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BUDDYHEAD’S BEST AND WORST RECORDS OF 2004
Like always, it’s a smidge late (but last time we checked this isn’t homework or anything) but we’ve completed the Buddyhead 2004 Best and Worst albums list. There shouldn’t be too many surprises here. Check it out otters by clicking
HERE
Perhaps you’ve spent some time checking out some of the other year end lists. What a bummer it is to find out that "music journalists" well past their 30th birthday who steer the ship for magazines such as Spin, Rolling Stone, NME, etc etc are listening to Green Day and My Chemical Romance. It's pop punk you fucking twinkies! Since when did music magazines start polling Junior High schools for the year end lists? Spin wins the prize for “most retarded article” where they asked Juliette Lewis what her favorite records of 2004 were! Like we’re all sitting on the edge of our seats to see what some actress is listening to.
Mclusky broke up.
The newest Motley Crue single was actually originally written by that mall punk band Simple Plan for their “Still Not Getting Any” album. That producer dude Bob Rock worked on both band’s albums, and showed the unused Simple Plan song to the Crue. Then Nikki Sixx re-wrote some of the lyrics, and they changed the name of the song to “If I Die Tomorrow”. Awesome, now these idiots don’t even write their own shitty songs.
Speaking of shitty glam rock bands from the 80’s… Bon Jovi just put out a boxset called “100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong” which is “four hours of unreleased Jovi” and includes “no hits”. These statements inspire two motherfucking questions… The first: Bon Jovi has four hours worth of unreleased songs just laying around? The second: Who in the fuck is buying this shit?
Speaking of shitty boxsets, we’re still bummed about the Nirvana one. Jack Endino recently explained in an interview one of the reasons it turned out so wack:
"This past summer, we got word that the box set was going to happen, yes, really truly this time. Having been semi-officially researching material for the box with co-conspirator Gillian Gaar since 1998, it was hard to believe it, but sure enough, the starting gun was fired, and it became a frenzy to make sure we had the best sources, and the correct credits and dates. A deadline crunch happened at the end, with Silva Artist Management (for Krist and Dave) and Courtney's people (Peter Asher, for Sanctuary) trying to agree on a final track listing for the box set, as the deadline for the booklet art and layout got nearer. That's why there's a picture of the FECAL MATTER cassette in the booklet, but no music from it; Courtney's people decided that it was not really 'NIRVANA' (i.e. it's Kurt and Dale only, so why share it with Nirvana LLC?) and held it back at the last minute, which is why the set starts with 'Heartbreaker', which would not have been my choice. At the VERY last minute, Silva Mgmt got access to a trove of 'Kurt cassettes' that Courtney has been talking about for years. That's where 'Mrs. Butterworth' and a few other things on the box (mostly acoustic stuff) came from, literally out of the blue in the final weeks of preparation for the box."
This still doesn’t explain why they held out on a lot of the good Peel session stuff, etc etc. They also apparently forgot to credit Pat Smear for his guitar playing on some of the later era home recordings. And by the way, where’s MTV Unplugged on dvd? Where’s “Sold Out Tonight” on dvd? Where’s Halloween 1991 in Seattle in its entirety on dvd? Where’s a simple collection of all the music videos? Give up the goods you fucking horders!!! I can buy a dvd of Blink 182 making fart noises for 2 hours, but I can’t watch “Smells Like Teen Spirit” on a dvd? What the fucky?
Oasis is in the middle of recording their new album with D Sardy. Homeboy also just finished the new Hot Hot Heat album, which took awhile cos the guitar player quit in the middle of the record. Word on the street is that Sardy played a good portion of guitar on the record by himself.
D Sardy also just recently recorded some Paul Westerburg tunes for some goofy cartoon movie that’s coming out in like, 2007. Apparently Tommy Stinson played on some of the stuff. YEAH BITCH, THE FUCKING REPLACEMENTS! Josh Freeze played drums on the session to give it that Puddle of Mudd and Avril feel.
Speaking of Puddle of Crud, the singer is a smack junkie now. Homeboy is trying to embody his Kurt Cobain fixation as close as possible. Hey dude, do you think Kurt Cobain would have driven around town in a fucking bright yellow Hummer with chrome wheels too?! You fucking moron. Now if we can just get that dude to invest in a shotgun…
PJ Harvey recently announced from stage that it would be her last show ever, and she would be retiring from the music world. That’s a bummer… but not as big of a bummer as that last record she made.
