http://www.nme.com/news/acdc/36035



AC/DC confirm new album rumours

Apr 18, 2008

AC/DC have confirmed that they are working on a new album, which they plan to release later this year.

In a posting today (April 18) on the band's website, they revealed that they have been recording new material in Vancouver with producer Brendan O'Brien (Pearl Jam, Bruce Springsteen).

This will be the veteran Australian rockers' first new album since 2000's 'Stiff Upper Lip'.

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[title]Black Ice[/title] is the first full-length studio album of all-new material from AC/DC since the release of "Stiff Upper Lip" in 2000. Produced by Brendan O'Brien at the Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, BC, Black Ice premieres 15 new AC/DC compositions and performances including the album's first single, "Rock 'N' Roll Train".

1. Rock 'N Roll Train
2. Skies On Fire
3. Big Jack
4. Anything Goes
5. War Machine
6. Smash N Grab
7. Spoilin' For A Fight
8. Wheels
9. Decibel
10. Stormy May Day
11. She Likes Rock N Roll
12. Money Made
13. Rock N Roll Dream
14. Rocking All The Way
15. Black Ice

And for ICErs who absolutely cannot stand to set foot into Walmart , Amazon's third party dealers are also stocking the album:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001F2W4Y2/?tag=imwan-20

It's about time! I hope it's good.

No matter who produces them, it'll still sound like AC/DC. And that's a good thing.

Though I would've loved to read "...with producer Robert John 'Mutt' Lange..."

I thought it was out already -- Wasn't it called Airbourne?
It is one thing to be influenced by but to completely sound just like someone is not

It was called Jet "Get Born"

I remember hearing about this a couple of years ago. I'd forgotten about it. I'm sure it'll be a revolutionary new sound that pushes AC/DC into the 21st century with a forward-thinking (and sounding) new--

BWAH-HA-HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was working at the University Club of Ft. Myers, FL back in the spring of 1991 when Brian Johnson was in one night as the guest of a member. I mention this only because, as he was leaving, a hostess named Carrie walked up to him and said, "I understand you used to be with AC/DC"...

Oh god, Brenden O'Brien. If it's anything like the Springsteen CD, were in for an earbleeder!...

Jeff

AC/DC have completed recording their new, Brendan O’Brien-produced CD in Vancouver and are now in the mixing and artwork stages, says singer Brian Johnson. The band hopes to unleash the new record later this year.

Rolling Stone

I'm personally not a big AC-DC fan, but I'm getting sick of this Wallymart crap.

"AC/DC
June 09, 2008, 12:00 AM ET
Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.
AC/DC's next studio album will be exclusively sold at Wal-Mart stores in the United States, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The as-yet-untitled Columbia album, which, as previously reported, was produced by Brendan O'Brien, is expected in the fall.

AC/DC becomes the latest veteran act to pact exclusively with the retail giant, following Garth Brooks, the Eagles and Journey. The Eagles' "Long Road Out of Eden," released last summer, has been an enormous success, having sold more than 2.98 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

The new AC/DC album is the legendary hard rock act's first since 2000's "Stiff Upper Lip," which has shifted more than 930,000 copies. A tour is expected to follow its release.

AC/DC is one of the only major acts yet to make its music available via Apple's iTunes Music Store. In August 2007, Verizon Wireless snagged the exclusive rights to sell the band's entire back catalog through March 2008, becoming the first and only digital music store to offer AC/DC's content.

However, the deal was limited to full-album downloads, one of the reason's AC/DC's music has not appeared in digital form to date. Since full album downloads are too large and too expensive to sell from mobile phones, Verizon only sold them from the PC version of its VCast Music service for $12 an album.

Both Columbia and Wal-Mart declined comment to the Journal."

Boy, Wal-Mart sure is seriously pursuing that much-coveted "old white guy" demographic.

There's an article in the business section of today's NY Times about Wal-Mart's foray into the music business. Says they're working on an exclusive deal to carry the next Fleetwood Mac album.

It's long so I won't post the whole article but here is the link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/busin ... ?ref=media

Let's see if they do better than Starbucks...

I wonder if they're going to be put into a position where they have to tone things down to fit in with Walmart. Are songs like "Sink The Pink" going to be out of vogue with the new softer, gentler, Walmart-ized AC/DC?

Man, times have sure changed. I mean, AC/DC? The next big leap will be the Hip-Hop Wal-Mart exclusive.

“Shelf space has shrunk so much over the last five years that for anyone to give you shelf space and exposure is a big deal,” said Terry McBride, chief executive of Nettwerk Music Group. “Should the labels be worried? There’s been a move away from the labels for a number of years now. And it’s not necessarily their fault. The shelf space to have those records sell just isn’t there. That’s the market reality.”

Fuck the labels. What about the artists who have not yet been signed? What about the music fan? How much music will go unheard while the nation's biggest music retailer decides to limit the consumer's choices to rock and roll dinosaurs and American Idol contestants?

I take heart in one thing: 25 years ago, the two biggest non-food retailers in the U.S. were Sears and K Mart. Walmart has nowhere to go but down...

I don't know, isn't this good for CDs to a degree? A lot of attention gets accorded to these releases and it gets people buying CDs who probably haven't in a long time. I have no problems at all with this move. Sure, Wal Mart is evil, but so is the record industry, Arby's, Nike, Mc Donald's, Coca-Cola, etc.-every corporation.
Maybe Wal Mart will start giving exclusives to some newer artists down the line, and even if not, with names like The Eagles, Genesis, Journey, AC/DC, Fleetwood Mac, I'm just glad the big name artists can still have a large way of getting product out there. And, shit, the prices are great.
Hopefully this won't hurt other forms of music, but the industry already destroyed itself years ago-we can't blame Wal Mart for that one (but we can try)!

That's a very legitimate concern. I believe Walmart & Kmart were the ones who really drove the PA/vs edited versions of cd's (along with Tipper Gore).

My music-buying has dropped dramatically recently, but artists releasing their new product only through WalMart only hastens that. Is this what music has come to?--where you can only download it digitally or go to WalMart to buy it? This is ridiculous. I'm glad I already have 99.99% of the music that I already want on cd. If Jimi Hendrix came back from the dead and had a new release and WalMart was the only one carrying it, I wouldn't buy it.

I hear that Target, in conjunction with the Hendrix estate and a cabal of scientists, is working on bringing Hendrix back so they can get his exclusives.

I think the day that Walmart signs a deal to exclusively sell music by a black recording artist will indeed be the same day that Jimi Hendrix rises from the dead.