Wolfmother Will Continue

Keyboardist/bassist Chris Ross and drummer Myles Heskett have exited Australian rock act Wolfmother after "longstanding frictions," but frontman Andrew Stockdale says he will continue the group with new members.

"Please understand that in spite of their best efforts over a long period of time, they just could not find a harmonious way to work together," reads a statement from Universal Music Australia.

Wolfmother exploded onto the scene with its self-titled 2006 debut, which has sold 517,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It launched the rock radio hits "Woman" and "Joker and the Thief." The former song won a Grammy for best hard rock performance.

Following extensive touring in support of the album, Wolfmother went on hiatus late last year, emerging in April to roadtest new songs. But band member tensions remained, and following last weekend's appearance at the Australia's Splendour in the Grass festival, the decision was reached to split up.

Thanks for the info to Billboard.com.

Comments

[slann101]

'Wolfmother exploded onto the scene with its self-titled 2006 debut, which has sold 517,000 copies in the United States, '

wait...so not 517,065? or another album. please , someone mess that perfect figure up.

[strat0blaster]

Publicity stunt.

[sam_brault]

third , i dont care, with stockdale it can still sound like Wolfmother

[Dragon Master]

sam_brault wrote:

third , i dont care, with stockdale it can still sound like Wolfmother

Well, Wolfmother needs to find musicians that are competent and I think that Andrew Stockdale needs to find a guitarist other than himself. Let's face it... He is not a great guitarist. He needs a Jimmy Page-like guitarist and while he has some good songs, it doesn't work with mere power chords.

[5kills]

there gonna suck, almost all bands are horrible when the others leave or the leader goes solo: example-Van Halen, Pete Townsend and the Who, guns n roses(cant even get an album out anymore) , motley crue, pink floyd, the doors(they were around a little bit after van morrison died). eric clapton and ozzy are the only 2 people who (i think) are better after they left the band nd went solo.

[randyaintdead82]

5kills :
there gonna suck, almost all bands are horrible when the others leave or the leader goes solo: example-Van Halen, Pete Townsend and the Who, guns n roses(cant even get an album out anymore) , motley crue, pink floyd, the doors(they were around a little bit after van morrison died). eric clapton and ozzy are the only 2 people who (i think) are better after they left the band nd went solo.
POSTED: 08/11/2008 - 01:40 pm / quote |

Metallica were good when Dave mustaine "left" that is untill load

[Skirvy]

5kills wrote:

there gonna suck, almost all bands are horrible when the others leave or the leader goes solo: example-Van Halen, Pete Townsend and the Who, guns n roses(cant even get an album out anymore) , motley crue, pink floyd, the doors(they were around a little bit after van morrison died). eric clapton and ozzy are the only 2 people who (i think) are better after they left the band nd went solo.

After Van Morrison died. Are you ****ing kidding me.

[BobChicken]

randyaintdead82 wrote:

5kills :
there gonna suck, almost all bands are horrible when the others leave or the leader goes solo: example-Van Halen, Pete Townsend and the Who, guns n roses(cant even get an album out anymore) , motley crue, pink floyd, the doors(they were around a little bit after van morrison died). eric clapton and ozzy are the only 2 people who (i think) are better after they left the band nd went solo.
POSTED: 08/11/2008 - 01:40 pm / quote |

Metallica were good when Dave mustaine "left" that is untill load

Van morrison... What the FUCK

[Rockon914]

randyaintdead82 wrote:

5kills :
there gonna suck, almost all bands are horrible when the others leave or the leader goes solo: example-Van Halen, Pete Townsend and the Who, guns n roses(cant even get an album out anymore) , motley crue, pink floyd, the doors(they were around a little bit after van morrison died). eric clapton and ozzy are the only 2 people who (i think) are better after they left the band nd went solo.
POSTED: 08/11/2008 - 01:40 pm / quote |

Metallica were good when Dave mustaine "left" that is untill load

hahahahahahahahahah are you kidding?

[frankv]

Chris and Myles quit? What the hell? I hope the new material will show up anyway.

[LifesSweetDrug]

Van Morrison! I couldn't help my self but laugh.

And to the dude who said that Metallica were better when Dave left, don't you mean Megadeth were better?

[elcapitan1800]

He must be referring to the time that Van Morrison took over for Jim Morrision. And then died. And then came back to life.....??

Lol I think that is the first time that I have laughed today. Thank you

[recliner33]

5kills wrote:

there gonna suck, almost all bands are horrible when the others leave or the leader goes solo: example-Van Halen, Pete Townsend and the Who, guns n roses(cant even get an album out anymore) , motley crue, pink floyd, the doors(they were around a little bit after van morrison died). eric clapton and ozzy are the only 2 people who (i think) are better after they left the band nd went solo.

Yeah he messed up on the van morrison part but what really pissed me off was how he said ozzy was better after sabbath and clapton was better after the yardbirds and the cream.

[ptr362]

randyaintdead82 wrote:

Metallica were good when Dave mustaine "left" that is untill load

And luckily we now have Megadeth, a band that can actually record good albums these days!

[radiofriendly]

i think this is good, wolfmother arent to bad, it woulda been dissapointing to see them not continue. well i think so anyway.

[jambajews]

strat0blaster wrote:

Publicity stunt.

? they really arent popular enough for one of those