this just came through via twitter:

@nineinchnails: ? http://www.nin.com/?id=96673

which is a link to this:

aHHHHHHH new music sooooooooooon!!!!

and no it not pop… lol.

Florence + The Machine’s album Lungs. Its so beautiful and Im so mad it took me over a year to sit down and really listen to it. Im ashamed to admit it took ‘Dog Days Are Over‘ to be used for the promo of the network debut of Slumdog Millionaire on Channel 4 back in January to make me pick the album up. Totally and utterly in love with it. Beautiful.

I love my chicks with guitar thing. If you love Kate Bush or Grace Slick, you will adore Florence and the Machine…

Oh and if you still doubt her, check her collaboration with Dizzie at the Brits in February

Best. Commercial. EVER!!!!
Why cant we get anything like this in the UK?

‘Samantha’ As performed on Jonathan Ross on Friday night.

Makes me excited if theres a new record out. Even if its without Melissa and Eric

Im not a huge Pink fan (well LOVE the colour, but not so much the singer) and just saw a video of her performance at last nights Grammys and Im in awe of her.

She did this ALL live.  Amazing. No lip synching, no help from ‘backing vocals’ etc. A straight performance.

“When I do it [on tour], I don’t have lights above me. Tonight, there were lights above me, so it almost went into a strobe thing, and I actually did get a little turned around. I thought … I was going to fall on my nude butt. But I worked it out. I would say that no one ever has another excuse to lip sync.”

Amazing. She totally gets loads more of respect from me (and maybe ill venture to listen to more of her music…..) Plus its pretty beautiful to watch. Very Cirque du Soleil-esque…

I know Perez Hilton isnt the source of all things reliable, but he just posted this little bit of interesting information:

http://perezhilton.com/2010-01-23-kings-of-leon-get-new-deal

And it’s almost unheard of!

Kings of Leon have left Columbia Records for Warner Brothers where they will be paying to record their own albums!

The band will pay half the recording costs from their own pocket and in return have more control and get a bigger share in the profits.

“Kings of Leon are one of the few bands on the planet who have enough heft to negotiate such a favourable deal,” said a source. “It is virtually unheard of but it shows how keen Warner Brothers were to have them on their books.”

Normally, artists are given an advance from the label, which they have to pay back along with profit sharing.

Good for you, KOL!

Posted: January 23, 2010 at 10:40 am

Which is quite interesting.

Is this how artists will have more control over their work (and hopefully still pushing boundries without the labels intervening in a bad way?) giving the artist more freedom without fearing the album wont sell. Also leaves more responsibility with the artists instead of the labels. Really they’re only needed for distribution and publicity needs and thats really about it.

Reminds a wee bit of Becks deal with DGC/Geffen and how hes allowed to make a record with any label and they have to release it. But that was back in the days of Grunge and main-streaming of the US indie scene. Deals like that were thought to be no more. For that brief period from about 1991-1994 artists (well at least the ones that were filed under ‘Grunge’) had lot more freedom and less restrictions with what they could and couldnt do. After all being signed to Columbia or DGC wasnt most bands first label, just one that could get the CD/LP out on time.

There was a point to this post and ive seem to have lost it.

Hes kinda been on a sabbatical for me. I dont know, maybe it was the whole releasing too much new material at once. Maybe it was the bad taste left in my mouth when I saw him play the Manchester Apollo back in Nov 2007. Either ways its been a while. Im slowly starting to re-listening to him again and just rediscovered a track off Easy Tiger called ‘Two’ Its simply beautiful.

It takes two when it used to take only one

Simply beautiful….

(BTW what prompted me to re-listen to that track in particular was it was in the background of a True Blood Season 1 episode I was watching)

for those lucky enough to make it into Boston with the amazing Nor’Easter heading your way, looks like the guys are giving you a real treat (Even if Danny hates it)

Congrats to Mommy, Daddy and big brother Griffin. The McIntyres welcomed Rhys Edward on Sunday 13 December.

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20327252,00.html

Joey McIntyre Welcomes Second Son

By Sarah Michaud

Monday December 14, 2009 08:15 PM EST

Joey McIntyre with his wife Barrett

Roger Karnbad/Celebrity Photo

Make way for another new kid on the block: Joey McIntyre has added a second boy to his brood.

Wife Barrett delivered son Rhys Edward McIntyre at 9 p.m. Sunday in Los Angeles, the singer’s rep confirms to PEOPLE exclusively. “He and his mom are both rock stars,” McIntyre, 36, Tweeted on Monday.

Rhys weighed in at 7 lbs., 10 oz.

McIntyre and Barrett, who announced the pregnancy in July, are already parents to elder son Griffin Thomas, 2.

Will the family continue to grow? “I think we have a deal to keep going until we have a girl,” laughs McIntyre. “That’s what my wife says.”

Here We Go Again, McIntyre’s latest solo work, is now available on iTunes. On Sunday, the singer will join the New Kids on the Block for a holiday concert in their Boston hometown.

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20327420,00.html

Unfortunately, theyre not allowing embedding or anything cool like that, so youll have to click on the link to view.

Enjoy

Didn’t get a chance to see the New Kids on the Block on tour? Now you can have Joey McIntyre, Donnie Wahlberg, Danny Wood and Jordan and Jonathan Knight in your living room when the group releases its concert DVD on Feb. 2.

From early rehearsals to inside the recording studio, NKOTB’s Coming Home DVD is “bringing you back to the very first moment of the reunion step by step until today,” Donnie Wahlberg tells PEOPLE. “It’s kind of like a yearbook – only from a 15 year high school reunion.”

The DVD includes the singers’ performance of classics like “Step by Step” – and unseen footage from the groups fan cruise to the Bahamas, where Wahlberg and Wood surprised fans in their cabins. Wahlberg has a soft spot for replaying the fan footage, saying, “the emotion from the fans, in every arena throughout the tour, was so intense,” he says. “It gives me chills every time I watch it.”

Get ready for more chills, Donnie. The reunion party will continue in 2010 when the boys hit the high seas again on a sold-cruise in May. And there will be ten golden keys hidden in the deluxe and super deluxe DVD box sets that will grant lucky fans two tickets to any future NKOTB concert.

Says Wahlberg: “We hope to find new ways to give our fans no less as we move forward.”

Now up on YouTube

Notice my vid is like the 3rd or 4th recommended one? woo!