Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Gang Of Four: 'Red Hot Chili Peppers based their career on ours'

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Gang Of Four guitarist Andy Gill has said he believes the Red Hot Chili Peppers have based their career on his band.

Gill, speaking ahead of the band's Shockwaves NME Awards Show at London's Heaven on February 2, said that the US band had even acknowledged the debt they owe to the British indie legends in the past.

"The Red Hot Chili Peppers have obviously based their career on Gang Of Four and they’d admit that," he told the Metro.

Gill, who produced Red Hot Chili Peppers' eponymous 1984 debut album, added: "The guitar on their single 'Can't Stop' was directly from one of our early songs and when I heard it I thought, 'That’s going a bit far'. I bumped into [Chilis bassist] Flea at a party and he said, 'Andy, I just don't understand why you've never sued us'."

Gill also spoke about being inspired by the wave of new bands in 2004 that cited them as an influence, saying: "We reconvened in 2004 and all these bands suddenly came along that sounded like us - Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party, The Rapture – that’s definitely added a new bunch of fans."

The band's new album, 'Content', is out now.

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Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian up for Shockwaves NME Awards 2011

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Arcade Fire, Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian, Foals and Biffy Clyro are among the acts nominated for this year's Shockwaves NME Awards.

The full nominations list for the honours are listed below – voting is open now at NME.COM/awards.

The winners will be announced at the ceremony at the O2 Academy Brixton on February 23.

Foals have five nominations in total, including nods for Best British Band and Best Album, while Arcade Fire are nominated for four.

Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian and Biffy Clyro are also up for the Best British Band honour, along with last year's winners Muse.

Along with Muse, Arctic Monkeys, Kasabian, Paramore and Bombay Bicycle Club were among the winners at last year's ceremony.

Dave Grohl is set to be crowned Godllike Genius at this year's event. He's then set to headline the NME Awards Big Gig with Foo Fighters on February 25 at London Wembley Arena, with Cee Lo Green, Band Of Horses and No Age also on the bill.

The nominations for the Shockwaves NME Awards 2011 are:

Best British Band (supported by Shockwaves)
Arctic Monkeys
Biffy Clyro
Foals
Kasabian
Muse
(Last year's winner: Muse)

Best International Band (supported by T4)
Arcade Fire
Kings Of Leon
My Chemical Romance
The Drums
Vampire Weekend
(Last year's winner: Paramore)

Best Solo Artist
Florence Welch
Frank Turner
Kanye West
Laura Marling
Paul Weller
(Last year's winner: Jamie T)

Best New Band (supported by Boxfresh)
Beady Eye
Everything Everything
Hurts
The Drums
Two Door Cinema Club
(Last year's winner: Bombay Bicycle Club)

Best Live Band
Arcade Fire
Biffy Clyro
Foals
Kasabian
Muse
(Last year's winner: Arctic Monkeys)

Best Album
Arcade Fire – 'The Suburbs'
Crystal Castles – 'Crystal Castles II'
Foals – 'Total Life Forever'
My Chemical Romance – 'Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys'
Two Door Cinema Club – 'Tourist History'
(Last year's winner: Kasabian's 'West Ryder Lunatic Pauper Asylum')

Best Track (supported by NME Radio)
Cee Lo Green – 'Fuck You'
Foals – 'Spanish Sahara'
Gorillaz – 'Stylo'
Janelle Monae (featuring Big Boi) – 'Tightrope'
Mark Ronson & The Business Intl – 'Bang Bang Bang'
(Last year's winner: The Big Pink's 'Dominos')

Best Video (supported by NME TV)
Arcade Fire – 'We Used To Wait'
Brandon Flowers – ‘Crossfire'
Chase & Status – 'Let You Go'
Gorillaz – 'Stylo'
My Chemical Romance – 'Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)'
(Last year: Biffy Clyro's 'The Captain')

Best Festival
Download
Glastonbury
Reading And Leeds Festivals
T In The Park
V Festival
(Last year's winner: Glastonbury)

Best Dancefloor Filler
Crystal Castles – 'Baptism'
Kele – 'Tenderoni'
Plan B – 'Stayed Too Long'
Professor Green – 'Jungle'
Tinie Tempah – 'Pass Out'
(Last year's winner: La Roux's 'In For The Kill' (Skream remix))

