No Sleep For Anyone
Hey everyone. It’s me again, Nathalia. I’m here to fill you in on the stuff we covered today on our radio show.
Today we started the show off with “No One Sleeps When I’m Awake” by The Sounds. Explore.
The band is The Sounds and the track is “No One Sleeps When I’m Awake”. If you’re old enough, you might hear some influence from bands like Missing Persons and the Divinyls from the new wave days of the early 80s. There’s even a little Blondie in what these guys do and singer Maja Ivarsson is most hot.
The album is called Crossing The Rubicon and it’s their third record. If you have tickets to see No Doubt on their reunion tour this summer, you might get to see The Sounds; they’re opening a bunch of shows.
Let’s move onto some music news.
ExploreMusic TOP 5 MUSIC NEWS countdown:
5) Blink Salon Show?
One of the big reunion tours of the year is with Blink 182. It’s set to start on July 23 in Las Vegas...or is it? According to their website, the first show on the tour will happen July 10 at a nail salon in Cleveland. Yes, a place where you go to get mannies and peddies: Alice’s International Salon and Spa.
Great story while it lasted but sorry folks: it’s a fake.
4) Possessed Killer Chants Eminem
This is the creepiest story of the day, an Arizona man say he was “possessed” when he stabbed his wife and child to death last month. His four year-old son survived getting stabbed 11 times.
The entire time, he says he shouted lyrics to an Eminem song; he yelled “here comes Satan, I’m the anti-christ. I’m going to kill you”. But anyone jumps all over Marshall, i don’t think he ever wrote those words. If you can find an Eminem track with those phrases in it, lemme know.
Meanwhile, the rest of the media is running with the story, taking this whacko at his word that he was possessed by a demon who could recite Eminem.
The murder is real, the stuff about Emimen is wrong. Fact check, people, fact check.
3) Big File Sharing Bust
This is true. After a big bust in the UK, a 33 year-old dude has been arrested and charged with leaking albums on file-sharing sites. This has been a huge problem over the years—CDs escaping into the wild long before their official release date.
This guy is allegedly connected to a group called “DV8” and they say they’re responsible for leaking more than 2500 CDs; majors, indies, the works.
They seized pre-release CDs, an FTP server and more. Read more here.
2) Glastonbury Organizer To Retire
Another big story from the UK: Michael Eavis, the guy who has put on the massive Glastonbury festival since the beginning in 1971, plans to retire. He’s 73 now and will do it for two more years. 2011 will his last, after which his daughter will take over. The full story here.
Meanwhile, Glastonbury is this weekend and the weather looks good. Maybe some rain on Saturday, but that’s it.
1) Bobby Kennedy Jr. On Music
Here’s a good one; we got a chance to talk to Robert F. Kennedy jr—Bobby Kennedy’s kid. He was in Toronto last week with an organization called “Swim Drink Fish,” which is about water conversation and keep water pure. You can read a little about what that all involves here.
We just had to slip in this bit from the interview he did with Mike Sullivan. Wait ‘til you hear who his favourite artist is.
We have that interview for you, you just have to follow this link.
5 SONGS YOU GOTTA HEAR TODAY:
“There Goes The Night” by The Novaks
The Novaks are three guys from St. John’s, Newfoundland. We don’t get a lot of straight-ahead rock bands from the rock. They have a new album—their second—called Things Fall Apart. The song that seems to be getting the most attention right now is called “There Goes The Night”. Explore.
They’re on a cross-Canada tour right now and if things have gone according to plan, they’re in Hamilton tonight. They’ve also been picked to open for KISS when they play Halifax on July 18th. We’ll have them in for an interview shortly so you can hear more about them.
We don't really know how the rest of today’s list came together like this, but the other four songs are all related to Nine Inch Nails. It’s just how the recommendations came in from you this week.
“Hurt” by Johnny Cash
Song number two is the cover of “Hurt” by Johnny Cash. The video is so awesome that it’s had almost 21 million hits on Youtube. If you haven’t seen it, give it a look.
“Nine Inch Nails” by Ridley Bent
Ridley Bent is a country dude from BC. We know, we know, country isn’t our thing, either but Ridley has a song called “Nine Inch Nails” from his current record Buckles And Boots. It’s the hurtin’ story of meetin’ a woman in record store. Things start off great, but then they break up and the record collections get split in an odd way. Only time we’ve heard “Nine Inch Nails” and “Tool” in a country song.
“Closer To Hogs” by Nine Inch Richards
Similarly related, there’s Nine Inch Richards. This was a parody group who was around in 1995. They covered “Closer,” from The Downward Spiral—except that they put a little bit of hillbilly into it. They called it the Closer To Hogs remix.
This EP is very rare too. A new copy might cost you a hundred bucks or more.
“Head Like A Hole” by Nine Inch Nails
And finally, we’ll redeem everything by including a link to the proper and original version of “Head Like A Hole” from 1989. It’s the one where Trent has long dreads.
I saw Trent perform this a couple of weeks ago and it still kicks as much ass now as it did back then; not dated at all.
Those are your five fresh songs you can find every weekday at exploremusic.com. It’s a great way to see what’s out there and for god’s sake, if you know of a song that everyone should hear, tell us and we’ll put it on “The List” for the world to see.
ExploreMusic TRIVIA:
It’s only fitting that we do a Nine Inch Nails question today so here it is. Trent was in the school band growing up in Pennsylvania; what was his instrument?
It was—believe it or not—the tuba. People made fun of him, but who’s laughing now?
ExploreMusic Feature Item: Anti-Flag
Anti-Flag has been making uncompromising punk rock since 1993. They are now up to album number nine with a record called “The People Or The Gun”. Our punk and metal dude, Mike Sullivan, called singer Justin Sane, who was somewhere in Europe.
We have that interview for you. All you have to do is subscribe to our podcast.
ExploreMusic Playlist: The songs featured on the radio show today were:
“No One Sleeps When I’m Awake” by The Sounds
“Courage” by Tragically Hip
“There Goes The Night” by The Novaks
“This Is The First Night” by Anti-Flag
That's it for today. I'm outta here. See you tomorrow.
Nathalia
Questions? Comments? E-mail me at nathalia@exploremusic.com