WQLZ Music Minute

August 10, 2010

Music News from the Rock Station, 92-7 WQLZ by Bishop

New vs. unreleased

There is new Soundgarden! Stories and blogs online have hinted that there is an unreleased Soundgarden song. Well, the record must be set strait. This is new Soundgarden! You see, the difference between previously unreleased and new is previously unreleased means the song was recorded years ago and kept in a vault. That's not the case with this new song … well kinda. A new Soundgarden song that is going around is being compared to an old screen play that has been on the shelf for sometime, just with some fresh revisions. The new tune's guitars and vocals were just recorded making it indeed a new and fresh song. So, with that out in the open, it is safe to say that there will soon be new Soundgarden before we know it! Don't forget to secure a copy of the penultimate collection of Soundgarden classics, and some previously unreleased … I mean new songs. “Telephantasm” will be out September 28th.

Changing the way business is done

Rob Zombie gets it. Not many artists do, but Zombie joins the small list of those who do. People just don't want to buy music anymore, Zombie recently said. The horror rocker proclaimed that his last album would be the last CD he would release because the medium is dead. He told AOL's Noisecreep that there is “a different way to do business that's really sort of like the old way of doing things.” Zombie then referred to the 50s and 60s where artists weren't putting out albums, but rather 3 or 4 songs at a time. Something that Zombie proposed is for the band to write and release a handful of songs while out on the road, releasing them online, all to keep fans energized. Meanwhile, Zombie will join Alice Cooper and label mates Murderdolls for a Halloween Hootenanny tour. Basically it is the Gruesome Twosome tour revamped. You can catch the show October 7th down at the Family Arena in St. Charles, MO, or October 8th in Bloomington. On a related note, Murderdolls has new stuff on the way and you can get a bizarre preview of their new song “Summertime Suicide” below.

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