Best TV Show
Misfits
Never Mind The Buzzcocks
Peep Show
Skins
The Inbetweeners
(Last year's winner: The Inbetweeners)

Best Film
Get Him To The Greek
Inception
Kick-Ass
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
The Social Network
(Last year's winner: Inglourious Basterds)

Hero Of The Year
Gerard Way
Julian Assange
Lady Gaga
Kanye West
(Last year: Rage Against The Machine)

Villain Of The Year
Axl Rose
David Cameron
Justin Bieber
Nick Clegg
Simon Cowell
(Last year's 'winner': Kanye West)

Most Stylish (supported by Shockwaves)
Brandon Flowers
Hayley Williams
Lady Gaga
Liam Gallagher
Noel Fielding
(Last year's winner: Lady Gaga)

Least Stylish
Cheryl Cole
Justin Bieber
Ke$ha
Lady Gaga
Liam Gallagher
(Last year's 'winner': Lady Gaga)

Worst Album
Cheryl Cole – 'Messy Little Raindrops'
Justin Bieber – 'My World'
Katy Perry – 'Teenage Dream'
Kings Of Leon – 'Come Around Sundown'
My Chemical Romance – 'Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys'
(Last year's 'winner': Jonas Brothers)

Worst Band
30 Seconds To Mars
JLS
Jonas Brothers
Kings Of Leon
Tokio Hotel
(Last year's 'winner': Jonas Brothers)

Best Band Blog or Twitter
Frank Turner
Hayley Williams
Kanye West
Lily Allen
Theo Hutchcraft

Best Book
Carl Barât – 'Threepenny Memoir'
Jay-Z – 'Decoded'
John Lydon – 'Mr Rotten’s Scrapbook'
Keith Richards – 'Life'
Russell Brand – 'My Booky Wook 2'

Best Small Festival (50,000 capacity or lower)
Bestival
Kendal Calling
Latitude
RockNess
Underage Festival

Best Album Artwork
Foals – 'Total Life Forever'
Gorillaz – 'Plastic Beach'
Klaxons – 'Surfing The Void'
MGMT – 'Congratulations'
My Chemical Romance – 'Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys'
(Last year's winner : Kasabian's 'West Ryder Lunatic Pauper Asylum')

Hottest Woman
Alison Mosshart
Emily Haines
Hayley Williams
Lady Gaga
Shakira
(Last year's winner: Karen O)

Hottest Man
Alex Turner
Billie Joe Armstrong
Dominic Howard
Jared Leto
Matt Bellamy
(Last year's winner: Matt Bellamy)

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Sunday, January 23, 2011

Amy Winehouse records duet with Cee Lo Green

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Amy Winehouse has reportedly recorded a duet with Cee Lo Green for her new album.

The Daily Star claims that the pair recorded the song in St Lucia, where the singer owns a house, and where Cee Lo was recording with producer Salaam Remi

The tabloid quotes an anonymous source as saying: "Amy has a house in St Lucia and decided to fly out. She and Cee Lo just clicked and he said he wouldn’t leave the island until the track was done."

The paper also claimed that Winehouse has completed work on the album, which will be her first since 2006's 'Back To Black'.

Cee Lo Green will be performing at the NME Awards Big Gig at Wembley Arena on February 25, where he is on the bill with Foo Fighters, Band Of Horses and No Age.

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Thursday, January 20, 2011

Mötley Crüe's Vince Neil jailed for drink-driving

Motley Crue singer Vince Neil has been sentenced to two weeks in jail after admitting to a drink-driving charge.

The frontman, who was arrested after being stopped in his Lamborghini in Las Vegas last June, has agreed to a deal where he will spend two weeks in a Las Vegas jail and then two further weeks under house arrest.

According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, Neil has agreed to the plea deal and will begin his sentence on February 15. He will plead guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol at Las Vegas Justice Court on January 26.

Neil said: "I have recognised that you can't drink and drive at all. I take full responsibility for my actions and will learn from this experience."

This will be the second time Neil has served jail time for drink-driving. The first was in 1984 when he was incarcerated for 30 days for vehicular manslaughter after losing control of a car and crashing into an oncoming vehicle.

