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Coheed and Cambria, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and more appearing on Batman: Arkham City soundtrack

admin — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 02:51:47 +0000

Normally, when I talk about video game soundtracks it’s primarily me reflecting on classic Nintendo theme songs from my youth. Video game soundtracks covered on the RiO!B were either from Guitar Hero (RIP) or Rock Band (RIP as well) or the new installments of Madden. But a new and unexpected player has entered the discussion and may raise some eyebrows…or I guess in this case, cowl brows.

Batman: Arkham City is a game I’m definitely looking forward to since I’m a fan of the amazing first game in the series, Batman: Arkham Asylum. But now, with the sequel, comes a soundtrack featuring all new songs from bands like Coheed and Cambria, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Boxer Rebellion, The Duke Spirit, Panic! At The Disco, Serj Tankian and more (via SuperheroHype.com).

Each song, according to a press release, is meant to be each band’s musical interpretation of the Batman mythology. Coheed frontman Claudio Sanchez, a huge comics fan, said, “I write in a very conceptual format with the stories that surround Coheed and Cambria…but Batman has a much larger, defined history and rules that go along with it. My goal was to find universal themes from Batman’s existing history to help give the lyrics legs and dimension so that the song could live within that world.”

The tracklisting is down below and the album is in stores on October 4th. The game is in stores two weeks later on October 18th.

Batman: Arkham City soundtrack:
1. Panic! At The Disco – “Mercenary”
2. Coheed and Cambria – “Deranged”
3. The Duke Spirit – “Creature”
4. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – “Shadow On The Run”
5. Blaqk Audio – “Afterdark”
6. The Raveonettes – “Oh, Stranger”
7. (Crosses) – “The Years”
8. The Damned Things – “Trophy Widow”
9. Daughtry – “Drown In You”
10. The Boxer Rebellion – “Losing You”
11. Serj Tankian – “Total Paranoia”
12. A Place to Bury Strangers – “In The Shadow” (bonus track)

Watch: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – “Beat The Devil’s Tattoo”

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:06:39 +0000

One of the most underrated bands, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, just released their brand new album called Beat The Devil’s Tattoo and the music video up top is for the title track.

The song is a foot-stomper in the blues-rock sense. Between the tambourine, blues guitar and grimy choir sounding chorus, playing this song in the background should definitely allow you to walk around while smoking a cigarette in slow motion and wearing a leather jacket.

BRMC are touring through North America and will make a stop at SXSW on March 19th. Which means i’ll have to attend my party for a bit and then sneak out to catch their set. All their tour dates are down below. Tickets are avaialble right here.

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club tour dates:
March 13 – San Diego, Calif. @ House of Blues
March 14 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ Echoplex
March 18 – Dallas, Texas @ House of Blues
March 19 – Austin, TX @ SXSW
March 20 – Houston, Texas @ House of Blues
March 21 – Tulsa, Okla. @ Cain’s Ballroom
March 23 – St. Louis, Mo. @ Pageant
March 24 – Madison, Wisc. @ High Noon
March 25 – Chicago, Ill. @ Metro
March 26 – Milwaukee, Wisc. @ Turner Hall Ballroom
March 27 – Minneapolis, Minn. @ First Ave.
March 30 – Columbus, Ohio @ Newport Music Hall
March 31 – Cleveland, Ohio @ House Of Blues
April 1 – Toronto, ONT @ Phoenix
April 2 – Montreal, QC @ La Tulipe
April 3 – Boston, Mass. @ House of Blues
April 5 – Washington, D.C. @ 9:30 Club
April 7 – Philadelphia, Pa. @ Theatre of Living Arts
April 8 – New York, N.Y. @ Webster Hall
April 9 – New York, N.Y. @ Webster Hall
April 11 – Toronto, ONT @ Phoenix

RiO!B episode – Feb. 18, 2010

admin — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:41:08 +0000

Jimi Hendrix: Rock Band a no go

Mike Portnoy drumming for Avenged Sevenfold

New Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Johnny Rotten recording with Pink Floyd?

