Sonic Youth are going to release a new compilation album of B sides and old tracks in December.
The album, called The Destroyed Room: B-Sides And Rarities, comes as bass player Kim Gordon says the band are likely to leave Geffen after the new record comes out. She said:
“I don’t really think they want us to stay. They fired a few key people working on [‘Rather Ripped’] a week before it came out, [including] our A&R person – he worked on our last record with us, and that was the first time we had an A&R person in five years, but we liked him. Also a marketing person who had really good ideas. So, I don’t know.”
Pete Townshend, the guitarist with The Who, stormed out of a radio interview with US shock-jock Howerd Stern after the co-host, Robin Quivers, mentioned the guitarist’s run in with the police after he had accessed a child pornography website.
Blur and Gorillaz master musician Damon Albarn’s new band, who though officially unnamed, are being referred to by the name of the album – The Good, The Bad And The Queen – played their first major show this week for Radio 1’s Electric Proms.
Parlophone have launched an online demo submission tool which will allow unsigned bands to submit demo recordings over the internet, rather than emailing mp3s or having to physically mail CDs.
After having to stand through an hour’s worth of ridiculously shit nu-soul – is that what you call it? Well, I’m not a 40 year old middle class woman who thinks she can boogie with the youngsters, and that’s the target audience I imagine listening to it – the festivities finally got underway with the opening act of the night at the not-as-packed-as-usual Jazz Café – Micall Parknsun and Dubbledge. They were fun, the brilliant Dunya blasting out as a crowd favourite and some tracks from Fist Of Jah sounding pretty fresh, but the sound didn’t help matters.
After already having supported Reel Big Fish, The Slackers and The Sunshine Underground this year, Big Hand are going out alone on their headlining Black n White tour. The dates are as follows:
Bloc Party have announced the tracklisting for their 2nd album, called A Weekend In The City, which is due out in February next year.
Good Shoes have come up with a way to get their fans even closer to their music – By devising a competition that allows you to appear on their artwork for the forthcoming single The Photos On My Wall, which is due for release on January 1st 2007.
Kurt Cobain is officially the largest earning dead person. The former Nirvana man has come top of the Forbes.com poll of top deceased earners. Between October 2005 and October this year, he has earned $50 million, much of which came from the sale of 25% of the band’s catalogue to PrimeWave.
Jimmy Chamberlain, the drummer for the Smashing Pumpkins has blogged on the band’s MySpace about the new material, saying the band have been working with Terry Date and Roy Thomas Barker. He said: