Frank Turner gives away new track as free download

Frank Turner has revealed that he has recorded a special track to celebrate the end of 2011 and is giving it away as a free download.

The song, which is entitled 'Happy New Year', was recorded with country singer Jon Snodgrass and can be downloaded for free by visiting Whattheruckus.com. You can also hear the track in full by scrolling down to the bottom of the page and clicking.

You can listen the song here:
http://soundcloud.com/fthc/happy-new-year-frank-turner

Source: nme.com

30 Best Albums Of 2011

This is our list of the best albums of 2011.

30- Smith Westerns - Dye It Blonde
29- The Rifles - Freedom Run
28- Josh T. Pearson - Last Of The Country Gentlemen
27- Yuck - Yuck
26- Miles Kane - Colour Of The Trap
25- Penny Blacks - Harbour
24- Ryan Adams - Ashes and Fire
23- The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
22- Dropkick Murphys - Going Out In Style
21- The Black Keys - El Camino

20- Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
19- Social Distortion - Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes
18- King Creosote and John Hopkins - Diamond Mine
17- Elbow - Build a Rocket Boys!
16- The Postelles - The Postelles
15- Beady Eye - Different Gear, Still Speeding
14- White Lies - Ritual
13- Mona - Mona
12- Crazy Arm - Union City Breath
11- Laura Marling - A Creature I Don't Know

10- Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
9- Rise Against - Endgame
8- The Horrible Crowes - Elsie
7- Noah and the Whale - Last Night On Earth
6- Kasabian - Velociraptor!

5- The Kills - Blood Pressures
4- Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
3- Arctic Monkeys - Suck It And See
2- Portugal. The Man - In The Mountain In The Cloud
1- Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones

Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner: 'I want another shot at headlining Glastonbury'

Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner has declared that he wants to headline Glastonbury festival again.

In an interview with GQ, the singer said that he wanted "another shot" at taking the top slot at Worthy Farm, as he didn't think the band had been at their best when they played the Pyramid Stage in 2007.

When asked what he'd like to do in his career that he hadn't yet achieved, he replied: "I mean, there's many things. There's a lot left, yeah. I'd really like another shot at headling Glastonbury. I don't think we got that quite right when we did it."

Turner also insisted that the rest of Arctic Monkeys weren't concerned about his growing number of side-projects.

As well as The Last Shadow Puppets, Turner's band with Miles Kane, he also wrote the soundtrack to Richard Ayoade's 2010 film Submarine, but said his bandmates supported his individual output.

"They were supportive, and Miles is a friend of all ours," he said. "We met him at the first show we ever did, with his old band, The Rascals. We glide past a lot of band bullshit because we've known each other since we were seven years old or whatever.

"The Submarine soundtrack wasn't me having aspirations to make a solo record and conquer the fucking world," he added. "My friend, Richard, had directed this wonderful film and he asked me to first of all do a few covers for it, and then it turned into a couple of original songs, and they weren't going anywhere in an Arctic Monkeys sorta world."

 Source: nme.com

City Reign - Numbers For Street Names EP

For the four members of CITY REIGN – Chris Bull (vocals, guitar), Michael Grice (guitar), Glaze (bass) & Sam Jones (Drums) – Numbers For Street Names is the culmination of 3 years of dedication and hard work, from the first days of teaching Glaze to play his £30 battered bass from ebay, rehearsing in the spare bedroom of their shared house, resulting in this comprehensive body of work. The record features songs spanning from their initial demo Daybreak EP to the closing track recorded a mere day before pressing the CD.

Time has been spent perfecting their songcraft and musicianship to rework older songs whilst continually writing newer material. The band’s focus has always been to let the music and lyrics speak for the band better than anything else.

Since recording the EP, Sam Jones has decided to pursue other projects outside music and has since been replaced with the fiery Scottish powerhouse Duncan Bolton who studied at the Royal Northern College of Music.

The EP includes their first single ‘Making Plans’, which caught the attention of BBC6Music’s Steve Lamacq upon its release in October 2010, as well as ‘Out In The Cold’, which received a raving recommendation from The Independent when it was released earlier this year.

‘We’re extremely proud of these 5 songs. It’s a good mix of the punchier pop songs like the singles Making Plans and Out In The Cold, alongside bigger ‘anthemic’ songs like The Line. It closes nicely with a new song called Anywhere Anyway recorded at the 11^th hour that we knew instantly had to close the record. Although the song is stripped back, the vocal layers give it depth and shows the attention to detail we put into everything we do says singer Chris Bull.

The band is due to promote the record with dates both nationally and internationally with a string of dates.

‘We’ve made a lot of friends from all over the place through releasing the first few singles. We were keen to get out and meet these people and play our songs live, so we’re really looking forward to these dates.’

This EP is out next Monday, 21st November, and you can buy it here: http://www.cityreign.net/

Biffy Clyro working on 'really obscure' new material

Biffy Clyro have revealed that the new material they have been writing for their sixth studio album is "really obscure".

The Scottish rockers, who first hinted that they were planning to start work on a new LP in March of this year and promised to "bring different elements" to their sound, told BBC 6 Music that their new tracks touched upon influences including country-prog and goth-rock.

Speaking about the sessions for the new record, frontman Simon Neil said: "We've got some really obscure things going on. We've got a kind of prog country song, which we never thought we'd do, and some weird kind of math rock stuff meets almost goth rock. It's hard to explain just yet but there are moments that are odd."

