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Common’s upcoming CD “Finding Forever” is now scheduled for a July 10 release. The album's first single is called “The People” and was produced by Kanye West. Lily Allen is also featured on the album, which was produced by Kanye, will.i.am, Devo Springsteen and the late J Dilla. In an interview with Billboard, Common said of the follow-up to 2005's “Be” said, “I want to leave a mark on this earth. By making music and saying what I have to say in my music is one of the ways I will exist forever”.
For now, you can enjoy the video for his latest single "A Dream", produced by will.i.am for the Richard LaGravenesse film, Freedom Writers.
Let's be clear: The Five O'Clock Heroes' latest album “Bend To The Breaks” is a must have. According to their website, it was recorded in James Iha's NY studio and aside from being nothing short of amazing, it's a “multi-faceted delights of razor-sharp pop songwriting, with doffs of the cap to the likes of The Cars and The Police. From the spiky angular come-on of opener ‘Head Games’ to the joyous reggae-pop hybrid, come on of “White Girls”.
“People often get the wrong idea about us, they automatically think that because of our name we’re gonna sound like The Jam. But for me, Elvis Costello and people like that are a huge influence. That’s what we aimed for with this record, to get the sound of an album like ‘My Aim Is True’, or Joe Jackson’s ‘Look Sharp’. But we’re our own band, and we’ll play what we wanna play. Who we sound like isn’t the hugest thing we think about. I just want things to sound catchy and melodic, and I think a lot of people are scared of that kind of songwriting these days. I’m not ashamed of writing catchy songs. I don’t give a fuck about which direction we go in.” says Anthony Ellis
Make no mistakes, every track from their new album could have been a single. Check their YouTube page, and check their album on iTune.
Billboard confirmed that Pearl Jam will hit the road in Europe for three weeks beginning June 8 in Lisbon, and will also headline the final day of Lollapalooza in Chicago on Aug. 5. However, the band does not have a "set date" for the follow-up to ast year's self-titled album, but according to guitarist Mike McCready the band decided that they still couldn't pass up a series of "pretty cool offers" on the live front this summer.
Guitarist James Iha will not be part of the previously announced reunion of the Smashing Pumpkins. "I'm writing a solo record, which I'm going to record this year, and working on my indie label Scratchie Records," Iha told Rolling Stone. "I'm not part of the current Smashing Pumpkins album or tour, I haven't spoken to Billy Corgan in years" he said. RIP Jonathan Melvoin.
Last night, the Boss made a surprise appearance at a tribute event held in New York inhis honor at Carnegie Hall.
A string of acts performed Springsteen covers throughout the evening to benefit Music For Youth - an initiative supporting music education for underprivileged children in NY. Patti Smith performed her Springsteen-penned hit “Because The Night”, and Kevin Bacon sang a version of “Streets Of Philadelphia” with his band The Bacon Brothers. But the real treat came at the end of the show, when Springsteen surprised the audience by coming on stage and performing three songs “This Promised Land”, “Rosalita”(acoustic version), “Rosalita”(electric version).
Green Day, Blink 182, and Bad Religion will appear in a documentary called “One Nine Nine Four” about the punk rock music scene in the 1990s produced by Robot Academy Films is producing the film.
The film will be narrated by skateboarding legend Tony Hawk and should be out next year.nelly furtado 3121 free ludacris
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