Former Hanoi Rocks drummer Nicholas Dingley, who was in the passenger seat, was killed in the incident and the two occupants of the other car were seriously injured and suffered brain damage.

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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Plan B headlining Ibiza and Majorca Rocks opening nights - ticket details

Plan B is to headline the opening nights of Ibiza Rocks and Majorca Rocks this summer.

The rapper-turned-singer will headline Majorca Rocks on May 31 and Ibiza Rocks on June 1, with both shows taking place in the grounds of the hotels.

Plan B's two shows will be the first of 17 weekly gigs at each venue throughout the summer.

Ibiza Rocks featured sets from acts including The Prodigy, Calvin Harris and Maximo Park in 2010. For more details head to Ibizarocks.com.

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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Arcade Fire and Mumford And Sons to perform at Brit Awards

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Arcade Fire, Mumford and Sons and Cee Lo Green have been confirmed to perform at the Brit Awards ceremony next month.

The ceremony, which takes place on February 15 at London's O2 Arena, will also feature performances from Plan B, Adele, Rihanna, Tinie Tempah and Take That.

Both Arcade Fire and Mumford and Sons did well in last week's Brit Award nominations, with the Canadian band up for International Group and the International Album. The British folk rockers, meanwhile, are up for the British Breakthrough Act, British Group and British Album Of The Year awards.

See Brits.co.uk for more details and to see the full list of nominees.

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Monday, January 17, 2011

Kasabian's Tom Meighan to star in sitcom with Marco Pierre White

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Kasabian's Tom Meighan  

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Kasabian's Tom Meighan has signed up to act in a new British sitcom about wrestling.

Walk Like A Panther will also star This Is England actor Stephen Graham, with TV chef Marco Pierre White set for a cameo appearance.

Meighan will play a wannabe wrestler in the '70s-set comedy, which has been independently funded and not signed up by a TV station yet, reports The Sun.

The newspaper reports an anonymous source as saying: "The cast has been assembled thanks to that nostalgia and the love of gritty northern humour."

Last year the singer's Kasabian bandmate Serge Pizzorno said he was writing music to accompany the show.

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Rihanna and Bruno Mars top the UK albums and singles charts

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Rihanna and Bruno Mars have topped the UK albums and singles chart respectively tonight (January 16).

Rihanna's 'Loud' held onto the Number One spot in the albums chart, with Plan B's 'The Defamation Of Strickland Banks' at Number Two. British Sea Power's new effort 'Valhalla Dancehall' went in at Number 22.

Meanwhile, Bruno Mars' new single 'Grenade' went in at Number One in the UK singles chart, holding off Jessie J's 'Do It Like A Dude', which is at Number Two. Rihanna also features strongly, with 'What's My Name?' at Number Three and Katy B's 'Lights On' at Number Four.

The Top Ten UK singles are:

1. Bruno Mars - 'Grenade'
2. Jessie J - 'Do It Like A Dude'
3. Rihanna - 'What's My Name?'
4. Katy B - 'Lights On'
5. Matt Cardle - 'When We Collide'
6. David Guetta - 'Who's That Chick?'
7. Adele - 'Make You Feel My Love'
8. The Black Eyed Peas - 'The Time (Dirty Bit)'
9. Far East Movement - 'Like A G6'
10. JLS - 'Eyes Wide Shut'

The Top Ten UK albums are:

1. Rihanna - 'Loud'
2. Plan B - 'The Defamation Of Strickland Banks'
3. Cee Lo Green - 'The Lady Killer'
4. Rumer - 'Seasons Of My Soul'
5. Mumford & Sons - 'Sigh No More'
6. Adele - '19'
7. Ellie Goulding - 'Lights'
8. Tinie Tempah - 'Disc-Overy'
9. Eliza Doolittle - 'Eliza Doolittle'
10. Take That - 'Progress'

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Saturday, January 15, 2011

X-Ray Spex's Poly Styrene to release new solo album in March

Former X-Ray Spex frontwoman Poly Styrene is set to release a new solo album.

'Generation Indigo', out on March 28, has been produced by Youth (The Verve, The View, Oasis).

'Generation Indigo''s tracklisting is:

'I Luv Ur Sneakers'
'Virtual Boyfriend'
'Generation Indigo'
'Kitsch'
'White Gold'
'L.U.V.'
'Ghoulish'
'Code Pink Dub'
'Colour Blind'
'Thrash City'
'No Rockefeller'
'Electric Blue Monsoon'

See Poly-styrene.com for more information.

