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New Interpol album out in early 2010

Interpol have revealed that their new album will be released in early 2010 – and is a bit of a retro affair. The record will be the follow-up to 2007’s ‘Our Love To Admire’ and the group’s fourth studio album, and the band’s drummer Sam Fogarino has revealed how the sound of the LP is a return to that of their 2002 debut album ‘Turn On The Bright Lights’.

“The new record falls back towards the first,” he told Paste Magazine. He added: “In trying to move forward, there was an unspoken realisation that you can’t let go of your sonic-defining tag.” Although a release date, title or tracklisting is still yet-to-be announced, Forgarino also revealed how the band had reverted back to their early sound. “There was an effort in Daniel [Kessler]’s guitar tone; he rediscovered it playing in his loft space for a year without anybody,” he explained. “The quality of that tone, played in a big room, is just beautiful. It creates an atmosphere.”

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The Strokes’ debut album Is This It has been named the best album of the decade

The Libertines’ 2002 debut Up the Bracket was voted second in the list of the top 50 albums, with Primal Scream’s XTRMNTR coming in third. Bands such as Radiohead and Arctic Monkeys, plus record producers and label bosses were among those who cast their votes. Guitar-led rock acts dominated the list with nine out of the top 10 places.

Is This It, with its lo-fi scratchy guitars and hits like Last Nite and Someday, was one of the most acclaimed albums of the year when it was released in 2001. Its infamous cover shows a hand in a black vinyl glove resting on a woman’s naked thigh – thought by many to be a reference to Spinal Tap’s fictitious Smell The Glove album.

The Strokes’ frontman Julian Casablancas said of his band’s top position: “It’s totally crazy! I thought it was great when I heard. “But does it mean it’s a good musical decade or a bad musical decade? I don’t know, I’m such a bad judge of my own stuff.

The year 2002 is the most well-represented in the list with eight albums, including releases by Interpol, The Streets and Queens of the Stone Age.

TOP 10 ALBUMS OF THE DECADE

1. The Strokes – Is This It
2. The Libertines – Up The Bracket
3. Primal Scream – XTRMNTR
4. Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
5. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Fever To Tell
6. PJ Harvey – Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea
7. Arcade Fire – Funeral
8. Interpol – Turn On The Bright Lights
9. The Streets – Original Pirate Material
10. Radiohead – In Rainbows
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Liam have just launched the brand new Pretty Green Autumn Winter 2009 collection

Just switch over to Pretty Green

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Liam Gallagher’s New Band Has Demos Recorded

If reports are correct ex band members Gem Archer and Andy Bell, as well as Chris Sharrock (drums) and Jay Darlington (keyboards), are on board with Liam. Apparently Andy will switch to guitar to help Gem take up the empty spot Noel Gallagher has left behind. The band is currently talking to some bass players to complete the group’s lineup. According to Liam, the yet to be named band, already has 7 demos recorded.

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Creating the counterculture

Modern electronic-rock music, inaugurated in the early 1960s, is, and always has been, a joint enterprise of British military intelligence and Satanic cults. On the one side, the Satanists control the major rock groups through drugs, sex, threats of violence, and even murder. On the otherside, publicity, tours, and recordings are financed by record companies connected to British military intelligence circles. Both sides are intimately entwined with the biggest business in the world, the international drug trade. The so-called “rock stars” are pathetic puppets caught in a much larger scheme. From the moment they receive their first recording royalties, the groups are heavily immersed in drugs. For example, much-admired “stars” such as John Lennon of the Beatles and Keith Richard of the Rolling Stones, were heroin addicts. Richard had to obtain blood transfusions, replacing his entire heroin-laced blood supply, in order to get a visa to enter the United States.

The “rock stars” are also totally artificial media creations. Their public image, as well as their music, is fabricated from behind the scenes by controllers. For example, when the Beatles first arrived in the United States in 1964, they were mobbed at the airport by hundreds of screaming teenage girls. The national press immediately announced that “Beatlemania” had besieged the U.S.A. But the girls had all been transported from a girl’s school in the Bronx, and paid for their screaming performance by the Beatles’ promoters.

Far from the picture of innocence, the Beatles, even in their first performances, were always high on a drug called Preludin, John Lennon, would be foaming at the mouth, he’d have so many pills inside him…John, began to go berserk on stage, prancing and groveling…The fact that the audience could not understand a word he said, provoked John into cries of `Sieg Heil!’ and `F____ing Nazis’ to which the audience invariably responded by laughing and clapping.

