A Perfect Circle are Definitely Back

Sorry for the brief hiatus, I've been busy with other things and a few news items here and there have occured but all are overshadowed by one thing. The fact that A Perfect Circle are definitely back and as wonderful as ever. The band performed live on the Kimmy Kimmel Show last night. They performed 4 songs in total, only which one and a half were televised. They sounded as tight as ever and Matt McJunkins seems to be filling in well as the new bassist.

Setlist



Weak and Powerless
Imagine
Passive
Judith

Watch the performances of Weak and Powerless and Imagine here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqcbnsv0o0U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLWqHazvYGA

New Gorillaz Single - Doncamatic

The Gorillaz will be debuting a single from their new album this afternoon on BBC Radio. Tune in to Zane Lowe’s program here at 2:30 PM EST to hear it first and catch up with Damon Albarn, then head over to their official YouTube page where they’ll upload the track about 15 minutes later. An official release of the track will come November 22nd, and the full album is expected sometime in March. Check the track out after the break.

http://www.freshbornmarket.com/2010/10/single-gorillaz-coming-afternoon/

Listen here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwKcXfUmLkk&feature=player_embedded

Nikki Sixx To Release 'This Is Gonna Hurt' Book/CD In March

Better late than never for this news!

Motley Crue and Sixx: A.M. bassist Nikki Sixx is slated to release his new book
'This Is Gonna Hurt' through HarperCollins' William Morrow imprint on March
23rd, 2011.

The New York Times bestselling author of The Heroin Dairies,
Motley Crue's Nikki Sixx, refuses to become a sanitized PSA for suburban
mothers; instead, he has found strength and inspiration in his pain and
sobriety, and in this raw and powerful book gives us a glimpse inside his sick
and dirty mind

This Is Gonna Hurt includes a Foreword by Kat Von D on
"Love and Inspiration."

Following the success of the New York Times
bestseller The Heroin Diaries, the author's solo band, Sixx A.M., is recording
an album to be released in conjunction with This Is Gonna Hurt. Some of the
songs were inspired by the author's photographs; others inspired photographs of
their own.

This Is Gonna Hurt will include more than two dozen of the
author's images. He will incorporate the stories behind the pictures and how
they came to be, including interviews with the subjects so readers can see "what
life is like for those whom society has labeled as freaks."

"I've always
had an eye for the oddities in life. Even as a kid I saw the world in my own way
and thought most things that were different were beautiful and magical. Even
things that other people thought were horrifying and disgusting and weird. . . .
People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are." --
Nikki Sixx

Few of us have experienced life with the intensity, fury, and
reckless abandon of Nikki Sixx, the wild rock star, driven entrepreneur, devoted
father, former addict, bestselling author, and gifted photographer.

This
Is Gonna Hurt is part photo, part journal--but all Nikki Sixx. It is a
collection of compelling snapshots and stories that capture the rage, love,
optimism, darkness, and determination that shape his work. Told with the raw
authenticity that defined his New York Times bestseller The Heroine Diaries,
This Is Gonna Hurt chronicles Sixx's experience, from his early years filled
with toxic waste to his success with Motley Crue, his death from an OD and
rebirth to his addictions to music, photography, and love.

Love story,
bad-ass rock tell-all, social commentary, family memoir, This Is Gonna Hurt
offers the compelling insights of an artist and a man struggling to survive,
connect, and find a happy ending--a search that fuels Sixx's being. "I want to
take you on the journey I am on, in real time," Sixx writes. "If you don't deal
with your demons, they will deal with you, and it's gonna hurt."

http://www.sleazeroxx.com/news10/0904six.shtml

Radiohead News - New Album Completion

Well it seems that a year's worth of hard work for the almighty Radiohead has news to deliver now.

