Filed under: Alternative Rock, Pop Punk, Rock | Tags: angels & airwaves, blink-182, dave grohl, david kennedy, grammys, mark hoppus, modlife, radiohead, reunion, the beatles, tom delonge, travis barker
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So it appears as though all 3 members of blink-182 are going to be on-stage together for the first time since 2005 as Grammy presenters on Sunday. It sure as hell isn’t as good as them playing, but hopefully this is a first step to an eventual reunion. I gotta say, the people in charge of organizing the Grammy Awards show are making it increasingly difficult for me to not want to watch it. I was originally planning on not watching it, then I see a commercial Radiohead performing and Dave Grohl performing Beatles songs and now THIS? Touche’ Grammys. Touche’.
HOLY HELL! in the middle of writing this entry I came across this screenshot of a Modlife conversation between someone and Angels & Airwaves‘ David Kennedy. Looks like blink’s getting back together after all and even putting out a record! Hopefully this is legit.
Modlife Conversation confirming blink-182's return
Filed under: Pop | Tags: american idol, angels & airwaves, apocalypse, blink-182, macbeth, now that's what i call music, simon fuller, tom delonge
Simon Fuller (creator of American Idol) has decided to turn the (for some reason) hugely popular Now That’s What I Call Music CD series into a televsion show that will no doubt showcase some of the worst music ever released.
Fuller, the mastermind behind “American Idol” and “So You Think You Can Dance,” has the exclusive global rights to negotiate a TV deal based on the property. “This show will be nothing like ‘American Idol’ and definitely won’t be a spin-off,” he says. “It will be a new take on music programming.”
At the center of the show will be the hits themselves, by such acts as Britney Spears, U2 and Jay-Z. “The TV show is designed to take the brand ‘Now’ and bring it to a broader level,” says Bob Mercer, CEO of Now That’s What I Call Music, a partnership involving Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group and EMI Music. (Warner Music Group has a competing product called “Only Hits.”)
“A lot of people are buying ‘Now’ as their guide to what is happening in the music world over the last few months,” Mercer says. “The intent is to take that brand and that trust in that brand and establish it as a TV show with the same elements.”
The saddest part of this little snippet is in the last paragraph: “A lot of people are buying ‘Now’ as their guide to what is happening in the music world over the last few months”. It would certainly explain why bad music keeps becoming more and more popular. People just keep buying these CDs assuming that this is what everyone is listening to so it must be good. Well, look what you’ve done people. Now this show will be taking up a timeslot that could have been used for something more productive. You know, like another Hills spin-off or another variation of A Shot at Love, Rock of Love or Flavor of Love. Ugh.
UPDATE: Speaking of the apocalypse, Tom DeLonge thinks you’ll be much more comfortable when the world ends in 2012 if you buy a pair of Macbeth shoes.
Filed under: Alternative Rock, Pop Punk, Rock | Tags: +44, angels & airwaves, blink-182, mark hoppus, new found glory, travis barker
Ok, so MTV News isn’t COMPLETEY useless I suppose. They recently caught up with Mark Hoppus to ask him a few questions about the blink-182 reunion rumors and the future of +44.
“To answer your question about the interview at the Woodies — and, by the way, I want to thank everyone at MTV for choosing the most flattering photos possible to go in the article — the reason I wasn’t able to answer with a great deal of specificity is that I didn’t really know how to say what was going to happen. Since late August of last year, I’ve been in the studio every week writing songs with the intention of putting out a record of my own. As of this week, I’ve got about 10 songs in various stages of completion and another 10 ideas that I still want to work on. … By the way, this interview will be the first time many people at the label are going to hear about the possibility of me doing an album on my own. Hi, Interscope!”
No mention of +44…and THANK GOD. When Angels & Airwaves released We Don’t Need to Whisper I thought there was nothing that could disappoint me more. But, a few months later when +44 released When Your Heart Stops Beating, I was proven wrong. Don’t get me wrong, A&A and +44 have one or two songs here and there that I don’t mind. But, for the most part everything the former members of blink-182 have released on their own has been sub-par at best. So my expectations for Mark’s solo material are quite low.
I am however quite interested in how the upcoming New Found Glory record is going to sound seeing as how Mark produced it. If you haven’t heard the first single (“Listen to Your Friends”), I highly recommend giving it a listen.
