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Whle the last Garbage album didn't do as much for me as the other two did I am happy to see this coming out. Butch Vig's production kills me on how good it is so it'll be interesting to see what he and the others have come up with this go 'round. This comes from the Bleed Like Me Countdown Site ... Bleed Like Me Garbage's 4th album titled Bleed Like Me is slated for release on the 11th April 2005 world wide (Warner), and North America on April 12th (Geffen, and Festival Mushroom in Australia). This greatly anticipated album follows up three powerful and critically acclaimed albums, Garbage, Version 2.0 and BeautifulGarbage from the Madison Wisconsin based band. Featuring the powerful voice and lyrics of Shirley Manson (the Queen) and the trio of producer musicians (Steve, Butch and Duke) this album should be a return to the bands darker roots. Official Track list The following tracks aren't in album order (unknown as yet), and there is not hint yet a
It always makes me happy to see that there is a new New Order release, sadly, other than some of the singles, I haven't really liked any of the albums the whole way through in a very long time. But, let's hope there's at least some good singles out of the 3 planned... New Order's newest release, "Waiting For The Sirens Call", will be divided between guitar tracks in the vein of the band's previous album "Get Ready" and the synth-based tunes, New Order's trademark. Previous to the album, a single, "Krafty", will be released. "Krafty" is New Order's first single since 2002. The tracklist looks something like this: "Lordsy", "Road To Ruin", "Waiting For The Sirens' Call", "Krafty", "I Told You So", "Pop 1", "Minidisk 2", "Jet", "Fast Synth", "Turn" and "Working Overtime". The second single (out of 3), &quo
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Ok, so after a name change and pushed back date, it looks like this should be ready to fly, of course it looked like it was going to happen earlier too, mind games I tell you, or at least politics... Trent Reznor has revealed the title of the next Nine Inch Nails album. The final title "With Teeth" comes after Trent Reznor scrapped the provisional working title "Bleedthrough" back in November. The recordings have now been finished and the band is at the moment rehearsing the new material to prepare for a tour. "With Teeth" is scheduled for a March release through the Nothing parent Interscope. It was produced by Alan Moulder (Depeche Mode, Jesus and Mary Chain, Smashing Pumpkins) and is the follow up to the last Nine Inch Nails album "The Fragile" released in 1999. In other NIN news, Trent Reznor has also remixed U2's "Vertigo". The remix will be featured as a B-side on the next U2 single "Sometimes You Can't Make
Hey, what happened? I didn't end up on anyone's top 100 blogs of the 2004 or top anything. Not that I'm too surprised, I guess I was just blythely wishing. At any rate here's a list of some of my favorite CDs of this year: Skinny Puppy - The Greater Wrong of the Right Wolfsheim - Casting Shadows The Cruxshadows - The Fortress in Flames EP Fixmer McCarthy - Freefall Through a Screen Remixes Orbital - Blue Album Anyway, Happy New Year and here's to even better music in 2005...