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club has gear stolen

admin — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:04:36 +0000

Theft! There’s been a theft! Someone has stolen quite a few guitars from the band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and they would like them back.

The band posted on their website that someone broke into a storage closet of theirs and made off with quite a few vintage pieces of equipment. The storage closet belonged to Robert Been who is the band’s sound man and father of singer/bassist Robert Levon Been.

The following items were taken:

- Fender 1954 Esquire (Yellow With Black Pick Guard)
- Ampeg 1968 Scroll Top Fretless Bass
- Black Fender 1964 Precision Bass
- Gretsch Country Gentleman 1968 Single Cutaway

Hopefully they find these guitars because that is some costly equipment. May the perpetrator be found soon and hung from his scrotum for what he has done!

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club reveal tracklisting of new album

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:54:16 +0000

Just a quick update for all fans of the band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. They’ve just released the tracklisting for their new album Beat The Devil’s Tattoo which comes out on March 9, 2010.

If you’ve needed a BRMC fix this past year, you could have gotten it one of two ways. Either by getting the New Moon soundtrack where the band contributed the new song “Done All Wrong” or by going out and buying their brand new live CD/DVD combo.

So it’s good to know that after a soundtrack release and a live album release, we finally get a studio album from the boys. The tracklisting is down below (via NME).

Beat The Devil’s Tattoo

Beat The Devil’s Tattoo
Conscience Killer
Bad Blood
War Machine
Sweet Feeling
Evol
Mama Taught Me Better
River Styx
The Toll
Aya
Shadow’s Keeper
Long Way Down
Half-State

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club name their 5th album

admin — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:11:16 +0000

The argument for 2010 to be a stellar year in rock continues to be bolstered with the announcement of the new album from Black Rebel Motorcycle Club.

On March 9th, 2010, BRMC will release their fifth album entitled Beat The Devil’s Tattoo. In addition to that, the album will mark the first time that the band releases work from their own imprint called Abstract Dragon. It also marks the first album with new drummer Leah Shapiro. But if you thought a new album was good news then allow me to sweeten the deal.

BRMC will go on tour this coming February in support of the new record and all the dates are down below. Tickets go on sale December 12th with a pre-sale on December 2nd.

02/26 – Sacramento, CA @ Harlow’s
02/27 – Reno, NV @ Knitting Factory
02/28 – Las Vegas, NV @ Wasted Space
03/02 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
03/04 – Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory
03/05 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox Market
03/06 – Vancouver, BC @ Commodore
03/07 – Portland, OR @ Wonder Ballroom
03/09 – San Francisco, CA @ Slim’s
03/13 – San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
03/14 – Las Angeles, CA @ Echoplex
03/18 – Dallas, TX @ House of Blues
03/20 – Houston, TX @ House of Blues
03/21 – Tulsa, OK @ Cain’s Ballroom
03/23 – St. Louis, MO @ Pageant
03/24 – Madison, WI @ High Noon
03/25 – Chicago, IL @ Metro
03/26 – Milwaukee, WI @ Turner Hall Ballroom
03/27 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
03/30 – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
03/31 – Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
04/01 – Toronto, ON @ Phoenix
04/02 – Montreal, QC @ La Tulipe
04/03 – Boston, MA @ House of Blues
04/05 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
04/07 – Philadelphia, PA @ Theatre of Living Arts
04/08 – New York, NY @ Webster Hall
04/16 – Glasgow, UK @ ABC
04/17 – Whitehaven, UK @ Civic Hall
04/19 – Newcastle, UK @ University
04/20 – Manchester, UK @ Ritz
04/21 – Leamington, UK @ Spa Assembly
04/22 – Southampton, UK @ Uni
04/23 – London, UK @ Forum
04/24 – Nottingham, UK @ Rock City
04/26 – Leeds, UK @ Academy
04/27 – Liverpool, UK @ Academy
04/28 – Wolverhampton, UK @ Wulfun Hall
04/29 – Brighton, UK @ Concorde 2
05/01 – Copenhagen, DK @ Vega
05/02 – Hamburg, DE @ Markthalle
05/03 – Cologne, DE @ Essigfabrik
05/04 – Berlin, DE @ Postbahnoff
05/05 – Munich, DE @ Backstage Werk
05/07 – Milan, IT @ Magazzini Generali
05/08 – Bologna, IT @ Estragon
05/09 – Rome, IT @ Piper
05/11 – Clermont, FR @ Ferrand Coop De Mai
05/12 – Paris, FR @ Bataclan
05/14 – Amsterdam, NL @ Paradiso
05/15 – Waadt, CH @ Longirock
05/17 – Vienna, AT @ Arena

