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In July this year Aerosmith musicians will start working at the studio in order to record the new album, noted the band’s lead guitarist Joe Perry at his personal Twitter blog. This curious news is practically saying merely one thing, Aerosmith is not planning to go away, they will strive to stay as long as possible just to be on the stage by creating their traditionally good music. Perry said, the band decided to hire Jack Douglas as the album’s producer, he had previously co-worked with them while creating Aerosmith’s legendary releases, “Get Your Wings”, “Toys in the Attic”, Rocks”, “Draw the Line” and “Rock in a Hard Place”. Also, Douglas co-operated with Supertramp, Slash, Patti Smith, John Lennon, Yoko Ono and many other super famous musicians, so most likely nobody will get disappointed with the upcoming record. Interestingly, this work should be their first one in seven years, the previous album “Honkin’ on Bobo” came out in 2004 and was produced with the help of Douglas, it went up to the fifth spot on the Billboard 200 chart. Aerosmith’s vocalist Steven Tyler had once mentioned that his band shall begin recordings in January, but it seems that the whole process was standing behind some kind of a stalemate. However, right now they will most likely get out and show the younger generation of musicians that the old rockers don’t give up because they never give up.

Infamous No Doubt vocalist Gwen Stefani had announced the end of her solo career in an interview to the Entertainment Weekly. Stefani said that she had spent even more time on this than was originally planned, however, there is not a single regret about it. Surely this singer doesn’t have to step back in terms of her solo achievements because certain categories of fans found Stefani only after she went solo. During this ‘lonely’ career Gwen had released only two albums; the first one in 2004 “Love. Angel. Music. Baby” and “The Sweet Escape” in 2006. Both releases were followed by tours, which exposed her new stage abilities and looks. The last work made by No Doubt was “Rock Steady”, it came out ten years ago, and realistically saying the band sank into the deep water. From 2004 until 2008 the band decided to take some sort of artistic rest and stayed totally quiet, but three years ago musicians began to talk about new plans, songwriting and everything what can be associated with it. Stefani didn’t get involved in the process due to a lot of touring activities and possibly some unknown personal wishes. In May 2010 No Doubt started to visit studio on the regular basis, thus fans currently expect a lot of new stuff, though Gwen didn’t say anything about what can happen in the future between her and the band.

Red Hot Chili Peppers are planning to release their tenth studio album called “I’m With You” on August 30, 2011, noted the band’s official website. It’s going to be the first release after five years of silence, which became the longest in their history. Previous RHCP’s full studio release “Stadium Arcadium” was produced way back in 2006 while receiving numerous positive feedbacks on the side of fans and critics. It’s already known that “I’m With You” shall incorporate twelve tracks; now the first single belongs to a song “The Adventures of Raindance Maggie”, it must be heard publicly on July 18 this year. The album was produced by RHCP’s long lasting friend Rick Rubin, he was standing behind most of their best and infamous works, his taste of music is legendary. Sadly, RHCP’s well known guitarist John Frusciante didn’t participate in the production process due to the fact of his absence, he left them in 2009. Until this day many followers simply can’t truthfully formulate the reason of his leave; according to John’s personal opinion it was caused by his changing musical tastes and wishes to concentrate on the solo career. To many people such things can be compared to the process of divorce, however, in these cases it all belongs to it’s majesty music. Musicians disagree on nearly everything sometimes and can’t unite as they could in the beginning of their band’s histories.

The band Kaiser Chiefs had proposed it’s fans to earn money with the help from their new album; this is their fourth studio release titled “The Future is Medieval”. The album’s track-list was not formed yet, so fans can do it on their own right now. Kaiser’s official website is currently proposing all twenty tracks or better to say only their fragments, thus listeners may choose ten of them by paying seven and a half pounds. Later, they can sort the following tracks the way they want, additionally inventing some original cover. Eventually fans who did all of the above manipulations are allowed to post it directly to the band’s website, if the fan’s version gets downloaded, then one pound returns to the author. Now Kaiser’s website is presenting three different versions, which were compiled by various people, it means that the whole process had begun. The first example was done by the band’s vocalist Ricky Wilson, he was soon followed by the Radio 1 DJ Chris Mayles, and  by The Guardian’s editorial staff. Approximately one pound from the downloaded ‘celebrity’ version should be given to the Alzheimer’s Society. At the same time it’s not known yet whether this album will come out on CD or not, maybe sometimes later. This awesome band is now considered to be one of the milestones of the genre at the beginning of the twenty first century.

