Metallica’s Lars Ulrich Wants to Join Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds?!
Here’s an interesting statement (rendering immediately boring by prefacing that it is interesting): Metallica’s anti-Napster drummer, Lars Ulrich, wants to drum in Noel Gallagher’s band (via Gigwise). Don’t forget, it wasn’t so long ago that Noel said that he liked everything about Metallica, “except their music.”
Lars said to NME: “I’m hard pressed to think of anyone I would rather drum with than Noel Gallagher. I have to say the fellow with the Clockwork Orange get up at the back is doing a stellar job, when I saw them in L.A in December it was fabulous. You know, if Noel and the other 37,000 drummers on this planet turn him down I’ll certainly play with him. I’m certainly not sure he’d ever want to pick me, but I’d put together a pretty solid groove thing back there. I’d make the songs bounce to the best of my ability. Although I’m not sure he’d take me quite seriously.”
Now, why say this? Fed up of Metallica? Do you really want to hang out with Noel and be the butt of all jokes? Actually, touring with Noel would be pretty awesome. Noel – I want to drum for you, too!
Terrible, terrible news for Hockey Fans: Nickelback to Headline NHL Awards in Las Vegas
The NHL Awards actually aren’t half bad compared to most awards shows and sports awards. Unlike basketball, which seems to randomly hand out awards during the post-season, or baseball, which announces things through the media, the NHL saves them all for one night, has the lads dressed up in suits and tuxes, and makes a decent night of it. However, the night is no longer worth looking forward to, as everyone’s favourite band, Nickelback, have been announced as the headliners at the NHL Awards show in Las Vegas in June (via Hollywood Reporter). It was bad enough that they played Nickelback during the Penguins-Flyers playoff game on NBC yesterday, since there is some partnership between the band and the NHL (or maybe NBC), but now on June 20, lucky sports fans will see them play on both CBC and NBC at the show. The hockey playoffs have been dogged with acts of violent misconduct and suspensions – pretty sure someone can take out Nickelback with a shoulder to the head, right? And if so, I’m pretty sure we’ll have someone like Drake waiting in the wings to perform.
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Today in Pointlessness: Metallica’s James Hetfield Says YEAAAA A Billion Times
Someone finally noticed that James Hetfield says YEAAAAA a lot. Heavy metal music is actually quite positive in its lyrics – who knew? Anyway, some poor soul decide to collect all of these YEAAAAAs into one 3 minute track of pure randomness. Check it out and cringe every time you hear a YEAAA in any new Metallica material.
Morning Music Notes – Don’t Take Kill ‘Em All Literally
At Last – Sigur Rós Candles!
If you’re looking for a Valentine’s Day gift for me, look no further than a candle from Icelandic band, Sigur Rós. That’s right, Sigur Rós have moved into the lucrative and untapped music market of candle making (via Pitchfork). I thought Beirut would’ve beaten them to the punch based on their song.
It’s called the Varðeldur candle, which is named after a track on recent album, Valtari. It’ll set you back $23.50 plus shipping from their online store, and it won’t make it to me before Valentine’s Day, so you might want to buy me something else instead.
Metallica Didn’t Want Their Music Used in the Hunt for Osama Bin Laden
Music is the soundtrack to almost anything. In this case, almost everything includes the hunt for Osama Bin Laden. The unnamed US Navy Seal who fatally shot Bin Laden says that Metallica requested their music not be played while interrogating prisoners (via Gigwise). Is this a request one can actually even make?
The Navy Seal told Esquire “When we first started the war in Iraq, we were using Metallica music to soften people up before we interrogated them…Metallica got wind of this and they said, ‘Hey, please don’t use our music because we don’t want to promote violence.’ I thought, ‘Dude, you have an album called Kill ‘Em All’.”
Boom! This guy should be a lawyer or something! However, seeing an opening, Christian metal band (which is apparently a genre) Demon Hunters got in touch with them and they soundtracked the torture of prisoners. Sounds like a Christian thing to do, right? The Navy Seal noted that they gave out patches of the band, and that he was wearing the patch when he shot Bin Laden. Yay?
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Morning Music Notes – Obvious Headline Alert: Rock You Like a Hurricane Edition
Hurricane Sandy is No Damn Fun
Hurricane Sandy has descended on the east coast of America, causing rain and wind through northeastern USA and parts of Canada. Due to the crazy winds and because it’s rainin’ sideways, several shows have been cancelled. Bruce Springsteen’s show in New York was cancelled, and other shows such as the Deftones, Swans, The xx, Grimes, as well as the audience for both David Letterman’s and Jimmy Fallon’s late night shows. Google also cancelled their event that was scheduled for yesterday. But good news for those of you in Toronto – One Direction was unable to leave on their plane and will now be playing for 48 continuous hours and on all radio stations. The past sentence is especially good for those 14 year old girls who don’t get sarcasm just yet.
Mumford & Sons to Release The Road to Red Rocks DVD
Based on the footage for the I Will Wait music video and the teaser trailers leading up to it, it was pretty obvious that something was going to come out of all the footage Mumford & Sons shot (besides wasted terrabytes). The band have announced a DVD called The Road to Red Rocks, which will document their 2 dates at the Morrison, Colorado venue, as well as their Gentlemen of the Road tour.
