Liam Gallagher has always been a bit of a loud mouth (which I like), but now he has provided some crazy remarks about the new Radiohead album The King of Limbs. In a recent Quietus interview with Gallagher and Andy Bell about their new band Beady Eye:
I heard that fucking Radiohead record and I just go, ‘What?!’ I like to think that what we do, we do fucking well. Them writing a song about a fucking tree? Give me a fucking break! A thousand year old tree? Go fuck yourself! You’d have thought he’d have written a song about a modern tree or one that was planted last week. You know what I mean?
Compare that to what Noel Gallagher said about Radiohead a couple years back in Spin:
Correct me if I’m wrong, they’ve been making the same record since Kid A, have they not? Every time I see them live they blow me away, but you know, it’s kind of we make very accessible rock and roll music and they constantly make difficult electronic records.
I find this funny when nearly all of the Oasis albums sound exactly the same. I think its a bit of the Pot calling the Kettle Black.
Whitesnake are back for more! Releasing their new single “Love Will Set You Free” on Frontiers Records this week. Since the video premiered last week it has clocked up nearly 200,000 views on YouTube.
You can get “Love Will Set You Free” as a free download from their official website when you pre-order a copy of their forthcoming album Forevermore.
According to the Daily Mirror, a source close to the singer has said she’s finished, ready to ditch the music biz to “have babies, get married and live in the country” with her rugby boyfriend. Duffy wasnt very happy with her recent album’s sales performance.
The source goes on to say:
“Duffy made a truckload of cash with the first album and through her endorsements with Diet Coke, so she’s comfortable and able to enjoy some down-time.
Part of the Welsh singer’s tilt towards shelving her career was perhaps her unhappiness after dumping her main songwriter and producer, ex-Suede man Bernard Butler, and the woman who discovered her, Jeanette Lee.
It has been reported that a 13 year old Norwegian boy escaped a pack of wolves by playing them Creed’s single Overcome, authorities want to know what the kid was doing listening to Creed.
Walter Eikrem from Rakkestdad was coming home from the school bus stop this week when he noticed a pack of wolves near his farm house, reports Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine. He mistook them for dogs but soon realized that it was pack of wolves, the boy remembered his mother’s oft-repeated drill to never run away from wolves.
Instead the teen yanked his earphones from his smartphone, turned it ALL THE WAY TO 11 and blasted everyone’s favorite Creed single at the wolf pack. “They didn’t really get scared. They just turned around and simply trotted away,” the boy said.
The only way you haven’t heard of the new Radiohead album, The King of Limbs, is if you live under a rock. Radiohead is the only band I know that any release goes instantly viral!
Radiohead have been offering pre-oder on their site thekingoflimbs.com for the past few days. It was expected to be released later in the month, but they have decided to start selling their digital downloads yesterday (Feb. 18).
A CD and vinyl version of The King of Limbs will be available next month.
“These songs occupy an emotional terrain that Radiohead have mapped out as their own and – to their credit – others have failed to copy. What’s disappointing, however, is that the band – so often held up as musical mavericks operating in the mainstream – have failed to come up with anything that might surprise us this time.”
A CD and vinyl version of The King of Limbs will be available next month.
It is estimated that 42 million people are blind worldwide with a further 124 million classified as poor vision (no sight past 2 meters) with an astonishing 90% of blind people are located in the poorest regions in the world. Although some of the conditions are untreatable, 75% of blind people in Africa lost their due to a condition that was preventable and/or reversible.
Blindness has an enormous personal, social and economic cost, limiting the education and life choices of otherwise healthy people, and placing a significant weight on family, community, and social and health services. Unsurprisingly, blindness is associated with lower life expectancy.
Cataracts is a condition that we all have heard of but in regions with poor diet, low nutrition and high rates infectious disease, it is the biggest cause of blindness worldwide. In cataract, the lens becomes opaque as the eye ages although cases in Africa start as young as 15. Although primary prevention is not yet possible, cataract is easily reversed with simple eye surgery
Since 2008, Doctors for Life have been travelling around sub-Saharan Africa setting up surgeries in remote rural villages and restoring sight to thousands across 6 countries. Not only this, but providing medication to prevent blindness, correcting refractive errors, as well as general medical assistance to tens of thousands.
Whilst travelling with Doctors for Life in 2010 a medical student from Dunstable founded the Malawi Eye Surgery Fund to address of one the worst effected regions of preventable blindness in the world. Since the founding two trips have been conducted performing 400 operations, 20,000 people protected from trachoma and 8,000 pairs of glasses fitted and distributed. On each occasion 8,000 people were seen by Internal medicine specialists addressing complications of HIV and various Tropical diseases as well as saving many lives by giving out Malaria medication.