The singer also joked that the band had so much new material that they might be unable to fit it on a single LP, adding: "We're working pretty hard. We're now up to about 30 songs so maybe a double album, the dreaded 'D' word."

Source: nme.com

The Stone Roses confirm reunion and two homecoming shows for 2012

The Stone Roses have confirmed they have reunited at a press conference this afternoon (October 18).

The original line-up - frontman Ian Brown, guitarist John Squire, bassist Mani and drummer Reni -announced the news at the conference at London's Soho Hotel at 3pm (GMT) this afternoon where they revealed plans for two homecoming gigs at Heaton Park on June 29-30 next year.

They also revealed they are working on new material and intend to perform some at the shows. When asked if the band were working on a new album Brown said: "We hope so. But we said that before didn't we?"
Source: nme.com

Bad Religion - Generator

Like a rock, like a planet
Like a fucking atom bomb
I'll remain unperturbed by the joy and the madness
That i encounter everywhere i turn,
I've seen it all along,
In books and magazines,
Like a twitch before dying,
Like a pornographic scene,
There's a flower behind the window,
There's an ugly laughing man,
Like a hummingbird in silence,
Like the blood on my door,
It's the generator

Oh yeah, oh yeah, like the blood on my door,
Wash me clean and i will run until i reach the shore,
I've known it all along like the bone under my skin,
Like actors in a photograph,
Like paper in the wind,
There's a hammer by the window,
There's a knife on the floor,
Like turbines in darkness,
Like the blood on my door,
It's the generator

She Wants Revenge - Tear You Apart

Got a big plan, his mind's set, maybe it's right
At the right place and right time, maybe tonight
In a whisper or handshake sending a sign
Wanna make out and kiss hard, wait never mind

Late night, in passing, mention it flip to her
Best friend, it's no thing, maybe it slipped
but the slip turns to terror and a crush to like
when she walked in he froze up, leave it to fright

It's cute in a way, till you cannot speak
And you leave to have a cigarette, knees get weak
escape was just a nod and a casual wave
Obsess about it, heavy for the next two days

It's only just a crush, it'll go away
It's just like all the others it'll go away
Or maybe this is danger and you just don't know
You pray it all away but it continues to grow

I want to hold you close
Skin pressed against me tight
Lie still, and close your eyes girl
So lovely, it feels so right

I want to hold you close
Soft breath, beating heart
As I whisper in your ear
I want to fucking tear you apart

Then he walked up and told her, thinking maybe it'd pass

And they talked and looked away a lot, doing the dance
Her hand brushed up against his, she left it there
Told him how she felt and then they locked in a stare

They took a step back, thought about it, what should they do
Cause theres always repercussions when you're dating in school
But their lips met, and reservations started to pass
Whether this was just an evening or a thing that would last

Either way he wanted her and this was bad
Wanted to do things to her it was making him crazy
Now a little crush turned into a like
And now he wants to grab her by the hair and tell her

I want to hold you close
Skin pressed against me tight
Lie still, and close your eyes girl
So lovely, it feels so right

I want to hold you close
Soft breath, beating heart
As I whisper in your ear
I wanna fucking tear you apart

The Who - Behind Blue Eyes

No one knows what it's like to be the bad man
To be the sad man behind blue eyes
No one knows what it's like
To be hated, to be fated to telling only lies

But my dreams, they aren't as empty
As my conscience seems to be
I have hours, only lonely
My love is vengeance that's never free

No one knows what it's like
To feel these feelings like I do and I blame you!
No one bites back as hard on their anger
None of my pain and woe can show through

But my dreams, they aren't as empty
As my conscience seems to be
I have hours only lonely
My love is vengeance, that's never free

When my fist clenches, crack it open
Before I use it and lose my cool
When I smile, tell me some bad news
Before I laugh and act like a fool

And If I swallow anything evil
Put your finger down my throat
And If I shiver, please give me a blanket
Keep me warm, let me wear your coat

No one knows what it's like to be the bad man
To be the sad man behind blue eyes

Sufjan Stevens - Chicago

I fell in love again
All things go, all things go
Drove to Chicago
All things know, all things know
We sold our clothes to the state
I don't mind, I don't mind
I made a lot of mistakes
In my mind, in my mind

You came to take us
All things go, all things go
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow
We had our mindset
All things know, all things know
You had to find it
All things go, all things go

I drove to New York
In a van with my friend
We slept in parking lots
I don't mind, I don't mind
I was in love with the place
In my mind, in my mind
I made a lot of mistakes
In my mind, in my mind

You came to take us
All things go, all things go
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow
We had our mindset
All things know, all things know
You had to find it
All things go, all things go

If I was crying
In the van with my friend
It was for freedom
From myself and from the land
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes
I made a lot of mistakes

You came to take us
All things go, all things go
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow
We had our mindset
All things know, all things know
You had to find it
All things go, all things go

You came to take us
All things go, all things go
To recreate us
All things grow, all things grow
We had our mindset (I made a lot of mistakes)
All things know, all things know (I made a lot of mistakes)
You had to find it (I made a lot of mistakes)
All things go, all things go (I made a lot of mistakes)

The Raconteurs - Salute Your Solution

I seem to think I think I got a little situation
So listen to me sister listen maybe you can help
I think I gave a lot of problems my consideration
But not for me they always seem to be for someone else

