MUSIC NEWS - Fifty Shades Of Green Day

Madness - Death Of A Rude Boy
Last week I told you about the upcoming album from the band Madness, and that they'd be releasing one of their songs to download for free. The song is now available and is called Death Of A Rude Boy. Anybody worried that Madness may have tried something a bit more modern need not worry, the song is drenched in scar and sits on the bands iconic reggae beat.
To download the song, click here.

Line-Up For iTunes Festival
Information is gradually coming to light about who will be playing at this years iTunes Festival. All headlining acts have now been confirmed, but we are still waiting for the names of some supporting acts.
For the full line-up, which we will update as soon as we get new information, click here.

Green Day Release Oh Love Video
It's been a while since we last heard about Green Day's upcoming trilogy of albums, but they have stepped back into the headlines with the release of this music video for there single Oh Love, which is from the first album ¡Uno!. Compared to the stuff of Green Day's most recent albums, I find Oh Love pretty dull. Nothing really happens, unlike the anthems of American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown. Here's the new video. WARNING: Features blurred nudity...

Not alot of news this week, let me know in the comments if I've missed something. Check back soon for a review of Labrinth's Electronic Earth.

Tom :)

MUSIC NEWS - "Barcelona" Special Edition, Green Day Single

You may have noticed that I was away last week, hence why Kieron had written everything, and their was hardly any music news. But I'm back, and boy have I got news for you!

Freddie Mercury's Barcelona Will Be Re-Orchestrated For 25th Anniversary Edition
Island Records have announced that a special edition of Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé's album Barcelona will be released on the 3rd Spetember 2012. Barcelona was the final piece of solo work Mercury completed before he died, and this special version will include an entirely re-orchestrated version of the song that remains to be one of his defining works.
For more on this story, click here.
Follow the links to pre-order this album on CD/Deluxe/Vinyl.

In other Queen news, the smash-hit stage show We Will Rock You is set to do it's first arena tour next year to celebrate the show's 10 years at the Dominion Theatre in London. If you get the opportunity, I would really recommend the show. It is a fantastic tribute to Queen and is also very funny and entertaining.

Green Day's Oh Love Released Today
As of today, the new single Oh Love from the album ¡Uno! is available to download from the official Green Day site. Also, all three albums in the upcoming trilogy ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, ¡Tré! are now available to pre-order.

Richie Sambora Free Download
For those of you who aren't familiar with the name, Richie Sambora is the lead guitarist in the classic rock band Bon Jovi. On Thursday, we got our first look at his upcoming solo album Aftermath of the Lowdown when the first single, Every Road Leads Home To You, was released. Click here to download it for free. I love it! Sounds like a merging of Bon Jovi and Coldplay. Can't wait for September 18th when the whole album is released!

That's all for this week.
Tom :)

MUSIC NEWS - Lots of Green Day and the Official Olympic Song

Here's a round up the last weeks news which is mostly dominated by the upcoming Green Day trilogy...

Green Day: ¡Tré! Album Trailer, ¡Uno! Track List and Upcoming Single
Green Day have released a trailer for their upcoming album ¡Tré!, which is the final album in their upcoming trilogy. The trailer, as with all the others, shows the cover of the album at the end. ¡Tré! will be released on January 15th next year.

Green Day have also announced the track listing for the first album in the trilogy, ¡Uno!

1. Nuclear Family

2. Stay The Night

3. Carpe Diem

4. Let Yourself Go

5. Kill The DJ

6. Fell For You

7. Loss Of Control

8. Troublemaker

9. Angel Blue

10. Sweet 16

11. Rusty James

12. Oh Love

¡Uno! will be released on September 25th. You can watch the trailer here.

And finally, Green Day have announced that the first single from ¡Uno! will be Oh Love. Oh Love will be released on July 16th.

Muse Release Official Olympic Song
The London 2012 Olympic Committee have chosen Muse's song Survival as the official olympic song. Survival is the first single from the upcoming album The 2nd Law, which will be released on the 17th September. Survival is now available to download from iTunes.

In other Muse news, Bellamy has described The 2nd Law on his twitter account as a "christian gangsta rap jazz odyssey, with some ambient rebellious dubstep and face melting metal flamenco cowboy psychedelia". Hhmm...interesting...

So that's all the news I've found over the week, feel like I must have missed alot. If there's anything you think of, let us know in the comments, and we'll update this post.
Tom :)