Oasis will release their next studio album, 'Dig Out Your Soul', on October 6 on their Big Brother label.
The album will be preceded by a single, 'The Shock Of The Lightning', on September 29.
The LP, which will be the band's seventh studio effort, was produced by Dave Sardy, who also worked on Oasis' last album, 2005's 'Don't Believe The Truth'. It was recorded in London's Abbey Road and mixed in Los Angeles.
Comeback single 'The Shock Of The Lightning' was written by Noel Gallagher and features his brother, Liam Gallagher, on lead vocals.
Speaking about the album Noel Gallagher said: "I wanted to write music that had a groove; not songs that followed that traditional pattern of verse, chorus and middle eight.
"I wanted a sound that was more hypnotic; more driving. Songs that would draw you in, in a different way. Songs that you would maybe have to connect to � to feel."
Of 'The Shock Of The Lightning', Gallagher added: "If 'The Shock Of The Lightning' sounds instant and compelling to you, it's because it was written dead fast. And recorded dead fast.
"'The Shock of The Lightning' basically is the demo. And it has retained its energy. And there�s a lot to be said for that, I think. The first time you record something is always the best."
Tuesday 24 June 2008
Monday 23 June 2008
NBC's Brokaw picked to moderate "Meet the Press"
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - NBC News picked veteran Tom Brokaw to moderate "Meet the Press" through the 2008 U.S. election season, NBC News President Steve Capus said on Sunday.
Tim Russert, the longtime host of the Sunday morning news program who was known for his interviews of leading U.S. political figures, died of a heart attack on June 13. He was also the television network's Washington bureau chief.
Brokaw, 68, a well-known and respected figure in U.S. broadcast journalism, stepped down as anchor of the "NBC Nightly News" in 2004 after 21 years.
"To have someone of Tom's stature step up and dedicate himself to ensuring its ongoing success is not only a testament to his loyalty to Tim, but his enduring commitment to NBC News and our viewers," Capus said in a statement.
(Reporting by Nancy Waitz)
Tim Russert, the longtime host of the Sunday morning news program who was known for his interviews of leading U.S. political figures, died of a heart attack on June 13. He was also the television network's Washington bureau chief.
Brokaw, 68, a well-known and respected figure in U.S. broadcast journalism, stepped down as anchor of the "NBC Nightly News" in 2004 after 21 years.
"To have someone of Tom's stature step up and dedicate himself to ensuring its ongoing success is not only a testament to his loyalty to Tim, but his enduring commitment to NBC News and our viewers," Capus said in a statement.
(Reporting by Nancy Waitz)
Sunday 22 June 2008
Grand Alchemist
Artist: Grand Alchemist
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Intervening Coma-Celebration
Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
Cybotron
Artist: Cybotron
Genre(s):
Electronic
Electronic: Progressive
Discography:
Cosmic Raindance
Year: 1996
Tracks: 4
The Roots Of Techno
Year: 1994
Tracks: 13
Implosion
Year: 1980
Tracks: 7
Colossus
Year: 1978
Tracks: 6
Clear Light Of Jupiter
Year: 1976
Tracks: 5
Stimmhorn
Gein
Artist: Gein
Genre(s):
Drum & Bass
Discography:
We Don't Know / Simon
Year: 2006
Tracks: 2
Hate and Father Of Lies
Year: 2006
Tracks: 2
Rapper Warren G Arrested Over Drugs Possession
No 332: Little Boots
Hometown: Blackpool.
The lineup: Victoria Hesketh (vocals).
The background: It's not just rock music that's got one eye on the past, recycling old riffs or using it for inspiration to create something new. There are landmark tracks in dance music, too, that DJs or producers find it hard to get over; for every Get It On and I Feel Love. The oscillating pulse that throbbed throughout the first single by Hesketh alias Little Boots, Stuck On Repeat, was so redolent of Donna Summer and Giorgio Moroder's 1977 sonic breakthrough it made Oasis look, well, original. It was still good, though - somehow a formerly futuristic sequencer pulse sounds better, less in hock to the past, than a hoary guitar riff to these ears. Anyway, the latest release by the girl being hailed in some parts as this year's disco queen, Meddle - actually her debut single proper because Stuck On Repeat was a white-label club release only - doesn't use a stock electronic rhythm as the basis for her vocal flights. It's more of a song, with a jerky beat that's a bit Timbaland, only with the tacky hookiness of a trash hit like Mickey by Toni Basil. The lyric is what really sticks, though, one of those man-bashing, I-will-survive affairs that certain people - gay men, women - feel an affinity for, despite or maybe because of its trite observations (something about being a "mixed-up girl in a mixed-up world") about L.U.V. It's TK Maxx techno, basically, but, like the work of Xenomania and Richard X, confirms suburban Britain's penchant for metallic electronica and is ideally suited to handbag house-congregating at your local danceteria, notwithstanding the bit in the middle that sounds like a Gregorian chant.