Why all the people always seem to just be on vacation
What do I get from never touching anything at all
I'm like a trash can holding all the information
And every single time I'm in the field to be taught

Salute your solution, now, salute your solution

I find myself just looking worthy of my best intentions
Ignoring any kinda pause I might receive at all
All others seem to find a road that's tough to satisfaction
I find a ridicule that isn't cool for me at all

And if there's one little answer to this complication
Someone somewhere some help me settle what is on my mind
There's only one I'm only taking getting and receiving
There's only one I'm taking
And only one I'm taking

And only one I'm taking
And only one I'm taking
And only one I'm taking
And only one

And I got what I got all despite you
And I get what I get just to spite you

And I got what I got all despite you
And I get what I get just to spite you

And I got what I got all despite you
And I get what I get just to spite you

I find myself just looking worthy of my best intentions
Ignoring any kinda pause I might receive at all
And all the others seem to find myself a satisfaction
I find a ridicule that isn't cool for me at all

But if there's one little answer to this complication
Someone somewhere some help me settle what is on my mind
There's only one I'm only taking getting and receiving
There's only one I'm taking
And only one I'm taking

And only one I'm taking
And only one I'm taking
And only one I'm taking
And only one

Depeche Mode - Wrong

I was born with the wrong sign
In the wrong house
With the wrong ascendancy
I took the wrong road
That led to the wrong tendencies
I was in the wrong place
At the wrong time
For the wrong reason
And the wrong rhyme
On the wrong day
Of the wrong week
I used the wrong method
With the wrong technique

Wrong
Wrong

There's something wrong with me chemically
Something wrong with me inherently
The wrong mix
In the wrong genes
I reached the wrong ends
By the wrong means
It was the wrong plan
In the wrong hands
The wrong theory for the wrong man
The wrong eyes
On the wrong prize
The wrong questions with the wrong replies

Wrong
Wrong

I was marching to the wrong drum
With the wrong scum
Pissing out the wrong energy
Using all the wrong lines
And the wrong signs
With the wrong intensity
I was on the wrong page
Of the wrong book
With the wrong rendition
Of the wrong look
With the wrong moon
Every wrong night
With the wrong tune played
Till it sounded right, yeah

Wrong
Wrong

Too long...

I was born with the wrong sign
In the wrong house
With the wrong ascendancy
I took the wrong road
That led to the wrong tendencies
I was in the wrong place
At the wrong time
For the wrong reason
And the wrong rhyme
On the wrong day
Of the wrong week
I used the wrong method
With the wrong technique

Wrong

[Poll] Song Of The Week (19/9 - 25/9)

The nominees for song of this week are:

The Vines – Get Free

Klaxons – Golden Skans

Bruce Springsteen – Streets Of Philadelphia

The Verve – The Drugs Don’t Work

Alice In Chains – Would?

Semisonic – Secret Smile

Audioslave – Like A Stone

You can vote until next Sunday!

[Poll] Song Of The Week (12/9 - 18/9) - Results

The results for song of this week are:

The Beach Boys – God Only Knows (28%)

The Black Keys – Thickfreakness (18%)

Coldplay - Clocks (18%)

The Avett Brothers – Murder In The City (9%)

Editors – Papillon (9%)

Nickelback – How You Remind Me (9%)

Papa Roach – I Almost Told You That I Loved You (9%)

The Vines - Get Free

I'm gonna get free
I'm gonna get free
I'm gonna get free
Ride into the sun
She never loved me
She never loved me
She never loved me
Why should anyone?

(Come here, come here, come here)
I'll take your photo for ya
(Come here, come here, come here)
Drive you around the corna
(Come here, come here, come here)
You know you really oughta
(Come here, come here, come here)
Move outta California

Get (get)
Me (me)
Far (far)
When I've alot to lose
Save (save)
Me (me)
From (from)
Here! (here)

(come here x 12)

When it's breeding time
Look into your mind away

I'm gonna get free
I'm gonna get free
I'm gonna get free
Ride into the sun
She never loved me
She never loved me
She never loved me
Why should anyone?

(Come here, come here, come here)
I'll take your photo for ya
(Come here, come here, come here)
Drive you around the corna
(Come here, come here, come here)
You know you really oughta
(Come here, come here, come here)
Move outta California

Klaxons - Golden Skans

Light touch my hands, in a dream of Golden Skans, from now on.
You can forget our future plans.
Night touch my hands with the turning Golden Skans,
From the night and the light, all plans are golden in your hands.

Set sail from sense, bring all your young.
Set sail from where we once begun.
While we wait, while we wait.

A hall of records, or numbers, or spaces still undone.
Ruins, or relics, disciples and the young.

Light touch my hands, in a dream of Golden Skans, from now on.
You can forget our future plans.
Night touch my hands with the turning Golden Skans,
From the night and the light, all plans are golden in your hands.

We sailed from sense, brought all our young.
We sailed from where we once begun.
While we wait, while we wait.

A hall of records, or numbers, or spaces still undone.
Ruins, or relics, disciples and the young.

Light touch my hands, in a dream of Golden Skans, from now on.
You can forget our future plans.
Night touch my hands with the turning Golden Skans,
From the night and the light, all plans are golden in your hands.

