After being out of the business for 10 years, the legendary alternative rock/metal supergroup Faith No More have reformed for a 2009 European Tour which has extended past that one continent and onto the rest of the world – inlcuding their beloved Australia. Making an appearance, is not enough – they're the premier headliners and deservingly so for their contribution to alternative rock during the 80s. Will we see a bigger set of headliners that Soundwave 2011? I darn hope so because it would be a pretty massive feat to champ over Faith No More, Jimmy Eat World and Paramore!
1.Midnight Cowboy
2.The Real Thing
3.Land of Sunshine
4.Be Aggressive
5.Caffiene
6.Evidence
7.Surprise! You're Dead!
8.Last Cup of Sorrow
9.Ricochet
10.Epic
11.Midlife Crisis
12.RV
13.The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
14.King for a Day
15.Ashes to Ashes
16.Just A Man
17.Chariots of Time
18.Stripsearch
19.We Care A Lot
20.Pristine
Confirmed Act 4: Faith No More
20 February 2010
Comments: (0)Labels: alternative metal, Alternative Rock, faith no more, Soundwave 2010
BRIT Awards
Britain is gaga for Lady Gaga.
The fashion-forward pop diva scored three BRIT Awards -- England's equivalent of the Grammys -- Tuesday night during a ceremony at London's Earls Court, where she also delivered an emotional tribute to her friend Alexander McQueen, the fashion icon who died last week.
"Thank you to Lee McQueen," Gaga said, her voice cracking, as she accepted the award for Best International Album for The Fame. She also won for Best International Female Artist and Best International Breakthrough Act. [Via Billboard]
Other big winners at the ceremony included Jay-Z, who beat out Bruce Springsteen and Eminem, among others, to score Best International Male; British Female Solo Artist winner Lily Allen; rapper Dizzee Rascal, who scored British Male Solo Artist; indie rockers Kasabian, landing the British Group statue; and Florence and the Machine, SPIN faves who won the most sought-after prize for their release Lungs: Best British Album!
On behalf of defunct Britpop legends Oasis, former singer Liam Gallagher accepted the BRIT Album of 30 Years award for their 1995 release (What's the Story) Morning Glory?. Liam snubbed his brother Noel -- a fight between the kin broke up the band in August -- opting to exclude him from his acceptance speech, which included thank-yous to random ex members.
"The best band in the ******* world -- live forever," Liam added before tossing his mic into the audience and walking off stage.
And, like the Grammys, the BRITs were heavy on performances. Gaga, in a white lace dress and a gigantic wig, took to the piano for "Telephone" and "Dance In The Dark"; Jay-Z and Alicia Keys sang their super hit "Empire State Of Mind"; and Florence and the Machine and Dizzee Rascal mashed up their songs "You Got The Love" and "Dirtee Cash," respectively, with the help of harpists and a lot of glitter. Florence even emerged from a giant disco ball during the performance.
British Male Solo Artist
Dizzee Rascal
British Female Solo Artist
Lily Allen
British Breakthrough Act (Winner chosen by Radio 1 listeners)
JLS
British Group
Kasabian
British Album
Florence & the Machine Lungs
British Single
(Winner selected by U.K. commercial radio listeners) JLS "Beat Again"
International Male Solo Artist
Jay-Z
International Female Solo Artist
Lady Gaga
International Breakthrough Act
Lady Gaga (Winner chosen by MTV viewers)
International Album
Lady Gaga The Fame (Interscope/Universal Music)
BRITs Album of 30 Years
Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (Winner chosen by Radio 2 & 6 Music listeners)
BRITS Performance of 30 Years
Spice Girls
Critics' Choice
Ellie Goulding
Producer
Paul Epworth
___________
The fashion-forward pop diva scored three BRIT Awards -- England's equivalent of the Grammys -- Tuesday night during a ceremony at London's Earls Court, where she also delivered an emotional tribute to her friend Alexander McQueen, the fashion icon who died last week.
"Thank you to Lee McQueen," Gaga said, her voice cracking, as she accepted the award for Best International Album for The Fame. She also won for Best International Female Artist and Best International Breakthrough Act. [Via Billboard]
Other big winners at the ceremony included Jay-Z, who beat out Bruce Springsteen and Eminem, among others, to score Best International Male; British Female Solo Artist winner Lily Allen; rapper Dizzee Rascal, who scored British Male Solo Artist; indie rockers Kasabian, landing the British Group statue; and Florence and the Machine, SPIN faves who won the most sought-after prize for their release Lungs: Best British Album!
