Wolfmother to release new material?

According to a post on the official Wolfmother forums (which have NOTHING on the WM.net forums!) by the band’s very own Mr. Stockdale, the band are planning to release some new studio material before the end of the year! Whether this will happen or not, however, given Wolfmother’s history of delays and false promises, remains to be seen, so take this news with a slight pinch of salt.

Interestingly, Andrew’s post was aimed at fans in an interrogative sense, asking for opinions on what medium of release should be issued and what kind of recording should be sought. The full post reads as follows:

“Hello All,

We are considering recording an E.P / Album and releasing it later in the year. So there are two ways of doing this, we are thinking of continuing in the home studio the same way as we did Back Round and Fell Down A Hole, or sticking with the big Producer/Engineer classic studio approach. This next record is definitly going to be a a fast natural process, mixing up live takes and extended instrumental pieces.

Something gets lost in laying down drums then tracking every instrument and layering up a record, it’s a safe big album approach though it’s hard to find nuaince and expression within these recordings….

Just throwing it out there,

What are the people who listen to Wolfmother looking for, should the creators lead without concern for their audience? Either way I’m interested to hear peoples opinions…

Andrew”

So get over to the forums and voice your opinion, then join us on the unofficial forums to chat about these developments!

Cosmic Egg nominated for Classic Rock award

Wolfmother’s second album, Cosmic Egg, has been nominated for Classic Rock magazine’s Album of the Year award. The album, which was released in October last year, will be up against 14 other albums released in 2009 or 2010, including Kiss’s Sonic Boom, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s God & Guns and Slash, the self-titled solo album by the ex-Guns N’ Roses guitarist, on which Wolfmother’s own Andrew Stockdale appears as a guest vocalist.

The awards ceremony will be hosted by rock legend Alice Cooper at the legendary Roundhouse music venue in London, England on November 10, 2010. Nominees in other categories include fellow Australians AC/DC (Band of the Year), for whom Wolfmother opened on a leg of their Black Ice World Tour, and Download Festival 2010 (Event of the Year), at which Wolfmother were scheduled to perform but for the (still unsolved) illness of Andrew Stockdale.

Some may say that the inclusion of Cosmic Egg in the list of nominations for the Album of the Year award is a surprise, given its mediocre critical response and lack of fan support, although it did receive its fair amount of praise. Should Wolfmother win the award, which has ever-increasing prestige, it will be their first accolade in over two years since they won the APRA Award for Most Played Australian Work Overseas in June 2008. See the full list of nominations below and vote here:

• Cheap Trick — The Latest
• Bigelf — Cheat the Gallows
• Slash — Slash
• Kiss — Sonic Boom
• Wolfmother — Cosmic Egg
• Iron Maiden — The Final Frontier
• Pearl Jam — Backspacer
• Alice in Chains — Black Gives Way to Blue
• Lynyrd Skynyrd — God & Guns
• The Gaslight Anthem — American Slang
• Scorpions — Sting in the Tail
• Europe — Last Look at Eden
• Ratt — Infestation
• Foreigner — Can’t Slow Down
• The Black Crowes — Before the Frost…
• Steve Hackett — Out of the Tunnel’s Mouth

Wolfmother do Queen & Bowie

It was Andrew’s birthday a few days ago, and as a present to us fans he and the band recorded a couple of epic songs and uploaded them to YouTube.

First is Queen (check out the guitar display):

And then there’s Bowie (that wallpaper hurts my eyes):

Not only are they cool covers (I particularly liked Starman with the bongos!), but it’s very cool to see the band hanging out and doing fun stuff. It feels like the chemistry is back for the first time in a good few years. Let’s hope to see more of this kind of thing!

Get a piece of WM history

Back in 2006, I posted about a t-shirt created by Wolfmother, sold by The Yellow Bird Project, and all for a good cause.

Well, for a limited time, the t-shirt is available again! And, on sale! $15 buys you what is without doubt a unique tee. One for Wolfmother collectors I think.

So grab it while you can.

Tour dates coming thick and fast now!

Well, okay, so it’s a second … but I’ll take what I can get! Australia again of course, but this time Melbourne. Aussie fans, get your arse down there and tell us if they still rock.

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