Filed under: Indie Rock, Powerpop, Rock | Tags: alabama, clarksville, columbus, dayton, dothan, east coast, east ridge, fairdale, fayetteville, florida, frankenmuth, gainesville, georgia, hamilton, howell, jacob's ladder, kentucky, knoxville, miami, miami beach, michigan, midwest, new jersey, north carolina, ohio, pontiac, raleigh, red bank, rochester, tallahassee, tennessee, tour, wilson
Jacob's Ladder: On Tour This Month
One of the band’s from my 10 Florida Bands You Should Know About post is heading out on tour this Friday. Jacob’s Ladder will be hitting the east coast and midwest over the next month or so. Definitely check them out if they are gonna be near you.
Mar 20 – Miami Beach, Florida
6:00P
21ST RECREATION CENTER [ALL AGES]
w/Select Start, The Bront, MBSH Rockensemble, I Shot Broadway
Mar 21 - Gainesville, Florida
8:00P
1982 BAR
w/Whole Wheat Bread, Stella, Television Deleware
Mar 22 – Dothan, Alabama
6:00P
HERMANS
w/Soapbox Prophet, Wooden Teeth
Mar 24 – Columbus, Georgia
9:00P
SOHO [21+]
Mar 25 – Fayetteville, North Carolina
8:00P
THE ROCK SHOP
w/Fathers & Sons, Ellis Ashbrook
Mar 26 – Raleigh, North Carolina
7:00P
THE BREWERY
w/ Aloretta, Gene Smilek, The Winter Session, The Sacred Code
Mar 27 – Wilson, North Carolina
6:30P
LUNA BEAN
w/Lions For Lambs, Concrete Authority, Three Cheers For Texas
Mar 28 – Red Bank, New Jersey
4:00P
CHUBBYS
w/The Truth, The Horizontals, Lost In Society, Captain Crunch, Counter Point
Mar 29 – Hamilton, New Jersey
3:30P
HAMILTON LANES
w/North Farewell, Team Goldie, Someone Say Something, Forever Is Fleeting
Mar 31 – Dayton, Ohio
9:30P
BLIND BOBS
w/The Raging Nathans, He Laughs! He Loves! He Learns!
Apr 2 – Rochester, Michigan
9:00P
THE FACTORY
w/Our Last Go, The Night Away, Dollface Divine
Apr 3 – Frankenmuth, Michigan
6:00P
FISHER HALL
w/Your Best Friend, The Transfer, I Became Sky
Apr 4 – Howell, Michigan
5:30P
HOWELL PERFORMING ARTS
w/Your Best Friend, Galaxy Down, Pawn Shop Treasures, Simply Something
Apr 5 – Pontiac, Michigan
5:00P
THE PIKE ROOM
w/The Weather State, Definition Plexus, Aprils Calling, The Night Away
Apr 6 – Fairdale, Kentucky
6:00P
BULLDOG CAFE
w/Anvils Away, Nowhere Fast
Apr 7 – Clarksville, Tennessee
7:00P
THE COUP
w/Dusty Mahan, Deaf Children At Play, Flight Case For Sushi
Apr 8 – Knoxville, Tennessee
8:30P
LONG BRANCH SALOON
w/Dusty Mahan, Without Hatred, On My Honor, Stages & Stereos
Apr 9 – East Ridge, Tennessee
7:00P
THE WAREHOUSE
w/Dusty Mahan, Faretheewell, Adrian, Rainbow Station
Apr 11 – Tallahassee, Florida
8:00P
FLOYDS
w/Wait For Green, Senate, The Miracle Year
Apr 16 – Miami, Florida
7:00P
HOT TOPIC @ DOLPHIN MALL
(ACOUSTIC SET & SIGNING)
Chris & Rihanna (The New Ike & Tina)
I have managed to avoid this topic since it all started, but I have finally decided to speak out for two reasons:
1. Recent developments have been too ridiculous for me to NOT open my mouth
2. The traffic I’ll get simply by tagging this post with Chris Brown and Rihanna’s names
First off, let me start by saying that hitting a woman is wrong. No matter what the situation, it is just plain wrong. There is never an excuse for it. When this all first happened, I was appalled. Even when stories came out about her starting the fight and physically hitting him, Chris Brown still disgusted me. I don’t care how many times Rihanna hit him, there is no way that tiny girl could have done THAT much to hurt him. Now, I’m not saying its OK for girls to hit guys, its definitely not. But responding by hitting them back is DEFINITELY NOT the proper way to go about it.