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Philadelphia

I was bruised and battered, I couldn't tell what I felt.
I was unrecognizable to myself.
I saw my reflection in a window, I didn't know my own face.
Oh brother are you gonna leave me wastin' away
On the Streets of Philadelphia.

I walked the avenue, 'til my legs felt like stone,
I heard the voices of friends vanished and gone,
At night I could hear the blood in my veins,
Black and whispering as the rain,
On the Streets of Philadelphia.

Ain't no angel gonna greet me.
It's just you and I my friend.
My clothes don't fit me no more,
I walked a thousand miles
Just to slip this skin.

The night has fallen, I'm lyin' awake,
I can feel myself fading away,
So receive me brother with your faithless kiss,
Or will we leave each other alone like this
On the Streets of Philadelphia

Ryan Adams: 'I threw out 80 per cent of my album when I heard Laura Marling'

Ryan Adams has admitted Laura Marling helped inspire his forthcoming new album Ashes & Fire'.

The singer-songwriter said he ditched most of the songs he wrote for his 13th studio album after producer Glyn Jones passed on her 2010 LP 'I Speak Because I Can': 'I thought: 'For fuck's sake. I literally threw out 80 per cent of what I had. And it felt good to ask: 'What am I really capable of? I felt competitive again to write great songs.'

Recorded at Hollywood's Sunset Sound Factory, the album will be released on his own label, PAX-AM. Jones worked on Adams' albums 'Heartbreaker', 'Gold' and '29'. He is the son Ethan Johns, who worked with Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Who and The Rolling Stones.

Adams also revealed how he slipped into a period of heavy drug taking after he was diagnosed with Ménière's disease in 2006. This disease is a degnerative condition which affects hearing and balance.

"All the stuff I was doing exacerbated the disease," he told The Guardian. "You're not supposed to smoke, you're not supposed to drink alcohol, be stressed, eat salty foods. You're probably not supposed to do speedballs.

But the singer, who has since become sober, said taking opium helped him to write some of his songs. "I fully understand when people say Edgar Allen Poe used to smoke this stuff and have visions," he said. "I wrote the entire song 'How Do You Keep Love Alive' [from 2005's 'Cold Roses'] without writing a word down, and I played it on piano. And I've tried to understand the chord pattern ever since, because I can't fucking play it."

Source: nme.com

The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work

All this talk of getting old
It's getting me down my love
Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown
This time I'm comin' down
And I hope you're thinking of me
As you lay down on your side
Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again

Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again

But I know I'm on a losing streak
'as I passed down by your street
And if you wanna show, then just let me know
And I'll sing in your ear again

Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again

'Cause baby, ooh, if heaven calls, I'm coming, too
Just like you said, you leave my life, I'm better off dead

All this talk of getting old
It's getting me down my love
Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown
This time I'm comin' down

Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again

'Cause baby, ooh, if heaven calls, I'm coming, too
Just like you said, you leave my life, I'm better off dead

But if you wanna show, just let me know
And I'll sing in your ear again

Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again

Yeah, I know I'll see your face again
Yeah, I know I'll see your face again
Yeah, I know I'll see your face again
Yeah, I know I'll see your face again

I'm never going down, I'm never coming down
No more, no more, no more, no more, no more
I'm never coming down, I'm never going down
No more, no more, no more, no more, no more

Alice In Chains - Would?

Know me broken by my master,
Teach thee a child, love hereafter,

Into the flood again,
Same old trip it was back then,
So I made a big mistake,
Try to see it once my way.

Drifting body, its sole exertion.
Flying, not yet quite the notion.

Into the flood again,
Same old trip it was back then,
So I made a big mistake,
Try to see it once my way.

Into the flood again,
Same old trip it was back then,
So I made a big mistake,
Try to see it once my way.

Am I wrong?
Have I run too far to get home
Have I gone?
left you here alone

Am I wrong?
Have I run too far to get home, yeah
Have I gone?
left you here alone

If I would, could you?

Thom Yorke confirms Radiohead will tour in 2012

Thom Yorke has confirmed that Radiohead will be touring in 2012.

The band, who announced two shows in New York yesterday (September 20), have so far only played one live show, which consisted of a secret show at Glastonbury, in support of their new album 'The King Of Limbs'.

But speaking to BBC Radio 1's Giles Peterson, Yorke confirmed that the band would be touring, saying: "The idea is to go out and play next year on and off during the year."

The singer also indicated that Portishead's Clive Deamer, who played with the band during their Glastonbury set, would be part of the touring band.

Source: nme.com

REM announce their split

REM have announced their split.

After 31 years in the music industry, the band – made up of Michael Stipe, Mike Mills and Peter Buck – have revealed that they will no longer be making music together.

Formed alongside original drummer Bill Berry in 1980 in Athens, Georgia, the legendary alt.rockers have released a statement regarding their decision. It reads: "To our Fans and Friends: As REM, and as lifelong friends and co-conspirators, we have decided to call it a day as a band. We walk away with a great sense of gratitude, of finality, and of astonishment at all we have accomplished. To anyone who ever felt touched by our music, our deepest thanks for listening."

The band released their 15th album, ‘Collapse Into Now’, earlier this year, which followed 2008’s ‘Accelerate’.

