The Good, The Bad and The Queen, the rock supergroup featuring Damon Albarn (Blur and Gorillaz), Paul Simonon (The Clash), Simon Tong (The Verve) and Tony Allen (Africa 70 and Fela Kuti), will be releasing their self-titled album on January 22nd through Honest Jons/Parlophone. Their first single "Herculean" was out on October 30th and you can stream the single here. The album was produced by Danger Mouse as...[read more]
News is a bit slow today, so I invite you to feel some Thanksgiving cheer with Bad Astronaut's cover of NOFX's "Linoleum," one of our famed ABSOLUTExclusives. Formed as a sideproject from members of Lagwagon (Joey Cape and the late Derrick Plourde) and Sugarcult (Marko 72), BA's third and final album, Twelve Small Steps, One Giant Disappointment, is in stores now on Fat Wreck.
Continuing our trend of bringing you awesome stuff, we have a new ABSOLUTExclusive from Bad Astronaut. On their AP.net profile, we have the band covering NOFX's "Linoleum" for your listening pleasure. Bad Astronaut's final release, Twelve Small Steps, One Giant Disappointment is in stores now through Fat Wreck.
With no advance notice or explanation, Baton Rouge indie rockers Bones have lost their long-established Myspace URL (www.myspace.com/bones) to the FOX Television show of the same name. Bones, the band, has used www.myspace.com/bones for nearly 2 years, racking up close to 20,000 profile views, over 21,000 song plays and over 2100 Myspace friends.
“Losing our URL was a complete surprise to...[read more]
Bad Astronaut has posted two more songs from their forthcoming album Twelve Small Steps, One Giant Disappointment, which will hit stores November 14th.
According to the promoter of the performance: HR, Dr. Know, Darryl Jennifer and Earl Hudson are performing together as the Bad Brains at CBGBs on October 9th and 10th. Online sales are already sold out.
If you're expecting the new Bad Religion album to drop before the end of the year, the band have a confession to make: "We haven't started yet," admits bassist and founding memberJay Bentley, sounding a bit embarrassed. "We've been slacking. If you ever see the word 'slackers' in the dictionary, our picture is right next to it."
According to MammothPress.com: He's only played about two shows but Arctic Monkeys temporary bassist Nick O'Malley has reportedly broken his hand. Andy Nicholson, the band's actual bassist is taking the band's US tour off due to suffering from "exhaustion".
Here's the tracklisting for the upcoming Sound of Superman soundtrack. The full press release is also found below. I'm listening to the album right now, and it's pretty good.
1. The Academy Is… “Superman” (The Clique/R.E.M. cover)
2. Plain White T’s “It’s So Easy” (original)
3. The Sun “(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman” (The Kinks cover)
4. Motion City Soundtrack “The Worst Part…” (original)read more]
Because of some mix-ups in album status, tracklisting and quality, my review for Far-Less - Everyone Is Out To Get Us has now been deleted. Also, because of similar matters the review for The Fold will come shortly after. Below is a retraction from myself to the band and label.
If you live in the UK, then make sure you go to the iTunes Music Store and get the brand new "Sugar, We're Goin Down" remix done by Fall Out Boy themselves.
Connecticut band Avery, Underwater was involved in a bad drunk driving accident on Friday night. Think of people like these guys before you go out partying and decide to drive yourself home. You might not just injure yourself.