On behalf of defunct Britpop legends Oasis, former singer Liam Gallagher accepted the BRIT Album of 30 Years award for their 1995 release (What's the Story) Morning Glory?. Liam snubbed his brother Noel -- a fight between the kin broke up the band in August -- opting to exclude him from his acceptance speech, which included thank-yous to random ex members.
"The best band in the ******* world -- live forever," Liam added before tossing his mic into the audience and walking off stage.
And, like the Grammys, the BRITs were heavy on performances. Gaga, in a white lace dress and a gigantic wig, took to the piano for "Telephone" and "Dance In The Dark"; Jay-Z and Alicia Keys sang their super hit "Empire State Of Mind"; and Florence and the Machine and Dizzee Rascal mashed up their songs "You Got The Love" and "Dirtee Cash," respectively, with the help of harpists and a lot of glitter. Florence even emerged from a giant disco ball during the performance.
British Male Solo Artist
Dizzee Rascal
British Female Solo Artist
Lily Allen
British Breakthrough Act (Winner chosen by Radio 1 listeners)
JLS
British Group
Kasabian
British Album
Florence & the Machine Lungs
British Single
(Winner selected by U.K. commercial radio listeners) JLS "Beat Again"
International Male Solo Artist
Jay-Z
International Female Solo Artist
Lady Gaga
International Breakthrough Act
Lady Gaga (Winner chosen by MTV viewers)
International Album
Lady Gaga The Fame (Interscope/Universal Music)
BRITs Album of 30 Years
Oasis (What's the Story) Morning Glory? (Winner chosen by Radio 2 & 6 Music listeners)
BRITS Performance of 30 Years
Spice Girls
Critics' Choice
Ellie Goulding
Producer
Paul Epworth
___________
OK Go News
If any band knows the power of viral videos, it’s OK Go. Five years ago, the band broke through when clips for “A Million Ways” and “Here It Goes Again” (the “treadmill” video) were passed around the Web. The band assumed the same would be the case for the first two videos from its new Of the Blue Colour of the Sky album (for “WTF” and “This Too Shall Pass”). But that was before the music business began groping for any additional ways to generate income in light of plummeting CD sales.
Thanks to a 2006 agreement between Google and the major labels, the two clips are officially confined to MySpace and YouTube and can’t be posted anywhere else. In the Google arrangement, which was renewed with the labels last year, the four majors receive at least 50 percent of ad revenue based on streams of videos on YouTube.
OK Go’s response? Go around the system. In an open letter to fans posted on the band’s site on January 18, singer-guitarist Damien Kulash explained the situation — and then provided a code so that bloggers and fans can embed both videos on their own sites. “We’ll put ‘em up anywhere we can,” says Kulash. “Our label is unlikely to start suing us for putting our videos up.” OK Go plans to make at least four more videos from Of the Blue Colour of the Sky, including one in which Kulash will be thrown across a room in a giant slingshot.
According to Kulash, OK Go didn’t realize the restrictions until angry fan e-mails began arriving at the band’s Website. “It’s kind of a stupid decision,” says Kulash. “It doesn’t matter all that much to me if people are passing around our videos on one platform over another. But if the casual person who just wants to stick it up on their Facebook page can’t embed it, they send you a nasty comment and move on. You’ve just lost the two to 200 people who might have read that page.”
Although EMI declined to comment (but did not dispute Kulash’s claims), a YouTube spokesman confirms that the label made the decision to prevent those particular videos from being embedded elsewhere. OK Go manager Jamie Kitman says the band asked the label if they could skirt around the rules. “But they said, ‘That’s the policy — what can we do?’” he says. “It’s unthinkable to us that they wouldn’t want to spread videos virally, but they have a corporate policy.”
Kulash says he understands the industry’s rationale. “As fucked up as the industry is, it does provide investment money for bands,” he says. “For them to continue to do that, they do need some income.” But he also says that’s about all he comprehends about streaming videos and additional income. “Basically I have no ******* idea how it works. The last accounting we saw said that for 600,000 streams, we got $31. How can that be worth this?”
Thanks to a 2006 agreement between Google and the major labels, the two clips are officially confined to MySpace and YouTube and can’t be posted anywhere else. In the Google arrangement, which was renewed with the labels last year, the four majors receive at least 50 percent of ad revenue based on streams of videos on YouTube.
