Pursuit of Dopeness

The MLS has announced the league’s 20th club: New York City Football Club (NYCFC). The founding of the team was three years laying the groundwork, as Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber announced on Tuesday that the new club is the product of a collaboration between English Premier League 2011/2012 Champions Manchester City FC and Major League Baseball’s legendary New York Yankees.

The new team will be named and is expected to begin play in 2015.

While it’s not exactly surprising, for those of us that follow the beautiful game, especially in the US’s league, this is important news for it’s a testament to the growth of the sport and what’s best is that New York proper, the capital of the world, will be home to the club. I’m no Man. City fan at all, but when my country’s soccer league shows (major) growth, it’s something worth being proud of.

Read more on what’s been reported of New York City FC below. [...]

Queens Of The Stone Age will unveil their new album, …Like Clockwork, on May 23 when they’ll be part of a very special edition of NPR Music’s “First Listen Live.” The broadcast will be from QOTSA’s sold-out show at The Wiltern in Los Angeles. [...]

On 9th September legendary Punk band, The Clash, are set to release 2 special projects including a massive boxset worthy of their amazing legacy. The band is releasing The Clash Sound System, a boxset featuring every studio album as well as singles, rarities, B-sides and collectibles, and they will also be releasing The Clash Hits Back, a 2-CD album of the band’s historic 1982 Brixton Fairdeal show.

As a fan of the band, I would love to get a copy of this and I would highly suggest you get yourself one as well. Details of the new releases are below. [...]

Pharrell has returned as the scorer for the new Despicable Me sequel and the first preview of the film’s new soundtrack is now available. The new track, “Happy,” can be streamed below. [...]

Images of the 2013/2014 Nike kits for Spanish champions F.C. Barcelona have been released. Most importantly, the new kits eliminate the 2012/2013′s crappy-looking fading/blending effect made with the respective home and away colors, opting now for solid stripes. The Barça home kit features the same color scheme with a yellow collar, while the away kit is based on the Catalán “Senyera” flag with yellow and red stripes. See the new kits below. [...]

Gareth Bale (Tottenham) vs. Sunderland

Club play is coming to an end with the Premier League, Serie A and the Bundesliga all closing up shop for the summer. The last fixture was drenched in drama and some great goals were more without a doubt present. The top goal goes to England’s Player of the Season, Gareth Bale, who scored a superb shot from outside the penalty box to give his Tottenham a win. See the rest of our Goals of the Week below. [...]

Apparently Chester Bennington, better known as the lead singer of Linkin Park, is the new frontman for classic Alternative Rock group Stone Temple Pilots. At the 21st Annual KROQ Weenie Roast Bennington replaced original frontman Scott Weiland, who’s long been struggling with alcohol and drug problems and has been recently fired from the group, and performed several classic STP hits like “Interstate Love Song,” “Dead & Bloated,” and “Trippin’ On A Hole In A Paper Heart,” which you can see in the video above.

The new lineup of STP also performed a new song called “Out of Time,” that’s available for a free download from Radio.com. Hear that below. [...]

Chicago band Smith Westerns have just released their latest track from their Soft Will project. “3am Spiritual” is a lot mellower than “Varsity” but the classic sound the band has adopted is more than present. The guitar lick, keyboards and even lead singer Cullen Omori’s vocals help it sound like something in between a David Bowie and a Mott The Hoople.

Stream “3am Spiritual” below. [...]

The legendary band, The Rolling Stones, are well into the North American leg of their 50 Years and Counting Tour and they’re still putting on a hell of a show with the added value of having a special guest performance on every night (so far). Last night (May 19th) during their Anaheim, California show they were joined by another Rock God, Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl, for a performance of their badass track, “Bitch.”

In what just may be one of the best amateur recordings of a live performance ever (I know it’s our schtick, but it doesn’t compete with this [yet]), a fan (“suprefan”) that was front row for the show captured the magic. Unless you get a professional “master” recording of this performance, this is as good as it gets and that’s a damn good thing!

I’ll be at their May 31st show (with GA tix!) and I’m sure hoping the band keeps bringing on guest acts and that I get to capture a video like this. So far the band has already had live help from John Meyer, Katy Perry and Gwen Stefani, among others.

See more videos from that Rolling Stones show at suprefan’s channel HERE.

(NME)