Sep 23 2008
Babyshambles’ next LP will be out next year! Drummer Adam Ficek told BBC 6 Music that the album will be released by the end of 2009.
“We’re choosing producers and then in November I think we’ll reconvene and really start kicking in to shape,” Ficek said.
Babyshamble’s last release was 2007’s “Shotter’s Nation.”
Sep 23 2008
Ryan Adams is currently on tour with Oasis to promote their new album, “Dig Out Your Soul,” the singer-songwriter hits the news often with their praise.
The indie-cult leader admitted his favorite Oasis album is “Standing on the Shoulders of Giants.” He feels the album was ignored and is a classic much like Led Zeppelin.
Not only is he keen to older Oasis, but he thinks “Dig Out Your Soul” is a great experimental album like Radiohead’s “Kid A.”
Adams told NME.com when he first listened to “Kid A” he thought, “I have no idea what kind of music this is, but it’s moving me. It sounds like a revolution.”
He also feels, “They [Oasis] has entered into some strange and uncanny spiritual crazy door and have just lost themselves to it and it is marvelous.”
Sep 23 2008
Has Damon Albarn crossed the line? Blur’s lead singer (or former leader singer) was quoted in an Argentinian paper saying “Blur is over.”
This has sparked outrage in former guitarist, Graham Coxon. Blur departed from the music scene in 2003 after the release of their mildly successful final album, “Think Tank.” Prior to release, Coxon was asked to leave the band due to his “attitude problem.”
In 2007 the entire band- Coxon included- met for lunch and rumors started about a possible reunion. The luncheon was a simple catch up for the band, there was no talk about reunion at all. Albarn wishes to continue to focus on his solo projects including his new band The Gorillaz.
On Blur’s message board, Coxon replied to Albarn’s strong yet simple statement. Under the name “tweedo” he said, “Damon didn’t consult anyone else before he took it into his own hands to make this comment. Therefore, I think it is nonsense. it isn’t for him to decide.”
At the same time Coxon admitted, “A good few years ago I said I could never see msyelf going back to Blur. People around me said with winks and nudges, ‘Never say never.’”
It’s an unforseen future for the band, but who knows.. a band can carry on without it’s famous lead singer?
Unlikely.