According to a new essay by Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood for UK
organization Index on Censorship, the band "have just finished another group of
songs, and have begun to wonder about how to release them in a digital landscape
that has changed again." When we spoke with the group's drummer Phil Selway back
in July, he said Radiohead were "slap dab in the middle of" making their new
album. Now, they seem to be done. (A spokesperson for the band had no further
comment on Greenwood's statement.)

http://pitchfork.com/news/40095-radiohead-wrap-up-new-group-of-songs/

Soundgarden - Black Rain Music Video

Freshly released.

A Perfect Circle News - It's On

It's on!

A Perfect Circle will play Phoenix (Marquee Theatre), Los Angeles (Avalon), Seattle (Showbox at The Market), San Francisco (The Fillmore) and Las Vegas (The Pearl) this fall. Each of the three-night stops will feature one of A Perfect Circle’s albums in its entirety (Mer de Noms, Thirteenth Step and eMOTIVe). Las Vegas (The Pearl) will be a two-night outing (Mer de Noms and Thirteenth Step).
Dates and ticket on-sale information to you shortly.

Can't wait.

SONOIO Album Release

SONOIO, Alessandro Cortini's next music venture, finds its official release date this Tuesday!

At the end of July, several songs were released for free as well as a list of bundles that could be purchased:

- Geek Bundle - $199.99 (includes specially made SuONOIO synthesizer, t-shirt, digital album download, pre-order EP and physical hand signed, hand numbered digipak)
- SuONIO Bundle - $159.99 (includes specially made SuONOIO synthesizer, digital album download and pre-order EP)
- Fan Bundle - $59.99 (includes t-shirt, digital album download, pre-order EP and physical hand signed, hand numbered digipak)
- Shirt Bundle - $29.99 (includes t-shirt, digital album download and pre-order EP)
- Art Print Bundle - $24.99 (includes art print, digital album download, pre-order EP and physical hand signed, hand numbered digipak)
- Digipak Bundle - $9.99 (includes digital album download, pre-order EP and physical hand signed, hand numbered digipak)
- Digital Bundle - $7.99 (includes digital album download and pre-order EP)

Stoked and I can't wait! I myself ordered the Digipak bundle. Shall be excellent in my car stereo. The 4 original free songs to download are up on the site, check 'em out.

http://sonoio.org/

Puscifer News - DVD Release in 2011

Finally something officially released thats live.

Maynard James Keenan is readying a new Puscifer DVD featuring new and old comedy skits, live performance footage and more for an early 2011 release date. The ‘group’ plan to tour in support of the outing sometime around its release. More details on the project, along with word of new Tool music and Keenan’s upcoming turn in the independent film “Queens Of Country” are available at Spin.com.

http://www.theprp.com/2010/09/11/news/puscifer-planning-early-2011-dvd-release-and-tour/

iamamiwhoami News

The ever mysterious iamamiwhoami has now had a website created for some special purpose. The information on the website states (in this screen capture):



What could it mean? Live broadcast at November 16th, 2010 at 12:01 AM?

Time will tell. Stay tuned.

http://www.towhomitmayconcern.cc/

A Perfect Circle News - New Album?

According to a Boston Radio station, we got this statement issued:

"Maynard has back-burnered his project with Trent Reznor for the time
being , as the timing isn’t right. Trent is too busy working on a project with his girlfriend. Maynard said he has already recorded the new APC tracks, and will be heading to the studio to place the finishing touches on them as soon as he gets off the road with Tool.... The new APC album will be out by the end of the year. After that, APC will do a small world-wide tour starting in January 2011, that may or may not be expanded later. And after the tour wraps up, he will then be heading back to the studio with Reznor for a new project. Great things are happening".

Keenan + Reznor + Inferred Others? = Tapeworm?

We shall see.

I am stoked for new APC though.

Pantera - Re-release Cowboys from Hell

The major label debut, Cowboys From Hell, by Texas metal band Pantera was released nearly 20 years ago. Does time fly or what? You know what that means? RE-RELEASE.


That's right, Pantera are re-releasing the groove metal classic next month on Septemebr 14th, featuring demos and the previously unreleased track, "The Will To Survive". The album will have expanded liner notes, a bigger booklet and deluxe packaging. In November a 3 disc box set of the album will be released. below is a photo of the ansemble:



The band's official sources posted and are streaming the new track on their myspace profile. Here is a link:

http://www.facebook.com/Pantera?v=app_108468622525037

Be sure to listen and to pick it up when it's out there.

RIP Dimebag Darrell Abbott

Soundgarden News and Black Rain Download

More Soundgarden news as Telephantasm now has its tracklisting revealed, as well as the new single Black Rain being released to Radio. The album will be released on September 28th, 2010.

Standard Edition Tracklisting

Hunted Down
Hands All Over
Outshined
Rusty Cage
Birth Ritual
Black Hole Sun
Spoonman
My Wave
Fell on Black Days
Burden in My Hand
Blow Up the Outside World
Black Rain

Special Edition 2 CD/DVD Tracklisting

CD 1

All Your Lies
Hunted Down
Fopp
Beyond The Wheel
Flower (BBC Session)
Hands All Over
Big Dumb Sex
Get On The Snake
Room A Thousand Years Wide (Single Version)
Rusty Cage
Outshined
Slaves & Bulldozers

CD 2

Jesus Christ Pose (Live)
Birth Ritual"
My Wave
Superunknown
Spoonman
Black Hole Sun
Fell On Black Days (Video Version)
Burden In My Hand
Dusty
Pretty Noose (Live on SNL)
Blow Up the Outside World (MTV Live 'N' Loud)
Black Rain

DVD

Flower
Hands All Over
Loud Love
Jesus Christ Pose (Original Version)
Outshined
Rusty Cage
My Wave
Spoonman
The Day I Tried To Live (Uncensored)
Black Hole Sun
Fell On Black Days
Pretty Noose (Uncensored)
Burden In My Hand
Blow Up The Outside World (Uncensored)
Spoonman (Mash-up Version)
The Day I Tried To Live (European Version)
Superunknown
Pretty Noose (International Version)
Pretty Noose (Alternate Ending)
Blow Up The Outside World (Censored)

The previously unreleased song Black Rain will serve as the album's single. Below is a download I have uploaded to share.

http://www.mediafire.com/?8ziddy76icaezed

Puscifer News - Sound Into Blood Into Wine

So as you will soon find out as a reader of this blog, I am a very involved and big Maynard James Keenan fan. This post shall be my first (of many) on his Puscifer project!

During the Spring, a documentary film of Maynard's Caduceus Vineyard/Winery was screened at special locations for a limited time. Puscifer solely provided the soundtrack material. The soundtrack will feature some previously released songs, new remixes and live track selections. The artwork and tracklisting is below.

01 – “Sour Grapes” (Where’s The Line? Mix)
02 – “Momma Sed” (Vis4V mix)
03 – “Queen B” (Vis4V mix )
04 – “The Undertaker” (Vis4V mix)
05 – “Drunk With Power” (Vis4V mix)
06 – “Rev 22:20” (Dry Martini mix)
07 – “Indigo Children” (Vis4V mix)
08 – “The Mission” (M is for Milla mix)
09 – “The Humbling River” (Nagual del Judith mix)
10 – “World Up My Ass” (7 inch mix)
11 – “Sour Grapes” (Legend of the mix)
12 – “The Humbling River” (Duet mix)

Both the soundtrack and the “Blood Into Wine” DVD release are set for a September 07th release date. Also slated for release on that date is the vinyl edition of C Is For (Please Insert Sophomoric Genitalia Reference HERE) EP. It will feature two live bonus tracks as well.

In addition to this influx of news (which is a little old, but I haven't had this blog for long so have mercy on me), on the official Puscifer website on the streaming music player the Nagual del Judith Mix of The Humbling River is now streaming. So check it out.

http://www.puscifer.com/

P.S. More A Perfect Circle news to come soon I'm sure.

