That’s just music

It became known that at the Eurovision-2012 contest Armenia may be represented by the infamous American band System of a Down due to it’s Armenian descent. This curious information just came from one of the local Armenian newspapers, and according to it’s staff very soon Armenian higher television officials shall approve this information to the wider public. However, there is no direct prove so far, nobody on the side of the band had confirmed such an interesting sensation, but the newspaper is sure of the fact that the “diplomatic” process was already unleashed. This year’s Eurovision contest was won by the duet from Azerbaijan, thus the next year’s event will take place in the latter country’s capital Baku. Right after the result was sounded before the whole world, some rumors began to deny Armenia’s presence at the next contest. Also, the same rumors were not commented by the Armenian officials, who direct radio and television broadcasts. The whole problem lies in the fact that both countries are not in the best political relations, and often can be considered as two worst enemies for each other. There is no question that System of a Down is the best choice, but their music and the actual level of professionalism can fit the Eurovision contest. They’re not acquired for any philharmonic venues, which are truly reflecting the whole musical agenda behind Eurovision. Simply, it would be totally awesome if System of a Down enters this contest and shows to everyone what kind of musical power can be shown by them. 

Infamous Pearl Jam had participated in the recording of the charity album, which should benefit various organizations that help homeless people, noted Undercover. The whole work is going to be called “Live From Nowhere Near You Vol II”, it’s already incorporating 210 minutes of music; Portland based label Greyday Records will release this album on three disks at a time and generally speaking the public may see it in stores on July 16, however, rumors keep on stating that the first country to hear it will be U.S. and Canada. The original first half of the album came out in 2003, and right since the beginning the basic goal of this release belongs to one simply thing, street musicians are recording together with those who are well known. Besides Pearl Jam such bands as The Strokes, The Decemberists, Ryan Adams and many others took their parts in the recording process, so the final result must appear as something quite good and talented. Basically, Pearl Jam is now trying to participate in all kinds of projects or recordings that seem to be a little bit different from what was going with their repertoire two decades ago. Nevertheless, whatever is going on with them, they still produce qualified music and what is the most important there is no participations in anything bad. At the same time this band’s music belongs to that legendary Seattle sound of the early 90’s and will always be there in the future.

French studio Ubisoft will release the video game created with the help of The Black Eyed Peas songs, noted ContactMusic; and amazingly the first trailer is already available on YouTube. So called The Black Eyed Peas Experience project should be built on unique qualities of the previously released electronic simulator ‘Just Dance’, which is going to enable numerous sound or graphic possibilities. It’s planned that the above mentioned game will be constructed only for Nintendo Wii and Xbox 360 platforms, others shall wait for a few more months. The number of hits that will be used in this game are “I Gotta Feeling” and “Rock The Party”, at the same time there is no exact information on when The Black Eyed Peas Experience will come out, usually such release dates are hidden from the public until the last moment; the reason for it is always a little bit miraculous. In November 2010 Ubisoft had released the same kind of project titled Michael Jackson: The Experience, it was not welcomed with enough warmth on the side of critics because the game didn’t include his real videos, but commercial success was obvious. Ubisoft is dealing with production and development of video games since 1986 and currently they incorporate various studios from more than twenty countries around the world. Their products include such infamous games as Assassin’s Creed, Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon, Prince of Persia and many others. In other words this largest producer of video games is going to co-operate with musicians.

Evanescence and Paramore vocalists Amy Lee and Hayley Williams had participated in recording of the tribute album dedicated to muppets, noted New Musical Express. This release should incorporate songs that were previously aired during television shows and movies, which included muppets. Particularly, Williams used to co-work with Weezer by writing a song called “Rainbow Connection”. On the other hand Amy Lee had prepared a cover on “Halfway Down The Stairs”, and besides these two musicians work on the album used talents from such groups as OK Go, My Morning Jacket and others. The whole tribute will be titled “The Green Album” and it should come out on August 23 this year, but the first country to see it will be US. Here is the full track-list:

1. OK Go – “Muppet Show Theme”
2. Weezer and Hayley Williams – “Rainbow Connection”
3. The Fray – “Mahna Mahna”
4. Alkaline Trio – “Moving Right Along”
5. My Morning Jacket – “Our World”
6. Amy Lee – “Halfway Down The Stairs”
7. Sondre Lerche – “Mr Bassman”
8. The Airborne Toxic Event – “Wishing Song”
9. Brandon Saller and Billy Martin – “Night Life”
10. Andrew Bird – “Bein’ Green”
11. Matt Nathanson – “Hope That Something Better Comes Along”
12. Rachael Yamagata – “I’m Going To Go Back There Someday”

Muppet-dolls were invented by Jim Hanson way back in 1950’s, but the program itself began to air under the name “Muppet-show” only in 1976, totally six seasons were made while gaining a lot of popularity among numerous viewers. Such infamous people as Steve Martin, Elton John, Alice Cooper, Sylvester Stallone, Liza Minnelli used to visit the show. The original movie about muppets was released in 1979, and by the end of 2011 another similar film must be made up, so everything shall be linked to Hanson’s funny dolls. Amy Lee and Hayley Williams are surely used to enjoy this show for years, right since they were children.

British singer Morrissey had complained about the fact that he can’t find the right record label, which may release his new album, noted Pitchfork. It’s expected that the whole material is totally ready, and additionally it should include some new songs; the guy had recently presented them in public during his concerts in Britain. According to Morrissey’s opinion, record companies wish to sign up contracts merely with young musicians, it can be explained by producer’s strives to explore someone absolutely new, some kind of musician, who can “shoot” for the first time under the given producer. “Not many labels want bands who have already made their mark, because their success is usually attributed to some other label somewhere else at another time,” said Morrissey. His ninth and the most recent album “Years of Refusal” hit the stores in the middle of February 2009, eventually it was able to reach a third spot at the British hits chart and eleventh place on the Billboard 200 list. Basically, this musician is truly talented and shall find another label that should sign his new album once again. After all such singers as him are seriously large within the frames of the music business, and not a single youngster can rival with him. Practically, in this particular situation Morrissey must not worry at all regarding his future career.