Category: Music News

Michael Jackson will release a new album to celebrate his 50th birthday, with British fans compiling the tracklisting.

‘King Of Pop‘, out on August 25, will feature 18 tracks chosen from a 50-strong list that includes ‘Billie Jean‘,’Off The Wall‘, ‘Bad‘ and ‘Thriller‘.Fans have until Sunday (August 10) to vote for the tracks, and can make their selection on either The Sun or GMTV websites.

The full list of tracks available for selection is:

‘Billie Jean’
‘Smooth Criminal’
‘I Just Can’t Stop Loving You’
‘In The Closet’
‘Black Or White’
‘Will You Be There’
‘Earth Song’
‘Thriller’
‘You Are Not Alone’
‘Who Is It’
‘Blood On The Dancefloor’
‘P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)’
‘Leave Me Alone’
‘Liberian Girl’
‘Heal The World’
‘Jam’
‘Give In To Me’
‘Another Part Of Me’
‘You Rock My World’
‘Man In The Mirror’
‘Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough’
‘Cry’
‘She’s Out Of My Life’
‘Gone Too Soon’
‘Beat It’
‘Workin’ Day And Night’
‘Bad’
‘Human Nature’
‘The Way You Make Me Feel’
‘The Lady In My Life’
‘Scream’
‘For All Time’
‘Dirty Diana’
‘Remember The Time’
‘They Don’t Care About Us’
‘Childhood’
‘Stranger In Moscow’
‘Ghost’
‘History’
‘Is It Scary’
‘One More Chance’
‘Break Of Dawn’
‘Rock With You’
‘Butterflies’
‘Off The Wall’
‘Speechless’
‘Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin”
‘We Are Here To Change The World’
‘The Girl Is Mine’
‘Say Say Say’

Ben Folds has unleased the first video from his upcoming solo album onto the web. Way to Normal is due out on the 30th September.

Head over to here and have a sneak peek.

Rise Against have posted a two-part video of behind the scenes footage when recording their new album, Appeal To Reason. Check em out below.

Appeal To Reason is released on the 7th October.

After being loved and heavily played by the likes of Erol Alkan, Hot Chip, Trevor Jackson and our own tastemaker Abjekt for over a year, Mujava’s Township Funk is finally getting a physical release!

The track will be released on This Is Music Ltd. on the 15th September. Have a look at the incredible video below and have a taste of this genre-bending and booty-shaking tune.

This is jaaaam-hot.

Pendulum’s highly popular cover of Coldplay’s ‘Violet Hill‘, as performed on the Radio One Live Lounge, will be available on the band’s website for an exclusive download.

The song, which was A-Listed by Radio One will serve as an explosive launch for the new website.

Check it out here.

Biffy Clyro have announced that they are to play a four-date tour this winter.

The band will be playing the following venues this December.

December 17th – London Brixton Academy
December 18th – Birmingham Academy
December 19th – Manchester Academy
December 20th – Glasgow SECC

www.biffyclyro.com

BMI are to celebrate the brothers as BMI Icons at its eighth annual Urban Awards next month.

All Jackson brothers, excluding Michael Jackson have confirmed their attendence for the show, which is being held in Beverly Hills on the 4th September.

A Jackson Five reunion may well be on the cards!

www.bmi.com

Metallica will play a show in London before their Reading and Leeds Festival dates.

The band wrote on their website that they will hit London on September 15th to “celebrate the blessed event of the upcoming addition to the Metallica family/catalog”. Tickets are only available through MetClub and Mission: Metallica members. The band haven’t yet announced the venue for the gig but will showcase material from Death Magnetic, which will be released this autumn.

www.metallica.com

The Strokes’ bassist Nikolai Fraiture has put three songs online from his new project Nickel Eye.

Nikolai Fraiture has put three songs online from his new band.

The Strokes’ bass player has put the tracks Dying Star, Back From Exile and Brandy Of The Damned on the MySpace of his project Nickel Eye, which he worked on with Regina Spektor and Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. In other Strokes’ spin off news, drummer Fabrizio Moretti is working on a project named Little Joy, whilst Albert Hammond Jr. recently released his second solo album.

www.myspace.com/officialnickeleye

The Faint are streaming their entire album on MySpace.

Fascination will be released tomorrow [August 5th] on their own label blank.wav, as the follow up to Wet From Birth. The band are currently touring the US but will hit up the UK on the dates in August below:

27th – Thekla, Bristol
28th – The Ruby Lounge, Manchester
29th – Cargo, London

www.myspace.com/thefaint