The Minutes | Heartbreaker

If you don't know who The Minutes are, get knowing them. 'Heartbreaker' is currently Song Of The Week on Today FM's Breakfast Show with Ian Dempsey. This shit's happening:




The Minutes play The Academy on Saturday 11th February as part of the launch for the single release of Heartbreaker, which is available on February 10.

#NowPlaying: Company Fair by World's Fair

Free download from World's Fair, a New York hip-hop group featuring Cody B.Ware, Prince Samo and Jeff Donna, as well as Children of the Night's Remy Banks, Nasty Nigel and Lansky. 

"All of World's Fair collaborate to drop a bomb over Company Flow - 8 Steps to Perfection. First of many to come out of the WF Collective." ~ World's Fair

 

Use the #WORLDSFAIR hashtag on Twitter.

New Red Hot Chili Peppers Video! - 'Rain Dance Maggie'

Here is the video for the Red Hot Chili Peppers' song, 'The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie.' It is the first single off the band's new album 'I'm With You, which is released worldwide on 30th August (Irish release date is 26th August). Watch the album release live in selected cinemas around the world.

Red Hot Chili Peppers Announce Release Date for New Album

The Red Hot Chili Peppers have just announced that their new record will be released on August 30th 2011. The band's first album since Stadium Arcadium was released in 2006 will be titled 'I'm With You'. 

The news broke through Twitter, when bassist Flea tweeted this message at around 2AM Irish time: 

"it gives me profound pleasure deep in the fiber of my being to announce the august 30 release date of the new red hot chili peppers's record" 

 Shortly afterwards, drummer Chad Smith  also chimed in about the great news when he simply wrote: 

"New RHCP record out august 30th..."I'm with you"... Finally, its time!!"

 This was officially confirmed by the RHCP website with a short post that read: 

Red Hot Chili Peppers are excited to announce that their new album will hit stores on august 30, 2011!! The new album is produced by Rick Rubin and is titled I'm With You. 

 Fans were naturally excited to hear the release date of the forthcoming album, with hundreds of Flea's followers retweeting the news within seconds. Once it had been announced on the band's official Facebook page, the post announcing the release date received over 7000 'likes' in just 15 minutes. Expect this topic to be trending all over the Internet in the next few days.

Oxegen 2011 Day Breakdown!

It's not a comprehensive breakdown of each day and times and what not, but at least now people can start to get an idea of how the weekend will pan out. 

Friday is the least impressive of all the three days' worth of line-ups, but there are some really good acts playing that day, such as Glasvegas, Saw Doctors, House Of Pain and The Strokes. Other than that, I have no real interest in any of the bands on that day (not least Black Eyed Peas, who put on a terrible show at last year's Oxegen as well as the Superbowl half-time show), and even my compulsion to see those that I have listed is not that great. So as per usual, Friday is pretty weak, which is understandable, because many first-time festival-goers are, well, getting used to going to a festival for the first time!

Business always tends to pick up on the Saturday. The big draw of the entire weekend will undoubtedly be the Foo Fighters, and I myself am tempted to go down just for the Saturday to see them play. Arctic Monkeys have been placed pretty high up on the bill, but what exactly have they done since their debut album? I also fail to see the big deal in Paulo Nutini, but hey, the girls love him and his accent is better than mine. And you can be rest assured that music lovers of all kinds will head down just to see the likes of Beady Eye, Brandon Flowers and Deadmau5.

The rest of the undercard for Saturday is pretty strong, including Two Door Cinema Club, who got a very hot reaction from the crowd at the Main Stage last year and sold out three shows in Dublin between December and March. They are going to be a must-see. Of course, lest we forget the talented exploits of Imelda May, The Vaccines, Jessie J, Hurts and Bruno Mars. Plenty there for people to get animated about.

On to Sunday, and your main event, so to speak. This year's has to be one of the most stacked billings I have ever seen for any festival. Coldplay and Beyoncé top the card, and while I'm not a huge fan of either of them, there will be a lot of excited people for those acts. It only gets more polarised in terms of bands from there, as we are greeted with the phenomenal The National, Slash and Pendulum. No one can accuse the organisers of not giving us choice anyway.

Notwithstanding all of that musical goodness, we've also got Primal Scream, Manic Street Preachers, and Jimmy Eat World. Some good rock bands there for those that lament the number of pop acts on show over the weekend, which, by the by, happens every year. People complain about the lack of proper rock at Oxegen, but in reality, they are there in more than sufficient numbers if you look out for them. It's a festival that tries tends to the tastes of the many, not an envious task which will ever please absolutely everyone.

Kesha was recently announced to play the festival, but she is way down the list, which shows that while she is a big hit in the States, she is just not a big draw in Europe. Friendly Fires and Crystal Castles should prove to be electric, with the former expected to have new material ready for the live crowd.

And last but certainly not least, Fight Like Apes are also set to perform on the Sunday. Now, if you have been to this blog before, then you know how much we appreciate FLApes here. The Dublin-based band put on a fantastic show, so if you have never seen them in person, then use this opportunity: your mind will be blown. And that's a promise.

That rounds up this breakdown of the line-up. I hope to start posting up Oxegen-A-Go-Go's on as many bands as possible by next week. If you would like to read any of the Go-Go's from last year, then check out The Novelty Act.

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Arcade Fire On Tour!

After a short break in the new year, Arcade Fire are back on tour! They kicked off their American Tour last night in the States and I'm loving these snazzy new t-shirts their selling. Their merch is generally quite impressive.

New t-shirt available for the upcoming American Tour in April and May 2011.

April 9	1st Bank Center - Broomfield, CO
April 11	The UCCU - Orem, UT
April 13	Comerica Theater - Phoenix, AZ
April 14	The Joint - Las Vegas, NV
April 16	Coachella - Indio, CA
April 18	Santa Fe Convention Center - Santa Fe, NM
April 20	Starlight Theater - Kansas City, MO
April 21	Scottrade Center - Saint Louis, MO
April 22	UIC Pavilion - Chicago, IL
April 24	UIC Pavilion - Chicago, IL
April 25	UIC Pavilion - Chicago, IL
April 27	The Lawn at White River State Park - Indianapolis, IN
April 28	Orpheum Theater - Memphis, TN
April 30	Gexa Energy Pavilion - Dallas, TX
May 3	The Backyard at Bee Cave - Austin, TX
May 4	Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion - The Woodlands, TX
May 6	New Orleans Jazz Festival - New Orleans, LA

I anticipate their European tour greatly, especially their date at this year's Electric Picnic, which proves to be a special performance.