The money of the 1960s rock groups, which in somes cases mounted to hundreds of millions of dollars, was also totally under the control of mob-connected promoters. From 1963 to 1970, the Rolling Stones made over $200 million, yet the group’s members were all nearly bankrupt. None of them had any idea of where their money went. Between 1963 and 1964 the Beatles and the Rolling Stones laid siege to Western European and American culture. This two-pronged invasion from England was well-planned and well-timed. America had just suffered the shock of the assassination of President John Kennedy, while in the streets the mass-based civil rights movement had just held a Washington, D.C. rally, led by Martin Luther King, of 500,000 people. The rock counterculture would be used as a weapon to destroy such political movements.

Later in 1968 and 1969, years which saw a mass strike of students and workers in the United States and Europe, huge, open-air rock concerts were used to head off the growing discontent of the population. The rock concerts were devised as a means for mass recruitment to the drug-saturated, free-sex counterculture. For the millions who came to these concerts, thousands of tablets of the hallucinogenic drug, LSD, were made freely avaliable. These drugs were secretly placed in drinks such as Coca-Cola, turning thousands of unsuspecting victims into raving psychotics. Many committed suicide.

 

The year 1967 marked a significant escalation in open cultural warfare against the youth of the United States. The year saw the beginning of mass, open-air rock concerts. In the two years which followed, over 4 million young people attended a series of nearly a dozen of these “festivals” like Woodstock or Monterey, becoming the victims of planned, wide-scale drug experimentation. Mind destroying hallucinogenic drugs such as PCP, STP, and the Beatles-promoted LSD, were freely distributed at these concerts. These millions of attendees would afterward return to their homes to become the messengers and promoters of the new drug culture, or what came to be called the “New Age.”

The first rock festival, “The First Annual Monterey International Pop Festival,” was attended by over 100,000 youngsters. The real purpose of Monterey Pop was the widespread distrubution of a new type of drugs, classified as psychedelics or hallucinogens, such as LSD. At Monterey, thousands of younger teen-agers were introduced to the new hallucinogenic drugs.

The first experimentation with LSD was begun in the early sixties, in the Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco. The project was run by a joint CIA-British intelligence task force under the code-name MK-Ultra. Part of the project called for the free distribution of 5,000 tablets of LSD through a commune known as Ken Kesey’s Merry Pranksters. LSD’s after-effects were then closely studied. Kesey, a so-called “poet” and convicted drug felon, became famous for driving around California in a painted-up bus with his commune, the Merry Pranksters, distributing LSD-laced Kool Aid to the unsuspecting.

 

The effect of LSD is to make the victim psychotic, along with the inability to discern reality from drug-induced hallucinations. For many, this psychosis (also called a “bad trip”) could and did lead to suicide. When an individual is given LSD without his knowledge, the psychosis-producing capabilities of the drug are amplified, and usually leave the victim with permanent brain damage.

The organizer of the Monterey festival was John Phillips, a member of the rock group the Mommas and the Papas. Phillips, as we shall see, was a drug pusher and closely tied in with the network of Satanists around Charles Manson and director Roman Polanski. Phillips appointed a board of directors to promote and finance the concert. The members of the board brought together a network of British intelligence operatives and Satanists. The board of directors included Andrew Oldham (the Rolling Stones manager), the Stones leader Mick Jagger and Beatle Paul McCartney. There was a larger scheme in operation. The scheme was tied into MK-Ultra and it involved using Satanists around Phillips, along with agents such as Ken Kesey and Timothy Leary. The plan was to turn nearby San Francisco into a Satanist gaming preserve, mass recruiting and perverting young run-away teenagers.

“Woodstock Music and Art Fair,” would be what Time magazine celebrated as an “Aquarian Festival”‘ and “history’s largest happening.” The term “Aquarian” was carefully chosen. The Aquarian age signified that the “Age of Pisces,” which is the age of Christ, had come to an end. At Woodstock, a small town in upstate New York, nearly half a million youth gathered to be drugged and brainwashed on a farm. The victims were isolated, immersed in filth, pumped with psychedelic drugs, and kept awake continously for three straight days, and all with the full complicity of the FBI and government officials. Security for the concert was provided by a hippie commune trained in the mass distribution of LSD.

Once again, it would be the networks of British military intelligence which would be the initiators. Woodstock was the brain child of Artie Kornfeld, the director of EMI’s Capitol Record’s, Contemporary Projects Division. The original funding was provided by the heir of a large Pennsylvania-based pharmaceutical company, John Roberts, and two other partners. It was another pharmaceutical company, the Swiss-based Sandoz Laboratories, which had first synthesized LSD. Roberts would later be accused of using his company for the mass drugging of the attendees.

