Song Of The Day: 'London Calling' - The Clash (31/01/2010)

'The ice age is coming, the sun's zooming in
Meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin
Engines stop running, but I have no fear
Cause London is drowning and I, live by the river'

TopCharts: Billboard Hot 100 - Top 10 Singles (06/02/2010)

10 - 'Hey, Soul Sister' - Train

Last week: #7; Peak: #7; Weeks On: 17

9 - 'Hard' - Rihanna ft. Jeezy

Last week: #8; Peak: #8; Weeks On: 10

8 - 'Empire State Of Mind' - Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys

Last week: #3; Peak: #1; Weeks On: 20

7 - 'Sexy Bitch' - David Guetta ft. Akon

Last week: #6; Peak: #6; Weeks On: 25

6 - 'Replay' - Iyaz

Last week: #5; Peak: #2; Weeks On: 23

5 - 'Baby' - Justin Bieber ft. Ludacris

Last week: --; Peak: #5; Weeks On: 1

4 - 'BedRock' -Young Money ft. Lloyd

Last week: #8; Peak: #4; Weeks On: 9

3 - 'Bad Romace' - Lady Gaga

Last week: #2; Peak: #2; Weeks On: 13

2 - 'Today Was A Fairytale' - Taylor Swift

Last week: --; Peak: #2; Weeks On: 1

1 - 'TiK ToK' - Ke$ha

Last week: #1; Peak: #1; Weeks On: 16

Song Of The Day: "Cryin'" - Aerosmith (30/01/2010)

'I was Cryin' when I met you

Now I'm tryin' to forget you

Your love is sweet misery'

News Blast: Riot At Metallica's Gig Gets 120 Arrested

At Metallica's Concert in Santiago, Chile last week, almost 120 fans were arrested while trying to impregnate the concert without any tickets.

The incident took place whilst the metal band was playing and local police had to use pepper-spray to regain the fans composure, leading to the injury of an officer and to the arrest of 120 people.

The Police stated the fans' misdeeds included drug possession, drinking in public and disorderly behavior.

Are Metallica's lyrics inducing and prevailing their fans' minds too much?

ChivasPuppet

News Blast: Fan Injured During Prodigy Concert

Last January the 24th, at The Prodigy's concert in Dundee, a 24-year-old man fell almost 15 feet from the balcony being gravely injured. His condition is now described as "very serious", according to BBC News

While still investigating, the local police detectives have yet been unable to determine the cause of the accident.

Meanwhile, the band is set to continue their tour through Scotland, performing tonight in Edinburgh.

ChivasPuppet

Song Of The Day: "Ironic" - Alanis Morissette (26/01/2010)

'It's like rain on your wedding day
It's a free ride when you've already paid
It's the good advice that you just didn't take
Who would've thought ... it figures'

News Blast: NME Shockwave Awards Nominees

Best British Band:
Arctic Monkeys
Biffy Clyro
Kasabian
Muse
Oasis

Best International Band:
Green Day
Kings Of Leon
Paramore
Vampire Weekend
Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Best Solo Artist:
Dizzee Rascal
Florence And The Machine
Jamie T
Julian Casablancas
Lady Gaga

Best New Act:
The Big Pink
Bombay Bicycle Club
Mumford & Sons
The xx
La Roux

Best Live Band:
Arctic Monkeys
Kasabian
Muse
Radiohead
Them Crooked Vultures

Best Album:
Arctic Monkeys – “Humbug”
Kasabian – “West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum”
Muse – “The Resistance”
The Cribs – “Ignore The Ignorant”
The Horrors – “Primary Colours”

Best Song:
Animal Collective – “My girls”
Arctic Monkeys – “Crying Lightning”
Florence And The Machine – “Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)”
Jamie T – “Sticks N’ Stones”
The Big Pink – “Dominos”

Best Music Video:
Arctic Monkeys – “Cornerstone”
Biffy Clyro – “The Captain”
Kasabian – “Fire”
The Maccabees – “Can You Give It”
Oasis – “Falling Down”

