If you're still sleeping on my man Shad, the pride of London, Ontario(with apologies to Kittie), best be waking up. The Old Prince was in town last night at Algonquin College with Hey Ocean, rocking a small show with a parade of dope tracks from his latest(coincidentally, called The Old Prince). He had to book it home to the GTA after - why? To appear on MuchOnDemand this afternoon in downtown Toronto, that's why. It isn't on Youtube yet, but it soon will be. Get to know this cat - he's on the way up.
I can't say I've heard another of her songs besides the number-one smash 'Smile,' but I liked that song so much I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt: Lily Allen will release her sophomore album February 9th - my birthday! She's somehow found time to make another record in between clubbing, drinking/clubbing, fighting with other chicks/drinking/clubbing and clubbing. How 'bout that. [AP.net]
One of the most brutal bands who dig baseball(you had to be there probably), Baltimore's Misery Index are streaming their new record. Expect brutality. BRUTALITY! Oh, and to explain the baseball reference - when the band played here in Ottawa a few years back, our triple-A baseball team(now defunct) was the top farm team of the major-league Baltimore Orioles. Who have been pathetic since this guy retired, but that's beside the point.
MTV's decade-long weekday-afternoon institution Total Request Live is apparently being put in the glue barn at the company's NYC farm(think it through - it will come to you), and I'm trying to remember a single time I ever saw the show. I don't believe such a moment exists, but as a blogger/pop-cult enthusiast it could not be avoided - read one man's opinion of what certainly was groundbreaking television. 'Youtube before Youtube came along'? Perhaps.
According to an NME interview, Foo Fighters will be taking a 'long hiatus' from music - can't fault the band for that; not many stadium-level rock bands have worked their asses off as hard as the Foos since the late '90s. Kick back, gents, you've earned it.
The makers of Guitar Hero must have realized I was growing a little tired of just guitars - they're gonna develop DJ Hero! This is superb news!
Best Buy bought Napster for over a hundred million bucks this week. Wait - people still care about Napster?
Prepping for the release of their major-label debut effort New Surrender, Anberlin(gads I love this band) have launched the new album's website. Go look, and get stoked for the new slab.
If you actually bought the new Metallica record(why? just...why?) and you're sitting in your bedroom doing your trig homework or at the office going over patent applications or whatever the hell it is you do, and you're wondering, 'Why does this sound so horrific?', well, this might explain things. The Guitar Hero version of 'Death Magnetic' apparently sounds far better, due to the album being so heavily compressed that the highs and lows are virtually entirely nullified. This after 2003's St. Anger sounded horrific, and the band was roundly crucified...evidently nothing was learned. Oh, by the way, the new one debuted at number one...again.
Paramore are apparently in a studio in Nashville recording album numero tres. Good times!
Bayside and Crime In Stereo have both posted new music on their respective myspaces. Go listen!
Perhaps among my top-ten favourite bands ever, New Found Glory, after putting out an album with Bridge Nine earlier this year, have signed with California's Epitaph Records. Blink-182's Mark Hoppus will produce the band's label debut, due out next year. I'm so excited you have no idea.
Some of the highlights on the new Guitar Hero: World Tour game coming out soon:
311 - 'Beautiful Disaster'
Airbourne - 'Too Much Too Young'(I liked 'em better when they were called AC/DC OH snap)
The Allman Brothers Band - 'Ramblin' Man'
At The Drive-In - 'One Armed Scissor'(check out ex-ATDIer Jim Ward's new project Sleepercar!)
Beastie Boys - 'No Sleep Till Brooklyn'
Beatsteaks - 'Hail to the Freaks'
Billy Idol - 'Rebel Yell'
Bon Jovi - 'Livin' On A Prayer'
Bullet For My Valentine - 'Scream Aim Fire'
Creedence Clearwater Revival - 'Up Around The Bend'
Dream Theater - 'Pull Me Under'
The Eagles - 'Hotel California'
Filter - 'Hey Man, Nice Shot'(the first song every kid in the mid-'90s - like myself - learned on guitar)
Fleetwood Mac - 'Go Your Own Way'
Foo Fighters - 'Everlong'
The Guess Who - 'American Woman'
Jimi Hendrix - 'The Wind Cries Mary'
Jimmy Eat World - 'The Middle'
Korn - 'Freak On A Leash'
Los Lobos - 'La Bamba'
MC5's Wayne Kramer - 'Kick Out The Jams'
Michael Jackson - 'Beat It'
Nirvana - 'About a Girl (Unplugged)'
No Doubt - 'Spiderwebs'
NOFX - 'Soul Doubt'
Paramore - 'Misery Business'
R.E.M. - 'The One I Love'
Rise Against - 'Re-Education Through Labor'
Sex Pistols - 'Pretty Vacant'
Smashing Pumpkins - 'Today'
Steve Miller Band - 'The Joker'
Sublime - 'Santeria'
Survivor - 'Eye of the Tiger'
Tool - 'Schism'
Van Halen - 'Hot For Teacher'
Willie Nelson - 'On The Road Again'
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Stephen Colbert is such a righteous dude. [chartattack]
Posted by mike at September 17, 2008 10:22 PM