MANILA, Philippines—The semifinals matchup between TNT and San Miguel in the 2021 PBA Philippine Cup is akin to a heavyweight boxing match as the two clubs both hold illustrious histories in the league. There is, however, another pairing within that series as the teams’ centers command absolute attention. June Mar Fajardo has reigned as not […]
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Joy Division‘s ‘Still’ is getting a 40th anniversary reissue.
The compilation record will be re-released on February 11, 2022 and follows on from previous anniversary releases for the band’s ‘Unknown Pleasures’ and ‘Closer’.
‘Still’ will be a limited edition reissue with a ruby red sleeve and pressed on crystal clear vinyl. It will only be available to buy via New Order’s official store here.
You can see the vinyl here:
Joy Division ‘Still’ reissue – Credit: Press
‘Still’ is a compilation album that was first released in 1981 after the death of Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis.
The record featured previously unreleased studio material, two non-album tracks (‘Dead Souls’ and ‘Glass’) and a live recording of Joy Division’s last-ever concert at Birmingham University.
The show featured the band’s only live performance of ‘Ceremony’. The track was later released by New Order as their debut single in 1981.
You can see the full tracklist for the ‘Still’ reissue below:
Side A
‘Exercise One’
‘Ice Age’
‘The Sound Of Music’
‘Glass’
‘The Only Mistake’
Side B
‘Walked In Line’
‘The Kill’
‘Something Must Break’
‘Dead Souls’
‘Sister Ray’
Side C
‘Ceremony’
‘Shadowplay’
‘Means To An End’
‘Passover’
‘New Dawn Fades’
‘Twenty Four Hours’
Side D
‘Transmission’
‘Disorder’
‘Isolation’
‘Decades’
‘Digital’
New Order recently returned to live performing with a homecoming show at Manchester’s Heaton Park. They are playing a further show at The O2 in London on November 6.
New Order will also be celebrating the 40th anniversary of their debut album ‘Movement’ on November 13 with the release of their Taras Shevchenko film – which was filmed live at the Ukrainian National Home in New York City on November 18, 1981 – on YouTube.
A second series of the official Joy Division/New Order podcast Transmissions: The Definitive Story is also in the works, with more information expected soon.
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Slipknot‘s Corey Taylor has confirmed that new music from the band is imminent.
Speaking on The Eddie Trunk Podcast, Taylor said that Slipknot’s new album is almost done and that the first single will be coming soon.
He said: “It’s pretty much done. I’d say it’s probably about 80 per cent done. We’re finishing up some music [and] I’ve got a couple more songs to sing.”
“However, I will say this: don’t be surprised if in the next month or so you hear something new.”
Taylor also gave some hints about what the album’s lead single might sound like. He said it’s “more of a ‘let’s bludgeon everybody and remind them why we’re still Slipknot’ kind of vibe”.
Listen to the full interview here:
Back in August, Taylor revealed that he had just three songs left to record for Slipknot’s upcoming new album.
Speaking to fans as part of this year’s GalaxyCon, the frontman discussed the status of the follow-up to 2019’s ‘We Are Not Your Kind’, which has a tentative 2022 release.
“I was actually supposed to finish my vocals this week,” Taylor said. “I got screwed, man, [by the COVID diagnosis]. I actually only have really three songs left to do.
“I’ve done all the other tracks because I’ve been doing ’em in between tours, just fucking hitting it.”
Slipknot will hit the road in Europe next year for a series of tour dates.
