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 - The Killers Single, Bob Marley Exhibition, Elbow Tour and Lots Of Pre-Ordering

The Killers Release Runaways
This week The Killers released their first track, Runaways, from the upcoming album Battle Born. Personally, I think it's a good song, but doesn't quite make it back to the standard of the golden era of Hot Fuss.

What do you think of the new single? Let us know in the comments.

Bob Marley Exhibition Opens

An exhibition that celebrates the life and music of reggae star Bob Marley has opened at the O2 in London. Messenger: The Bob Marley Exhibition is part of a celebration of Jamaican music at the O2 and is open until 22nd October.

For more information on the exhibition, including booking tickets, click here.

Tickets For Elbow's Arena Tour

Tickets have gone on sale for Elbow's arena tour later this year. The tour will visit Nottingham, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester and London

For more details, click here.

Muse's The 2nd Law Available To Pre-Order

The upcoming Muse album is now available to pre-order from from the band's website. The 2nd Law will be released on the 17th September.

To pre-order your copy, click here.

Diana Krall Releases New Single

Diana Krall is currently one of the biggest women on the modern jazz scene. Her new single, There Ain't No Man That's Worth The Salt Of My Tears, has been released. The single is the first release from her upcoming album Glad Rag Doll, which will be released on October 1st.

To download There Ain't No Man That's Worth The Salt Of My Tears from iTunes, click here.

To pre-order Glad Rag Doll, click here.

Green Day's ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tré! Trilogy Pre-Order

We've heard alot about this trilogy, and the whole bundle is now available to pre-order from Green Day's website.

To pre-order, click here.

Happy Birthday!
Bit of a Queen party with both Roger Taylor (63) and Brian May (65) celebrating their Birthdays. Best wishes from Crash Hub!

There's all the music, see you next week
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 :)

MUSIC NEWS - The Fratellis Reunite, Labrinth and Noel Gallagher New Singles, Green Day Album Trailer and Isle Of Wight Festival

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds New Single
Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds are set to release their new single Everybody's On The Run on August 6th. The song is the epic rock-orchestral opener from last year's album Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds.

Green Day ¡Dos! Album Trailer
On Friday, Green Day released the trailer and album art for the second album ¡Dos! from their upcoming trilogy. ¡Dos! will be released on the 13th November, following ¡Uno! which will be released on the 25th September.

For more information on the first album in the trilogy, ¡Uno!, click here.

Isle Of Wight Festival

With no Glastonbury to contend with, Isle Of Wight was big this year. My favourite acts were Elbow and Bruce Springsteen. For highlights of the weekend, click here.

Labrinth Announces New Single

Labrinth announced that Treatment from his debut album Electronic Earth would be his new single. The music video has been filmed and will be on the web very soon (so will probably feature in next weeks news).  Labrinth also appeared in BBC's Project Hackney documentary alongside Plan B and Leona Lewis.


The Fratellis Reunited
This story is actually a bit old now, but it's all news to me. The Fratellis were a cheeky rock band who were most famous for their album Costello Music which the famous track Chelsea Dagger came from. The band reformed for a charity gig earlier this month, and they will be doing more gigs, dates for which are gradually being released. Yesterday, the band announced a gig in Glasgow on the 26th September.
For more on this story, click here.


Happy Birthday!
Best wishes to guitarist Jeff Beck who turned 68 yesterday.


And that's all for this week. Let us know what you think, especially your favourite acts at IoW, in the comments.
Tom :)

MUSIC NEWS - Bieber Wins Award, While Green Day Make A Genuine Contribution To Music

I really have struggled to find any music news for this week, so I have got one important story for you, and have suffered in writing the other. See if you can guess which is which...

Bieber Wins Award For Over 100 Million Hits
Yeah, you read that right. Justin Bieber was given a "#VEVOCertified" award for getting over 100 Million hits across eight videos on Youtube. He wouldn't have this award if the total number of dislikes was taken away from the number of hits. Anyway, it's not a real award, it's got a hashtag in the title. If you really want to waste 2 minutes of your life watching some fans present him with the award, it's below.

Green Day Releases Album Trailer and Artwork
This year seems like the year for the big names of alternative music when it comes to new albums. Last week brought news of Muse's The 2nd Law and Killers' Battle Born. Now for the first of the upcoming Green Day trilogy!
So yeah, Green Day on Friday released this trailer for their upcoming album İUno! with a shot of the album art at the end. İUno! will be the first in a trilogy of albums: İUno!, İDos! and İTres!. The music sounds great, and I'm really looking forward to the 25th September.

Happy Birthday!
Also, a massive shout out from Crash Hub to Sir Paul McCartney whose birthday is today. Many happy returns!

Tom :)