Source: nme.com

Semisonic - Secret Smile

Nobody knows it but you've got a secret smile
And you use it only for me
Nobody knows it but you've got a secret smile
And you use it only for me

So use it and prove it
Remove this whirling sadness
I'm losing, I'm bluesing
But you can save me from madness

Nobody knows it but you've got a secret smile
And you use it only for me
Nobody knows it but you've got a secret smile
And you use it only for me

So save me I'm waiting
I'm needing, hear me pleading
And soothe me, improve me
I'm grieving, I'm barely believing now, now

When you are flying around and around the world
And I'm lying alonely
I know there's something sacred and free reserved
And received by me only

Audioslave - Like A Stone

On a cobweb afternoon
In a room full of emptiness
By a freeway I confess
I was lost in the pages
Of a book full of death
Reading how we'll die alone
And if we're good we'll lay to rest
Anywhere we want to go

In your house I long to be
Room by room patiently
I'll wait for you there
Like a stone
I'll wait for you there
Alone

And on my deathbed I will pray
To the gods and the angels
Like a pagan to anyone
Who will take me to heaven
To a place I recall
I was there so long ago
The sky was bruised
The wine was bled
And there you led me on

In your house I long to be
Room by room patiently
I'll wait for you there
Like a stone
I'll wait for you there
Alone, alone

And on I read
Until the day was gone
And I sat in regret
Of all the things I've done
For all that I've blessed
And all that I've wronged
In dreams until my death
I will wander on

In your house I long to be
Room by room patiently
I'll wait for you there
Like a stone
I'll wait for you there
Alone, alone

[Poll] Song Of The Week (12/9 - 18/9)

The nominees for song of this week are:

The Beach Boys – God Only Knows

The Black Keys – Thickfreakness

The Avett Brothers – Murder In The City

Nickelback – How You Remind Me

Editors – Papillon

Papa Roach – I Almost Told You That I Loved You

Coldplay - Clocks

You can vote until next Sunday!

The Beach Boys - God Only Knows

I may not always love you
But long as there are stars above you
You never need to doubt it
I'll make you so sure about it

God only knows what I'd be without you

If you should ever leave me
Though life would still go on believe me
The world could show nothing to me
So what good would living do me

God only knows what I'd be without you

God only knows what I'd be without you

If you should ever leave me
Well life would still go on believe me
The world could show nothing to me
So what good would living do me

God only knows what I'd be without you
God only knows what I'd be without you
God only knows
God only knows what I'd be without you
God only knows what I'd be without you
God only knows
God only knows what I'd be without you
God only knows what I'd be without you
God only knows
God only knows what I'd be without you
God only knows what I'd be without you
God only knows
God only knows what I'd be without you
God only knows what I'd be without you
God only knows
God only knows what I'd be without you
God only knows what I'd be without you
God only knows
God only knows what I'd be without you

[Poll] Song Of The Week (5/9 - 11/9) - Results

The results for song of this week are:

Led Zeppelin – Since I’ve Been Loving You (29%)

The White Stripes – Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground (22%)

The Coral – Dreaming Of You (14%)

Guns n’ Roses – Paradise City (14%)

Clinic – If You Could Read Your Mind (7%)

Metallica – Master Of Puppets (7%)

Yuck – Get Away (7%)

The Black Keys - Thickfreakness

Here I am, I'm not here now, no, no, no
And I'll care for you - hey that's all I want to do
Hold me, love me, in your heart
And I'll hold you near and I'll whisper in your ear
I'll take your hand and I'll make you understand
Hold me, love me in your heart

The Avett Brothers - Murder In The City

If I get murdered in the city
Don't go revenging in my name
One person dead from such is plenty
No need to go get locked away
When I leave your arms
The things I think of
No need to get over alarmed
I'm coming home

I wonder which brother is better
Which one our parents loved the most
I sure did get in lots of trouble
They seemed to let the other go
A tear fell from my father's eye
I wondered what my dad would say
He said, "I love you and I'm proud of you both,
In so many different ways"

If I get murdered in the city
Go read the letter in my desk
Don't bother with all my belongings
Pay attention to the list
Make sure my sister knows I love her
Make sure my mother knows the same
Always remember there was nothing worth sharing
Like the love that let us share our name
Always remember there was nothing worth sharing
Like the love that let us share our name

[Stream] Kasabian - Velociraptor!

You can listen to the new album by the British band Kasabian in full here: http://soundcloud.com/kasabian/sets/velociraptor/s-5O7Co

"Velociraptor!" will be officially released on Monday, September 19.

Nickelback - How You Remind Me

Never made it as a wise man,
I couldn't cut it as a poor man stealin'.
Tired of livin' like a blind man,
I'm sick of sight without a sense of feelin,
And this is how you remind me

This is how you remind me
Of what I really am
This is how you remind me
Of what I really am

It's not like you to say sorry
I was waiting on a different story
This time I'm mistaken
For handing you a heart worth breakin'
And I've been wrong, I've been down
Been to the bottom of every bottle
These five words in my head
Scream "Are we having fun yet?"

yet? yet? yet? no no (x2)

It's not like you didn't know that
I said I love you and I swear I still do
And it must have been so bad
Cause living with me must have damn near killed you

And this is how you remind me
Of what I really am
This is how you remind me
Of what I really am

It's not like you to say sorry
I was waiting on a different story
This time I'm mistaken
For handing you a heart worth breakin'
And I've been wrong, I've been down
Been to the bottom of every bottle
These five words in my head
Scream "Are we having fun yet?"

yet? yet? yet? no no (x4)

Never made it as a wise man
I couldn't cut it as a poor man stealing
And this is how you remind me
This is how you remind me

This is how you remind me
Of what I really am
This is how you remind me
Of what I really am

It's not like you to say sorry
I was waiting on a different story
This time I'm mistaken
For handing you a heart worth breakin'
And I've been wrong, I've been down
Been to the bottom of every bottle
These five words in my head
Scream "Are we having fun yet?"