OK Go’s response? Go around the system. In an open letter to fans posted on the band’s site on January 18, singer-guitarist Damien Kulash explained the situation — and then provided a code so that bloggers and fans can embed both videos on their own sites. “We’ll put ‘em up anywhere we can,” says Kulash. “Our label is unlikely to start suing us for putting our videos up.” OK Go plans to make at least four more videos from Of the Blue Colour of the Sky, including one in which Kulash will be thrown across a room in a giant slingshot.
According to Kulash, OK Go didn’t realize the restrictions until angry fan e-mails began arriving at the band’s Website. “It’s kind of a stupid decision,” says Kulash. “It doesn’t matter all that much to me if people are passing around our videos on one platform over another. But if the casual person who just wants to stick it up on their Facebook page can’t embed it, they send you a nasty comment and move on. You’ve just lost the two to 200 people who might have read that page.”
Although EMI declined to comment (but did not dispute Kulash’s claims), a YouTube spokesman confirms that the label made the decision to prevent those particular videos from being embedded elsewhere. OK Go manager Jamie Kitman says the band asked the label if they could skirt around the rules. “But they said, ‘That’s the policy — what can we do?’” he says. “It’s unthinkable to us that they wouldn’t want to spread videos virally, but they have a corporate policy.”
Kulash says he understands the industry’s rationale. “As fucked up as the industry is, it does provide investment money for bands,” he says. “For them to continue to do that, they do need some income.” But he also says that’s about all he comprehends about streaming videos and additional income. “Basically I have no ******* idea how it works. The last accounting we saw said that for 600,000 streams, we got $31. How can that be worth this?”
Confirmed Act 3:The Get Up Kids
After what was 5 or so years of rather good success and the influence they put on other pop-punk and emo bands to the day – even such as superstars Fall Out Boy and pulled-out act of Soundwave 2010, My Chemical Romance, and their further stint with more meaningful and productive pop-punk group, The New Amsterdams, they will be sure to bring out a lot of ranging songs and the setlist will be hard to predict. Obviously, fans love their breakthrough record – Something To Write Home About, but of course the other records will be cover, seeing their 10 year absence has brought tears to many fans.
1.Holiday
2.I'm A Loner Dottie, A Rebel
3.The One You Want
4.Coming Clean
5.Overdue
6.Woodson
7.Your Petty Pretty Little Things
8.No Love
9.Off The Wagon
10.Valentine
11.Red Letter Day
12.Campfire Kansas
13.Holy Roman
14.Mass Pike
15.Action & Action
16.Walking On A Wire
17.Long Goodnight
18.Don't Hate Me
19.I'll Catch You
20.Ten Minutes
1.Holiday
2.I'm A Loner Dottie, A Rebel
3.The One You Want
4.Coming Clean
5.Overdue
6.Woodson
7.Your Petty Pretty Little Things
8.No Love
9.Off The Wagon
10.Valentine
11.Red Letter Day
12.Campfire Kansas
13.Holy Roman
14.Mass Pike
15.Action & Action
16.Walking On A Wire
17.Long Goodnight
18.Don't Hate Me
19.I'll Catch You
20.Ten Minutes
Confirmed Act 2: Paramore
After only a limited time in the popular music industry, the alternative rock group, Paramore, have taken the world by storm, with a suprisingly similar composition of band members to Blondie. Nevertheless, their success is accentuated by the female vocals, giving a different but vibrant shock to the standard listener. Their 2009 hit album, Brand New Eyes, puts it among the Top 10 rock albums of 2009 and deservingly so, get the nod with a 45 minute set at Eastern Creek Raceway at Soundwave 2010. Again, hopefully to promote their new record as widely purchased as it was by Australians, their new catchy track will rock Australia this summer with singles and “should-be” singles Ignorance, Turn It Off and Playing God. I'm very interested to see what else they might pull out for Australia.
1.Ignorance
2.crushcrushcrush
3.That's What Your get
4.Looking Up
5.Careful
6.Let The Flames Begin
7.Never Let This Go
8.The Only Exception
9.Pressure
10.For A Pessimist, I'm Pretty Optimistic
11.Where The Lines Overlap
12.Decode
13.Misery Business
14.Brick By Boring Brick
1.Ignorance
2.crushcrushcrush
3.That's What Your get
4.Looking Up
5.Careful
6.Let The Flames Begin
7.Never Let This Go
8.The Only Exception
9.Pressure
10.For A Pessimist, I'm Pretty Optimistic
11.Where The Lines Overlap
12.Decode
13.Misery Business
14.Brick By Boring Brick
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