Chris Martin is a thief, a liar, and a PRAT.

if you haven't heard already, a Brooklyn band called Creaky Boards is claiming (rightfully so) that "Viva La Vida"'s melody was stolen from their "The Songs I Didn't Write". now, I know that this is the music biz and these type of things happen all of the time, and become public knowledge with singles (for example, the LSP's "Age of Understatement" borrows a lot from Muse's "Knight of Cydonia", RHCP's "Dani California" = a remake of Tom Petty's "Mary Jane's Last Dance", even The Strokes admitted to borrowing the riff for "Last Nite" from Tom Petty's "American Girl". Tom Petty was cool about the whole thing Music is a great thing, but sometimes it's hard to be completely original and you need to take things from here and there. That's just the way things work

What pisses me off more than anything is when a band denies it.

Now, make the decision for yourself. Here's the video making the claims:



also, the band blogged about it HERE

now, when I first heard it, I definitely caught onto the similarity of melodies, but thought "hey, no big deal", especially because the Creaky Boards frontman was so civil about the whole thing, not bitter at all. It's not fair how people are accusing him of wanting his 15 minutes of fame.

visit Creaky Boards on MYSPACE . at least their music won't put you to sleep.

When I saw THIS ARTICLE on NME where Chris Martin denies the whole thing, I lost it.

Seriously, man? Ok, yeah, according to your journal you were not at the gig, but hello this is the age of the internet and anyone can hear anything from any part of the world. Just because you weren't at the gig doesn't mean you're off the hook.

I am officially boycotting Viva La Vida. I was planning to go out and buy it but not anymore. I can live without it, it's been tainted with Chris Martin's ridiculousness.

ok, enough unpleasantness. some good news.

some cool new Spoon tracks are available for DOWNLOAD HERE

also, Albert Hammond Jr's Como Te Llama has been leaked online for the last couple of days, I found out yesterday and was ecstatic. I like most of the songs, a couple are less than perfect but overall it's a good record. I love this 7 minute instrumental song he does in the middle, called "Spooky Couch". I love the first half of the record a lot, but I feel like Yours To Keep is a better album overall. I like that Albert tried new things, and his guitar sounds are mindblowing, they're a lot more powerful than anything he's done before. The bass in "Victory at Monterey" [mp3] is catchy and super sexy. I love it. So, Albert, great job and I will definitely still buy it on July 8th (I actually was planning to do that regardless of what it sounded like haha yes I am a die hard fan.)

more good news, the Last Shadow Puppets are playing the debut live gig at the Reading and Leeds festivals in August:

Leeds Festival - Friday the 22nd of August
Reading Festival - Sunday the 24th of August

The Strokes - Last Nite [mp3, highly recommended!]