Odds & Ends for 5th November 2008
The NME have announced their new Cool List for 2008, and have decided to release it online – making it the first list to not be a main article in the magazine. Who’s on the list? The top five go to Alice Glass of Crystal Castles, Jay-Z, Andrew Van Wyngarden of MGMT, Alex Turner and Sam Dust of Late Of The Pier respectively. So yes, the same mix of people with talent, people without talent and people who are there for the sake of it. However, the publication of this usually coincides with the fact there probably aren’t many scheduled releases in terms of albums for the rest of the year.
Lots of album news announced in the last couple of days. The two main ones of note are of the Manic Street Preachers and The Prodigy. The former have announced a new album will be released next year comprising solely of lyrics from the archives written by Richey Edwards, the former member of the band who disappeared more than a decade ago. The latter have revealed that collaboraters on their fifth record include Dave Grohl and James Rushent from Does It Offend You, Yeah?
Jack Bruce, like a lot of people it seems right now, is fed up of the Led Zeppelin tour talk. The bassist of Cream has come out and blasted the 70s rock band, saying that:
Everybody talks about Led Zeppelin [reforming], and they played one fucking gig – one fucking lame gig – while Cream did weeks of gigs [during their 2005 reunion]; proper gigs, not just a lame gig like Zeppelin did, with all the [vocal] keys lowered and everything. We played everything in the original keys.
Fuck off, Zeppelin, you’re crap. You’ve always been crap and you’ll never be anything else. The worst thing is that people believe the crap that they’re sold. Cream is 10 times the band that Led Zeppelin is.
The mental asylum awaits…
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Posted on November 5th, 2008 by Max
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