New records from Oasis and The Verve coming, dead comedians, AA Bondy and more…
The past week could be summed up with three quotes: “When it rains it pours”, “shit floats” and “Axl Rose has no sense of humor and sent us a cease and desist!”
Fockin’ hell has it been hot! I checked the weather channel at one point last week and it said that it was about 250 degrees here in Los Angeles. Which is really ideal when you drive an old car (like I do) that doesn’t have AC or power steering (it’s a 73 and they invented power steering/windows in 74). To make things even worse some idiot-lady (who was looking at her cell phone and picking her nose) plowed into the back of my car going about 40 miles per hour while I was at a dead stop. Fun times! And this was only three days after I’d gotten it back from the mechanic’s shop where it had been for three months. I must have done something bad… cuz that’s some fucked up car karma. But things could be worse, at least it still drives and at least I didn’t get hurt. Anyways, now that I’ve broken the ice with all this weather and car talk, let’s snuggle up and talk about how two of my favorite British bands have new records on the way! FUCK YEAH!
First off… on August 18th (in the UK), or August 19th (if you’re teeth aren’t crooked and you live in North America), The Verve are releasing their fourth album cleverly titled “Fourth”. It’s their first record in 9 years and it’ll be out on their own imprint “On Our Own” (which happens to be one of my favorite songs by them). Check out the first single “Love Is Noise…
And here’s the tracklisting. If any of you little record stealers out there find it out there on the interweb, email me them shits…
The Verve - “‘Forth” Tracklisting:
1. Sit and Wonder
2. Love Is Noise
3. Rather Be
4. Judas
5. Numbness
6. I See Houses
7. Noise Epic
8. Valium Skies
9. Columbo
10. Appalachian Springs
The Verve Tour Dates:
06.27 Cornwall, England - The Eden Project
06.29 Glastonbury, England - Glastonbury Festival
07.04 Werchter, Belgium - Rock Werchter Festival
07.05 Bobital, France - Bobital Festival
07.11 Balado, Scotland - T in the Park
07.16 Livorno, Italy - Italia Wave Festival
07.18 Barcelona, Spain - Summercase Festival
07.19 Madrid, Spain - Summercase Festival
08.09 Tokyo, Japan - Summer Sonic Festival
08.10 Osaka, Japan - Summer Sonic Festival
08.16 Weston Park, England - V Festival
08.17 Chelmsford, England - V Festival
Metallica high on cocaine talking about Oasis and Blur
Secondly (and way more importantly), on October 7th, I will be running to the record store (if there are any by then) to pick up my copy of the seventh studio album by the greatest current rock band in the world…. OASIS! They’re sticking with the four word title just like the last record and calling this one “Dig Out Your Soul”. The first single, “The Shock of the Lightning,” will be released one week earlier on September 29, 2008.
Noel had this to say… “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.”
None of those three leaked tracks (”Stop The Clocks”, “Nothin’ On Me” and, “I Wanna Live in a Dream in My Record Machine”) we posted a while ago are on the new album. In the meantime I’ll keep rockin’ the demos of “Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants”.
“Let There Be Love / It’s A Crime” demo
“Gas Panic” demo
Oasis tour dates (with special guest Ryan Adams)
8/26/08: Seattle, WA - WaMu Theater
8/27/08: Vancouver, BC - GM Place
8/29/08: Edmonton, AB - Rexall Place
8/30/08: Calgary, AB - Pengrowth Saddledome
9/1/08: Winnipeg, MB - MTS Center
9/4/08: Ottawa, ON - Scotiabank Place
9/5/08: Montreal, QC - Bell Centre
9/7/08: Virgin Festival Toronto, ON
9/9/08: London, Ontario - John LaBatt Centre
While on the subject of Oasis and how rad they are… check out this video of Noel Gallagher going through “Definitely Maybe” track by track and explaining each song. In the process he clears up “Digsy’s Diner”…. which is actually “Digsy’s Diner”. Fuckin’ typos man.
Speaking of brit pop… This documentary is worth the hour of your life needed to watch the entire thing…
7 Ages Of Rock : British Indie Part 1
7 Ages Of Rock : British Indie Part 2
7 Ages Of Rock : British Indie Part 3
7 Ages Of Rock : British Indie Part 4
7 Ages Of Rock : British Indie Part 5
7 Ages Of Rock : British Indie Part 6
7 Ages Of Rock : British Indie Part 7
7 Ages Of Rock : British Indie Part 8
7 Ages Of Rock : British Indie Part 9
George Carlin died last week. RIP. Why couldn’t you have taken Carrot Top God? Fuck man!
Bill Hicks is still dead and still one of the most underrated comedians ever.
Some guy named Buddy Head had a heart attack and then met the medic that saved his life!
Somebody sent me six (new?) AA Bondy tracks and linked me to a video of him playing a song called “O The Vampire” on Indie 103FM. Here are two of the songs I was sent, the second one being a Bruce Springsteen cover. Dig it.
AA Bondy - “O The Vampire” live on Indie 103
We’ve posted about this dude before here, here and here. Now, I’m gonna go hit 7-11 and get myself a nice cold coke favored Slurpee.