My sympathy for Rihanna began to decline a couple of weeks ago when rumors started spreading about them reconciling. When the rumors were confirmed that they were indeed back together, that sympathy disappeared completely. Then there were stories about them getting married, planning a duet together…etc. Now I am almost HOPING he hits her again just so she realizes what a horrible mistake she is making.
I understand people make dumb decisions in their early 20′s regarding relationships. I sure did. But this situation is simply ridiculous and her decision to get back together with him is probably going to ruin her life.
Filed under: Classic Rock, Heavy Metal, Metal, Pop, Rock | Tags: guitar hero, metallica, rock band, the beatles, video games
Source: Billboard.com
Once again Rock Band makes Guitar Hero look second-rate . Rock Band‘s answer to one of the worst video game ideas ever (Guitar Hero: Metallica) will be released on 9/9/09 and will feature none other than the Fab Four: The Beatles! This also marks the first time The Beatles’ music will be available in the digital realm.
What better way for Rock Band to give a big ol’ middle finger to Guitar Hero than to get a band for their game that:
a. Metallica couldn’t compete with if they tried
b. Has never made their music available digitally before
And check out the icing on the cake:
Giles Martin, son of longtime Beatles producer George Martin and co-producer of the Grammy Award-winning “LOVE” project with Cirque du Soleil, is serving as music producer for the Rock Band game
If you haven’t heard the “LOVE” record, I highly suggest going out and buying it. If none of this means anything to you, you’re hopeless. Burn all of your albums and never listen to music ever again.
Filed under: Pop, Teen Pop, Hip Hop | Tags: kanye west, lil' wayne, jonas brothers, 50 cent, nick jonas, common, lupe fiasco, mos def, collaboration
Photo: Theo Wargo/WireImage
I’ll wait for you to stop laughing at the headline….
Done? OK. The Jonas Brothers said that they would like to work with a hip-hop artist like Common, Lupe Fiasco or Mos Def for one of the songs on their new record:
“There’s a song we wrote recently and we were thinking … it does sound different and kind of strange, and [we'd like to work with] a rapper who has some real meaningful lyrics,” Nick, the self-proclaimed “most hip-hop” Jonas, told MTV News. “[Someone who] has some real depth to what he’s saying — someone like a Common or a Lupe Fiasco or a Mos Def. Someone who takes more of a spoken-word approach. That’d be really cool.”
Kevin said that they definitely appreciate hip-hop, hinting that adding that type of vibe to the album is definitely a possibility. “We have a hip-hop bone in us somewhere,” Joe added.
Saying you’re the “most hip-hop” Jonas means about as much as saying you were the “least beaten” Jackson. Seriously though, if any of the artists he listed actually ends up working with these douchebags, I stop listening to said artist. The problem is that the hip-hop artists he listed have too much integrity to blatantly sell out like that. However, I will make the prediction that either Kanye West, Lil Wayne or 50 Cent offers to work with them after reading this news. Those guys’ll make a guest appearance on ANYONE’s song.
Filed under: Hip Hop, Pop, R&B | Tags: chris brown, kanye west, michael jackson, o.j. simpson, rihanna, storytellers, vh1
Photo by: MJ Kim (Getty Images)
Kanye West recently filmed an episode for VH1′s Storytellers. Seeing as how this is a show that features more talking than performing, you can understand why Kanye might have been a bad choice:
Kanye West weighed in on the alleged altercation between Chris Brown and Rihanna during a February 13 taping of VH1′s “Storytellers,” although his comments will not appear in the show.
According to a Reuters report, at one point during the taping West asked the crowd, “Can’t we give Chris a break? … I know I make mistakes in life.” Brown, who was arrested during the Grammys and booked on suspicion of making criminal threats, a felony, has not been charged in the case.