New Moon soundtrack leaks

admin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:18:15 +0000

The album that you really want to buy but don’t want anyone to know that you own has leaked onto the interwebs. I’m talking about the soundtrack for the film New Moon.

Chalk full of original songs by indie-rock royalty, the soundtrack is this year’s equivalent to the Garden State soundtrack except instead of Natalie Portman and a good movie you get Kristen Stewart and an awful movie. But the music is still damn good.

Bands like Muse, The Killers, Band of Skulls, OK Go, Grizzly Bear and artists like Thom Yorke, Bon Iver, St. Vincent and more take you through a world where vampires listen to really cool bands and probably suck PBR out of a can with their fangs. Down below are a couple of the songs from the album. The New Moon soundtrack hits stores on October 20th. If you want to hear every track in its entirety then head over here. You’re welcome.

Thom Yorke – Hearing Damage

Muse – I Belong To You

The Killers – A White Demon Love Song

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Done All Wrong

New Moon soundtrack looks damn good

admin — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:15:17 +0000

I am not a fan of Twilight. The books, the movies, the whole idea. I just never saw the appeal. However the soundtrack for the upcoming Twilight sequel, New Moon, may be a record that makes it into my collection.

Indie-rock fans are probably jizzing their skinny jeans over the recent announcement of the tracklisting for the soundtrack (via Consequence of Sound) that will accompany pale vampires on screen.

Bands like Band of Skulls, Bon Iver & St. Vincent, Grizzly Bear, The Killers, Thom Yorke of Radiohead and more will be contributing to what could be the coolest looking soundtrack I’ve seen in a good long while. Will this make me go see the movie? Not a chance but I will hit up my record store for a copy of this album. The full tracklisting is down below. Prepare to be wowed.

01. Death Cab for Cutie – Meet Me on the Equinox
02. Band of Skulls – Friends
03. Thom Yorke – Hearing Damage
04. Lykke Li – Possibility
05. The Killers – A White Demon Love Song
06. Anya Marina – Satellite Heart
07. Muse – I Belong to You (New Moon)
08. Bon Iver & St. Vincent – Roslyn
09. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Done All Wrong
10. Hurricane Bells – Monsters
11. Sea Wolf – The Violet Hour
12. Ok Go – Shooting the Moon
13. Grizzly Bear – Slow Life
14. Editors – No Sound But the Wind
15. Alexandre Desplat – New Moon (The Meadow)

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club releasing new album in March

admin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:31:37 +0000

One of my favorite bands, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, is releasing a brand new album in March of 2010 according to Billboard.

They’re currently in a Hollywood studio mixing the new record but if you’ve been craving something new from BRMC they’ve got just the thing for you. On November 10th the band will be releasing a DVD called Live that shows concert footage of the band in Berlin, Glasgow and Dublin back in 2007 in support of their last album Baby 81.

The package will also include a second DVD which will feature studio recording sessions and acoustic performances by the band for fans that couldn’t make it into their shows. There will also be a CD with 14 tracks as well as a 48-page book. I may have to get my hands on this one.