Apparently the Vines will never tour again as well. This is a lot like being told you won’t have to endure anymore anal cavity searches…
Remember that International Noise Conspiracy album that was supposed to come out a year ago? It’s not coming out. Their big corporate major label they signed to has shelved the album. Talk about irony.
Aaron needs a crack for Reason 2.5, and possibly some of the software… anybody wanna trade for a BJ? Email
aaron@buddyhead.com
According to a recent mag article that interviewed hip-hop groupies, Jay Z has a massive shlong. Apparently it is, “The biggest you will ever see in your life. Huge. Like a one-liter Pepsi bottle. It could block out the sun.” Yeah, basically Beyonce is squatting on a Pepsi bottle.
We addressed our feelings towards that band Amen on the best and worst list, but for another opinion, here is what a recently departed guitar player named Rich Jones had to say about the band and their singer Karim Chmielinski (aka Crazy Chaos or whatever he’s called):
"Alright, I've kept relatively quiet since leaving the band, even tolerating Casey's bullshit that he was telling people about why I left (wisdom teeth, rehab, etc.). To be honest, I've never been interested in mudslinging about this kind of stuff. I truly believed that when I left the band it was my business as to why and mine only. Dwelling on the past is, in my opinion, a colossal waste of time.
"Since then, however, Casey's constant deception and distortion of the truth, coupled with his feeble attempts to discredit me and other members, have resulted in me writing this letter and telling my side of the story.
"I spent almost 3 years of my life in AMEN, playing in the band because I truly believed that it was an honest, passionate band that was built around the punk rock ethic. Spending years doing van tours in the BLACK HALOS, sleeping on floors and living on next-to no money was something I was used to, and AMEN was no different. Casey always refers to AMEN as a 'working-class band,' which is pretty funny talk from a guy who has never actually worked a day job in his life. As I soon found out, Mom and Dad's money (aka 'my skateboarding money') was always there when there wasn't any money for him to embezzle from the band. At first I never questioned the fact that he would keep all the money and give us nothing, because he apparently had 'outstanding debts from the old band members ripping him off' (a story which I'm sure he still throws around to the current guys). However, after a while, the piss-take got to be a bit too much. After receiving a $50,000 advance for the DVD, Casey gives the band $300 each. After bringing in over £40,000 in merch on a tour, we get $800 and he goes home and buys his girlfriend a car and expands his already massive record collection. While we're sleeping on my cousin's floor in London, he's in a hotel in Gloucester Road, taking people out for dinners and spending hundreds of pounds every day in record shops. And when we finally got the long-awaited record deal, no one saw a single penny of it except Casey. As I'm sure you've heard, his argument is that it's all justified because he let us all stay at his house while we were in the band but here's a fucking newsflash: we had to stay at his house because we couldn't afford to live anywhere because he was taking all the money from the band!
"So let's get to the contract. To understand this contract entirely you have to understand the motivations behind why it exists in the first place. So here's some history:
"When we started the April tour this year, Casey's pill-popping was at a peak. His self-medicating due to imagined medical conditions made him a deeply unpleasant person at the best of times. And at the worst of times...well, you can ask Ross Robinson or Harry about that. By the time we got to Oxford, we had a drum tech who was ready to walk out because Casey had pushed a stack of amps on him and 2 kids who were hurt when Casey threw a cymbal stand into the crowd. Not big, not clever. We all knew the risks of onstage injuries when we joined the band and we never had a problem with it. But when you start putting innocent kids at risk to prove how 'punk rock' you are(n't), then it becomes a problem. Fast-forward to the day of the infamous Virgin instore and Casey was in top form. He'd already thrown a rock-star fit because nobody had brought his bags upstairs for him. God forbid you do it yourself, eh Iggy? Then he had another little tantrum because people's phones (including his) were ringing during a Metal Hammer interview. By the time we hit the stage, he was singing as bad as usual and smashing the shit out of the place. All in a day's work, no problem there. But by the time we got to the signing, he was incoherent, abusive to fans, band and store staff alike. Check out the scar on my arm sometime if you want proof. Finally, after slumping out on the table, telling a fan to 'fuck off' and then shouting abuse at John (our tech, my cousin) in front of everyone, I called him a cunt, got up, walked off and quit the band.
