Slipknot have posted yet another bizarre new image on the front page of their official website.
The latest image has the masked figure we’ve seen in previous pictures ankle deep in water and walking through a darkened tunnel. The soundtrack in the background starts softly with the sound of water and what appears to be clanging pipes that gradually gets louder before stopping abruptly as it reaches its crescendo.
Slipknot are expected to release their new album in August.
Tool, A Perfect Circle and Puscifer frontman Maynard James Keenan recently sat down with the ladies over at SuicideGirls.com for a natter about Puscifer’s new remix album ‘V Is For Viagra: The Vagina Mixes’ which was released yesterday.
‘V Is For Viagra: The Vagina Mixes’ features remixes from Ministry’s Paul Barker, Lustmord, Michael patterson, Isis man Aaron Turner, former NIN man Danny Lohner and Dave Ogilvie from Skinny Puppy.
t’s here! The album we’ve been waiting for, breathlessly, all this time. Yes, I’m talking about Scarlett Johansson’s Anywhere I Lay My Head, due out May 20 on Atco. And wait-what’s this? It’s not just ten Tom Waits covers? There’s also an original track? Oh man!
Update: Apparently Stars Like Fleas drummer Ryan Sawyer also appears on the album.
As previously reported, ScarJo collaborated with TV on the Radio’s David Sitek, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Nick Zinner, and Celebration’s Sean Antanaitis on the album.
Album of the year, baby.
‘Violet Hill’ is a huge success digitally.
Coldplay’s new single ‘Violet Hill’ was downloaded for free by over 600,000 people in the 24 hours since it was made available at 12.15pm on Tuesday (April 29).
In the first 12 hours it was downloaded by 300,000. This figure doubled overnight as other countries logged on to Coldplay.com, the source of the free download.
The single will be available free for a week and will then be released as a paid-for digital single on May 6.
The group’s album ‘Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends’ will be released on June 12.
The Band: The Last Shadow Puppets
The Buzz: Alex from Arctic Monkeys & Miles of the Rascals.
Listen If You Like: Playing Parklife while watching The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Key Track: “Age of Understatement,” which sounds like an outtake from the soundtrack from some mod western, full of clomping percussion, twitching guitar and a string section that swirls like a lasso.
The Band: Frightened Rabbit
The Buzz: Scottish quartet finds catharsis through rock.
Listen If You Like: Sobbing along to the Frames while flipping through pics of the ex.
Key Track: “The Modern Leper,” where a dry acoustic strum builds to a thundering, pleading chorus.
The Band: The Black Angels
The Buzz: Stonerrific psych rock.
Listen If You Like: Standing on your neighbor’s lawn in a black cloak, lit torch held high.
Key Track: “You on the Run,” which marries doomy guitars to even doomier drums.
Bob Dylan, Iggy & The Stooges, Chuck Berry and Wilco are among the acts who will join already-announced headliners Foo Fighters, Kanye West, Nine Inch Nails and Stone Temple Pilots at this year’s Virgin Mobile Festival. The event will once again take place at Pimlico Race Track (the site of the Preakness) in Baltimore, Maryland. Tickets for the two-day fest go on sale May 3rd. Hit the jump for the complete lineup of bands who will be in Baltimore on August 9 & 10.
2008 Virgin Mobile Festival
Saturday, August 9
Bloc Party
Cat Power
Chuck Berry and The Silver Beats
Citizen Cope
Duffy
Foo Fighters
Gogol Bordello
Jack Johnson
KT Tunstall
Lupe Fiasco
The Offspring
Paramore
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
The Swell Season
Wilco
Sunday, August 10
The Black Keys
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Bob Dylan
The Go! Team
Iggy & The Stooges
Kanye West
Lil Wayne
Nine Inch Nails
She & Him
Stone Temple Pilots
Taking Back Sunday
Hoping to prevent scalpers from profiting off their upcoming tour — and to ensure the true fans get front row — Nine Inch Nails will offer their fans a limited allotment of best available seating before the tickets go on sale to the general public. NIN will begin selling those tickets at their official website seventy-two hours before the official on-sale date. To further stonewall those scheming scalpers and ticket brokers, each ticket is imprinted with the purchasers’ name, and can only be acquired the day of the show at the will-call window with an ID that matches the name of the ticket. Then, upon receiving the tickets, the person whose name is inscribed on the ticket must immediately enter the venue, making it impossible to run back to the parking lot and sell it to some buyer from CraigsList. Pre-sales are expected to begin Wednesday with the band’s Lexington, Kentucky, show. And remember, we’re less than a week away from the big announcement Trent Reznor has been teasing over at his website.
