Oasis' "Dig Out Your Soul" Gets Release Date, Warner Distribution

Oasis' seventh album Dig Out Your Soul will be released on October 7th. Additionally, it was announced that the band's new album — released through the group's own Big Brother Recordings — will be distributed in the North America by Warner Music. "The new music kicks ass," says Warner Bros. Records COO Diarmuid Quinn, obviously excited to add Oasis to his label's roster. Meanwhile, Sony BMG will continue to handle Oasis' U.K. distribution. "The Shock of Lightning," the album's Noel Gallagher-penned first single, will hit radio in mid-August (but you can hear a snippet of it at the end of this video. Dig was recorded at London's Abbey Road Studios with producer Dave Sardy and mixed in Los Angeles. For the album's track list and strange cover art, check the band's official website.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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