AC/DC vocalist of all times Brian Johnson had announced that his band is planning to mark it’s fortieth anniversary by releasing the new studio album. In recent interview to the PopEater this infamous frontman said that in the nearest time him and his colleagues will start working on it, and eventually their work must turn into another awesome hard rock sensation on the side of the genre’s veterans. However, Johnson didn’t underline any concrete dates of the release because according to his words, the band refuses to make any kind of production under pressure. Obviously, he also said that AC/DC shall organize the series of tours in support of the future release and it will not be as big as their previous one. The last tour in support of the “Black Ice” album lasted from 2008 till 2010 and possibly was one of the biggest in the history of this band. AC/DC was formed way back in 1973 in Sydney; Brian Johnson had joined the group in 1980 and is currently considered to be legendary, his artistic act is truly unique and can be hardly compared to anyone. Generally speaking not only him, but the whole AC/DC music may be seen through the unique light, they appear to be totally unstoppable by time or age because despite their turbulent lifestyle nothing could break them.

Apple had finally reached an agreement with the Universal Music record label to start their new service iCloud, and as it’s already widely known, the latter gadget will enable users to save music on Apple’s servers; iOS operational system should be implemented on every mobile device in order to get an access. This news for originally brought up by the CNET News relating it to some unknown sources of information.  Nobody could find details, companies are trying to keep everything under the carpet until the whole issue gets resolved and people may eventually begin using it. At the same time it’s well known that Apple had also signed contracts with a few more record companies to reach bigger success, and if this business plan goes smoothly enough then they’ll fight for some sort of monopoly. However, iCloud will not be free and it can create a lot of problems while dealing with the company’s rivals, Google and Amazon. CNET News didn’t hide the scheme which is going to be used in spreading of the gained profits, thus it was shown that 58% should get to Universal Music, EMI, Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group, 12% will get to various publishers and merely 30% shall be taken by Apple. iCloud is going to be presented at WWDC conference in San Francisco on June 6; it must be the start of the new service, if not practically, but at least in theory.

According to the Kerrang! magazine, Metallica is now considered to be the best rock band in the last thirty years, noted Contactmusic. The full list of the most influential 30 bands of the above mentioned genre will be published on June 4, and fans or just those who are interested may judge whether Kerraing! is right or wrong. “It gives me a very warm and fuzzy feeling that Kerrang! magazine have voted Metallica as the band that most changed their lives,” said Metallica’s drummer Lars Ulrich. Definitely the band is feeling very good about it because when this magazine first came out, they’ve been nowhere and nobody knew about what is going to happen in the future, practically, this infamous band grew up with the magazine and vice versa. At last everything matched, both things became famous, one in the music journalism and another one turned to be it’s number one hero. The first issue of Kerrang! came out in 1981 and by publishing the list of the best rock performers of the last thirty years they want to mark the magazine’s 30th anniversary. The first ten bands look as this:

1. Metallica
2. Green Day
3. Iron Maiden
4. Slipknot
5. My Chemical Romance
6. Linkin Park
7. Bullet for my Valentine
8. Blink 182
9. Ozzy Osbourne
10. Foo Fighters

Many of the ‘hardcore’ metal fans may not understand why Ozzy ended up at number 9 and Green Day is right behind Metallica, this thing appears to be a bit strange because it’s simply not true. In many ways this list was produced following modern opinion, and contemporary fans may often prefer newly created music instead of the old legends. However, Metallica truly deserves to be on the first place.