STP frontman Scott Weiland says he is currently recording a Christmas album. It will feature “traditional jazz style” music, with strings, upright bass, horns and piano on variety of Christmas classics, as well as a less-traditional reggae adaptation of “Little Drummer Boy” and a couple of secular songs.
Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) had recorded a new song, “Better Days”, for the Julia Roberts movie Eat Pray Love. It looks like the song itself will be released as a limited edition 7″ on September 20th.
Motorhead legend Lemmy Kilmister has confirmed to play along with Billy Sheehan (Mr. Big, David Lee Roth), Michael Graves (The Misfits), and Marky Ramone himself for a full concert of The Ramones. The legendary Rock Hall of Fame drummer for The Ramones is performing a special all-star fund-raising concert. The concert is in benefit for the newly-created Marky Ramone Drum Scholarship for Musicians Institute in Hollywood, CA.
Scott Weiland has responded to Internet rumors that he has been either lip-synching or using backing vocal tracks during the band’s concerts. The allegations arose after video surfaced of Weiland falling off the stage at a concert last Wednesday in Cincinnati, during which it appeared that his vocals never wavered despite the fact that he fell headfirst and seemed to land heavily.
His reply, “I would like to dispel a rumor swirling its way around the Interwebs that I am not singing these songs that I wrote. There has never been a time in the 25-plus years that I have been singing with these guys or a combination of these guys or with other musicians that I have not sang. So whoever started that bulls*** claim, like so many other bulls*** claims, which is the problem with modern technology . . . We are a rock and roll band, (and) rock and roll bands perform live.”
This is pretty random, but cool, when Soundgarden played their big reunion show at Lollapalooza, and one of the photographers in the pit was baseball legend Randy Johnson! Seems strange, but the pictures are cool and the story is here too, check it out.
Months after going missing, we heard from our deer (sic) friend Wayne Leevey this morning! Turns out he was on a quest with his brother Gary. We’ll let Wayne describe it himself: Wayne!
Listen to a clip from the performance special, BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE AT THE CONCERT HALL, premiering Tuesday, August 3 at 10 p.m. ET on Bravo! In the clip, host Erica Ehm talks with founding band members Brendan Canning and Kevin Drew about the musicians, dead or alive, they would like to collaborate with.
Broken Social Scene takes to the stage at the legendary Masonic Temple and performing tracks from their latest album Forgiveness Rock Record, which has been nominated for the 2010 Polaris Prize Short List. Kevin Drew and Brendan Canning, along with Justin Peroff, Andrew Whiteman, Charles Spearing, Lisa Lobsinger, and Sam Goldberg perform “Texico Bitches,” “All to All,” “Stars And Sons,” “Meet Me In The Basement,” and more. (Encore presentation airs August 6 at 7 p.m. ET).
FINALLY an answer to the question most of us have been asking ourselves… “Where did Metric get their name from?”
Lead singer Emily Haines says “It came from a song that Jimmy [Shaw] and I were working on back in Toronto in the early days, like ’97 or ’98,”.
“Jimmy had a song that involved a sound he’d programmed into his keyboard and called ‘Metric.’ When we saw that word on the keyboard’s LED screen it looked so electro.”
“It was a little cold and standoffish and we’re down with that. It works for us. Some people think it has something to do with the fact that we’re from Canada — which uses the metric system.” (more…)
KOL get pooped on This is the video from a story that Jenn had on yesterday’s Morning Rush Alt news. The Kings of Leon were playing a festival in St. Louis Missouri, when a few songs in the local pigeon population got a little too over excited and started…well, pooping all over the band. It’s kinda gross at 1:12 in when the drummer wipes something off his face and you realize that it’s….yeah. Kings had a 20 song set-list planned but had to stop the show three songs in. Jenn’s alt news goes every day at 7:50 on the Morning Rush.
The first trailer for a movie based around the creators of Facebook features an orchestral reworking of Radiohead’s Creep with a Belgian choir. It sounds really cool, check it out below. The rest of the movie’s musical score will be done by Trent Reznor from Nine Inch Nails. The Facebook movie called “The Social Network” (directed by David Fincher who’s done some cool movies includeing Fight Club) will be out in October.
Check out the trailer **warning there is swearing in it!
So, the new The Twilight Saga: Eclipse soundtrack is being released on June 8th and many music fans can’t wait to get a hold of it.
If you’re one of these people, the good news is, you can get a hold of it tonight!
Well, one of them anyway.
Muse will premiere their brand new ‘Twilight’ soundtrack single tonight when they release ‘Neutron Star Collision (Love Is Forever)’ tonight at 7pm, as part of the new soundtrack.
The song is the lead single from the soundtrack being released on June 8th and features The Dead Weather, Florence And The Machine and Vampire Weekend.
The song will be released digitally tonight…but you can check out a 30 second teaser on their website at http://muse.mu/
Liam Gallagher has been deemed the greatest rock and roll frontman of all time by the readers of Q magazine. The magazine conducted a poll asking its readers to vote on their all time favorite frontman, and the former Oasis singer came out ahead of such other notable group leaders as Bono, Freddie Mercury and Jim Morrison. In an interview with Q, Liam, who apparently agrees with the poll, said he is on a par with the King of Rock and Roll – Elvis Presley.
“There is Elvis and me,” he said. “I couldn’t say which of the two is best.”
When asked about the secret to being an effective frontman, Liam responded, “Behaving yourself and not jumping round like a bitch.”
Blondie’s Debbie Harry was the only female to make the magazine’s list. Q’s Top 20 Frontmen of All Time appear below. Here’s the whole list. What do you think? (more…)
STP frontman Scott Weiland says he is currently recording a Christmas album. It will feature “traditional jazz style” music, with strings, upright bass, horns and piano on variety of Christmas classics, as well as a less-traditional reggae adaptation of “Little Drummer Boy” and a couple of secular songs.
Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) had recorded a new song, “Better Days”, for the Julia Roberts movie Eat Pray Love. It looks like the song itself will be released as a limited edition 7″ on September 20th.
Motorhead legend Lemmy Kilmister has confirmed to play along with Billy Sheehan (Mr. Big, David Lee Roth), Michael Graves (The Misfits), and Marky Ramone himself for a full concert of The Ramones. The legendary Rock Hall of Fame drummer for The Ramones is performing a special all-star fund-raising concert. The concert is in benefit for the newly-created Marky Ramone Drum Scholarship for Musicians Institute in Hollywood, CA.
