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.

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