In 2011, Malawi Eye Surgery Fund and Doctors for Life are returning to Malawi in the month of July to continue their work. Taking two Surgeons and two GP’s they aim to see over 10,000 patients and perform 200 surgeries in just 14 days. The fund needs to raise in region of £15,000 to send their team, medication and equipment to Malawi and they are asking for simple donation of old CDs, DVDs & console games.
Now we know that you are hording them away somewhere and that they are already on your iPod! It doesn’t matter what state they are in or how rubbish they are since these are worth money which will help the people of Malawi, so we Challenge you and your buds to help those less fortunate and donate your old unused games, DVD’s and CD’s to a cause greater than our own.
If you feel you can contribute, make a cash donation to the fund or just wish to find out more information please contact First Stage Recordings or via the contacts below. Malawi Eye Surgery Fund will personally collect any donation you are willing to make!
Nicholas Ashton – Malawi Eye Surgery fund – Project Leader & Founder
Here is the list of winners from the 2011 Grammys:
Album of the Year: Arcade Fire The Suburbs Record of the Year: Lady Antebellum, “Need You Now” Song of the Year: Lady Antebellum, “Need You Now” New Artist: Esperanza Spalding Female Pop Vocal Performance: Lady Gaga, “Bad Romance” Male Pop Vocal Performance: Bruno Mars, “Just The Way You Are” Pop Vocal Album: Lady Gaga, The Fame Monster Alternative Album: The Black Keys, Brothers Traditional Pop Vocal Album: Michael Buble, Crazy Love Rock Song: Neil Young, “Angry World’ Rock Album: Muse, The Resistance Rock Performance: The Black Keys, “Tighten Up” Solo Rock Vocal Performance: Paul McCartney, “Helter Skelter” Hard Rock Performance: Them Crooked Vultures, “New Fang” Metal Performance: Iron Maiden, “El Dorado” R&B Album: John Legend & The Roots, Wake up! Contemporary R&B Album: Usher, Raymond V Raymond R&B Song: John Legend & The Roots, “Shine” R&B Performance: Sade, “Soldier Of Love” Traditional R&B Vocal Performance: John Legend & The Root, “Hang On In There” Urban/Alternative Performance: Cee Lo Green, “(Forget) You” Rap Album: Eminem, Recovery Rap Solo Performance: Eminem, “Not Afraid” Rap Performance By A Duo or Group: Jay-Z and Swizz Beatz, “On To The Next One” Rap Song: Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, “Empire State of Mind” Rap/Sung Collaboration: Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, “Empire State Of Mind” Dance Recording: Rihanna, “Only Girl (In The World)” Electronic Dance Album: La Roux, La Roux Musical Show Album: Green Day, American Idiot Country Album: Lady Antebellum, Need You Now Country Performance by a Duo or Group: Lady Antebellum, “Need You Now” Country Song: Lady Antebellum, “Need You Now”
Radiohead is currently offering their new album up for pre-order. Customers can either pre-oder the album for $9.00 or get the newspaper album version for $48.00.
Newspaper Album includes:
Radiohead’s new record, The King Of Limbs, is presented here as the world’s first* Newspaper Album, comprising:
Two clear 10″ vinyl records in a purpose-built record sleeve.
A compact disc.
Many large sheets of artwork, 625 tiny pieces of artwork and a full-colour piece of oxo-degradeable plastic to hold it all together.
The Newspaper Album comes with a digital download that is compatible with all good digital media players.
The Newspaper Album will be shipped on Monday 9th May 2011 you can, however, enjoy the download on Saturday 19th February 2011.
Shipping is included in the prices shown.
One lucky owner of the digital version of The King Of Limbs, purchased from this website, will receive a signed 2 track 12″ vinyl.
Digital Only release:
Radiohead’s new record, The King Of Limbs, is presented here with a choice of two digital formats:
MP3 version is a 320K constant bit rate file.
WAV version is a full CD quality uncompressed digital audio file.
One lucky owner of the digital version of The King Of Limbs, purchased from this website, will receive a signed 2 track 12″ vinyl.
As we mentioned previously on the RouteNote Blog, Warner Music is up for sale. It is now being reported by the NY Post that over 20 parties have expressed an interest in acquiring Warner Music Group.
Most often named as potential bidders for all or part of either music group include: BMG, Zomba founder Clive Calder, Russian investor Leonard Blavatnik, Universal Music, Sony Music, equity firms KKR, Apollo and Providence and Netherlands-based music publisher Imagem.
The only way you haven’t heard of the new Radiohead album, The King of Limbs, is if you live under a rock. Radiohead is the only band I know that any release goes instantly viral!
Here is the list of winners from the 2011 Grammys:
As we mentioned previously on the RouteNote Blog, 