Finnish “love metallers” HIM have posted two preview videos from their forthcoming CD/DVD “Digital Versatile Doom: Live at the Orpheum Theatre”. Due on April 29, the live portion of the DVD was recorded/filmed at the band’s November 14-15, 2007 concerts at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles. According to the HIM newsletter, “you’ll go on stage and behind the scenes with Ville [Valo, HIM frontman] and the band as they give one of their most heartfelt shows to date. Also featured on the DVD, watch the journey of HIM’s biggest fans as they go to Seattle to meet the band, see the heartagram photo gallery and watch as Ville recounts the journey that was ‘Venus Doom’.” “Digital Versatile Doom” also features a second disc, with the full live performance from The Orpheum Theater and a 16-page booklet of original art and images.
“Digital Versatile Doom: Live at the Orpheum Theatre” track listing:
01. Passion’s Killing Floor
02. (Rip Out) the Wings of a Butterfly
03. Buried Alive By Love
04. Wicked Game
05. The Kiss of Dawn
06. Vampire Heart
07. Poison Girl
08. Dead Lovers’ Lane
09. Join Me in Death
10. It’s All Tears
11. Sleepwalking Past Hope
12. Killing Loneliness
13. Soul On Fire
14. Your Sweet Six Six Six
15. Bleed Well
16. The Funeral of Hearts
An exclusive sneak peek at “Digital Versatile Doom: Live at the Orpheum Theatre” is available at this location.
“Bleed Well”:
Finnish monster rock n’ roll band LORDI has entered the studio to record the follow-up to “The Arockalypse”.
Commented the group: “We don’t wanna record ‘The Arockalypse Part 2′, but we won’t forget our roots either.”
The band chose from over 60 songs to record. “It’s the same positive problem as always,” laughs guitarist Amen. “Oh yeah, 60 demos is a lot to listen to, but at the same time it’s a lot of fun. All the band members took part in the writing process and that was very positive too.”
This is the first time bassist Ox and keyboardist Lady Awa will be in the studio at the start of a recording.
“I’m so excited! I just can’t wait to hear the final results. The new songs kick ass so hard! I honestly think that this is gonna be the best LORDI album,” says a thrilled Ox.
Lady Awa is enthusiastic about the new album too. “I joined the band at the time when LORDI was recording ‘The Arockalypse’ album, so I had to go straight to the studio and I didn’t have much time to get to know the new songs,” Awa says. “Now I’ve had a couple of years — such a joyride — and I have had time to ‘get in’ into the band. So now I’m even more excited about making the new album, choosing and practicing the songs. I have even tried to compose a little bit by myself.”
The recordings should be finished by summer, with the new album due out later this year.
In other news, The End Records has set a May 13 release date for the reissue of LORDI’s 2002 debut album “Get Heavy”. The reissue comes with the exclusive bonus track “Don’t Let My Mother Know”.
Former Rip magazine editor Lonn Friend recently talked to Miami’s BLACK TIDE about the band’s experiences on the road and last year’s Ozzfest. Watch the four-minute chat below.
BLACK TIDE sold 11,400 copies of its debut album, “Light from Above”, in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 73 on The Billboard 200 chart.
After months of anticipation, BLACK TIDE has finally unveiled the video for its blazing single “Shockwave”. The Travis Kopach-directed (BUCKCHERRY, PANIC! AT THE DISCO) clip finds the group turning a non-descript suburban home into a frenzy of moshing fans and skateboarders pulling tricks on a half-pipe! The motocross bad boys of the Metal Mulisha also make an appearance making this video a throwback to the glory days of ’80s metal!
“Light from Above” was released on March 18 via Interscope Records. The CD was recorded with producer Johnny K, who has previously worked with DISTURBED, MACHINE HEAD and SOIL, among others.
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