SSSC - Ghetto Blaster EP

Cutting to the chase, here is my first download for my blog!

Street Sweeper Social Club
Ghetto Blaster EP
Street Release Date: August 10th, 2010

Ghetto Blaster
Everythang (The Coup cover)
Paper Planes (M.I.A. cover)
The New Fuck You
Scars (Hold That Pose)
Mama Said Knock You Out (LL Cool J cover)
Promenade (Guitar Fury Remix)

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CQZRQVZU

Primus Releases Rehearsal EP

Primus, after a 7 year hiatus, has reformed with all original members. This includes Les Claypool, Larry LeLonde and Jay Lane (the original drummer before the massively popular and talented Tim Alexander).

The band reformed in Spring 2010 and evidently did live rehearsals in June. Luckily the band has been nice enough to give us a taste of their work before heading out on Tour later this year by offering a free 4 track EP of the rehearsals for download on their official webite, details below.



June 2010 Rehearsals EP

Pudding Time
American Life
Duchess And The Proverbial Mind Spread
Harold of the Rocks

http://www.primusville.com/

Soundgarden to release Retrospective Album

Latest news of the newly reformed Soundgarden, reports that the band is set to release a new retrospective compilation album entitled Telephantasm on September 28th, 2010. It will feature an unreleased tracks called 'Black Rain' and will be sent to radio stations for single play on August 10th. Official word of this article from the official Soundgarden twitter:

It is with great pleasure that we can finally let you all know what we have been working on. On September 28th, we will be releasing a new retrospective called Telephantasm. It includes songs from all of our albums and E.P's, including "Black Rain", an unreleased track from the Badmotorfinger sessions. Plus, we are releasing our first ever DVD which will include never before seen video's, and much more.

We have partnered with Guitar Hero 6 to launch Telephantasm simultaneously with the launch of the new game. Which means if you buy Guitar Hero 6 for the week of September 28th you get a copy of Telephantasm as well. Of course, there will be vinyl, collectors editions, deluxe packages and more.

See you all at LOLLAPALOOZA!

Ben, Chris, Kim and Matt

http://www.soundgardenworld.com/news/2010-08-03/soundgarden-release-telephantasm-september-28th

A Perfect Circle News - Twitter Activated

A Perfect Circle, which has been dormant for nearly 6 years, is finally in working mode as Maynard James Keenan and Billy Howerdel are sidelining to collaborate once more. With Keenan being pre-occupied with Puscifer and Tool and Howerdel with ASHES dIVIDE for a few years it seemed as if A Perfect Circle's hiatus was more or less its demise but fear not, talk of new endeavors and work is on the rise. Comments and news updates point to following initial news outlets from each musician's current musical projects until recently. Much debate and talk of getting a lone twitter account transferred from someone of no official affiliation of the band has finally been achieved and activated. It seems as if A Perfect Circle is reborn. Be on the lookout for any news regarding the project. Be sure to check back here for the latest news on the band!

Josh Freese, the last drummer of APC, posted this on his Facebook:

I'm happy to report that A Perfect Circle is waking up from it's 6 year slumber...and we're going to be "doing stuff" soon.

Billy Howerdel from Twitter hints at Fall release?:

APC is on my mind. This is me officially telling you that things are happening!
Stay tuned for more info. The fall is right around the corner....

Also judging from a recent tweet, it looks like we have these guys on board for the lineup:

• Maynard James Keenan (Vocals)
• Billy Howerdel (Guitar/Vocals)
• Troy Van Leeuwen (Guitar)
• Danny Lohner (???)
• Josh Freese (Drums)
• Matt McJunkins (Bass)
• Jeff Pazen (Artwork)
  
  http://www.twitter.com/aperfectcircle
  http://www.aperfectcircle.com/

Review #2 - Lady GaGa's The Remix

This little mini LP compilation between The Fame Monster and the Lady's untitled third album is a good club pleaser.