The DVD will be out Nov. 26 in the UK, Nov. 30 in Australia and New Zealand, and after Christmas time – Jan. 22 – in North America. There will be plenty of banjo however, as seen in the DVD trailer below (via Consequence of Sound).
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Morning Music Notes – Pirate Hunting
Mum Confirms Arctic Monkeys New Album Rumour
Strangely the other night, #ArcticMonkeys5thAlbum started trending on Twitter. I scoured the Internet for information, but thought it was just someone having a laugh. It turns out it was initially tweeted by @ArcticMonkeysUS, who claimed to have intimate (read: sexual) knowledge of the situation. It has now been confirmed by drummer Matt Helder’s mother – Arctic Monkeys are recording their fifth album (via Gigwise).
The band only just released the excellent Suck It and See last year. The gang are back out in the desert on the west coast of America, and might be re-teaming with Queens of the Stone Age singer, Josh Homme, who helped out on their third album. Either way, it’ll likely be a damn good album.
Indie Label Goes After Illegal File Sharers
Century Media, take note. Lars Ulrich and the Metallica gang went after Napster about 10 years ago, making no friends or fans in the process. Now, indie label Century Media have gone after about 7,500 people for sharing albums of two of their artists (via Digital Music News). The lawsuits are only targeting the IP addresses of file sharers for now, with 4,327 sought for sharing Iced Earth and 3,136 people sought for sharing Lacuna Coil.
Label representative, Jay McDaniel, spoke to NorthJersey.com and said “What many people don’t understand is that it’s the distribution that’s the evil influence. It does the real damage and harm, not just to the client but to the culture industry, and to creative endeavours in general. This kills the little producer and it has an extremely destructive effect on the entertainment industry. Record sales don’t drive the music business any more – touring does. So illegal sharing of music on the internet has killed an entire industry.”
Barely anyone will see your band if they don’t know your music though. So if they discover you via Spotify and you get that small percentage of 1 cent, or if they share it and discuss it online via piracy, does it really matter? I’m not saying piracy is necessarily good, but it goes against the argument presented in my opinion. Interesting to see if the bands agree with the pirate hunt.
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Morning Music Notes – Coachella Will Not Be Relocating to Rich’s Backyard
Coachella Ain’t Going Anywhere
Remember that Coachella scare about them moving locations and shutting down in 2014? It isn’t happeneing – Indio city councilman Sam Torres took Goldenvoice president Paul Tollett’s threat seriously and took back his proposal (via Consequence of Sound).
Torres had proposed a 5-10% tax on live events with more than 2,500 people (read: Coachella), and Tollett said they would take 2014 off and move in 2015. Pretty sure Indio needs Coachella more than Coachella needs Indio – hello tourist dollars (I know I hit up the restaurants and grocery stores when there). A press statement yesterday from Torres said: “I cannot in good conscience allow this to happen no matter how dire the city’s circumstance. My sincere hope is that we can now move past this episode and I personally look forward to working to enhance relationships.”
New Kanye West Album To Be Released Shortly After G.O.O.D. Music’s Cruel Summer?
Nothing like having someone else spoil your upcoming album release news, by having them talk about it first. It’s like when someone tells you they are getting married, and you post it on their Facebook page for all to see, before they have told anyone about it. No I.D. (Def Jam VP and producer) has spoken up about Kanye West, and has said to MTV that “I’m not working on that [Cruel Summer] album, I’m working on his album,” while adding “He’s coming right after that.” Okay, so it was all kind of vague, but anything new from Kanye is pretty much good news in this camp.
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Morning Music Notes – the Irony Burglar
Kanyé West’s LA home burgled
In a clear bid to define irony, someone broke into Kanyé West’s Hollywood Hills home yesterday, while Kanyé and Jay-Z were on the road for their Watch the Throne tour. Not much more to this story beyond the irony, frankly… but the irony is good!
Via Guardian…
A Mighty Tour Announcement – Refused & Sleigh Bells!
One of the mightiest bands ever – Refused – has re-formed and gone out on tour, and PeteHatesMusic.com staff couldn’t be happier about it. And they have announced that their supoprt on this tour will be the also mighty (but slightly more cute) Sleigh Bells.
Refused re-formed in 2012 after breaking up in 1998. During their hiatus, lead singer Dennis Lyxzén formed The International Noise Conspiracy. Kerrang named their 1998 album The Shape of Punk to Come #13 on their list of the most influential albums of all time.
Via Conequence of Sound…
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Morning Music Notes – I Don’t Know Who They Are, But I’ve Heard Good Things
Metallica’s Lars Ulrich Wants to Join Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds?!
Here’s an interesting statement (rendering immediately boring by prefacing that it is interesting): Metallica’s anti-Napster drummer, Lars Ulrich, wants to drum in Noel Gallagher’s band (via Gigwise). Don’t forget, it wasn’t so long ago that Noel said that he liked everything about Metallica, “except their music.”
