After releasing a stellar album in the form of Because Of The Times, at the beginning of the year, the Followill quartet are already planning a follow up. The band is currently extensively touring the US, after which they’ll head to UK, before flying to the more sunny shores of Australia. In this extremely busy schedule Kings of Leon manage to write new songs as well, and according to the eldest brother, drummer Nathan Followill:
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The LA three piece Seneca Hawk is a rather unknown band, outside of Californian dessert, but make no mistake they are extremely talented. The band has released their debut self-titled LP back in October and since then completed a national tour. “Restless Sea” is the LP’s highlight and as the title may suggest, it mirrors the band’s raw and wild nature, that makes a rock ‘n’ roll band great. A barrage of excellent drumming, together with simple, but rhythmic three chords riffs, toped by frontman Jonah Rivera’s agitated vocals makes this song a great listen. This is truly a band to watch. You can stream the whole Seneca Hawk debut LP on their website.

Although Morrissey refused a over 75 million $ offer for a Smiths reunion tour, that didn’t stop him from going solo on a much awaited tour. The North American trek will kick off tonight in Tijuana, after which Moz will continue up coast, then make a 180 degrees spin on the east cost, before calling it quits in a probable epic closer in Washingtion DC.

The most worthy and lucky citizens of the cities of San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City, who will have the pleasure of hosting Moz for multi-night performances. If you’ve never seen Morrissey live, then maybe it’s time you should, he’s a incredible performer and you never know when he’ll tour again. Dates and venues after the jump.

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In a stormy news flash Billboard announced that ex-Rage Against The Machine frontman Zack de la Rocha has tied up his first solo, still untitled, album ever. Recordings on his solo album started ever since RATM’s dissolution in 2000 and number guest artists as: DJ Shadow, Company Flow,  ?uestlove or Trent Reznor. With such great big names, especially production wise, this is sure to be one of the most memorable records in 2008, the probable year or release.

For those of you who are nostalgic concerning the RATM ol’ days then you should know that Zack and crew are set to reunite in late October at the Voodoo Music Experience in New Orleans and the Vegoose festival in Las Vegas.

As you most probably know a while ago the White Stripes were forced to cancel 2 months worth of touring, due to drummer’s Meg mysterious severe anxiety illness. Speculations always fallow mysteries and New York Magazine has come up with 10 reasons that would cause her breakdown. Enjoy !

1. The cleaners keep washing her whites with her blacks and reds.
2. Difficulty of remembering drum part to “Seven Nation Army.”
3. The emotional scarring of having accidentally married her brother.
4. Exhausted from constantly having to talk Jack out of regrowing his mustache.
5. Kanye West not winning a single award at the VMAs — seriously, what was that?!
6. Secretly wants to wear orange, just once.
7. Jack’s insistence on recording the next White Stripes album with just a megaphone and a wax cylinder.
8. Upset about Vulture’s review of the band’s MSG show. Whoops!
9. Wants to try one of her songs for a change.
10. Is actually a great drummer; sick of holding self back to fit Jack’s idea of primitivism.

Now that was loads of fun!

This is my favorite song from Interpol’s masterpiece “Our Love To Admire“, it’s deep emotions that it inflicts upon listening are extraordinary, so I’m pretty pleased they decided to make a video for this as well and a very good one too, if you think how shady The Heinrich Maneuver was or how boring the live video for Mammoth was. Although the title might suggest a more explicit and sexual video, this isn’t the case; the song itself isn’t at all about sex or threesomes, it’s about a dying relationship between two lovers, the third member in the love triangle I suspect is time.

The video features the band playing in a damp and empty old apartment, with a more then average number of mirrors, meanwhile a lonely old man butchers deer meat (not very sure where all this fits in). Time has flows differently in Interpol songs, as you can see in the video itself, the building grows old and flimsy, until it eventually burns out. The last scene is a dove trapped in the burning appartment, trying to brake free (babe it’s time we gave/something new a try/oh alone we may fight/so just let us be free).

As this week is very important politically speaking, I couldn’t avoid posting video with a strong message, from one of the most politically active artists, Serj Tankian. A month ago we premiered The Unthinking Majority, a video meant as a direct critique to the current US administration and war in Iraq, now “Empty Walls” follows the same path and interestingly tries to prove that we’re all just a bunch of kinder garden kids. Twin lego towers ruined by toy planes, kids throwing rubber balls at each other, dethroning teddy bears I think we get the picture Mr. Serj. Elect The Dead is out on 10/23.

Yesterday White Stripes fans everywhere had been disappointed by the shocking announcement that the band was forced to cancel it’s US tour dates, due to Meg White’s acute anxiety issues that renders her unable to travel. Now the rest of the tour has been scrapped as well, as it can been seen at the WS website. “The White Stripes have canceled all remaining tour dates through the end of the year. This includes all dates in the UK this fall.”

Let’s hope for a fast and refreshing recovery for Meg. Canceled dates after the jump:

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Yesterday morning it was announced that sadly White Stripes weren’t gonna be able to perform at this weekends 15-16 September Austin City Limits Festival due to unpublicized ‘health issues’ affecting Meg White. Guess all that touring had to leave some marks.

A few hours later a press statement was released on whitestripes.com, clearing what the so called ‘health issue’ was and revealing even more sad news for fans. Read on and you’ll know what I’m talking about.

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Already a few months into their Barcelona recordings, preping a follow to 2005’s “X&Y“, Cold Play have broken the until now studio silence and gave a little update on the progress of the new, un-titled, album. Writing on their website, the band said a short and to the point record is up ahead, no longer then 42 minutes and comprising 9 tracks(give or take).

“Expect a short, concise record with no fat and at least two top-division songs released independently,” they wrote.

Also previously the band said that we should expect a latin infused record as well, both in music and in lyrics, influenced by their long stay in Catalonia, Spain and their earlier trip to South America at the begging of the year. The 8 tracks confirmed so far are:

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