Things to know - Several editions of this exist (each with different tracks and artwork); it serves as a remix album/best of compilation; my review is for the physical edition of the album availible in the United States.

Anyways my review shall begin. The album offers a few remixes that are 'fan and club goer favorites' mixed by some of the best and current DJs and electronic music groups on the scene today. Such remixers are: Richard Vission, Passion Pit, Chew Fu and Stuart price among others.

The good thing about this compilation is the fact that the tracks included all feature a completely different tempo and style for each track as well as a few unreleased, official remixes not availible for download or on singles (LoveGame Chew Fu Ghettohouse Fix feat Marilyn Manson & Dance In The Dark Monarchy 'Stylites' Remix). I'm also pleasantly surprised that the compilation features remixes by artists whom don't get nearly enough attention as they should, I'm looking at Chew Fu in particular.

Overall it's a fun listen, danceable and a decent tide over until GaGa's third LP, which is due out in sometime early 2011.

Rating - 8/10 (Good selection of tracks but nothing much new to be heard songwise)

Check Out - LoveGame (Chew Fu Ghettohouse Fix feat. Marilyn Manson), Telephone (Passion Pit Remix feat. Beyonce) and Dance In The Dark (Monarchy 'Stylites' Remix)

Review #1 - Arcade Fire's The Suburbs

It has been over 3 years since Arcade Fire has released any material of any sort. Though today they released their full length third album, The Suburbs. I bought the album today along with Lady GaGa's The Remix (which a review will be in a later blog).

The album is rich in sound and different tones to underline each song. I feel their song writing is at their best on this album, it certainly has no filler tracks and I found that the flow from song to song in the tracklisting to be quite complimentary. Certain tracks do indeed stick out more than others, but that the case with most albums by any artist. The band chose a good, strong single to be the initial single for the album; the very involved title track. It has a great structure and a catchy chorus. Arcade Fire has always been good at doing that and this album shows it. It has some outstanding tracks and most have a good sound key to the album's tone. Good work, I'm loving this album right now.

Not much is needed to be talked of with this album other than it was worth the money and if you're into a soundscape of different guitar signatures and various genre stylings than this album is for you. I really enjoyed it. I wish I could put into words more of how I feel about it but it is difficult after only listening to it once thus far. Maybe I'll revisit this review later on in the future? Before I close this (and every other review from here on out) I will leave a rating out of 10 and offer my idea for signature, key songs to listen to.

Rating - 10/10 (Contender of Album of the Year for me along a few other notable albums!)

Check out - The Suburbs, Modern Man, Suburban War and Month of May

Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe 2 Re-release Information

So it seems that Rob Zombie's latest effort Hellbilly Deluxe 2: Noble Jackals, Penny Dreadfuls and The Systematic Dehumanization of Cool is primed for a re-release by Roadrunner Records (Zombie's current label) on September 28th, 2010.

The album is set to feature new artwork (pictured below), 4 bonus tracks (recorded with current drummer Joey Jordison), a dvd with two videos (including a live version cover of Alice Cooper's smash hit School's Out), a 32 page booklet and more.

Tracklisting (+ bonus tracks)

Devil's Hole Girls and the Big Revolution

Jesus Frankenstein

Sick Bubble-Gum

What?

Theme of an Angry Red Planet

Mars Needs Women

Werewolf, Baby!

Everything Is Boring

Virgin Witch

Death and Destiny Inside the Dream Factory

Burn

Cease To Exist

Werewolf Women of the SS

Michael

The Man Who Laughs

Third time's a charm.

So basically for a third time I have decided to write this blog up for my music interests, tastes and reviews. I shall also post news to upcoming artists and bands that I enjoy. I may also be so gracious as to upload albums and such that I feel the need to share.