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Talk about making my day!

I get home after a long week at school to be pleasantly surprised by an excellent new WAS song, and a new Gorillaz song which absolutely stomps all over Stylo, in my opinion.

“Rules Don’t Stop”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-C6aZX7TmY

“Superfast Jellyfish”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4UtbrbsrjY

Might review them properly later, but suffice to say I think they’re both very good.

Tags: We Are Scientists, Plastic Beach, Barbara

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After 5 whole years, Broken Social Scene are releasing a new album. Titled “Forgiveness Rock Record”, I’m getting the distinct feeling that this is an album I’m going to have to pick up on it’s release (which is around May the 4th, apparently May the 3rd in Europe). Though I never caught onto Broken Social Scene when their other albums were released (likely due to both terrible taste in music 5 years ago, I would’ve been 12, c’mon, and not being exposed to them at all), I have heard very good things about them. I know that…

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I heard Emperors one day on triple j and was blown away by the fact that they were unsigned.

"Favourite Colours" is simply a damn catchy rock song. I can imagine the energy seeing these guys playing live would be through the roof if the quality of their playing is on par with their recorded work.

The vocal lines are powerful, despite not having a massive range. They compliment the guitar rhythms. Acoustic guitars provide a great bridge to the build-up of the song and it's finish.

I think they have the potential to be a great,…

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Oasis picked up the Brits Album Of 30 Years for “(What's the Story) Morning Glory?” at the Brit Awards recently.

“I’d like to thank Bonehead, Guigsy, Alan White…. the best bands in the f**king world live forever.”

Liam Gallagher is quoted as saying, obnoxiously omitting his brother Noel from his thanks. He then subsequently threw his microphone and trophy into the audience.

Watch it here, though this version is censored. Skip ahead to about 1.40 if you wanna see when Liam comes on stage.

Host Peter Kay then appropriately summed up the performance with “What a knob-head.”…

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The nominations for the Australian Music Prize of 2009 have been announced. The winner is set to receive $30000, with $15000 going to the winner of the Award In Recognition of Outstanding Potential, with both due to be announced on Friday the 12th of March.

The nominees are as follows:

‘Privileged Woes’ by Oh Mercy

‘As Day Follows Night’ by Sarah Blasko

‘Kid Sam LP’ by Kid Sam

‘Black Across The Field’ by Lucie Thorne

‘Secrets And Lies’ by Bertie Blackman

‘For The Birds’ by The Mess…

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“Home” has a certain country/folk vibe about it (though not the stereotypical kind of sound you’d expect). It really sounds like the musicians involved are really having fun. It’s got a carefree vibe about it.

Trumpets flourish between verses and build the song up, and the chorus is simplistic and catchy, with the lines “Ah home, let me go home. Home is wherever I’m with you” holding a certain bare-all truthfulness about them.

Most of all, “Home” is refreshing. Its something you can sing along, something you can relate to, and it’s not what you expect. In…

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Operator Please have new album “Gloves” slated for release on the 26th of April, with the new single “Logic” available now as a free download (that is, in exchange for an e-mail address).

A pounding descending bass riff opens the track, but Logic seems to have lost that kind of urgency or vibe inherent in the singles from their debut album. Not a massive problem, perhaps on the whole they’ve matured as a band. In fact I hope they have. That ping-pong song was alright as a novelty at first, but ended up getting on…

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Apparently Warner Music are planning on not licensing any of their artist’s music to new streaming sites similar to Spotify and Last.FM.

Edgar Bronfman Jr, chief executive of Warner Music, has stated that streaming services such as the aforementioned ones are “clearly not positive” for the music industry.

If I’m to understand correctly the workings of those services, they provide the labels with revenue based on play counts, with the money usually generated from ads (or subscription fees in the case of Last.FM, but let’s stick with the idea of most of these services being free, like Grooveshark or…

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The 5th of April. New single “Rules” will be released from their new album “Barbara” (due out June).

I can’t wait. We Are Scientists hooked me with a few singles from their album “With Love and Squalor”, which is full of typical, yet brilliant indie-rock riffs and melodies. Refining their style with “Brain Thrust Mastery”, where they seemed to mature and branch out in their own direction whilst retaining the infectiousness inherent in their music, I can’t wait for this new album to drop.

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It just had to happen, didn’t it?

‘No, I’m not having someone with ginger hair making music’, he said regarding Florence from Florence + The Machine. ‘I’m not going down that road. I’m sure she’s a nice girl, but she sounds like someone’s stood on her fucking foot’.

Has this tool even listened to any of her music before? Noel Gallagher is a terrible representation of the modern musician, every single time his arrogant attention-seeking comments make the media it makes me sad to be part of the human race.

He also commented on the quality of the…