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Sunday, January 9, 2011

Chris Martin: 'Coldplay's new album is about OCD and addiction'

Coldplay's Chris Martin has revealed the band's new album will be about "love, addiction [and] OCD".

Speaking to Radio 1, the frontman explained that the album, the band's fifth, will be inspired by "working for someone you don't like".

However, Martin appeared to contradict comments he made to BBC News about the album last month by denying that the band are working on a "concept album".

Discussing the album in December, he stated: "It's a concept album but it's supposed to be very personal within a big framework".

However, he has now claimed it will instead be a "thinly veiled account of what happens within the group".

"It's supposed to be about life, the good stuff and the bad stuff. Everything," Martin said.

The band have spent the past year working with Brian Eno and producer Marcus Dravs on sessions for the follow-up to 2008's 'Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends'.

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Thursday, January 6, 2011

Courtney Love sued by fashion designer over Twitter rants

Courtney Love is being sued by a fashion designer over comments made on Twitter.

The Hole singer, who is a prolific user of Twitter, posted a series of tweets criticising fashion designer Dawn Simorangkir via her page, " target="_blank">Twitter.com/courtneyloveuk.

Love has allegedly accused Simorangkir of being a drug-pushing prostitute with a history of assault and battery who lost custody of her own child. Love wrote: "She has received a vast amount of money from me over $40,000 dollars and I do not make people famous and get raped too!"

Speaking to Thehollywoodreporter.com, Bryan Freedman, who is representing Simorangkir, admitted: "There has never been anything like this case before."

Freedman hopes to prove that Love has been defamatory towards Simorangkir and force the singer to pay her substantial compensation for damages. Love's lawyer, James Janowitz said: "We don't believe there's any defamation, and even if there were defamatory statements, there was no damage."

The trial is scheduled to begin in Los Angeles on January 18.

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Wednesday, January 5, 2011

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Paul McCartney {wrote|has written} to ask Indian {PM|Prime Minister} Manmohan Singh to declare a national Vegetarian Day in the country.



{McCartney|There ex-Beatle} urged Prime Minister Singh to introduce the meat-free day in order to celebrate compassion towards animals, reports the Press Association.





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McCartney has been a vegetarian activist since the mid-1970s, when he and his then-wife Linda both gave up meat.





In 2003 it was estimated by the UN food agency that 42 per cent of India's 1.2 billion population were vegetarian.





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Rolling Stones reunite with Bill Wyman in the studio

The Rolling Stones have reunited with their former bassist Bill Wyman to record a tribute song in honour of their late pianist Ian Stewart.

The song, a cover of Bob Dylan's 'Watching The River Flow', is set to be included on a tribute album for Stewart, who died of a heart attack in 1985. He had played and recorded with the band since their inception in 1962.

Fansite Iorr.org reports that the Dylan cover features "all Rolling Stones members including Bill Wyman". Original member Wyman left The Rolling Stones in 1992.

The album, which is called 'Boogie For Stu', has been helmed by pianist Ben Waters. It also features a contribution from his cousin, PJ Harvey, reports Spinnermusic.co.uk.

Waters has previously confirmed that Keith Richards plays on three tracks on the album, which is out in March.

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Monday, January 3, 2011

Muse have had 'real discussions' about playing gig in space

Muse's Matt Bellamy has said that the band have had "real" discussions about the possibility of playing a gig in space.

The frontman said that although his plan seemed rather ambitious, he hoped that technology would allow the Devon three-piece a shot at performing a show in orbit one day.

"We've had some discussions about playing in space," he told The Sun. "Sometimes very coherent conversations and sometimes very late at night, but it's for real."

Bellamy explained that although the trio hadn't started any astronaut training quite yet, he had started thinking about ways of going about getting the gig off the ground.

"I'm thinking of approaching Richard Branson to see if we could do it on his [Virgin Galactic] spacecraft he's got happening," he said. "Although we do have a lot of equipment, so I guess we'd have to use pods to carry our stuff and we'd scale back the shows a lot."

He added: "I do think it will be possible in the future and I'm sure it will happen in my lifetime. We'd love to be part of that."

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