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Romance At Short Notice by Dirty Pretty Things

The sophomore album for the indie rock band from England headed up by ex-Libertines guitarist Carl Barat. [Rock, Indie]

Published: 2008-07-01 Provider: Metacritic

Dirty Pretty Things To Do Prison Gig

Dirty Pretty Things are set to play a one-off gig in London's Pentonville prison on bank holiday Monday.The band, founded by former Libertin

Published: 2007-08-21 Provider: Contact Music

Shirley Manson Says Butch Vig Producing Green Day Album

Photo: JacksonGetty Is producer Butch Vig working with Green Day on their new album? That’s what Vig’s Garbage bandmate Shirley Manson let slip when she visited Last Call with Carson Daly to promote her role on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. When asked whether Garbage would ever end their “indefinite hiatus” to record a new album, Manson responded “I don’t know, to be honest. We’re sort of doing our different things. I’m doing the TV show, Butch is producing Green Day, so he’s busy, so we’ll see.” That was news to everyone, as Green Day, their label and their management have been pretty hush-hush on any developments regarding the follow-up to the band’s acclaimed American Idiot. There were rumors of Vig’s involvement with Green Day dating back to August, but there was no concrete proof until Manson’s remark. Outside of his days as a Garbage man, Vig is well-known for producing masterpieces like Nirvana’s Nevermind, the Smashing Pumpkins‘ Siamese Dream and Sonic Youth’s Dirty. Green Day made a brief, disguised return as the Foxboro Hot Tubs late last year. Related Stories: • Green Day Cut Secret New Album • Shirley Manson on Terminator: The Reviews Are In! • Shirley Manson, Butch Vig Say Garbage’s Bleed Like Me Almost Did Them In

Published: 2008-10-09 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Rock News

Hot Issue Hits and Misses: The Killers and the Cooper Temple Clause

Rolling Stone’s 2008 Hot Issue spotlights acts like Band of Horses and Vampire Weekend (more on that here). For the next week, we’ll be taking a look at Hot Issue hits and misses from the past twenty-one years (because nobody’s cultural thermometer is accurate all the time). Hit: Once upon a time, before Brandon Flowers grew a moustache and discovered Bruce Springsteen, Rolling Stone named the Killers Hot Band (it was 2004). “Now, rock bands are actually starting to make people dance instead of elbow each other,” Flowers said. Perhaps he was on to something: Hot Fuss went platinum three times, and its more anthemic follow-up Sam’s Town sailed past the million-sold mark, as well. Miss: The British press created their own hot fuss around the Cooper Temple Clause (Rolling Stone named the band Hot Metal in 2002), but they never truly found their niche in the States. They lost a member to Dirty Pretty Things and eventually split in April after frontman Dan Fisher called it quits.

Published: 2007-10-09 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: RS 10/18/07: Kid Rock (The 2007 Hot Issue)

Dirty Pretty Things - Dirty Pretty Things Announce Surprise Split

Dirty Pretty Things have confirmed they are to split after three years together.The indie band, fronted by Carl Barat, formed after the dissolution of Barat's ...

Published: 2008-10-01 Provider: Contact Music

Fricke’s Picks: Lobby Loyde

When Australian guitarist Lobby Loyde died of lung cancer on April 21st at age sixty-five, that country lost its first homegrown guitar hero. Born John Baslington Lyde in Queensland in 1941, he was a founding architect and guardian spirit of Aussie garage rock and heavy music for more than three decades. Loyde’s playing — direct, muscular, frenzied — on Sixties hand-grenade singles by the Purple Hearts and the Wild Cherries and his bruising early-Seventies LPs with Coloured Balls also made him a long-distance inspiration to American fans such as Henry Rollins and Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus. None of those records were originally issued here, and Loyde never performed in the U.S. A recent series of deluxe import reissues will leave you wondering why. The ‘65-’67 singles and woodshed-fidelity demos on Benzedrine Beat! (Half a Cow) are everything Loyde cut with the Purple Hearts, a furious mod-R&B band modeled on the Yardbirds and the Pretty Things. But the Hearts’ distinguishing intensity was Loyde’s combination of terse, rhythmic attack and dynamic-swordplay leads, like Eric Clapton dogfighting with Jimmy Page. Loyde’s driving strum and flourishes, heightened with high-speed tremolo, is a big reason why the Hearts’ ‘66 single “Of Hopes and Dreams and Tombstones” is an Aussie-garage landmark. Loyde is on only eight tracks of a new Wild Cherries anthology, That’s Life (Half a Cow). But those ‘67 and ‘68 A and B sides are all explosive, freak-beat soul. Loyde doesn’t solo at length, but the dirty boom of his outbursts in “That’s Life” and his echo-drenched screams in “Krome Plated Yabby” blow through the lumpy production with psychedelic vengeance. (The rest of That’s Life is demos, etc., by earlier lineups — and no minor rave-up.) Loyde disciples AC/DC took Aussie power boogie to the world in the Seventies — but onl

Published: 2007-06-03 Provider: Rolling Stone Keywords: Fricke's Picks