Category: Music

The Cure frontman Robert Smith will be collaborating with pop singer Ashlee Simpson on her next album it has been revealed.

Ashlee Simpson is, of course, the airhead that got her lip-synching wrong on Saturday Night Live and was booed out of the stadium by 70,000 fans at an American Football match.

Why Smith is working with her is anyone’s guess but reports were flying around that their mutual friendship of Pete Wentz from Fall Out Boy was the reason, though he has denied this. It is also possible that their being on the same label might have something to do with it.

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Two songs from the Sick Of It All tribute, Out Impact Will Be Felt, have been put online.

Starting last month, two new songs will be previewed each week, featuring tracks such as Maladjusted performed by Himsa and Ignite’s version of Cease Fire.

With Bleeding Through and Bane coming up soon, make sure you keep your eyes out. The album is set for release on April 24th.

Check the songs by clicking here.

Vancouver’s Black Mountain are close to finishing their new album, which will follow up their 2005 debut.

The new record is due to come out at the top end of 2008 and the band may well preview some of this new material at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound Festival on June 2nd and their hometown show on August 12th.

In addition to the album work, they’ve also got a song, Stay Free, on the upcoming Spider-Man 3 soundtrack, due out at the end of this month.

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Murder By Death have parted ways with their label East/West.

The band, who released In Bocca Al Lupo on the label last year, said they are no free agents looking for a deal and thanked East/West for “the good times”.

They went on to add “If you run an amazing record company with limitless money and free babes for band members, please email us at band@murderbydeath.com, and include a sample of the money or babes.

You can hear a track from their album in the Buzz Chart by clicking here.

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We all know Keith Richards is the living embodiment of drug fuelled madness but his recent admission takes the biscuit.

In a recent interview, the Stones guitarist said that he had snorted his father’s ashes. When asked what the strangest thing he’s ever snorted was, he said:

“My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn’t resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow…”My dad wouldn’t have cared, he didn’t give a shit. It went down pretty well, and I’m still alive.”

Nice.

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The tracklisting for The Unseen‘s new album Internal Salvation has been released.

The album is set for release on June 19th and will be their first album since 2005’s State Of Discontent. The band recently released Right Before Your Eyes from the record and are about to embark on the Warped Tour. The tracklisting for the album is:

Intro (The Brutal Truth)
Such Tragedy
At Point Break
Right Before Your Eyes
Torn And Shattered(Nothing Left)
Breakaway
Let It Go
No Direction
In Your Place
Left For Dead
Step Inside
Act The Part
Talking Bombs

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Two Australians are making a documentary about the 1990’s punk rock explosion, entitled One Nine Nine Four.

The documentary is set to be a full length feature and will look at the birth, growth and explosion of punk rock in the 1990s and promises to feature interviews with bands such as NOFX, Rancid, Bad Religion, The Offspring, Blink 182 and Lagwagon.

The two film makers have been living in LA since the turn of the year collecting interviews and footage and returned to Australia this month to edit it all. The film is due to be narrated by Tony Hawk, and is set to hit the film festival circuit in 2008.

Pig Destroyer have finished work on their new album which has been given the title Phantom Limb.

The record was recorded at Omega Studios under the supervision of guitarist and producer Scott Hull and the band have a June 12th release date scheduled. It will serve as their follow up to Terrifyer which was seen by some as one of the best albums of 2004.

www.pigdestroyer.net

The details for the new Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly album have been announced by the man himself.

Sam Duckworth, the man behind the music, has stated that the album will be called Searching For The How’s And Why’s and is set for an autumn release. He is finalising 12 to 14 demos for selection and will then enter the studio to lay down the tracks. Explaining the title and the album itself, Duckworth said:

“It addresses similar themes to The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager. It says I don’t have the answers but it’s still important to ask the questions. It might take a thousand questions to get the answers, but if we don’t at least ask the questions, it’s easy to get complacent.”

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