the Indie scene and its slow death (culminating in another scathing remark about Scouting For Girls), this article makes a lot of sense.
But there’s one question remaining - who will reclaim Indie for the people? Or should we just give up now and pre-order the new Britney album?
Ben Folds is due to release his third solo album, Way To Normal on 30th September 2008.
Although some of the album was written during the final stages of his divorce last year, Folds says that this album is not about that. Even though the album was originally going to be titled ‘Blood On The Keyboard’…
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82 year old blues legend, B.B. King is about to release a rootsy new album (we’ve lost count how many albums he’s released in his career, and suspect he has too…). Due out on 26th August through Geffen, T Bone Burnett is lending his production skills to this work.
(Seems we’re talking a lot about T Bone these days, from his work with Robert Plant and Alison Krauss to his musical direction on the Walk The Line soundtrack)
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Over the last few years, there’ve been huge numbers of female singers hitting the charts - Amy Winehouse, Norah Jones, Duffy, KT Tunstall, Katie Melua, Adele and many, many more.
Today’s poll asks - who’s the best of the bunch?
Share your thoughts with us here and don’t forget - you can add your own suggestions, although anybody who suggests Westlife will have there entry deleted! You have been warned!
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The New Breed Of Female Singers - Who's Best?
If Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke was a fan of John Lydon’s work before, he won’t be after the altercation with Lydon and his roadies at the weekend.
The two men’s bands were on the bill for Spain’s Summercase festival on Saturday. The story goes that Okereke approached Lydon to ask him if he would ever consider reforming his 80’s band, Public Image Ltd. At that point, reports say Lydon “became intimidating and aggressive while his entourage responded with a racist tirade including the statement, ‘Your problem is your black attitude.’”
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