Lars said to NME: “I’m hard pressed to think of anyone I would rather drum with than Noel Gallagher. I have to say the fellow with the Clockwork Orange get up at the back is doing a stellar job, when I saw them in L.A in December it was fabulous. You know, if Noel and the other 37,000 drummers on this planet turn him down I’ll certainly play with him. I’m certainly not sure he’d ever want to pick me, but I’d put together a pretty solid groove thing back there. I’d make the songs bounce to the best of my ability. Although I’m not sure he’d take me quite seriously.”
Now, why say this? Fed up of Metallica? Do you really want to hang out with Noel and be the butt of all jokes? Actually, touring with Noel would be pretty awesome. Noel – I want to drum for you, too!
Terrible, terrible news for Hockey Fans: Nickelback to Headline NHL Awards in Las Vegas
The NHL Awards actually aren’t half bad compared to most awards shows and sports awards. Unlike basketball, which seems to randomly hand out awards during the post-season, or baseball, which announces things through the media, the NHL saves them all for one night, has the lads dressed up in suits and tuxes, and makes a decent night of it. However, the night is no longer worth looking forward to, as everyone’s favourite band, Nickelback, have been announced as the headliners at the NHL Awards show in Las Vegas in June (via Hollywood Reporter). It was bad enough that they played Nickelback during the Penguins-Flyers playoff game on NBC yesterday, since there is some partnership between the band and the NHL (or maybe NBC), but now on June 20, lucky sports fans will see them play on both CBC and NBC at the show. The hockey playoffs have been dogged with acts of violent misconduct and suspensions – pretty sure someone can take out Nickelback with a shoulder to the head, right? And if so, I’m pretty sure we’ll have someone like Drake waiting in the wings to perform.
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Festival News: Lollapalooza Daily Lineup; Outside Lands Full Lineup; Sasquatch! Set Times; and All-Hologram Coachella
A bunch of festival news has been happening the past day, so rather than a bunch of small little posts, we thought we’d cram it all into one post – this way you can ignore one post instead of three. We’re here to help you ignore us easier.
Lollapalooza Sells Out Weekend Passes, Announces Daily Line Up
One of the benefits of the Coachella lineup announcement and poster is that it immediately shows you who is playing each day in the desert festival. Lollapalooza has a cool poster of bands from headliners in big font to early afternoon bands with the hard to read font size 8, but it doesn’t tell you who is playing when, which sucks if you can only make it for one day. They have now broken up the lineup for complainers like me, with set times to follow later (often a week before the festival). I wouldn’t be liking the Jack White vs. Florence + the Machine conflict on Sunday night.
The Lollapalooza website also notes that they are completely sold out of 3-day weekend passes, and only single day passes are left, for $95 each. Time to become a volunteer and not show up for your post if you want to see all 3 days (although they might catch on after Day 1).
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The Best Songs About Drinking – Just in Time for St. Patrick’s Day!
St Patrick’s Day is tomorrow, and I’ll be drinking my face off in Ireland. To celebrate me crossing this off of my bucket list (drinking in Ireland on St Pattys Day, not me having beer), I’ve compiled 13 of the best songs about drinking. Why 13? Because I can! Or maybe it’s like those 12 packs of beer with a free one thrown in. Don’t question it – embrace it!
Now, these songs aren’t necessarily Irish, or tied to St. Pattys Day, or perhaps not even songs you’ll want to hear when drunk. These are songs about good olde fashioned alcohol. So as you prepare to put on some ridiculous green shirt and party hat, and celebrate the fact that you’re (likely) not Irish and are trying to cop a few cheap kisses by wearing your lame “Kiss Me I’m Irish” shirt, listen to these songs and thank whomever for inventing sweet, delicious, brain-cell killing alcohol.
We limited the list to one song per band, so we wouldn’t have an entire list of Dropkick Murphys or Flogging Molly songs. Instead, we have songs about parties (duh!), alcohol abuse, drunken fights, alcohol abuse, drinking while sad (is there any other time to drink?), and alcohol abuse.
The list is below, and the first song in the 13-track YouTube playlist is embedded. You can skip ahead if you don’t like the song (or skip back and listen to it again, but that’s tricky to do when drunk). The songs are listed below, in no particular order…except by letter of the alphabet, just to prove to my parents that I could do it. Enjoy!
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Morning Music Notes – Metallica Creates new Festival, Should’ve Called it Festallica
Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Lineup Confirmed
The Queen is celebrating 60 years – of reigning the United Kingdom, not of being alive, as she would look terrible for a 60-year old. To celebrate, there is a free street party outside Buckingham Palace in London. The line up includes a lot of Sirs – Sir Paul McCartney, Sir Elton John, Sir Tom Jones, Sir Cliff Richard, as well as Annie Lennox, JLS, and Jessie J, with more names to come (via Guardian).
There is now a ballot open, one the world hasn’t seen since Willy Wonka opened up the doors to his Chocolate Factory – wait, that wasn’t a documentary, was it? British residents can apply for a pair of the 10,000 free tickets that are up for grabs. The ballot runs between Feb. 7 and March 2. You can apply online for tickets at bbc.co.uk/diamondjubilee, or mail in a postcard, but let’s be honest – who the hell is going to mail in a postcard?
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