Little adequate preparations were made for the nearly half a million people who came. Joel Rosenman, one of the three partners, writes, as the concert neared, “Food and water were clearly going to be in short supply, sanitary facilities overtaxed, tempers short, drugs overabundant. Worst of all, there was no way for anyone who wanted to, to leave.” Sitting in your own excrement was actually part of the plan, as John Roberts jokingly wrote, “We’re going to hand out bananas at the gate to bind our patrons.”

A hippie commune called the Hog Farm, had a special role at Woodstock. The Hog Farm was led by a man nicknamed Wavy Graver, who was a former member of Ken Kesey’s MK-Ultra operation, the Merry Pranksters. Communes like the Hog Farm were commonly found in the remote parts of California and served as the breeding grounds for Satanic cults, as well as terrorist groups. Members of these communes continually interchanged with other communes and were the recruiting grounds for the Process Church and Manson. Hog Farm member Diane Lake was a member of Charles Manson’s Family, at the time of the massacre of Sharon Tate and her guests.

On August 14, one day before the scheduled opening, the entire festival security force, comprised of 350 off-duty New York City cops, pulled out. A spokesman for the New York police claimed that no official arrangement was ever made with the city, a claim the promoters vehemently denied. In an August 15, 1969 New York Times article, the head of Woodstock’s security said, “Now I don’t have any security at all. I’ve been struck. We’re having the biggest collection of kids there’s ever been in this country without any police protection.” Not surprisingly, the Hog Farm was put in charge of security.

Woodstock funder and director John Roberts, openly admitted that he was well aware of the Hog Farm’s connection to drug distribution. He writes, “their fee was simply transportation to and from the festival… a peace-keeping force that looked, talked, and smelled like the crowd would be both highly credible and highly effective… and the most important, they were wise in the ways of drugs, knowing good acid from bad, good trips from bummers, good medicine from poison, etc.”The Hog Farm at the time was living in New Mexico’s mountains. Roberts chartered a Boeing 727, at a cost of $17,000, and flew 100 of them to New York.

To clear the final path for the planned drugging of half a million youngsters, the district attorney for the area agreed privately that there would be no arrests or prosecutions for violations of drug laws. John Roberts writes, “The District Attorney…recognized early on that many of our customers would be using illegal drugs, but also recognized that such use would be the least of our problems over the course of the weekend. He acted, therefore, with compassion and good grace throughout.” Roberts also writes that he was meeting continuously with the FBI up to and including one day before the start of the concert, and had their full cooperation.

Two days before the scheduled start of the concert, 50,000 kids had already arrived in Woodstock. Drugs immediately began to circulate. Many people brought their babies and, as Roberts says, even they were drugged. Roberts writes that at a nearby lake, “the tots swam naked, smoked grass, and got into the music.” A poll conducted at the festival by the New York Times showed that 99 percent of those attending were using marijuana. Local sheriff deputies, totally overwhelmed, reported that no arrests were being made for drug use. The New York Times of August 17 quoted one deputy,” If we did (make arrests), there isn’t enough space in Sullivan or the next three counties to put them in.”

The use of marijuana was not the worst. Following the design of the original MK-Ultra project, the mass distribution of LSD came next, much of it in LSD-laced Coca Cola, as Kesey’s Pranksters had done five years earlier. Roberts jokingly relates the following, “a particularly abrasive cop ….had been handed an LSD-spiked Coke while directing traffic. Long after all automobiles in the area had congealed to a standstill, the hardhat was still out on the road waving them on. Finally they led him away.”

For the next three days, the nearly half a million young people that arrived were subjected to continual drugs and rock music. Because of torrential rains, they were forced to wallow in knee-deep mud. There were no shelters, and no way to get out. Cars were parked over eight miles away. Rosenman writes that the key to the “Woodstock experiment” was “keeping our performers performing around the clock…to keep the kids transfixed…”

Within the first 24 hours, over 300 kids reported to medical authorities, violently ill. The diagnosis: they were having “bad” LSD trips. Thousands more would follow. On August 17, the New York Times reported: “Tonight, a festival announcer warned from the stage, that ‘badly manufactured acid’ (a term for LSD) was being circulated. He said: ‘You aren’t taking poison acid. The acid’s not poison. It’s just badly manufactured acid. You are not going to die…. So if you think you’ve taken poison, you haven’t. But if you’re worried, just take half a tablet.’”

The advice, to nearly 500,000 people, “just take half a tablet” was given by none other than MK-Ultra agent Wavy Gravy. With a growing medical emergency on hand, a call went out to New York City for emergency medical personnel. Over 50 doctors and nurses were flown in. By the end of Woodstock, a total of 5,000 medical cases were reported.