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MANILA, Philippines—Its first game in the 2021 AVC Asian Men’s Club Volleyball Championship may have ended in a loss, but Team Rebisco was eager to take in the experience on a positive note. Team Rebisco lost to Iran club Sirjan Foulad in its opening match in Group A in rather devastating way, 25-15, 25-22, 25-5. […]
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MANILA, Philippines—WBO World bantamweight champion John Riel Casimero is set to pocket upwards of $75,000 in his next defense against mandatory challenger Paul Butler, according to a report from BoxingScene.com. Upstart promotional outfit Probellum won the bid hearing held by WBO held Friday with the company’s submission of $105,000, $5,000 higher than the minimum $100,000 […]
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MANILA, Phiippines—TNT dominated San Miguel, 115-98, take a pivotal 2-1 series lead in its semifinals matchup in the 2021 PBA Philippine Cup Friday at DHVSU Gym in Bacolor, Pampanga. Mikey Williams converted on a three-point play to cap off the Tropang Giga’s 18-0 run for the 41-25 lead midway through the second quarter, marking the […]
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MANILA, Philippines—Former Ateneo star Jules Samonte is joining the professional ranks as she inked a deal with Perlas in the Premier Volleyball League. The team announced the signing on social media a month after Samonte formally bid goodbye to the lady Eagles. “This is her next,” posted the Spikers. “Welcome to the Perlas Spikers. Your […]
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Dave Gahan & Soulsavers have shared their rendition of Cat Power’s ‘Metal Heart’ from their upcoming covers album ‘Imposter’. Check it out below, along with our interview with the Depeche Mode frontman.
Announced earlier this week, ‘Imposter’ is the latest effort from Gahan and his longtime musician collaborator Rich Machin under the guise of Soulsavers as they deliver unique takes on songs by the likes of Neil Young, PJ Harvey, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan and many more.
Gahan explained that the 12 selected tracks feel like they carry “a sense of wisdom and longevity that is just there in the song and very apparent in the voice”.
“There’s been some life lived,” Gahan told NME. “I don’t think I could have done this 20 years ago. A lot of songwriters will tell you this, but sometimes when you hear a certain song at a certain time of your life it just strikes a chord, and you feel like you know everything about the song, the person who wrote it, the idea and story behind it. This particular group of songs were from a much larger list, but they were songs and artists that Rich and I felt had changed the shape of our lives.
“It didn’t start out like this. I guess I figured it out about 10 years into my career, but I realised that the way I sang a song – even if it was someone else’s or [Depeche Mode bandmate] Martin Gore’s in the early days – I had to find my own place in it; my own idea, my own character.”
He continued: “It’s the voices that somehow make me feel like I belong to something. What I had to do was make myself believe and you believe that it was all coming from me.”
‘Imposter’ was recorded and produced by Gahan and Machin in November 2019 at Rick Rubin’s “beautiful” Shangri-La studios in Malibu, California. The setting inspired a “magical” sense of freedom for the assembled band and also allowed them to work in the same spirit as the legendary Rubin-produced Johnny Cash covers record ‘American IV: The Man Comes Around’.
“Johnny Cash’s album was one where I wasn’t listening to the originals at all,” said Gahan. “His version of [Nine Inch Nails’] ‘Hurt’, for instance, just blew me away and it still does. I’ve heard stories from people who worked on the record that he had absolutely no clue who the original artist was whatsoever!
“These were songs that were given to him by Rick, and Rick then assembled these musicians around him that were going to bring out the best of Johnny at that time. Rich [Machin] has this ability to do that with me. He put me in a setting with the right group of musicians and I felt entirely comfortable and supported. I felt held, so I could do what the fuck I wanted.”
Part of the experience of “doing what the fuck he wanted” involved putting as much distance as possible between the original songs and the versions they were recording.
“We’ve made a few records together with Soulsavers now and we’ve formed a chemistry,” said Gahan. “When we got in the room, that chemistry was apparent. I’ve got to tell you – it was easy making this record. I’ve felt more comfortable singing these songs than I’ve felt singing a lot of Martin’s songs and my own. There’s a certain struggle with that. You’re always conscious of trying to please someone, especially if you’re working with whoever wrote it – like with Martin.
“You’ve got to let go of that and find this place that feels authentic.”
As for feeling like he’d separated his voice from the original artists, Gahan said that “some came quicker than others” during recording. “‘Strange Religion’, ‘Dark End Of The Street’ and ‘Lilac Wine’ – those three first songs and the way that they play off each other definitely clicked pretty quickly for me,” Gahan admitted. “I couldn’t even tell you how the original versions go because I felt like I wasn’t referencing them in my head or trying to mimic them in any way.
“Some of them took a little longer, and that’s probably because of the overpowering presence of those particular singers. Neil Young or Elvis, for instance – it took a little longer to get rid of them! I mean that with the utmost respect.”
Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan live in 2019 (Picture: Sylvain Lefevre/Getty Images)
The last time Gahan spoke to NME – for the release of his Humanist collaboration ‘Shock Collar’ – he told us how he felt so “drained” from the Depeche Mode tour for their 2017 album ‘Spirit’ that he might never make music again. However, since making ‘Imposter’ and ‘Shock Collar’, Gahan said that the experiences of collaboration and having been deprived of performance due to the COVID crisis had rekindled his love of music.
“Funnily enough, since lockdown I’ve been playing more guitar than ever,” he told NME. “I’d plug in my little guitar, put on ‘Exile On Main Street’ and I’d play for hours. There would be a certain point in the day where maybe my wife would be doing something and I’d look at her and go, ‘I’m in the band! Look!’. And she’d just look at me and go, ‘Yes, you’re in the Stones, well done. Sounds good!’
“I found a lot of freedom in that; just noodling around while not knowing what the fuck I was doing. Suddenly I found this new thing for myself that was quite liberating. That got me into just playing around and starting to throw down little ideas on my iPhone. That was a good thing.”
He continued: “After the last Depeche Mode tour I just said, ‘I’m done, man’. I’ve said that to myself many, many times, and other people, too. Making ‘Imposter’ really opened up something in myself. I was like, ‘Wow, I’m still enjoying this. I can do something with my voice that makes me feel connected to something’.”
Depeche Mode (Picture: Anton Corbijn)
Telling NME that he “takes nothing for granted”, Gahan admitted that he’s now “definitely got to that point where if I don’t have fun doing it then I’m not going to do it any more,” but that he “certainly wouldn’t rule out” Depeche Mode getting back in the studio sooner rather than later.
“There’s a tonne of stuff that we’ve done with Depeche Mode that I’m really proud of,” he said. “I think that’s come with time and age. Martin put out a record last year which I really liked. I actually bought a copy because it wouldn’t feel right otherwise. I know he’s been pottering away in his studio as well, so I guess at some point next year we’ll get together. Hopefully at least to just have a chat about what we both feel like we could move forward with.”
While an imminent Depeche Mode tour seems unlikely during the current COVID climate due to its “military operation” in scale, Gahan did confirm that fans can expect to see some Soulsavers shows soon.
“Performance is a huge part of me,” he concluded. “I hope that there are going to be some pretty unique performances of this record, certainly in London. We’re planning a few things at the moment and it looks like we might be able to do that bubble thing for six weeks and do some special stuff there.
“I want to do performances where it’s like ‘An Evening With Imposter’. I hope we can pull it off because I really think it will be something special.”
Dave Gahan & Soulsavers will release ‘Imposter’ on November 12 via Columbia.
Depeche Mode, meanwhile, recently announced that they’ll be releasing a digitally restored and high-definition edition of their legendary 1989 concert film and documentary, Depeche Mode 101, on December 3.
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The Rolling Stones have recalled their final meetings with Charlie Watts in a new interview.
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The longtime Stones drummer died at the age of 80 last month (August 24), prompting a huge outpouring of tributes from the music world and beyond. His surviving bandmates reflected on the “huge loss” last month, later dedicating their first show of 2021 to Watts.
Now, speaking to the LA Times, Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood said he was one of the last people to see Watts alive, in a London hospital.
Woods said Watts was in the exact same room he was treated for cancer in the last year.
“We call it the Rolling Stones suite,” Wood said he joked with Watts.
Speaking about the last time he saw Watts he then added: “We watched horse racing on TV and just shot the breeze. I could tell he was pretty tired and fed up with the whole deal.
“He said, ‘I was really hoping to be out of here by now,’ then after that there was a complication or two and I wasn’t allowed back. No one was.”
Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts of The Rolling Stones accept the award for Album Of The Year at the Jazz FM Awards 2017 at Shoreditch Town Hall on April 25, 2017 in London (Picture: Dave J Hogan/Dave J Hogan/Getty Images)
Keith Richards aded: “I’m still trying to put it together in my head. I don’t think I can be very erudite on Charlie at the moment.”
Frontman Mick Jagger went on to explain how Watts had encouraged them to do the tour without him.
He added: “When you’re a band for this long, it’s unlikely you won’t have any changes. Of course, this is probably the biggest one we’ve had. But we felt — and Charlie felt — that we should do this tour. We’d already postponed it by a year, and Charlie said to me, ‘You need to go out there. All the crew that have been out of work — you’re not gonna put them out of work again.’
