Winner of the 'Dress Your Baby Like Brian Johnson' Contest

AC/DC has the #1 Wedding Reception Song in America!

According to Mobile Beat magazine, AC/DC's classic 1980 hit, "You Shook Me All Night Long," is the top song played at wedding receptions across the United States in the last 12 months.

The runner-up was Justin Timberlake's "Sexyback." Other notables were Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar On Me" at #5 and Lynyrd Skynrd's "Sweet Home Alabama" at #6.

If you want to see the full list of the Top 200 wedding reception songs, go here. I think you'll be pretty amused by some of the songs that made the list. I mean, "Another One Bites The Dust" at #105 hardly seems like a very romantic sentiment to me!

Btw, since I'm on the topic, here's a pretty cool MP3 mashup of You Shook Me All Night Long from Junk Pile Recordings. I might even play it at my wedding, if I ever get married again...

Angus Young's schoolboy uniform on display at Melbourne Museum

Conservator Karina Palmer fits AC/DC guitarist Angus Young's school uniform for Melbourne Museum's exhibition The Melbourne Story.

Rock schoolboy's Melbourne reprise

AC/DC guitar god Angus Young would never make such a fuss perfecting his own tie but Melbourne Museum staff knotted it with latex-gloved hands.

Proving that big stage presence can come in small packages, one of Young's schoolboy stage costumes will be displayed on a mannequin sized for a 10-year-old as part of an exhibition opening at the museum on March 20.

The school uniform, once worn tight on Young's 158-centimetre-tall frame, is one of 1200 objects making up the museum's most expansive exhibition to date, The Melbourne Story.

AC/DC's guitarist Young formed the band with brother Malcolm in Sydney but the hard rockers' formative years were spent in St Kilda in the mid-1970s. One of Melbourne's lanes was renamed ACDC Lane in their honour in 2004.

The Melbourne Story, with a $3.8 million budget and three years in the planning, is expected to last 10 years, with the occasional revamp. Lead curator Deborah Tout-Smith said deciding what to include or leave out of the mammoth display was painstaking. "We wanted to find new ways of showing things that people are already familiar with," she said.

"We've got something on football but from when the sport was smaller, suburban and more tribal. There's fan paraphernalia like hand-knitted footy jumpers and scarves like mum used to make."

Young's uniform will be teamed with replica socks and shoes. Ms Tout-Smith was more than happy to study AC/DC videos to correctly match Young's footwear.

More about the exhibition here.

The Vancouver Sun reports on the AC/DC recording rumor

AC/DC reportedly dined here recently


First new album in nearly a decade

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

By John Mackie

Australian hard rockers AC/DC are reportedly in Vancouver to record their first new album in nearly a decade.

The website metalunderground.com is reporting the band is recording at the Warehouse Studios in Gastown. No official sources have confirmed it: The Warehouse has a policy of not saying who is recording there, and no one at AC/DC management in New York was available for comment Monday afternoon. But a blogger named Kathleen on metalunderground.com wrote that she "just saw them dining at Yew Restaurant in the Four Seasons on W. Georgia!"

This wouldn't be the first time AC/DC recorded in Vancouver. They came to town in 1990 to record The Razor's Edge at Little Mountain Sound with the late Bruce Fairbairn, mixed a live album from their 1990-91 world at the same studio, then recorded their Stiff Upper Lip album at the Warehouse in 2000.

Excerpt from today's issue of the Vancouver Sun.

Brave Words reports AC/DC have landed in Vancouver

According to a BW&BK source, Aussie hard rock legends AC/DC landed in Vancouver, BC last night (March 1st) to commence work on their anxiously-awaited new album. The band's last album, 2000's Stiff Upper Lip, was recorded at The Warehouse Studio in Vancouver, BC with George Young (Angus and Malcolm Young's older brother) and engineered/mixed by Mike Fraser (METALLICA, AEROSMITH, VAN HALEN) - perhaps the team set to work on the band's new material?

Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles

Albert's Music insider is hopeful AC/DC will record soon

Rumours of new AC/DC album

Is AC/DC poised to return to the studio, eight years after the band made its last studio album?

An insider from Albert Music, AC/DC's long-time Australian record company, has revealed there is plenty of excitement building about a possible new album from the band.

"We're very hopeful," he said, "but at this stage there's nothing official."

Because of their immense fan base all over the globe, any speculation about Accadacca making new music sends fans into a frenzy.

But AC/DC's New York management is yet to confirm rumours that the band will soon begin recording another album in the US. "They work on their own time frame," said the Sydney source.

"When they make a record, it's because they want to."

The band itself is now strikingly international, with members scattered across the globe. Malcolm and Angus Young divide their time between Britain and Australia (with Angus also spending time in the Netherlands because he has a Dutch wife). Singer Brian Johnson and Cliff Williams are based in the US, while drummer Phil Rudd lives in New Zealand.

"They can all get together pretty quickly though," the source said.

Because AC/DC are renowned as one of the most incredible live acts in the world, any possible album would probably be followed by a lengthy international tour.

Sydney Morning Herald

Note from Jon:

I'd guess the insider was Sam Horsburgh, brother-in-law to Malcolm and Angus.