Best Live Show:
Blur - Hyde Park
Jay-Z - Alexandra Palace Muse -Teignmouth
Oasis - Heaton Park
The Dead Weather - Shoreditch Church

Best Festival:
Download
Glastonbury
Reading And Leeds Festivals
T In The Park
V Festival

Hero Of The Year:
Beyoncé Knowles
Noel Gallagher
Rage Against The Machine
Matt Bellamy

Vilan Of The Year:
Noel Gallagher
Liam Gallagher
Simon Cowell
Kanye West
Lady Gaga

Best Dressed:
Lady Gaga
Liam Gallagher
Noel Fielding
Florence Welch
Karen O

Worst Dressed:
Lady Gaga
Matt Bellamy
Katy Perry
Liam Gallagher
Elly Jackson, La Roux

Worst Album:
Green Day – “21st Century Breakdown”
Lady Gaga – “The Fame”
The Jonas Brothers – “Lines Vines Trying Times”
U2 – “No Line On The Horizon”
Arctic Monkeys – “Humbug”

Worst Band:
Green Day
Oasis
Jonas Brothers
Paramore
JLS

Song Of The Day: "Chivas" - Kelly Clarkson (25/01/2010)

"The Texas native has one of the great voices in pop music, a powerful and versatile instrument that's steeped in the rhythm and blues and country music she grew up with in the South. If Mariah Carey's five-octave voice is the equivalent of an expensively bred poodle, then Clarkson's is a bloodhound: friendly, earthy, but fierce just the same." - Blender Magazine

'Guess I felt to fast

Guess I learned my lesson

So much for true love

I'll take the Chivas instead'

News Blast: And The Winner is... Black Eyed Peas?!?!

This weekend, the pop group, Black Eyed Peas, were victims of a slightly confusing situation that the NRJ Awards put them in.

The Black Eyed Peas were mistakenly announced as 'Best International Group', and immediately the organization corrected the misunderstanding, giving the award to Tokio Hotel.

Anyhow, BEP won an award for 'Best Song', which kept them from leaving the ceremony with their heads held low.

Wouldn't it had been better if they didn't correct the error, instead of giving it to the disgusting band, Tokio Hotel?

ChivasPuppet

News Blast: Slash-Free Dress Code At Guns N' Roses Concert

Last week, at a Guns N' Roses concert, fans were obliged to dress down any Slash t-shirt or gear of any sort, including hats and banners.

While touring in Canada, Guns N' Roses' singer, Axl Rose, gave orders to the security crew, in order not to have any reminders what-so-ever of the ex-guitarist.

Unfortunately, Axl hasn't yet recovered from the frivolous fights both had, letting its pride and jealousy get in the way. Oh dear Axl, are you mad he has more fans than you ever will?

ChivasPuppet

News Blast: New Scorpions Album To Prestige End Of Career

'Sting in Tail', to be release in March, is appointed as the last from the group, after 45 years and 21 albums of great music.

"While we were working on our album these past few months", stated the band in their official website, "We could literally feel how powerful and creative our work was – and how much fun we were still having, in the process, making the The Scorpion’s extraordinary career end on a high note"

Nevertheless, The Scorpions are still going on tour this summer, starting in their home country, Germany.

Now I fear: Is this just a strategical move to camouflage an unsuspected comeback?

Chivas Puppet

Song Of The Day: 'Enter Sandman' - Metallica (24/01/2010)

"A burst of stadium level metal that, once away from the buildup intro, never lets up". - Chris True, Allmusic


"Now I lay me down to sleep
Pray the lord my soul to keep
If I die before I wake
Pray the lord my soul to take"

TopCharts: Billboard Hot 100 - Top 10 Singles (30/01/2010)

