That’s just music

U2 is going to release a DVD with their concert performance “Live At Red Rocks”, which took place way back in 1983, said gigwise.com. This is not the first actual concert DVD the band is putting into production. The disc will include five songs that were previously not incorporated into other records taken during this concert, plus director’s commentary. The sound is going to be in 5.1 format.

The CD will appear in stores on September 30 at the same time with the digitally re-released concert album “Under A Blood Red Sky”, which also includes old records from U2’s “War Tour” (1982–1983) that was dedicated to the album “War”.

Carla Bruni’s new album “Comme si de rien n’etait” sold three hundred thousand copies since the moment when it hit the stores on July 11, said AFP. Following the information given by “Naive” record company only in France they’ve sold 150 thousand copies and 160 in other countries.

In the middle of July “Comme si de rien n’etait” reached number three in the French hit’s list. During the period between 3 and 9 of August Bruni’s album made it to number five among the best selling CD’s in France. Nevertheless, it’s still not overcoming her first music work “Quelqu’un M’a Dit”, which sold two million copies in 2002. Previously she had said that all the money from the last album shall be spent on charities.

Radiohead had recorded lots of new songs for a movie “Choke”, which is currently being made based on Chuck Palahniuk’s novel of the same name. The author of the legendary “Fight Club”. As noted by Clark Gregg (director) this movie including Radiohead’s music will most likely be released in November 2008.

In his interview to BBC 6Music Palahniuk said that Clark Gregg had invited musicians from Radiohead to ask them to write the soundtrack after he found that Chuck was listening to their debut album “Pablo Honey” while writing this novel. In the beginning Radiohead wrote one song, which had to be played at the end, but after viewing other movie parts musicians have decided to go for more songs and sounds.

“Apparently Radiohead liked the move so much, they’ve written the score, the most of the ambient music throughout it. So it’s ‘Choke – with the music of Radiohead’,” said Palahniuk.

Metallica had launched the project on it’s own satellite radio station called Mandatory Metallica, says XM Satellite Radio website. This new Metallica’s device shall be broadcasting from August 16 to September 30 on XM 51 channel. The program should incorporate all their songs including some rare records from the band’s personal archives, and cool interviews.

Besides that, as said gigwise.com, Mandatory Metallica will air some other band’s interviews. Those may be Guns n’ Roses, Slipknot and Linkin Park. It’s also noted that the start of this radio station’s broadcasting is going to happen on the same day with their new album’s release “Death Magnetic” (September 12).

Ozzy Osbourne had promised his fans to release two more albums before he finishes his music career, said Digital Spy.  During an interview to USA Today Ozzy has noted, “I am recording another album soon. I’ve got a ProTools machine downstairs in my house now, I record from home now. I can’t turn the f…ing thing on. It’s like the brain of the house.” 

Following his words, Ozzy began to experience less appreciation while recording something because of a new software and hardware tools. Basically, it was better in the past when dealing with the old sound recording machinery. “But when you have somebody who knows what they are doing, it’s so easy to make records now, it’s not even funny. The art of making records is somewhat diminishing. It’s taking the passion out of it. But I will try to give it as much real me as I can,” he added.

Every moment of his life became increasingly valuable because of the age. “Time is very valuable to me now. I’m sixty this December. It doesn’t seem ten years since I was fifty, it really doesn’t. My mission now is to do as much as I can.”

The British electronic band The Chemical Brothers is starting the joint project together with Google Earth which is dedicated to the upcoming release of their new double album “Brotherhood”. This album is going to incorporate the band’s top hits. The ‘Brother’s’ official website says that everyone who wants to make their personal video or photograph contributed to The Chemical Brothers may upload it to the place where it was made onto Google Earth map. The video’s length should be not less than two seconds and not longer than twenty.

The best works will compose the real band’s video in the future, which should be presented on YouTube at the same time with the album’s release. The deadline for uploading shall last until August 25.

The infamous dub-step musician Burial  who was recently nominated for the prestigious Mercury Prize, finally had revealed his real name. On August 5 he used his personal blog on MySpace to inform everybody that he is Will Bevan from the South London. Also, he had posted his photo for the first time. “I wanted to be unknown because I just want it to be all about the tunes. Over the last year the unknown thing became an issue so I’m no into it any more”, he wrote in the blog. At the same time he’d noticed that currently his mind is absolutely absorbed by work on the new album.

Burial (Will Bevan) became famous when he released the debut album in 2006. Due to certain personal reasons Will kept his identity secret by not making photographs and giving very few interviews. A pressure to reveal himself grew when his second album “Untrue” was nomited for the Mercury Prize two weeks ago. There was an idea or even rumours that the name Burial hides some famous musicians like Fatboy Slim or Aphex Twin. The Sun even began an investigation to open Burial’s secret.

The Mercury Prize winners shall become known in September.

The British singer Annie Lennox had recorded two new tracks for her major hits album “The Annie Lennox Collection”, said Undercover. Following the information given by this site, the first track will be a cover version of a song “Closer Now” written by another British group Keane, and the second one “Shining Light” originally belongs to the Irish band Ash. Following her own words, she heard “Shining Light” six years ago, and since then ‘couldn’t stop listening to it’.

“The Annie Lennox Collection” shall include fourteen tracks (twelve of which belong to her four solo albums – “Dive” 1992, “Medusa” 1995, “Bare” 2003, and “Songs of Mass Destruction” 2007) plus two covers mentioned above. This release is planned on September 2008.

Queen’s guitar player Brian May had published his dissertation which made him the PhD last year.  The name of this scientific work is A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud, said Space.com. It is the classic thesis on astrophysics that describes the nature of Zodiacal light.  On August 24, 2007 an infamous musician was granted the PhD after almost thirty years of staying away from science – something he was into during the youth years.

The basic experimental data for his work was gathered by Fabry-Perot Spectrometer which is located on Canari islands in 1971–72. Right after May has received the PhD he was offered a president’s seat in John Moors University in Liverpool (LJMU) that he took in April this year. Practically, Brian May came back to what he was doing and probably something he was seeking throughout most of his life.

You may read more on Zodiacal light by following this link – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiacal_light

Smashing Pumpkins had recorded a new single under the name “G.L.O.W.”. A disc should be released in the beginning of September, and will become the third record (previous ones were “Zeitgeist” and a single “American Gothic”) since the band’s reunion in 2006 (and the first one since they’ve left Reprise Records). On August 8 the band will start a small American tour dedicated to their 20th anniversary, which should be concluded by the release of another DVD. Also, by the end of this year Smashing Pumpkins is planning to begin working on the new album.

In the meantime, the band’s leader Billy Corgan took a legal action against Lester Cohn – a documentary film director of Pure DV Productions. Smashing Pumpkin’s frontman had hired Cohn in order to make a variety of new footages from their concerts and studio sessions during 2003/2005. However, Corgan turned to be extremely dissatisfied with the quality of Cohn’s work, and demands him to return these footages. If Corgan wins, the court will rule Cohn to pay one hundred thousand dollars. At the same time the leader of Smashing Pumpkins is having legal proceedings with their former record label – Reprise Records.