Wolfmother have given fans the chance to download one of their new songs for free.
The track, 'Back Round', is the group's first release since bassist Chris Ross and drummer Myles Heskett quit last summer. The song can be downloaded now from Wolfmother's official website.
After seeing the band absolutely kill it at Sound Relief and the Clipsal 500, it is clear that frontman Andrew Stockdale is happy with how things have worked out. Let's hope that Wolfmother can be that formidable force once again and take over the world. However, I'm not putting my money where my mouth is just yet.
Wolfmother are currently recording their second album alongside producer Alan Moulder in Los Angeles.
The serious alt-rockers Kasabian are set to release their third album on June 8th.
Titled 'The West Rider Pauper Lunatic Asylum', the album features a cameo appearance by actress Rosario Dawson (Sin City) on the song 'West Riding Silver Bullet'.
Kasabian have such a strong following that even the likes of Jay-Z and Kanye have spoken of their desire to work with the band in the future.
The album has been produced by guitarist Serge Pizzorno and Gorillaz collaborator Dan The Automator. To hear their first single off the album 'Vlad The Impaler', fans will be able to download the song from March 31st to midnight April 3rd via the band's official website.
The official first single off the album 'Fire' will be released commercially on June 1st.
Excitingly, The Strokes can confirm that they've completed three new songs, frontman Julian Casablancas has revealed.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Casablancas said the new material had “a '70s vibe, like Thin Lizzy or Elvis Costello.
“But then some of it is bizarre music from the future that we're trying to tone down to sound catchy," he added. "So we're trapped between the future and the '70s."
Casablancas also revealed that the each band member had become more open in the studio than on their previous albums.
"We didn't used to be honest - there would always be mini feuds over stupid shit,” he said.
“Now, if Nick [Valensi] and Fab [Moretti] or anyone are saying they like it fast or slow, we'll talk about it, as opposed to saying, 'Well, I never liked you sister'." Meanwhile, The Strokes' manager Ryan Gentles said that, despite the band's progress, it was unlikely their new album would arrive in 2009.
"No recording studio time has been booked yet, as they sketch out the blueprints of new songs and fine-tune plans in their rehearsal space, but it will undoubtedly be all mapped out and etched in stone at some point in the not-too-distant future," he said in a fan mailout.
“I wish I could tell you that this definitely meant we can expect an album release date before the end of 2009, but it's just too soon to speculate on that for sure yet. One way or another...suffice to say, the work has begun!"
The Strokes' have released three albums so far, their last album being 'First Impressions Of Earth', released in 2006.
Whilst we're on the subject of festivals, there's obviously a lot of festivals that occur outside of Australia and we can't talk about every single one. So the team at Music Universe got together over a coffee and many cigarettes and made a list of festivals to mention on the site.
We just wrote about the Reading/Leeds festival, mentioned bits n pieces about Glastonbury recently and now we are going to tell you who's playing at the Roskilde festival.
Why does Europe get all the good festivals? Performing at this years Roskilde will be the likes of Lily Allen, Amadou & Mariam, Coldplay, Dungen, Eagles of Death Metal, Fleet Foxes, Freindly Fires, Fucked Up, Madness, The Mars Volta, Nine Inch Nails, Oasis, Pet Shop Boys, Royksopp, Kanye West, Frightened Rabbit and so many more.
Roskilde is being held over the weekend of July 2nd-5th. Just head to Copenhagen (Denmark) if interested, trust me you'll know which way to go once there, just follow the herd.
We'll let you know over the next few weeks of the other festival we think you guys might be interested in hearing about. Watch this space.....