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Liam’s First Radio Appearance since split

 

Liam Gallagher has vowed to play his first solo gigs “in a couple of months’” time. The former Oasis frontman made the admission during a radio interview with Italian station Radio Deejay this morning (November 13). During the interview, he also gave more details about what caused Oasis to split.

Asked by presenters whether he was missing touring since the band split in September, Gallagher responded: “I’ll be back doing that [playing live] within a couple of months. I’ve just done a tour, I always miss singing songs. I miss the people.”

He added that he isn’t keen on playing smaller venues for the gigs, before confirming that he’s currently writing new material with his former Oasis bandmates, minus brother Noel. “We’re sort of doing things at the moment. Not Oasis, Oasis is done. Everyone except for Noel,” Gallagher explained.

Talking about Oasis’s split, Gallagher said he thinks his brother had wanted to leave the band for some time. “To be quite honest, I think our kid [Noel Gallagher] wanted out. But you’ll have to ask him when he comes in and does his little solo thing. We had an argument – but we’ve had bigger ones, about more important people. Basically, I think he wanted out, wanted something different, but he hadn’t got the bollocks to tell the band or the fans.”

The singer also went into specifics about the argument that lead to Noel Gallagher announcing he was leaving Oasis in August, confirming that both brothers had smashed each other’s guitars. “I didn’t smash it [the guitar] on him, I wish I had, man. He sort of… treated my guitar poorly, which was a present off my wife,” he said. “So I thought it was only fair to pay the compliment [back] so I smashed one of his,” Gallagher explained, adding: “It sounds ridiculous, like a pair of old women.”

However, the frontman added that he regrets smashing Noel Gallagher’s guitar, as it was Oasis’ property. “That guitar of mine was mine. The guitar that I smashed of Noel’s was Oasis’ guitar. Part of the thing that I pay for. So I shouldn’t have smashed it really!”

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The Who to Rock Next Years Super Bowl Halftime Show

Another Super Bowl, another performance from a classic rock icon. Sports Illustrated is reporting this year’s halftime spectacular will feature the Who. That’s right — Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend and company will provide the musical fireworks when the game hits Miami on Feb. 7.

Ever since the infamous Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake nipple fiasco in 2004, the NFL has gone with “veteran” acts and turned the reins over to one band or artist. The Who certainly fit the newer mold, proving worthy successors to the recent run of Paul McCartney (2005), the Rolling Stones (2006), Prince (2007), Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (2008) and this year’s performance by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.

With the matchup still far from decided, one thing is for certain — a stadium of 80,000 people rocking out to ‘Won’t Get Fooled Again’ will sound great no matter what.

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“Sesame Street” Turns 40 Celebrate with videos of the show’s 40 best musical performances.

1974: Johnny Cash — or Johnny Trash as he’s called by Oscar — sings “Nasty Dan”

1978: Michael Jackson guest stars in a Sesame Street Christmas special

2007:James Blunt turns “You’re Beautiful” into “My Triangle”

2008: Feist sings “1, 2, 3, 4″ about counting monsters walking ‘cross the floor and chickens just back from the shore

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Julian Casablancas release a Christmas song

The singer, whose first solo album ‘Phrazes Of The Young’ came out last week, said he plans to release a cover of festive tune ‘I Wish It Was Christmas Today’.

“It was a fun thing to do. Everyone seems to do a Christmas song at some point, so I always said to myself I’d do that song,” Casablancas explained. “I now checked that off the list of things to do!” The track will be released as a download and a limited edition seven-inch single on December 21.

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MTV Europe Music Awards held in Berlin last night (these ceremonies going shittier from year to year)

Held in Berlin to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall the show featured performances of Foo Fighters, Leona Lewis and U2, who played at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate (looked pretty tiny compared with the 360° stage *LOL*).

The full list of winners are:

Best Male: Eminem <- that guy and his music is so ‘00
Best Female: Beyoncé
Best Urban: Jay-Z

Best Group: Tokio Hotel <- joke no 1. not a good one
Best Video: Beyoncé – ‘Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)’
Best Song: Beyoncé – ‘Halo’
Best Rock: Green Day
<- joke no 2. stupid little rockstar caricatures
Best New Act: Lady Gaga <- was (s)he also up for the best male award?
Best Live Act: U2 <- C’MON!!!!
Best Alternative: Placebo <- can’t stand these fags
MTV Push Artist: Pixie Lott
Best World Stage Performer: Linkin Park
<- no chance! anyone still give a shit about nu-metal?
Best European Act: maNga <-who the fuck???

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