“So I think it was the right decision to keep going. The band still sounds great onstage, and everyone’s been really responsive at the couple of big shows we’ve done so far.
“They hold up signs saying, ‘We miss you, Charlie,’ and I miss him too.”
Steve Jordan, who initially stepped in so Watts could recover from surgery, is now The Rolling Stones’ permanent touring drummer. Jagger previously explained that Jordan was “very respectful of Charlie” and “did [his] homework”.
During a separate interview this month, the singer said that Watts was the one who “held the band together for so long,” adding: “We had some really nice conversations in the last couple of years about how all this happened with the band.”
The Rolling Stones’ ‘No Filter’ US tour kicked off in St Louis, Missouri on Sunday (September 26). The concert began with an empty stage and only a drumbeat, with photos of Watts appearing on the giant screens.
“We’ll miss Charlie so much, on and off the stage,” Mick Jagger told the audience.
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Loup GarouX have shared a visceral video for their new single, ‘Gallon Distemper’ – check it out first on NME below.
The supergroup features past Mercury nominee, producer and Libertines collaborator Ed Harcourt, Gorillaz and Senseless Things’ drummer Cass Browne and The Feeling bassist Richard Jones, who formed to create “a visceral and vivid sonic landscape” inspired by the likes of Queens Of The Stone Age and the sound of desert stoner rock.
The new video comes as the band also release their debut album, ‘Strangerlands’, today (October 8).
All 12 tracks on the new album were written, recorded and self-produced by the band in The Wolf Cabin – Harcourt’s home studio – and mixed by Cenzo Townshend at Decoy Studios, with final mastering by Miles Showell at Abbey Road.
Speaking about the new record, Browne said: “I couldn’t really be happier with this record. Truly. It’s the strongest, most complete and accomplished record I’ve ever had the pleasure to make.
“The actual act of creating this was the easiest, most fun and made with such a sense of unbridled and joyous abandon I’ve had the pleasure to experience. For my part, I was experiencing a complete destruction and reform of one life, and entering a wild, new and beautiful one.
“… It was a completely cathartic release, in every sense of the word. As an inspirational process I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. But I’m fucking glad there’s such a beautiful document left… This is the record I’m most proud of. To date.”
Richard Jones added: “Generally speaking, I pressed record while these guys tormented the fuck out of me…however – yes it was truly cathartic experience for me too. The music flowed out of us so naturally from the first time we played together as a band – it was definitely one of the most beautiful experiences of making a record I’ve had.”
Harcourt added: “Here be sinews and bones twisting and distorting into sonic soundscapes and jagged shapes, a juggernaut of heartbreak, death, redemption and fever dream anxieties, a lupine Frankenstein made from three like-minded veterans of music, coming together as one to soothe you, seduce you and perhaps destroy you.
“This is a unique recording that has been forged not only from the depths of Vulcan’s pit, but also during some kind of blackout in heaven. Well actually, it was made in the Wolf Cabin at the back of my garden… but the squalls of ear-wrenching madness amidst slow motion suspended moments of calm that only a truly decadent heart and mind could desire are all in there…
“I speak for Cass and Rich here when I say this record might just save your life.”
Loup GarouX’s special album launch show will take place at London’s Lexington on Monday (October 11), and you can buy tickets for the show here.
Last year the group made their inaugural live performances across the UK as support to Supergrass, which culminated in two dates at Alexandra Palace in March 2020.
The band are now in the process of finalising further dates to perform their new album live.
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MANILA, Philippines–Meralco survived a furious comeback from Magnolia and escaped with a 91-86 win in Game 3 of their 2021 PBA Philippine Cup Friday semifinals series at DHVSU Gym in Bacolor, Pampanga. The Bolts now trail 2-1 in the best-of-seven series. Leading 75-54 at the start of the fourth, the Bolts saw that lead dissipate […]
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MANILA, Philippines—Volleyball star Michele Gumabao is joining the list of sports personalities seeking government posts in the 2022 national elections. The former Creamline spiker was named as second representative for the Mothers for Change partylist. Risque star-turned-government official Mocha Uson is the first representative of the partylist shortly named MOCHA. This isn’t Gumabao’s first foray […]
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