Blink-182 by Jack Bridgland
A brand new album and a classic reissue from Blink-182 and Oasis were among last week’s biggest headlines.
Blink-182 have unveiled the details of their new album One More Time….
Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker’s reunion last year promised new music, and the first studio record to feature all three members since 2011’s Neighborhoods duly arrived with a video previewing the title-track, Anthem Part 3 and You Don’t Know What You’ve Got.
The touring which has been the focus of their reunion up to now, meanwhile, is due back in the UK next month for dates including two nights at the 02 Arena in London.
Deap Vally will say their farewells during a North American tour next year.
With dates coming up in November, the duo’s goodbye gigs will take place during February and March 2024, while their final show is scheduled to be an appearance at Foro Indie Rocks in Mexico City on April 18th.
Baby I Call Hell, meanwhile, is a new single which is set to be a part of an updated edition of the band’s debut album dubbed SISTRIONIX 2.0. “We found we just can’t function as a traditional band anymore,” Julie Edwards explained.
Johnny Marr will look back on the first ten years of his solo career with a compilation entitled Spirit Power which has been set for release on November 3rd.
Both Somewhere and The Answer were recorded by The Smiths guitarist with co-producer James Doviak, the former written whilst on tour last year with The Killers and Blondie.
“I’ve played a lot of arenas over the years, and in terms of songwriting there’s nowhere to hide,” he’s said of it.
The anniversary of Oasis‘ celebrated B-sides collection The Masterplan is to be marked with a remastered reissue.
Limited edition versions of the album will be out on CD, cream cassette and double vinyl formats on November 3rd, almost exactly a quarter-of-a-century on from its release in 1998 – a time when first week sales of 122,000 copies were only enough for the No.2 position on the UK Album Chart.
With a tracklist originally compiled from a fan vote (with a few vetoes from Noel Gallagher), The Masterplan remains a crucial document of the magic of early Oasis, when B-sides combined with hit singles and album tracks to make the band seem at one time invincible.
Bill Ryder-Jones has confirmed the details of his new solo album Iechyd Da.
Ryder-Jones’ love of Wales runs through the album; its title translating in Welsh to ‘good health’ and the closing track Nos Da to ‘goodnight’.
“Half of my family is from there, I lost my brother there, all my childhood holidays were in Scotland or Wales,” he’s said. “It’s just a magical place with an incredibly beautiful language. Although I did have to go to Gruff Rhys and ask him about calling it this as I’m still very much an Englishman – he OK’d it.”
The National have given an immediate release to Laugh Track, the band’s second new album of 2023.
Recorded during the same sessions which resulted in First Two Pages Of Frankenstein earlier this year, the 12 tracks on this record have taken a different direction when compared with that predecessor which Live4ever summed up as, ‘the sound of Matt Berninger’s personal rain turning into a downpour’:
“If there the physical artefacts of everything that’s gone faultlessly to shit are unwanted by either parties like they were a war’s empty shell casings, on the other hand New Order T-shirt’s stream of consciousness prose is made up of the sort of highly curated good memories we reward ourselves with after the grief begins to ebb away.”