Yet? yet?, "Are we havin' fun yet?"
Yet? yet? "Are we havin' fun yet?"
Yet? (five words in my head) yet? "Are we havin' fun yet?"
Yet? (five words in my head) yet?

Editors - Papillon

Make your escape, you're my own Papillon
The world turns too fast, feel love before it's done
It kicks like a sleep twitch
My Papillon, feel love when it's done

It kicks like a sleep twitch

Darling, just don't put down your guns yet
If there really was a God here
He'd have raised a hand by now
Now darling, you're born, get old and die here
Well that's quite enough for me,
We'll find our own way home somehow.

No sense of doubt, for what you could achieve,
I'd help you out, I've seen the life you wish to leave.
Oh well it kicks like a sleep twitch
You will choke, choke on the air you try to breathe

It kicks like a sleep twitch

Darling, oh just don't put down your guns yet
If there really was a God here
He'd have raised a hand by now
Darling, you're born, get old and die here
Well that's quite enough for me too
We'll find our own way home somehow, how, how...
It kicks like a sleep twitch
It kicks like a sleep twitch

Darling, just don't put down your guns yet
If there really was a God here
He'd have raised a hand by now
Darling, oh you're born, get old and die here
Well that's quite enough for me too
We'll find our own way home somehow,
It kicks like a sleep twitch

It kicks like a sleep twitch

Florence And The Machine name new album 'Ceremonials'

Florence And The Machine's new album is set to be titled 'Ceremonials' and released on Halloween.

According to a pre-order page for the LP on the iTunes Store, the 13-track record has an expected release date of October 31.

The page lists songs such as 'Spectrum', 'Never Let Me Go', 'Breaking Down', 'Lover To Lover' and 'No Light, No Light' as appearing on the album, along with 'What The Water Gave Me', which was recently released online as a taster track.

The LP was recorded at London's Abbey Road Studios with producer Paul Epworth, who recently tweeted there were "no weak [tracks]" on the LP. He added that it was "more stripped down" but also "much heavier" than 'Lungs'.

The iTunes Store lists the tracklisting for 'Ceremonials' as:

'Only If For The Night'
'Shake It Out'
'What The Water Gave Me'
'Never Let Me Go'
'Breaking Down'
'Lover To Lover'
'Seven Devils'
'Heartlines'
'Leave My Body'
'Spectrum'
'All This And Heaven Too''

Source: nme.com

Papa Roach - I Almost Told You That I Loved You

You know I love it when your down on your knees
And I'm a junkie for the way that you please
you shut me up when you swallow me down
My back to the wall you're going to town

I almost told you that I loved you
Thank god I didn't because it would've been a lie
I say the damnedest things, when your on top of me
I almost told you that I loved you

I hate to say it but it has to be said
You look so fragile as I fuck with your head
I know it shouldn't but it's getting me off
If sex is the drug then what is the cost

I almost told you that I loved you
Thank god I didn't because it would've been a lie
I say the damnedest things, when your on top of me
I almost told you that I loved you

I'm not the one that you want, I'm not the one that you need
My love is like a fucking disease
You can give me your hand, you can make your demands
I'm the hardest mother fucker to please

Hey hey hey
Hey hey hey
Hey hey hey
Hey hey hey
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I almost told you that I loved you
Thank god I didn't because it would've been a lie
I say the damnedest things, when your on top of me
I almost told you that I loved you

Coldplay - Clocks

The lights go out and I can't be saved
Tides that I tried to swim against
Have brought me down upon my knees
Oh I beg, I beg and plead singing

Come out of things unsaid
Shoot an apple off my head
And a trouble that can't be named
A tiger's waiting to be tamed singing

You are
You are

Confusion never stops
Closing walls and ticking clocks
Gonna come back and take you home
I could not stop that you now know singing

Come out upon my seas
Cursed missed opportunities
Am I a part of the cure?
Or am I part of the disease? Singing

You are
You are
You are
You are

You are
You are

And nothing else compares
And nothing else compares
And nothing else compares

You are
You are

Home, home where I wanted to go
Home, home where I wanted to go
Home, home where I wanted to go
Home, home where I wanted to go

Primal Scream: 'There'll be a new album next year'

Primal Scream are planning to release a new album next year.

Singer Bobby Gillespie, told NME at the weekend's Bestival on the Isle of Wight, that the band had written a number of songs for a new record which would be the follow up to 2008's 'Beautiful Future'.

Speaking in a video interview, which can be seen above, Gillespie said: "We've recorded some new music, quite a lot of new music actually and written a lot of new music."

He added: "But we've been touring this 'Screamadelica' show for such a long time. We'll continue working on [the new material] until the end of October and the winter. Hopefully we'll have a new Primal Scream album out next year."

When asked about the sound of the new material Gillespie added: "Nothing's finished, it's still a work in progress."

