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

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

Noel Gallagher - If I Had A Gun (new song)

You can hear the new song, "If I Had A Gun", from the upcoming album, "Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds", by going to this link: http://www.nme.com/news/noel-gallaghers-high-flying-birds/58937

The track is the second to emerge from the guitarist's solo album, which is due for release on October 17, and follows the release of his first single 'The Death Of You And Me', which charted at Number Nine in the UK singles chart on Sunday (August 28).

The album, which features a number of tracks that were written during his years as a member of Oasis, will be released through Gallagher's own Sour Mash Records.

The LP was recorded over the past year in London and Los Angeles with producer Dave Sardy.

A second album, recorded with psychedelic collective Amorphous Androgynous, is due to come out sometime in 2012.

Source: nme.com

Noel Gallagher - The Good Rebel (new song)

Noel Gallagher tour sells out in six minutes

Tickets for the first ever run of dates from Noel Gallagher's solo project, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, have sold out in just six minutes.

Going on sale at 9am today (August 5), tickets for the shows in Dublin, Edinburgh, and London, which are set to take place this October, went at lightning pace.

Interestingly, the shows have sold out quicker than the debut tour of his brother Liam's Beady Eye. Tickets for the first six Beady Eye dates last November took half an hour to sell out, reports Contact Music.

Source: nme.com

Noel Gallagher - The Death Of You And Me (new song - video + lyrics)

The Chief is back with a great song, "The Death Of You And Me". You can listen to this new song and watch the video below.

High tide, summer in the city,

The kids are looking pretty,

But isn't it a pity,

That the sunshine is followed by thunder,

And thoughts of going under,

And is it any wonder,

When is calling out to me.

I seem to spend my whole life running,

From people who would be,

The death of you and me,

'Cause I can feel the storm clouds,

Sucking up my soul.

High tide, life is getting faster,

No one has the answer,

I try to face the day now in a new way
The bottom of the bottom
'Cause every man's a puzzle

Let's run away together you and me,
Forever we'd be free,
Free to spend our whole lives running,
From people who would be,
The death of you and me,
'Cause I can feel the storm clouds,
Sucking up my soul.

Let's run away to sea,
Forever we'd be free,
Free to spend our whole lives running,
From people who would be,
The death of you and me,
'Cause I can feel the storm clouds coming.

I'm watching my TV,
Or is it watching me?
I see another new day dawning,
It's rising over me, with my mortality,
And I can feel the storm clouds,
Sucking up my soul.

Noel Gallagher First Interview (NME July 20th 2011)

Noel Gallagher - The Death Of You And Me (cover + b-side)

The image above is the cover of the first single taken from Noel Gallagher's debut album, "High Flying Birds".

This single will feature the song "The Good Rebel".

Noel Gallagher: 'Amorphous Androgynous collaboration is fucking far out'

Noel Gallagher has admitted that his second solo album, which is due for release next summer, is "fucking far out."

The album, which doesn’t have a title as yet, is a collaboration with psychedelic collective Amorphous Androgynous and the ex-Oasis man has said that it takes in genres that he would have stayed well clear of in his days with his former band.

Speaking at a press conference to launch his solo career yesterday (July 6), he said of the album: "It’s fucking far out. It’s got like 18 tracks on it, some of it's kraut rock, some of it's soul, some of it's funk and that’s just the first song."

Gallagher added that he would not be playing any songs from the album on his October tour, choosing instead to focus on material from his first solo album 'Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds' and on Oasis songs.

He said of playing his second solo album live: "The second album’s not going to come out until as I understand it next summer anyway and I stress again that it's far out. I don’t really want to put the kids through it at the moment."

The guitarist’s first solo album will be released on October 17, he tours the UK and Ireland a week later.

Source: nme.com

Noel Gallagher - High Flying Birds (new album)

Noel Gallagher has just announced that he will release his first solo album on October 17 and it will be called "High Flying Birds". This album will include some "lost" songs of the time he was in Oasis, like "Stop The Clocks", "(I Wanna Live In A Dream In My) Record Machine" and "Everybody's On The Run".

Tracklisting:

Everybody's On The Run
Dream On
If I Had A Gun...
The Death Of You And Me
(I Wanna Live In A Dream In My) Record Machine
AKA...What A Life!
Soldier Boys And Jesus Freaks
AKA...Broken Arrow
(Stranded On) The Wrong Beach
Stop The Clocks

Noel also announced that he already has a second album recorded and it will be released in 2012. This album is the result of the British musician with Amorphous Androgynous.

'High Flying Birds' was recorded in London and completed in Los Angeles during 2010 and the first half of this year.

It features ten new songs and was produced by Gallagher and Dave Sardy. The album includes guest appearances from the Crouch End Festival Chorus and The Wired Strings.

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will tour this autumn.

Noel Gallagher solo album release details to be announced at press conference on July 6th 2011

Noel Gallagher has officially confirmed that he will be holding a press conference on Wednesday July 6^th 2011 to unveil all the details regarding his debut solo album release. Almost two years since Oasis split up, the man himself is ready to rock once again but this time flying solo without his brother Liam on lead vocals. This will come as extremely exciting news for Oasis and Gallagher fans alike.

In recent months, Noel Gallagher is believed to have been recording his album in Los Angeles. Click here to view this article. He has also been rumoured to have recorded the official video for his first solo single which is apparently titled ‘The Death Of You And Me’. Click here to view this article. Click here for previous articles regarding Noel Gallagher.

Source: nme.com

Noel Gallagher in talks to write Manchester City's FA Cup Final song

Noel Gallagher has hinted that he's going to write Manchester City's FA Cup Final charity song.

The former Oasis leader said the Eastlands club called him recently to "bounce a few ideas" off him about a "Band Aid-style" tune.

"If they asked seriously I don’t know. Let’s wait till they ask," the guitarist told the Daily Star Sunday.
The newspaper quoted a City 'source' who said having Gallagher involved in the song would make "a lot of sense".

Ex-Smiths and Cribs guitarist Johnny Marr and former boxer Ricky Hatton are among the other Blues thought to be in line to appear on the track.

City's opponents in the May 15 Wembley Stadium showpiece Stoke City are also apparently in talks with Tom Jones to sing their own ditty.

The Potters want the Welsh singer to revamp his 1968 track 'Delilah, which is a favourite among their fans.

A spokesman for the club commented: "The song is sung by supporters at every game, home and away, and in particular when we score a goal."


Source: NME.com

Noel Gallagher recording new songs

Noel Gallagher, according to You At Me Six singer, is working on new songs in Los Angeles. He said on Twitter: "Can hear Noel from Oasis blasting his new tunes from the studio next door," he wrote. "Absolutely mental."

Previously this week, the Oasis fan site "Oasis News" said that Noel will release his debut solo single in September and will release his solo album by the end of this year.