West also reportedly received loud applause when he followed by saying, “Michael Jackson, amazing. Michael Phelps, amazing … He’s a real f—in’ person; he makes mistakes.” West also made a rather puzzling comment about O.J. Simpson, saying, “O.J. Simpson, amazing. Is he not? What he did, when he did, what he did. Was he not amazing, though?”
What’s funniest about all of this, is that none of it is surprising in the least. When you give Kanye West a microphone, you’d better hope he just uses it for (auto-tuned) singing or rapping because God only knows what will come out of his mouth otherwise. Defending Phelps is one thing, all he did was smoke pot. But defending the guy who beat the hell out of his girlfriend and then the guy that MURDERED his ex-wife? Its not even like O.J.’s been in the news lately or anything. Oh, Kanye, what an enigma you are.
Filed under: Pop, Rock | Tags: adam schlesinger, baha men, billboard, bun e. carlos, cheap trick, fountains of wayne, hanson, james iha, s-curve records, smashing pumpkins, spin, supergroup, taylor hanson, tinted windows, we the kings
Source: Spin.com
Spin.com released new information about the upcoming debut album from Tinted Windows. In case you somehow missed my last post, Tinted Windows is a ridiculously awkward looking supergroup consisting of James Iha (Smashing Pumkins/A Perfect Circle), Taylor Hanson, Bun E. Carlos (Cheap Trick) and Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne):
Earlier this week, a promo clip surfaced, previewing the power-pop band’s new tunes “Kind of a Girl” and “Messin’ with My Head,” complete with ’80s-to-the-max visual effects. Watch below.
And yesterday, more news about the band’s self-titled debut surfaced. Produced by Iha and featuring vocals by Hanson, the 11-track self-titled debut (out April 21 via S-Curve) was written in large part by Schlesinger, Fountains of Wayne’s core songwriter, who said the project represented a departure for him.
“This was much more straight-forward musically and lyrically,” he told Billboard.com. “They’re just pop songs.”
Schlesinger, who was also nominated for an Oscar in 1996 for penning the title track to the Tom Hanks-directed film That Thing You Do!, said that though most associate Hanson with “MmmBop,” a lot has changed since the hit song’s 1997 release. “It’s a shame that when people think of Hanson, they think of Taylor as a teenager. But he’s a grown man, and he’s capable of doing so much.” And Schlesinger kept Hanson in mind during the songwriting process: “We have Taylor with this incredible voice so I had the idea of doing something with a lot of energy.”
Well, at least the mystery of who is to blame for this manufactured monstrosity is over: S-Curve Records. Their roster also includes such wonderful acts as the Baha Men and We the Kings. I don’t know much about the Baha Men (aside from the fact that if I ever hear “Who Let the Dogs Out Again” there will be f*cking murders) but I do know that We the Kings is definitely a “product” of S-Curve Records. And by product, I mean S-Curve made changes to the band’s line-up before signing them. And by changes, I mean S-Curve made them kick out their bass player because he was ugly.
And I may have a little bit of insight for Mr. Schlesinger on why people only think of Taylor Hanson as a teenager…the last time anyone cared about who he was or what he was doing, he WAS a teenager. When the only song you’re known for singing was released before your voice changed and is titled “MMMBop”, you’re gonna have a hard time getting anyone to take you seriously in a “real” music project when you get older
Filed under: Pop, Rock | Tags: a perfect circle, adam schlesinger, bun e. carlos, cheap trick, fountains of wayne, hanson, james iha, smashing pumpkins, supergroup, taylor hanson, tinted windows
Former Smashing Pumpkins/A Perfect Circle guitarist James Iha refused to reunite with the Pumpkins in 2007…but apparently he has no problem starting a supergroup with the most unlikely bandmates possible. In case you can’t recognize him (because the last time you saw him was in 1997, when he looked like a 12-year-old girl) that’s Taylor Hanson sitting up front with Iha. On the left is Ben E. Carlos from Cheap Trick and on the right is Adam Schlesinger from Fountains of Wayne. This ridiculous lineup calls themselves Tinted Windows.
