In the end, life has been pretty good for Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor. The man’s art is well-respected. But, regardless of the consequences, he will let you know if he thinks something is BS. Just follow him on twitter. In a tweet today, Trent let loose on the Grammys:
The Grammys = the old guard / old media propping up their puppets trying to convince the outside world (and each other) they’re relevant.
A little harsh, but that’s what I like about Reznor. He will not pull punches.
The Glasgow-based three piece GoGoBot have been winning many accolades of late. BBC Radio Scotland DJ Jim Gellatly named GoGoBot as one of his “10 For 2010.” And now, Gellatly has featured GoGoBot in the latest episode of his Radio Magnetic Podcast. The members of GoGoBot pick some songs to play during the podcast. They also performed four in-studio session tracks for the podcast. They performed “We Are Here,” “First Class Fool,” “Do You Remember?” and “Is This Love?” Of the tracks performed during the podcast, I particularly like “Is This Love?” Excellent tune!
GoGoBot (pictured above) are (left to right): Marko Kelly (lead vocals, keyboards, guitar), Rosie McClune (bass, keyboards, vocals), and Gordon McNeil (drums, vocals, and production). Rosie also plays guitar in the all-female, Glasgow-based band The Hedrons. (The Hedrons are currently on hiatus as the members of the band pursue other projects.)
The podcast can be heard and/or downloaded from the Radio Magnetic Web site (see the “STREAM,” “DOWNLOAD,” and “PODCAST” buttons at the top of the page). Jim Gellatly’s podcast is also available on iTunes in the United States. Do a search on “Jim Gellatly’s New Music” in the iTunes Store and you’ll find it. It is free to download.
Singer-songwriter and political activist Billy Bragg (pictured above in a photo by Wombat) appeared on the UK breakfast show GMTV earlier this week to express his outrage over the huge bonuses being paid to the bankers at RBS. (RBS was bailed out by the British government last year and is now run by the government.) Bragg has vowed not to pay his taxes if the bonuses are paid and said that he is prepared to go to jail if need be. He has set up a Facebook page detailing his campaign against the RBS bonuses. Bragg feels that the bonuses are completely disproportionate to what the average UK citizen takes home in pay.
To watch Billy Bragg’s GMTV interview, click below:
For those of you in the London area who might be interested, Bragg will be appearing at Speakers’ Corner in London’s Hyde Park tomorrow, Sunday, January 31st at 1 p.m. GMT to talk about this issue.
Liam Gallagher went to the Leicester Square studios of XFM London earlier this week to sit for an interview with DJ Dave Berry, host of XFM London’s Breakfast Show. Gallagher was in rare form, both funny and interesting.
Gallagher discussed his new, post-Oasis project, saying:
“A lot of these songs I wrote before the band split up. I mean, there’s a few new ones on there that are coming out now.
“We’re going in [the studio] in April with a producer, we’re going to do three songs with him and if he doesn’t balls it up and we don’t balls it up then we’ll go in and do the whole album with him.”
Gallagher also discussed his disappointment with Oasis’ output, saying:
“Seven albums for Oasis is not good, I don’t think. We’ve been going 18 years, 16 years or whatever and all we’ve done is seven albums. Ian Brown’s on his seventh solo album. I just think it’s poor, really.
“I’m not going to beat myself up about it, I think we should have made better, bigger albums. Or more albums. Having like four or five years off is just no good. Obviously Noel wanted a bit of time off and we don’t. The band split in August – we was in the studio in November ‘cos we’re mad for it.”
To watch video of the full interview, go to the XFM London Web site. There you will find four links to click to watch the interview.
To watch an excerpt from the interview, click below:
For more on this story, see the articles from XFM London and NME.com.
Steve Craddock and Simon Fowler of Ocean Colour Scene recently visited the London studios of Absolute Radio to perform a live acoustic session. They performed their latest single “Magic Carpet Days” as well as the track “The Circle.” To watch video of the live session, see the Absolute Radio Web site.
Ocean Colour Scene’s latest album, which is titled Saturday, was released earlier this month in the UK. They will be playing the O2 Academy in Oxford, England on Tuesday night, February 2nd, and will be playing dates throughout the UK through the beginning of March.
Steve Craddock also serves as a guitarist in Paul Weller’s band.
“Trust me, I’d love to get on stage right now. It’s not only up to me man. Lets let things happen organically.
Shavo’s been tweeting all month on these reunion hints.
However, according to Kerrang!, System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian quashed rumors of a reunion saying: “We call it an indefinite hiatus and that’s how we still look at it. Nothing’s changed. We always have offers to play but we haven’t decided to do anything yet.”
Paul Weller appeared on XFM London’s Breakfast Show yesterday (Monday, January 25th) and was interviewed by DJ Dave Berry. During the interview, The Modfather discussed his new album with Berry, talking about the differences between it and his last album, 22 Dreams. And Weller also addressed rumors about a possible reunion of The Jam. The rumors started when word got out that The Jam’s bassist, Bruce Foxton, is playing on two tracks on Weller’s new album. Weller told Berry:
“It was a few phone calls and just making contact again. I thought it would be a nice idea and Bruce was up for it.
“There’s no reunion, it’s just Bruce coming down and playing on a few tracks. It was fun and it was nice for us both to do it.”
To listen to the interview, go to the XFM London Web site and then click the audio link that reads “Listen to Dave Berry’s entire Paul Weller interview now.”
Weller’s new album, Wake Up The Nation, is being released on April 12th in the UK. He will be playing four consecutive nights at one of London’s most amazing venues, Royal Albert Hall, starting on Monday, May 24th.
The first video from the new album is up on You Tube, a trippy tune called “7&3 Is The Strikers Name”:
Imagine going to a Guns N’ Roses concert and being told by an Axl-powered thug that you had to turn your Slash shirt inside out? TMZ reported over the weekend that this had happened at a concert in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada last Wednesday.
“We did not advise any security to ban any sort of apparel…. If they did, they did it on their own accord, or under someone else’s order — from within their management.”
No matter what is said, I could see some incidents taking place. There was a similar rumor in the 80s about Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine having metal kids wearing Metallica shirts confronted at his shows. When asked about this in 1987, Mustaine responded angrily to Powerline:
Powerline: A couple of kids told me that when you see someone with a Metallica shirt on, at your shows, you try to rip it off them. Mustaine: No, I don’t! I just think that if you’re gonna come to a Megadeth show, you should wear a Megadeth shirt, or at least buy one. I mean, what the fuck?!
In the end, life has been pretty good for Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor. The man’s art is well-respected. But, regardless of the consequences, he will let you know if he thinks something is BS. Just follow him on twitter. In a tweet today, Trent let loose on the Grammys:
