Last Thoughts For Wednesday

Liam Gallagher, lead singer of Oasis, on today's top rock bands (via BBC News):

- Scissor Sisters: "rubbish"
- Bloc Party: "a band off University Challenge"
- The Kaiser Chiefs: "just a bad Blur"
- The Libertines: "nasty"

The kids in America on Oasis: "who?"

Elsewhere:

- I'm not the most knowledgeable Super Furry Animals fan, but after enjoying SFA singer Gruff Rhys's solo album quite a bit, I'm excited about the news that SFA will release a new album soon. In an exclusive interview with NME.com, Gruff gives us the goods on Love Kraft, due in August: "It's the most orchestral record we've done," Gruff said in the article. "But it's still very much the sound of a band in a room together."

Read the rest of the article here.

- Upon its release in 1991, Primal Scream's Screamadelica was considered an instant classic by many. It's been called landmark, influential, seminal, a masterpiece. Realizing it could never be improved, but it could be re-interpreted, Spoilt Victorian Child took on the task of remixing Screamadelica. The end result is Screamixadelica, which you can download here, as a Bittorrent only.

SVC describes the project as such:

"There's no reason for this. How do you improve upon perfection? You don't. We don't pretend to think this comes close to the Scream's masterpiece, but then nothing else does. So what Screamixadelica offers is a different spin, moving from chill through dub via glitch to drum & bass."

- Finally, Coldplay are giving away tickets to their "buzz" gig in San Francisco. Enter here. You must be at least 18 and live in the U.S. to be eligible to win.