Ryan Adams, Now With More Metal

Ryan Adams has been a little bit country and a little bit rock-n-roll, a little bit punk and now, a little bit metal. It was reported yesterday that Adams plans to release a metal album, titled Orion, on vinyl next week. From Adams' website

We're going to begin pressing ORION ? my most legit METAL record ? on vinyl next week. Have a listen to the song below and let us at PAXAM know if you'd be interested in purchasing one.

The first track is being streamed for your listening pleasure here.

News: Ryan Adams Writing Video Game Column

The column isn't posted yet so keep checking I guess...From today's Page Six of the NY Post:

ROCKER Ryan Adams is branching out. The "New York, New York" singer, who married Mandy Moore in March, will be writing a once-a-week video game column for fledgling general-interest Web site The Awl. His first column, about the video game Gorf, debuts today.

News: Ryan Adams Engaged to....Mandy Moore?

Yeesh, this is what happens when you read the NY Post Page Six every day, you learn stuff like this. Who thinks I need a more engaging day job, hmm?

But Ryan Adams and Mandy Moore, really? Am I the only one going "huh"?

MANDY Moore is engaged. The adorable pop singer was proposed to by her on-again, off-again boyfriend, singer Ryan Adams, and accepted - much to her friends' distress. As Page Six reported when the two broke up last year, Adams was not always nice to Moore and often belittled her. Moore dated another man, but recently broke up with him and got back together with Adams. A rep for Moore didn't return calls. (Source)

On the News Front: Eric Bachmann/Crooked Fingers and Ryan Adams

(Photo via Chromewaves)

I am a few days behind with this, but some interesting news bits on Eric Bachmann:

1. For you kids in the LA area, tickets are still available for Bachmann's solo show tonight at the Tangier for all of $12. (I'm green with envy btw...)

2. Bachmann's band, the very awesome Crooked Fingers has a new disc out October 7 called "Forfeit/Fortune," aaaannndd...he's putting it out himself, he didn't resign with Merge Records. He says:

...eventually decided to sell "Forfeit/Fortune" to retail, without a distribution partner. The pair connected with AJ Tobey, marketing manager for Flea Marketing, a promotion firm that specializes in indie retail.

"We decided to focus on a small handful of good indie record stores to get the project off the ground," Tobey says of the set, due Oct. 7. They initially selected 20 stores, based on past support of the band and the routing of an upcoming tour, but the number keeps growing. The record will also be sold at shows, through the Crooked Fingers Web site and via iTunes and other digital stores.

3. Nekko Case, Bachmann, and New Order? Hmm, this I gotta hear...

This is a very arranged, louder rock record, with lots of strings, horns and saxes," he says. Bachmann drafted tourmate Neko Case to duet with him on closer 'Your Control,' which he describes as "really different than her style. It almost sounds like New Order.

(Read our previous post on Bachmann and Crooked Fingers with good things to listen to here.)


(Photo via Harp Magazine)

Ryan Adams to publish a collection of prose sometime in 2009 (from today's Page Six, the NY Post:

EMO rocker Ryan Adams has more to say than can be conveyed in one of his crooning songs or in one of his lengthy missives to Gawker.com. Page Six hears Adams has signed with indie Brooklyn house Akashic Books to publish his still-untitled collection of prose. "They just signed the contract," said our source, "and they plan to release it in 2009." A rep for Adams confirmed the deal, but wouldn't comment on a working title or when it would hit the shelves.