And, like Stuck On Repeat, it's been produced by Hot Chip's Joe Goddard, one of those brainy types with the common touch. Weirdly, Greg Kurstin of US jazz-pop group The Bird and the Bee is lined up to produce the debut album by Little Boots, a part-time DJ and former member of sometime Fierce Panda electroclash-ers Dead Disco who shares a nickname with Caligula (the third ruler of the Roman Empire, debauched despot fans). That makes a sort of sense: Hesketh's vocals are way upfront in the mix, and she has a clear, plummy way of enunciating that should appeal to the "wow, amazin' voice!" brigade (one of her songs, Hands, is a piano ballad), although on a track like Magic she veers more towards the blank, glassy, sighing approach to non-singing favoured by Kylie. At the moment, she's big in the blogosphere and performing in hipster London dives like 93 Feet East and Hoxton Bar & Kitchen, but she's doing a DJ set at Glastonbury on the BBC Introducing Stage and there's an appearance to follow at Creamfields in Liverpool, so with a cross of the fingers she'll cross over faster than you can sashay across the dancefloor like Travolta in a white suit.
The buzz: "Beautiful and thrilling."
The truth: She's a future-disco diva, but her ballad-pop roots are showing.
Most likely to: Do a Robyn
Least likely to: Be turned into a bootleg with Pink Floyd's Meddle. Although now that we mention it...
What to buy: Meddle is released by 50 Bones on August 4.
File next to: Goldfrapp, Donna Summer, Sugababes, Robyn.
Links: www.myspace.com/littlebootsmusic
Tomorrow's new band: Tinchy Stryder.
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Roumours are raging in Europe of Kiss-themed clone reality show echoing the UK's 'X Factor' after an interview the band did in Norway.
The interview, which is a small segment of an hour long Kiss special airing on Norway�s NRK channel on September 1 around the release of the 'Kissology' box set in Europe, sees vocalists Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley disagreeing on whether there will be a Kiss reality show for bands.
On the footage the interviewer asks: "At some point will we see a Kiss idol like 'American idol'?"
Simmons replies: The answer is yes... the deal has just been signed."
The clip then cuts to Stanley saying: "There is no signed deal it's you know again it's when we're both asked the same question sometimes you get different answers."
This contradiction now seems to have been cleared up - kind of.
A statement from Stanley released on the Kiss Kissonline.com said: "A Kiss clone reality show? First of all, contrary to what was said by anyone, there is no signed deal. Secondly, if we were to do a 'Kiss II', and I don't rule that out, it would be in addition to, and never in place of Kiss. If we were to do it, I know it would be done in a groundbreaking way and would be tremendously entertaining."
Stanley added that the band aren't planning on stopping anytime soon though.
He said: "Kiss has always defined itself by the rules we break, so what's the big surprise? We are in the middle of our biggest and most successful tour of Europe ever, playing to over a half million people, and neither Kiss or I have any plans to stop afterwards."
Watch the footage in full at nrk.no.
Jun 13, 2008 at Donington Park, Castle Donington -
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The interview, which is a small segment of an hour long Kiss special airing on Norway�s NRK channel on September 1 around the release of the 'Kissology' box set in Europe, sees vocalists Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley disagreeing on whether there will be a Kiss reality show for bands.
On the footage the interviewer asks: "At some point will we see a Kiss idol like 'American idol'?"
Simmons replies: The answer is yes... the deal has just been signed."
The clip then cuts to Stanley saying: "There is no signed deal it's you know again it's when we're both asked the same question sometimes you get different answers."
This contradiction now seems to have been cleared up - kind of.
A statement from Stanley released on the Kiss Kissonline.com said: "A Kiss clone reality show? First of all, contrary to what was said by anyone, there is no signed deal. Secondly, if we were to do a 'Kiss II', and I don't rule that out, it would be in addition to, and never in place of Kiss. If we were to do it, I know it would be done in a groundbreaking way and would be tremendously entertaining."
Stanley added that the band aren't planning on stopping anytime soon though.
He said: "Kiss has always defined itself by the rules we break, so what's the big surprise? We are in the middle of our biggest and most successful tour of Europe ever, playing to over a half million people, and neither Kiss or I have any plans to stop afterwards."
Watch the footage in full at nrk.no.
Jun 13, 2008 at Donington Park, Castle Donington -
More Kiss tickets
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Soccer ace and wine enthusiast DAVID BECKHAM has joined the Napa Valley Reserve, the U.S.A.'s first wine "country club", which describes itself as an "institute of higher education for vintners and friends of vintners".
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