Source: nme.com

[Poll] Song Of The Week (5/9 - 11/9)

The nominees for song of this week are:

Clinic – If You Could Read Your Mind

Guns n’ Roses – Paradise City

Metallica – Master Of Puppets

The Coral – Dreaming Of You

Yuck – Get Away

The White Stripes – Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground

Led Zeppelin – Since I’ve Been Loving You

You can vote until next Sunday!

[Poll] Song Of The Week (29/8 - 4/9) - Results

The results for song of this week are:

The Beatles – Revolution (37.5%)

Vampire Weekend – Oxford Comma (25%)

Noah And The Whale – Love Of An Orchestra (12.5%)

Airbourne – Diamond In The Rough (6.25%)

King Creosote & Jon Hopkins – Bubble (6.25%)

The Horrible Crowes – Behold The Hurricane (6.25%)

The View – Grace (6.25%)

 

Clinic - If You Could Read Your Mind

What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old time movie
'Bout a ghost from a wishin' well

In a castle dark or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet
You know that ghost is me
And I will never be set free
As long as I'm a ghost that you can't see

If I could read your mind, love
What a tale your thoughts could tell
Just like a paperback novel
The kind that drugstores sell

When you reach the part
Where the heartaches come
The hero would be me but heroes often fail
And you won't read that book again
Because the ending's just too hard to take

I'd walk away like a movie star
Who gets burned in a three way script
Enter number two, a movie queen to play the scene
Of bringing all the good things out in me

But for now love, let's be real
I never thought I could feel this way
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
I don't know where we went wrong
But the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back

If you could read my mind, love
What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old time movie
'Bout a ghost from a wishin' well

In a castle dark or a fortress strong
With chains upon my feet
Stories always end
And if you read between the lines
You'll know that I'm just tryin' to understand
The feelin's that you lack

I never thought I could feel this way
And I've got to say that I just don't get it
I don't know where we went wrong
But the feelin's gone and I just can't get it back

What a tale my thoughts could tell
Just like an old time movie

Guns n' Roses - Paradise City

Take me down
To the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Oh, won't you please take me home

Take me down
To the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Oh, won't you please take me home

Just an urchin living under the street
I'm a hard case that's tough to beat
I'm your charity case
So buy me something to eat
I'll pay you at another time
Take it to the end of the line

Rags to riches or so they say
You got to - keep pushing for the fortune and fame you know
It's all a gamble when it's just a game
You treat it like a capital crime
Everybody's doing their time

Take me down
To the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Oh, won't you please take me home

Take me down
To the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Take me home

Strapped in the chair of the city's gas chamber
Why I'm here I can't quite remember
The surgeon general says it's hazardous to breathe
I'd have another cigarette but I can't see
Tell me who you're going to believe

Take me down
To the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Take me home

Take me down
To the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Oh, won't you please take me home

So far away (4x)

Captain America's been torn apart
Now he's a court jester with a broken heart
He said -
Turn me around and take me back to the start
I must be losing my mind -
"Are you blind?!"
I've seen it all a million times

Take me down
To the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Take me home

Take me down
To the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Oh, won't you please take me home

Take me down
To the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Take me home

Take me down
To the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Oh, won't you please take me home

I wanna go
I wanna know
Oh, won't you please take me home

I wanna see
Oh, look at me
Oh, won't you please take me home

Take me down
To the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Take me home

Take me down
To the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Oh, won't you please take me home

Take me down
Beat me down
Oh, won't you please take me home

I wanna see
Oh, look at me
Oh, won't you please take me home

I wanna see
Boy, I'm going to be mean
Oh, oh take me home

Take me down
To the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Oh, won't you please take me home

I wanna go
I wanna know
Oh, won't you please take me home
Yeah, baby
Yeah

Metallica - Master Of Puppets

End of passion play, crumbling away
I'm your source of self-destruction
Veins that pump with fear, sucking darkest clear
Leading on your deaths construction
Taste me you will see
More is all you need
Dedicated to
How I'm killing you

Come crawling faster
Obey your Master
Your life burns faster
Obey your Master
Master

Master of Puppets I'm pulling your strings
Twisting your mind, smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master

Needlework the way, never you betray
Life of death becoming clearer
Pain monopoly, ritual misery
Chop your breakfast on a mirror
Taste me you will see
More is all you need
Dedicated to
How I'm killing you

Come crawling faster
Obey your Master
Your life burns faster
Obey your Master
Master

Master of Puppets I'm pulling your strings
Twisting your mind, smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master

Master, Master, where's the dreams that I've been after?
Master, Master, you promised only lies
Laughter, laughter, all I hear or see is laughter
Laughter, laughter, laughing at my cries
Fix me!

Hell is worth all that, natural habitat
Just a rhyme without a reason
Neverending maze, Drift on numbered days
Now your life is out of season
I will occupy
I will help you die
I will run through you
Now I rule you too

Come crawling faster
Obey your Master
Your life burns faster
Obey your Master
Master

Master of Puppets I'm pulling your strings
Twisting your mind, smashing your dreams
Blinded by me, you can't see a thing
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master
Just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream
Master
Master

Nickelback announce new album 'Here And Now'

Nickelback have announced that they will release their seventh studio album 'Here And Now' on November 21.

The album, which is the follow-up to the band's 2008 sixth album 'Dark Horse', was recorded in Mountain View Studios in Vancouver and saw the band themselves acting as producers.