Now, as tempted as I was to talk shit about this band simply based on the line-up, I had to at least listen to the song. I am thankful to report that I can now make fun of this band without any hesitation. The song is pretty awful. Its basically a Jonas Brothers song, but with Taylor Hanson singing.
I think the question on everyone’s minds here is…how the hell did this band get together? I somehow can’t picture these guys all hanging out together at some party and suddenly saying to each other “Hey…we should start a band!”. So if someone can tell me who is responsible for this unholy union, I would greatly appreciate it.
Filed under: post-hardcore | Tags: chiodos, craig owens, i bang the worst dudes, pwnage, underage girls
Craig Owens: Alleged "creep" and pedophile
I have never really been a fan of Chiodos. The singer’s voice always kind of bugged me. So when I saw THIS on the “I Bang the Worst Dudes” blog, I couldn’t help but repost it:
This guy was the singer of a mediocre band, which I didn’t really take into consideration while we were dating since we had met through mutual friends and I thought he was such a sweet guy. He always said the perfect things, until I went to visit him while he was on tour and he ended up being a total creep after we started dating. I found out, amongst other shameful things, that he hooks up with some of his (really) young fans.
Wow, I’ll bet he never saw THAT coming. He’s gonna have a hard time hooking up with all those underage fans if this gets around. So I am posting this to do my part in preventing statutory rape. Spread the word.
Filed under: Alternative Rock, Pop Punk, Rock | Tags: blink-182, entertainment weekly, reunion, the cw, twilight, vampire diaries
Photo: Michael Muller
This week in Entertainment Weekly’s “Bullseye” section they mentioned the blink-182 reunion. But in a rather surprising way…
The reunion no one was waiting for: blink-182
How old are the writers for Entertainment Weekly? 80? How can they possibly think that no one cared about that? Then again this is the magazine that has given a bad review to every good movie that has come out in the last 10 years. In the same section they also referred to the CW picking up the TV show Vampire Diaries as a “hit” because “it’s like Twilight for TV.” F*ck off and die Entertainment Weekly, f*ck off and die.
Filed under: Alternative Metal, Metal, Nu Metal | Tags: all hope is gone, corey taylor, lax, slipknot, the game
Apparently Slipknot is still angry over their “battle” with The Game for the #1 spot the first week their album came out. The funny thing about this is….THEY GOT THE #1 SPOT AND THEY’RE STILL COMPLAINING!!
Initial reports from SoundScan put rapper the Game’s LAX in the top spot by a margin of 13 albums, but after a recount the positions were reversed, with Slipknot taking it by over 1,100 units. And it’s a near-slight that still drives the band nuts, even six months later.
“Any time we get something, it’s almost like we had to steal the fucking thing,” frontman Corey Taylor tells Rolling Stone. “We had to fight for that, in true Slipknot fashion. They didn’t want to just fucking respect us and wait until all the fucking numbers were in. They were like, ‘No, you didn’t have it — you got beat by 13 CDs.’ We’ve come so fucking close so many goddamn times, and this was our time.”
For Taylor, taking the top spot is the ultimate middle finger to an industry he feels holds his band in disdain, and the victory and continued success is only made sweeter by the odds his band has overcome
I may have an explanation as to why you feel the music industry holds your band in disdain…THEY PROBABLY DO. Your band represents everything that is wrong with America: white trash. That’s what you guys are and that’s what the majority of your fans are. And why the f*ck are you still complaining??? Enjoy the victory because I doubt it’ll happen again. But, hold on. Taylor’s got more for us.
“I truly believe that every time we win, it just makes so many people angry,” he said. “Right out of the gate, we should not have been successful. We were a nine-piece metal band from Iowa wearing masks and doing this insane shit, but we were talented and we were lucky, and we went out and built this following. For us, this is a legacy.”
Very perceptive, Corey. At least he knows everyone with good taste in music hates his band. “Lucky” I’ll definitely give you, “talented” is debatable. Enjoy your legacy, Corey. Me and everyone else that DOESN’T live in a trailer want no part of it.
