Hello dear UG visitors! Well, the new year has finally come and music news all around the world have continued to appear here, on UG. To pick up the best ones from the passed week, we present you the Wicked Week. Here you'll find the most essential reports from the first News Week in 2005!
On Monday (January 03) Trent Reznor pleased all Nine Inch Nails fans by revealing through the band's official website that the new highly anticipated album titled "With Teeth" had been completed. Also the singer intrigued fans by hinting at the NIN's forthcoming tour: "The band is rehearsing. I can't wait to present this music to you - on your stereo and in your town. Happy New Year." The group' touring lineup is believed to include drummer Jerome Dillon and bassist Jeordie White. Following the recent devastation in Southern Asia, Linkin Park along with the American Red Cross have formed Music For Relief -- an effort to provide emergency funds for quake and tsunami victims. Linkin Park had made an initial contribution of $100,000.
Nirvana producer
Jack Endino in his latest newsletter talked about working on the "
With The Lights Out" box set and explained why the fabled
Fecal Matter (
Kurt Cobain's pre-
Nirvana outfit) demo
was not included. We knew about this on Tuesday (January 04). "
...A deadline crunch happened at the end, with Courtney's people trying to agree on a final track listing for the box set. That's why there's a picture of the Fecal Matter cassette in the booklet, but no music from it; Courtney's people decided that it was not really 'Nirvana' (i.e. it's Kurt and Dale only, so why share it with Nirvana LLC?) and held it back at the last minute," said
Endino. Eh,
Courtney,
Courtney... Anyway, also on Tuesday we learned what acts were vying for a new award in this year’s
Brits ceremony that'd crown
the best British song since 1977. The
Clash,
Oasis,
Coldplay and
Queen were among nominees.
Another ceremony, on this time Grammy, became yet more expecting when it was announced that Led Zeppelin, Jerry Lee Lewis and the late Janis Joplin were among those slated to be honored with the Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award. As it was said by Recording Academy president Neil Portnow, "The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes music people who have made a lasting contribution to culture around the world." The ceremony will reportedly take place at Los Angeles' Staples Center on February 13th, while the release date for the upcoming Ozzy Osbourne's box set had been pushed back to Tuesday, March 22. Also the set had undergone a name change to "Prince Of Darkness" from the previously announced "Bible Of Ozz". And no reason was given for the changes.
On Thursday we were reported that Jet's Nic Cester was to join an Australian supergroup today, January 8, to raise cash following the Asian tsunami. Vocalist will be joined by The Living End's Chris Cheney and You Am I guitarist Dave Lane amongst others when they perform outside the Sydney Opera House. Also on Thursday (January 06), dates for Papa Roach's 2005 roadwork in support of their latest album, "Getting Away With Murder," began to surface. The rockers had nailed down a half-dozen February shows in the West. More shows are believed to be announced soon.
Tragic disasters in world are definitely not indifferent to the musicians and their fans. Organised by Linkin Park, foregoing Music For Relief was joined by The New York rock band Almighty Love Noise on Friday (January 07). In other efforts, Avril Lavigne was set to headline Clear Channel's Concert for Tsunami Relief at Vancouver's GM Place on January 29th. Meanwhile, U2 had postponed their tour behind "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb," originally scheduled to kick off March 1st in Miami. The reason is reportedly a family illness. "All of the plans are in total flux," said a source close to the band.
Well, not only U2 plans are in flux, the world in general is in continuous changing! So that's why every week we bring you only the hottest news from this crazy world in the Wicked Week. Rock on!
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