Metallica - Death Magnetic

Metallica confirmed the tracklist for their Rick Rubin produced September release ‘Death Magnetic’. The hirsute cover image was unveiled weeks ago at Mission Metallica (!) and is supposed to be iron filings in magnetic fields - presumably death magnetic fields. ROCK!

In a world first, songs from Death Magnetic will be available to download and play on Guitar Hero III the day the album is released. DOUBLE ROCK!

You can even buy a cool box set, shaped like a coffin! That’s less ROCK than I’d hoped. Really should have thought that one through. Anyway, the Tracklist:

“That Was Just Your Life”
“The End Of The Line”
“Broken, Beat & Scarred”
“The Day That Never Comes”
“All Nightmare Long”
“Cyanide”
“The Unforgiven III”  (TRIPLE ROCK!)
“The Judas Kiss”
“Suicide & Redemption”
“My Apocalypse” 

The thing is, I’m quite happy that they’ve gone all out 80’s. That whole ‘work through your anger’ nonsense has no place in ROCK!. Only ROCK belongs in ROCK!

So lets ROCK!

_anticipation - VANSHE MIX

Got an email from MODULAR this arvo, stoking my already red hot anticiation of the upcoming VAN SHE release.

In preparation for the LP release, the band have also recorded + mixed their very own mixtape of some of their favourite tracks from today and yesteryear that have come to influence their new record in some way, making it an eclectic journey that buzzes at every corner.

The mix is some loose change over an hour long, and is typical of the ‘Hey kids, I just threw this together’ mix we have come to expect from artists like this ( Hear that Justice? ) - its a crackin’ mix with sublime production. If these bastids didn’t slave over this for days they’ve just made my shit list.

Check it out:

I know I know I know! I had made a big deal with my mission statement, saying I’d not feature ( as Amy Winehouse so delicately put while on stage at Glastonbury) ‘that c**t Kayne’.
So I throw myself at your mercy while I share my secret shame. Lil’ Wayne.

So please, for my sake, listen to the first 53 seconds, and if you still hate it by all means turn it off. Spam me with abusive emails, whatever you see fit. But for now, at this moment in time, I think this track rocks. So much so that I just had to share it. C’mon - admit it. Ya’ll like it too.

In anticipation of the imminent new Beck album I though I’d share a little remix gem that’s perfect for a Friday Wind-down. Take it away Bek David Campbell….

Thom Yorke said he heard about Prince’s performance from a text message and thought it was “hilarious.” Yorke laughed when his bandmate, guitarist Ed O’Brien, said the blocking had prevented even him from seeing Prince’s version of their song.”Really? He’s blocked it?” asked Yorke, who figured it was their song to block or not. “Surely we should [have the right to] block it. Hang on a moment.” Yorke added, “Well, tell him to unblock it. It’s our…song.”

Whatever you think of Prince, he still has his pipes, and Good Lordie, can that lil’ guy shred!