10 - 'How Low' - Ludacris
Last week: #14; Peak: #10; Weeks On: 6

9 - 'Fireflies' - Owl City
Last week: #5; Peak: #1; Weeks On: 22

8 - 'Hard' - Rihanna ft. Jeezy
Last week: #9; Peak: #8; Weeks On: 9

7 - 'Hey, Soul Sister' - Train
Last week: #23; Peak: #7; Weeks On: 16

6 - 'Sexy Bitch' - David Guetta ft. Akon
Last week: #6; Peak: #6; Weeks On: 24

5 - 'Replay' - Iyaz
Last week: #4; Peak: #2; Weeks On: 22

4 - 'BedRock' -Young Money ft. Lloyd
Last week: #8; Peak: #4; Weeks On: 8

3 - 'Empire State Of Mind' - Jay-Z ft. Alicia Keys
Last week: #3; Peak: #1; Weeks On: 19

2 - 'Bad Romace' - Lady Gaga
Last week: #2; Peak: #2; Weeks On: 12

1 - 'TiK ToK' - Ke$ha
Last week: #1; Peak: #1; Weeks On: 15

News Blast: Re-Recording of 'We Are The World' to benefit Haiti victims.

Lionel Ritchie and music producer Quincy Jones are assembling acts to re-record 'We Are The World', originally by Michael Jackson.

Some names such as John Legend, Usher and Natalie Cole have by now been pointed out, but the main idea is to gather every 2010's Grammy nominee to record the song on the 1st of February.

The new song's version will be produced by Grammy director, Ken Ehrlich, with the preeminent goal of fund raising for Haiti Victims.

Others alike U2 and Justin Timberlake, have also announced new songs to benefit Haiti, emerging some competition. Is this going to turn into a twisting and revolving charity musical battle?

ChivasPuppet

Song Of The Day: "Welcome To The Jungle - Guns N' Roses" (23/01/2010)

You know where you are? You're in the jungle baby. You're gonna die!

News Blast: Steven Tylers Needed

Steven Tyler, now getting a treatment for its painkiller addiction, has stepped aside the band, that publicly announced they were auditioning for new singers.

"We are going to start having some auditions, making some phone calls," Told Perry to QMI, "Hopefully, we'll have found a new singer by the summer, and Aerosmith will be able to go back out on the road".

However, Perry ensured that this didn't meant that Steven wouldn't return to the band.

Will Steven Tyler's absence take all the excitement and thrill from Aerosmith's Hard Rock turning it into and epic failure? Let's just hope they don't end up like Queen and INXS when these decided to hire new singers.

Chivas Puppet

sources: nme.com

News Blast: U2 Start New Album

"We are working on a lot of new songs and some of them are really, really happy. We're convinced that we have something really special" , The Edge told EW.com, as they begin working on they're new, yet untitled, upcoming album.

"We are experimenting with a lot of different arrangements, and electronic is one of the things we are playing with but there are other songs that are very traditional, almost folk, " he continued. "In some ways, that's the thing we haven't figured out yet, is where this album is going to end up."

As for us, we can only wait and wonder. Is it going to be just a spin-off from the unsatisfying 'No Line In the Horizon' , or a folkish reinvention of their electrifying Rock?

ChivasPuppet

sources: ew.com ; nme.com

Review: 'Master Of Puppets' - Metallica

Master of Puppets. Named by many as the most outstanding and extraordinary metal album ever recorded. Why? I'll tell you why.

Speed. Monstrosity. Power.

What an achievement, the greatest from Metallica, not yet evenly matched by any other.As an avid fan of everything that is called metal, I'm the first one to step up and say, this album clobbers and smashes any other thing out there. Fast epic riffs, tons of trashy heavy drums and endless mind-blowing solos, makes Master of Puppets THE metal album.


ChivasPuppet


- Track Listing -

1. "Battery" - 5:10
2. "Master of Puppets" - 8:36
3. "The Thing That Should Not Be" - 6:33
4. "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" - 6:27
5. "Disposable Heroes" - 8:15
6. "Leper Messiah" - 5:42
7. "Orion" (Instrumental) - 8:25
8. "Damage, Inc." - 5:31


- Facts -
Metallica's 3rd studio album
Released: 3/March/1986
Genre: Metal/Trash Metal
Full Lenght: 54:45
Singles: Master Of Puppets (1986), Battery (1986), Welcome Home (Sanitarium) (1986).
Certifications: 6x Platinum (USA), 5x Platinum (Canada).