He's back with another jewel! I'm seeing him on Nov 19 on Amsterdam, Paradiso!

Nov 4 will be "LlorNkcoR" his official new album...

Nov 11 will be "Love is Hell Vol.1" and "Love is Hell Vol 2"...this is alot of music he originally had made as his follow up to 2001's GOLD but the label hated it...

Adams prevailed...somewhat...and alot of those recording will see the light of day as Love is Hell 1 & 2...He stated that these records are not 100% of what would've been the original LOVE IS HELL release...

im a huge fan of his, but that song previev on his homepage (Still Alive or smthng) didnt impress me. Sounds boring stadion-rock a'la U2... just hoping the album turns out excellent.

VANITYSprisonBYTCH said:

Will the Love Is Hell volumes officially be released? That would mean 3 new cd's by him in ONE month? That would be great!

prinssi said:

I haven't heard anything yet but I'm sure that it's going to be good!
I'm psyched, he's only doing a small promotional tour in Europe (only 7 dates), happy to see his gig in Amsterdam.
Saw him last year on his acoustic tour, which was awesome!

abierman said:

The Love Is Hell EP's are both up on Amazon.com, the first
one has a releasedate of November 4th but the second one is
listed for December 4th.

I was wondering wether some of these songs are lifted from
the aborted "The Suicide Handbook" from a while back.

A couple of songs from that project ended up on DEMOLITION
as far as I know.

IstenSzek said:

I love DEMOLITION!!!

i hate ryan adams solo... i really, really do...

if people wanna know what he sounded like when he was great, pick up the whiskeytown cds... whiskeytown was a kick ass band... but his solo stuff is just way too MOR for me... they don't have the passion and the energy that he had with whiskeytown...

Sure, Whiskeytown was good but they are no more...But if you like Whiskeytown, I think it is narrowminded to say you hate him solo...

abierman said:

it's not narrowminded... i've listened to it and don't like it... nothing narrowminded about it... i have a wide range of musical tastes, and the vast majority of ryan adams' solo output does not fit in to that range... most of it sounds boring to me...

"heartbreaker" was a good album... i'll give him that... but "gold" and everything since has sucked to me...

ok, your call...

abierman said:

YES! I think the release dates I posted were incorrect...but there will be 3 official Ryan Adams albums out in the next month or so...all on Lost Highway records!

Plus there will be tons extra stuff being released in Europe in the form of singles...Billboard.com had this article...

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A veritable avalanche of material from singer/songwriter Ryan Adams is slated for release over the next few months. And, as Adams paints it, it all comes as a result of disagreements he had with his label, Lost Highway.
On Nov. 4, Lost Highway issues both the acclaimed singer/songwriter's next full-length, "llornkcoR" (rock'n'roll spelled backwards), as well as the EP "Love Is Hell, Part 1." On Dec. 9, the second "Love Is Hell" installment arrives. Both EPs, Adams says, may extend to as many as seven or eight tracks. In addition, Lost Highway is prepping European singles that will feature alternative rock covers and different bonus cuts for the same song. It's unclear at this point whether the singles will be released in North America.

All this, according to Adams, is a somewhat happy ending to a battle he had with Lost Highway over its rejection of the full-length version of "Love Is Hell," an album he calls "the work of my life." Referencing the likes of the Smiths, Velvet Underground, Leonard Cohen and Nick Drake, the album, he says, was dark, doomy and full of what he refers to as "really f***ed up" lyrics.

However happy Adams was with the project, Lost Highway chief Luke Lewis tells Billboard.com he quite frankly thought the singer could do better. Lewis says it's important that Adams' next album -- the official follow-up to his revered 2001 effort, "Gold" -- be the best the singer could offer. Adams, he says, could scale even loftier heights if he spent more time crafting and fine tuning his work. But he has to be pushed -- and that was what the label hoped to accomplish by rejecting "Love Is Hell."

