Finally that wily coyote in NYC was caught! He just wanted to hang out at some trendy sidewalk cafes on the west side….Speaking of trendy, newly inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Green Day already has five new songs in the works, according to Diffuser. Producer Rob Cavallo, who has worked with the band on its last nine albums, told England’s Kerrang! magazine, “I recently heard five new songs that Billie (Joe Armstrong, frontman) has written and demoed. Let me tell you, they were just fantastic. He is absolutely at the top of his game. Fans can be sure that when they do return, the music will be amazing.” Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong told us a while back that it was important that Green Day move forward artistically with each new album: “We always want to try to keep reinventing ourselves and come out with something new without changing our clothes. You know, not that we’re trying to, like, have a new image or anything like that. I think we’re just acting our age, trying to make something that’s just the best record that we possibly can.” Armstrong indicated recently the band was going to get back to work after a year-long break. The trio’s last release, a triple set of albums titled Uno!, Dos! and Tre!, arrived in late 2012. The new Green Day album, which will be the band’s 12th studio effort, will be out later this year. (Thanks Pulse Of Radio)
Also from Pulse, Black Keys singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach is launching a new side project called the Arcs, telling Rolling Stone, “I’m really excited about it.” The Arcs will first release a seven-inch vinyl single featuring two “boxing-related” songs, “Stay In My Corner” and “Tomato Can,” on May 2nd, the day of the Floyd Mayweather/Manny Pacquiao fight in Las Vegas. A full album will follow this summer.Auerbach recorded the new album in rehearsal studios and at a Brooklyn studio, saying, “It was cut really quick in a week and a half, two weeks of recording.” He added that he recorded with “a whole bunch of different people — my favorites,” though he has yet to reveal any names. As for the sound of the disc, Auerbach said, “I just wanted to do my thing and get extra weird. I wanted everything to flow (and) be cohesive . . . So I’ve got a lot of connected songs. It’s basically everything I love about music all wrapped up into one record — that’s all!” Auerbach said he’s working on the album’s first video with a “kid” from California who has never made a video before, adding, “I’m just having fun (and) basically making music with no responsibility.” Auerbach will head out on the road with the Black Keys again as well, starting at the end of May in Spain. The band’s touring plans have been sidetracked for several months while drummer Patrick Carneyrecovers from a serious shoulder injury.
Stone Sour‘s new Meanwhile In Burbank…, a five-song EP featuring these covers: Black Sabbath “Children Of The Grave,” Metallica “Creeping Death,” Kiss “Love Gun,” Judas Priest “Heading Out To The Highway” and Alice In Chains “We Die Young,” will be released digitally via iTunes tomorrow (4/28.) Recorded live at Room 237 in Burbank, California, Meanwhile In Burbank… was initially made available on vinyl exclusively at select record stores on April 18 for Record Store Day. It was also revealed during Jamey Jasta’s podcast STONE SOUR will release two more EPs of cover songs: Straight Out Of Burbank and No Sleep ‘Till Burbank and will feature five songs each, including new versions of tracks from Rage Against The Machine, Motley Crue, Bad Brains and the Violent Femmes. Taylor told us why he enjoys covering other artists’ songs. “The thing I love about playing covers is that a) it’s a chance to walk in the footsteps of your heroes,” he said. “It’s a chance to have fun. There’s a certain amount of relaxation that comes when you don’t have to worry about your song. This is someone else’s song, you know. This is where you can relax and just remember why you’re a music fan in the first place.”
Blabbermouth reports Atreyu have set Long Live as the title of their comeback album, due in September through the Search And Destroy imprint as part of the newly announced joint venture between Raw Power Management and Spinefarm. Drummer and clean vocalist Brandon Saller recently told Australia’s Music Feeds about the band’s upcoming CD: “We’re stoked. It came out great. We’re very much just shooting from the hip with this record, and whatever came out first is what we did. [Vocalist] Alex [Varkatzas] is fucking as brutal as ever. And it’s fun. It’s a very fun, cool record.” Regaridng frontman Alex Varkatzas’s decision to do away with clean singing on Atreyu’s forthcoming effort, Saller said: “Here’s the thing. When we started the band, we were a hardcore band, and we wanted to progress and do… We always wanted to do bigger, better, bigger, better, bigger, better… every album we released at the time. And when we did [2007’s] ‘Lead Sails Paper Anchor,’ it was, like, ‘What’s our next step?’ We’ve gotten as big as a hardcore band can get, I think. What’s the next step? So we were, like, ‘Cool. Let’s fucking do whatever the fuck we want. So we wrote a bunch of rock songs. A lot of heavy songs, a lot of rock songs… It was just an expansion of Alex wanting to do something different, and us wanting to do something different.”
Today, yours truly will head down to Irving Plaza to interview Stone Temple Pilots. Looking forward to that. If you have any questions you’d like to hear answers to, send them along to me via the email link on the home page. But do it soon! And you can also send to me via the Interact Live page on the new hardDriveRadio APP!….Gotta dash. Later, taters.