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June 26th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Axl always turns into a little bitch over nothing. And the awesome video in question: http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v40/DinahKid4/?action=view¤t=axl3.flv
R.I.P. Rufus!
June 26th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
am stoked as three stoked things to see hoasis at VFest
June 26th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
post the cease and desist letter! we gotta see that!
June 26th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
i second the cease and desist post.
totally understand the car karma thing. been in at least 3 car wrecks in a year, glad i’m still alive.
June 26th, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Axl you complete pussy. Just give us Izzy’s phone number so we can be done with you. Better yet, I wanna get in the ring with you. Please contact me asap. Bring along your dickbreath friend Jeff Leven from Davis/Shapiro….fuck it, bring the entire law firm and all your staff that you haven’t fired yet. You can even bring Vince Neil bro. Let’s get in the ring motherfucker. You won’t call me though. Just like you said when you were cool: “nothing but a fuckin PUSSY”
June 26th, 2008 at 8:10 pm
lol only good thing about axl is he once played with slash…..then slash grew a brain
June 27th, 2008 at 2:28 am
First of all, I can fully understand how it feels when someone is not watching what he was doing and end up hitting you in the back, but the idiot that hit me was going over the speed limit and though I was going to run the red light, fuck no. The guy when under my car and toned it even if I do drive it away from the scene after the cop got both our info. I when to the hospital where I was going to see my mother that just had surgery the day before and was loving the more fen drop when I can in her room with my license’s plate in my hands. She wasn’t looping enough to not ask what happen. I have a new car now at is the same model as my old car was but in forest green and with a CD player. As for Axlhole Rose, he need to get a sense of humor and get his head out his ass. Most people don’t care how big of a star he use to be. Only morons that want the 80’s hair band era (like my ex) to come back if this dick this album that he as being working on for how long? A decide and a half now. Everyone else had move on to bands that contently make good music and are not so full of shit this idiot who can’t take a fucking joke.
June 28th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
I actually watched that Bill Hicks video while shrooming. It was an insanely profound experience. Especially this one joke he directs directly to people on shrooms. It was nuts.
June 30th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
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July 1st, 2008 at 8:19 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-xFoiQGFRA
Gallagher just got owned bigtime by Jay-Z. Now I’m not a Hip Hop fanboy, but any enemy of Oasis is a friend of mine…
July 1st, 2008 at 8:58 am
Are you serious? Jay Z proved Noel right… Look how musically retarded the dude is, he doesn’t even know how to play Wonderwall… let alone any idea of how to even hold a guitar. He looks like a total dork… it’s like yeah dude, you’re torching em, THE WHOLE CROWD IS SINGING THE SONG and you look like a dork holding the guitar like it’s a dress you’re gonnna put on.
I’m on team noel. If you’re not… get off this site. Go over to DORK.com
July 1st, 2008 at 11:35 am
Was that karaoke? It sounded like the real song was playing in the background. I only watched the beginning, but those vocals were pretty weak though he must have been nervous because he kept pulling away from the mic and giving the ol’ half sing-speak.
July 1st, 2008 at 3:41 pm
jay-z looked stupid. the joke was on him because the crowd prefered a bad sound karaoke of “wonderwall” over any live song of jigga.
oasis are great. pure it.
jay-z is almost as bad as krap-ye west and shaquille o’neil.
nas and ghostface, well, even tone loc are better songwriters than jay.
July 1st, 2008 at 3:44 pm
I’m an oasis fan, and it’s obvious jay z’s cover musically sucked.
No problem with being on team noel musically and all, but come on - dude is upset that a black rapper is playing at a UK festival? Is this the 1950s?? Jim Crow is over brother. Homeboy seems to be falling on the right (read: reactionary) side of the fence on this one.
July 1st, 2008 at 8:09 pm
its not that a black rapper is playing glastonburay, because i’m pretty sure lupe fiasco and dizzee rascal have played this year and previous years. It’s just that a crap-tastic mainstream b.s.er like jay-zed is HeadlininG glastonburay, which is mainly a rock & roll festival [that’s rock & roll not rawk and or roll] for great old and great new music/artists.
noel gallagher just said that jay-zed had “no fucken chance.” so the ‘wonderwall’ thing was a ‘fuck you’ to noel on be-half of jay hova.
i thought the euro’s would have a bit more backbone and better taste than to just fall prey to a rapper who’s retired and comeback to produce crap for people to brush their shoulders to. ’tis sad-izzle.
now at the pemberton festival he’s headlining with Tom Petty, Coldplay(?idk), The Tragically Hip (uh-mazing canadian band that more americans should discover. gord downie’s voice is like hearing angels crap harps. b e a u tiful), Nine inch nails [eh, eh eh!?] and Jay-Hova. wtf, right?!
July 2nd, 2008 at 6:25 am
WTF, Dude! I just took you up on your friendly advice and went over to www.dork.com hoping to find something better suited to my musical tastes, but VIDEO GAMES?!! DAMN, that’s harsh, man!
Regarding Oasis, I kinda like their attitude, whining and prepubescent though it may be. It’s just that godawful, head swinging from side to side, pop music I can’t stand…
July 2nd, 2008 at 1:21 pm
dude that sucks about yuor car. karma is a bitch
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:40 pm
kenneth you are a nipple.