The band have also announced that they will preview 'Here And Now' with two singles. The tracks, which are titled 'Bottom's Up' and 'When We Stand Together', will both be released in quick succession before the LP. 'Bottom's Up' will come out on October 2, with 'When We Stand Together' following on November 6.

Frontman Chad Kroeger said of the album: "We're four people who love making music, the way we like to make it. We entered the studio this year with a vision, and it all came together. We're extremely happy with the results, and can’t wait to share them with our fans."

Source: nme.com

The Coral - Dreaming Of You

What's up with my heart when it skips a beat (skips a beat)
Can't feel no pavement right under my feet (under my feet)

Up in my lonely room
When I'm dreaming of you
Oh what can I do (wah oooo)
I still need you, but
I don't want you now

When I'm down and my hands are tied (hands are tied)
I cannot reach a pen for me to draw the line (draw the line)
From this pain I just can't disguise (can't disguise)
Its gonna hurt but I'll have to say goodbye (say goodbye)

Up in my lonely room
When I'm dreaming of you
Oh what can I do (wah oooo)
I still need you, but
I dont want you now

Oh yeah

Ohhh Ohhhhh

Up in my lonely room
When I'm dreaming of you
Oh what can I do (wah oooo)
I still need you, but
I dont want you now

Kasabian, Noel Gallagher and Radiohead named early favourites for 2012 Mercury Prize

Kasabian, Noel Gallagher and Radiohead have been named as early favourites for the 2012 Mercury Prize by bookmakers.

William Hill has published an extremely early list of potential nominees for the prize in 2012, with the Leicester band's fourth album 'Velociraptor!' named as the favourite, just ahead of the former Oasis man's solo debut 'Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds'.

Other artists named with short odds are Florence And The Machine, whose second album is due in November, Coldplay's fifth album 'Mylo Xyloto' and Mumford and Sons' forthcoming second album.

Radiohead are also ranked third favourites at 8/1, despite having only released their latest studio album 'The King Of Limbs' earlier this year and strong rumours that they will be touring in the coming months rather than recording new material.

PJ Harvey won the Barclaycard Mercury Prize for a second time on Tuesday night (September 6), taking the £20,000 cheque for her album 'Let England Shake'.

The odds for the Mercury Prize in 2012 are as follows:

Kasabian (7/1)
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds (8/1)
Radiohead (8/1)
Ed Sheeran (10/1)
Florence And The Machine (10/1)
Coldplay (12/1)
Mumford & Sons (16/1)
Rizzle Kicks (20/1)
Example (20/1)
Calvin Harris (20/1)
Wretch 32 (25/1)
Laura Marling (25/1)
Miles Kane (25/1)
Elbow (33/1)
All The Young (33/1)
Jessie J (33/1)
Professor Green (50/1)
Hard-Fi (66/1)
Charlie Simpson (80/1)

Source: nme.com

Yuck - Get Away

break it down and then break it up again
me and my guitar drowning down and down
not even the pain kicks in
tell me when the pain kicks in

oh i can't get away

panoramic view, that's one thing i won't do
no shouted abuse from the corner of my mind
not even the pain kicks in
tell me when the pain kicks in

oh i can't get away

summer sun says get out more, i need you
i want you but i can't get this feeling off my mind
i want you, i need you

i can't get away

summer sun says get out more, i need you
i want you but i can't get this feeling off my mind
i want you, i need you

The White Stripes - Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground

Dead leaves and the dirty ground
when I know you're not around
shiny tops and soda pops
when I hear your lips make a sound

Thirty notes in the mailbox
will tell you that I'm coming home
and I think I'm gonna stick around
for a while so you're not alone

If you can hear a piano fall
you can hear me coming down the hall
if I could just hear your pretty voice
I don't think I need to see at all

Soft hair and a velvet tongue
I want to give you what you give to me
and every breath that is in your lungs
is a tiny little gift to me

I didn't feel so bad till the sun went down
then I come home
no one to wrap my arms around

Well any man with a microphone
can tell you what he loves the most
and you know why you love at all
if you're thinking of the holy ghost

Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You

Working from seven to eleven every night,
It really makes life a drag, I don't think that's right.
I've really been the best, the best of fools, I did what I could, yeah.
'Cause I love you, baby, How I love you, darling, How I love you, baby,
I'm in love with you, girl, little girl.
But baby, Since I've Been Loving You, yeah.

I'm about to lose my worried mind, ah, yeah.

Everybody trying to tell me that you didn't mean me no good.
I've been trying, Lord, let me tell you, Let me tell you I really did the best I could.
I've been working from seven to eleven every night,

 I said It kinda makes my life a drag, drag, drag, drag..
Lord, yeah, that ain't right... no no
Since I've Been Loving You, I'm about to lose my worried mind.

Said I've been crying, yeah, oh my tears they fell like rain,
Don't you hear them, Don't you hear them falling,
Don't you hear them, Don't you hear them falling.

Do you remember mama, when I knocked upon your door?
I said you had the nerve to tell me you didn't want me no more, yeah
I open my front door, I hear my back door slam,
You know I must have one of them new fangled, new fangled back doors man.

I've been working from seven, seven, seven, to eleven every night

And It kinda makes my life a drag...
a drag, drag, oh yeah it makes a drag.
Baby, Since I've Been Loving You,

I'm about to lose, I'm about lose lose my worried mind.
Just One more, Just One more
Oh yeah, since I've Been Loving You, I'm gonna lose my worried mind.