Bono says band has 50-60 new song contenders
NEW YORK -- Initially expected in the fall as a fourth-quarter blockbuster, U2's next record album has been pushed to early 2009 while the band continues to write and disk material.
"I thought a while back we power have the album cloaked by right away, but wherefore come up above ground now if there's more than priceless stuff to be found?" Bono writes on U2.com.
Of former, the group has been recording in the south of France, having already logged time in Fez and Dublin with longtime collaborators Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois and Steve Lillywhite.
'We know we have to emerge presently, but we also know that people don't need another U2 album unless it is our charles Herbert Best ever album," Bono aforesaid. "It has to be our virtually innovative, our most challenging ... or what's the point?"
Bono said the band today was "50 or 60" new songs to study for cellular inclusion on the follow-up to 2004's "How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb."
"The last two records were selfsame personal, with a kind of three piece at their spirit, the primary colors of rock -- bass, guitars and drum," he said. "But what we're about now is of the same order as the transition that took us from 'The Joshua Tree' to 'Achtung Baby.'"
Among the songs in the blend are "Get on Your Boots," "For Your Love," "Breathe," "No Line on the Horizon" and the eight-minute "Moment of Surrender." One source who has heard several of the works in progress describes them to Billboard as "amazing and a piffling out in that location. I hope they don't change anything."
"I'm always the one wHO underestimates how easy it is to simply 'put out the songs today.' If it was just up to me they'd be out already!" Bono aforementioned. "But early next year people volition be capable to protrude hearing what we've been doing. We want 2009 to be our year, so we're going to start making an impression very early on."
Monday 8 September 2008
Sunday 10 August 2008
Faudel
Artist: Faudel
Genre(s):
Ethnic
Chanson
Discography:
Mundial Corrida
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
Un Autre Soleil
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
Following the musical spiritualists (Cheb Mami, Cheikha Remitti, Messaoud Bellemou earlier him, French vocalist Faudel is dainty in his feature reach of Algerian Rai music. He began performing at historic period 12, application pop tracks by Cheb Khaled and Cheb Mami write fronting the stria Les Étoiles du Raï. This in turn light-emitting junction rectifier Faudel into former musical gigs such as hatchway dates for MC Solaar. In the mid-'90s, his emerging ill fame continued to soar, and he appeared on diverse French tv set programs and music festivals. Only 18, Faudel sign a major track record trade with Mercury in 1995. Baïda marked his debut two age by and by; Samra followed in spring 2001.
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Tuesday 1 July 2008
Weeds Reaches A High
Showtime's comedy series Weeds was positively smoking this week as its season debut at 10:00 p.m. Monday attracted 1.3 million viewers -- the biggest audience ever to watch any telecast on the channel. A repeat at 11:00 p.m. drew an additional 406,000, according to Nielsen Media Research. Meanwhile Lifetime Cable Channel reported that its Army Wives was the highest-rated show on basic cable last week.
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Wednesday 25 June 2008
Courteeners fancy festive Duffy duet
The Courteeners singer Liam Fray has said that he would like to collaborate with Duffy.
Fray claimed the Welsh soul singer is a "dangerous talent" and proposed that his band record a Christmas duet with her.
"I wouldn't mind doing something with Duffy," he told Orange. "She's got a fantastic voice.
"She's a dangerous talent. We're labelmates as well so we're not ruling anything out at this early stage. Christmas single perhaps."
The Manchester band release their new single 'No You Didn't, No You Don't' on June 23.
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Fray claimed the Welsh soul singer is a "dangerous talent" and proposed that his band record a Christmas duet with her.
"I wouldn't mind doing something with Duffy," he told Orange. "She's got a fantastic voice.
"She's a dangerous talent. We're labelmates as well so we're not ruling anything out at this early stage. Christmas single perhaps."
The Manchester band release their new single 'No You Didn't, No You Don't' on June 23.
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Wednesday 11 June 2008
Tributes Pour In For Sydney Pollack
Tributes from Hollywood's biggest names have poured in for director and actor Sydney Pollack, who died of cancer on Monday (May 26) aged 73. Publicist Leslie Dart made the announcement, explaining that the Oscar winner was diagnosed with cancer about nine months ago. Pollack, who started his directing career in 1965, recently directed and starred alongside George Clooney in 'Michael Clayton'. "Sydney made the world a little better, movies a little better and even dinner a little better. A tip of the hat to a class act. He'll be missed terribly," Clooney said. Sally Field also paid tribute to her 'Abscence of Malice' co-star, saying, "Having the opportunity to know Sydney and work with him was a great gift in my life. He was a good friend and a phenomenal director and I will cherish every moment that I ever spent with him." Pollack, who won the Best Director Oscar for the 1986 film 'Out of Africa', also featured in an ongoing role in television's 'Will and Grace' as the father of Will Truman (Eric McCormack). The Directors Guild of America paid tribute to one of their own in a statement, saying, "Sydney let the dialogue and the emotion of a scene speak for itself. Not given to cinematic tricks, his gentle and thoughtful touch and his focus on the story let us inhabit the world he created in each film." Pollack passed away in his Los Angeles home, surrounded by his wife Claire and two daughters Rebecca and Rachael.Photo courtesy of THINKFilm.
Thursday 5 June 2008
Weezer's power pop reaches higher but does the job on self-titled album
"Weezer"
Weezer (Geffen/Interscope)
Rest easy slacker geeks - Weezer have gotten it right once again.
Plowing through another set of snarky power pop, Weezer's self-titled sixth studio disc is a bit audacious without skimping on what makes this band great - popping riffs, infectious choruses and an almost silly nostalgia for youth.
Frontman Rivers Cuomo relinquishes lead vocal and songwriting duties here and there, which may turn off some fans, but Weezer remain smarter than most acts and Cuomo and his mates still pen some of the best power pop ditties you're likely to find.
Opening track "Troublemaker" is a kicking tongue-in-cheek knock on rock star misconceptions: "I'm gonna be a star and people will crane necks/to get a glimpse of me to see if I am having sex/and studying my moves to try and understand/why I am so unlike the singers in the other bands."
Lead single "Pork and Beans" is already pleasing fans of previous hits, "Everybody Get Dangerous" tackles the risks of youth that we manage to survive and "Heart Songs" is Cuomo's sweet ode to his myriad influences that references everyone from Gordon Lightfoot and Bruce Springsteen to Rob Bass (yes, really) and Kurt Cobain.
Other standouts include an homage to boyhood escape on "Dreamin'," diverse, pulsating rockers in "Thought I Knew" and "Automatic," and the gloomy synth freak-out of "Cold Dark World."
With their most challenging disc since 1996's "Pinkerton," it would seem Cuomo and Weezer have grown up a bit - but thankfully not too much.
Check out this track: "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived" may be the most ambitious song in the Weezer canon. Piano, acoustic and electric guitars, choir chants and Beach Boy-esque falsetto harmonies (among other elements) propel continual switches from punk, folk and metal over the course of six jaw-dropping minutes.
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Monday 26 May 2008
Jessica Simpson To Be Ashlee's Maid Of Honour
Jessica Simpson has confirmed she will act as maid of honour at her sister Ashlee’s upcoming wedding.
The singer and actress’ younger sibling is marrying Fall Out Boy rocker Pete Wentz, and Jessica intends on being heavily involved in proceedings - despite Ashlee recently commenting Jessica’s music would be banned from the reception.
When asked if she would be the maid of honour after performing for 35,000 members of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Thursday night, Jessica replied, "Of course!"
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