After the rejection, the famously prolific Adams says he cut all ties to the label for months and headed into the studio, paying for sessions on his own credit card. The two EPs, "llornkcoR" and the singles are a mix of the songs created in various sessions, including a brief stint in New Orleans with Smiths producer John Porter. However, the "Love Is Hell" EPs are not the original album cut in halves. Eventually, the two EPs will be joined together in a vinyl release.

"Love Is Hell," Adams says, is "something that I totally believe in, and people close to me, who have heard it, it has affected them in very serious ways, not just in like a 'This is nice, this is big, and it rocks'-kind of way. It's a completely unstylized and an absolutely reckless album. [It was] the place where I was the most myself and freest. It kind of had -- has -- the potential to be a doomy record that can befriend people who are in a doomy place. And that wasn't a career move that my label felt like I needed to make at that time."

In contrast, "llornkcoR," which he refers to as "Rock'n'roll Reverse," is his most thoroughly upbeat, ballad-lite, straight-up rock record yet. And it has Lost Highway and Lewis excited. "I had just done 'Love Is Hell,'" Adams says, "and I'm always on about doing something I wasn't doing before, because I do a lot of different types of stuff, obviously. So this was just the thing I needed to do, 'cause I hadn't done it yet. It was a fun thing to do, the obvious thing to do." Some have falsely called it his reaction to the current rock scene and bands such as the Strokes. "Personally, I think the rock scene already expired, ya know?," he says. "The milk's going bad tomorrow."

"llornkcoR" features guest turns by Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, ex-Hole/Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf Der Maur and Adams' current girlfriend, actress Parker Posey. It was largely created from songs written and arranged by Adams and friend/drummer Johnny T. He's also worked with Patti Smith bassist Tony Shanahan over the past year.

In addition to the material that will compose the EPs, singles and "llornkcoR," Adams says he has more than 30 fairly new songs in the can. He's also working on other projects, none of which he would provide details about. All of this joins the recently issued "We Are F*** You/Punk's Dead Let's F***" (One Little Indian). As previously reported, that album is the debut from the Finger, the hardcore band Adams formed with Johnny T., former D Generation frontman Jesse Malin and vocalist Colin Burns. Adams, who is listed as Warren Peace, is the guitarist in the group and does not sing on the record.

Adams, who produced Malin's revered solo bow, "The Fine Art of Self Destruction," is also currently helming the follow-up. What's more, he is considering streaming new songs he and Johnny T. come up with on his official Web site on a weekly basis.


-- Wes Orshoski, N.Y.

All sounds pretty cool, can't wait to see him perform in three weeks!

4 days to go!

abierman said:

well, i downloaded it and it really is a excellent record... quite different from heartbreaker or gold...

Just bought this. Initially I was unimpressed by both Rock N Roll and Love Is Hell, but having listened to them over again, Im absoutely loving some tracks on both albums.

Rock N Roll is just a pastiche of loads of different rock acts, The Strokes, Oasis, Neil Young, The Smiths, Bruce Springstein, Nirvana. If you can get over the fact that ryan is just doing an imitation of these acts, youll love the album as there's some great tunes on there.

My favourite tracks are So Alive, This Is It and Shallow. It lacks the artistic merit of his Heartbreaker album and some of the whiskeytown stuff, but like i say if you can overcome the fact that he's just fooling around this is a good album.

Love is Hell is quite a dark collection but his cover of Wonderwall is great. The last track, Avalanche, is heartbreakingly beautiful.

I would say that Ryans prolific output is the detremental factor. A lot of the 25 tracks you get on the 2 CDs could have been cut, and a very good 15 track album could have been made. Rock N Roll is just rock song after rock song, with no let up, and Love Is Hell is quite depressing. That said its cool to have 25 new songs to discover. With 7 more to follow on LIH part II, you cant complain. Ryan is without doubt my favourite current solo artist.

I wonder who will be next?

Elton Don?

Eddie Mercury?

Barry Numan?

Girl Georgina?

Ryan Adams is the luckiest busker alive.

JohnnyTheFox said:

why? because he's bangin' Parker Posey?