"To make a long story short, by the end of that day, the rest of the guys had quit as well, tired of his rock star antics and money grabbing ways. However, we were being besieged by calls from our agent, management and PR person who were all freaking out about the shows that were scheduled. So in the interest of doing the right thing for the people that had worked so hard for us, and the fans that had bought tickets to the shows, we decided to agree to resume the tour and fulfill our commitments. Hence the contract. If we were going to go back on the road, there needed to be a set of guidelines so that Casey couldn't keep treating people like shit, endangering the audience, and ripping us off in the process. And the only way for us to make him stick to the deal, we had to hit him where it hurts, in the only the thing he cares about
: his wallet.
"If you read the contract, you'll see that we ask for a fair and equal split of the profits amongst all 5 members at the end of the tour (something that we'd NEVER had before. Punk rock values, eh?) and a penalty for Casey if he acted like a cock. Of course, no one expected to get this penalty. I mean, where would the money come from? But we wanted the threat to be hanging over his head and we wanted him to know how deadly serious we were. No more bullshitting allowed.
"So after a late night meeting at Sanctuary Management's office, we resumed the tour. I was still sticking to the fact that I was leaving after it was done, and the rest of the guys were going to go back to the U.S. and tour home. And that's what happened. Nobody actually signed the contract, the guys got home, did the Japanese shows (for which they were supposed to get paid and, surprise!, didn't). Then everyone quit and the shit-talking started.
"So there's my side of the story. There's a lot more I could tell but this is long enough and I don't have a lawyer handy to keep me out of trouble. It's too bad that it ended like this and left a bitter taste in all of our mouths. Still, I'm sure ol' Karim Chmielinski (you know...) will continue to stick to his ways in the names of false integrity and punk for profit. Childish behaviour for a 40-year old man. But I'm sure some people will keep believing him and others will let him keep burning his bridges. At this point, I couldn't care less. If asking for a fair share and not wanting to put up with primadonna antics makes me a sell-out or less punk rock, then bring it on, fuckers.
"I'm not asking anyone to take sides and this is the last I'm going to say about the subject. I've always treated AMEN fans with respect and I have no reason to start lying to you now. Think about it..."
Our hippy folky freakshow night went rather well last month at the Hotel Café. Aaron even got up and got his earthdog on, harmonica holder and everything. In case ya missed it, you can catch him playing around town at Sea Level Records on January 28th, which is a benefit for Tsunami victims, or at that club next to the Troubadour that’s usually filled with dudes wearing Fubu on February 20th. Dimitri Coats from the Burning Brides will be performing solo at those shows as well, so come and check it out.
The guitar player for that Liars band quit so he could go back to school. An angel loses its wings every time someone quits a band and goes to school.
Gang Of Four are getting back together. They figured if everyone else was cashing in on their sound right now, they might as well too. Gang Of Four will be playing at Coachella this year, along with New Order, Nine Inch Nails, Coldplay, Wolf Eyes, and a bunch of other bands.
William Reid, one of the Jesus and Mary Chain brothers, is in Los Angeles preparing to record a solo album that is said to be a “rock record”. The other Mary Chain dude, jim, is in a pretty mediocre band with his girlfriend in London called Freeheat. But it's not really worth checking out, so ignore this.
Fat Mike and Joe Escalante are beefing. Joe is planning on fucking fat boy up with his “smarts”. He is a lawyer ya know… Fatty is just planning on smothering his tiny ass with his massive girth. Joe has a gun though, so he wins.
The new Warped Tour is called “Taste of Choad”. Thousands of metrosexual kids with ties, stupid haircuts, and mascara are stoked.
Shat is playing two shows… in Florida this weekend. Shat also has a messageboard now. So if you’re one of those dorks who’s been emailing us non stop for the past four years crying that we don’t have a messageboard, go here and waste your life away.
Radio Vago is mixing their debut album this week that was produced by slOmar Rodriguez, the fifth sour cream burrito from The Mars Volta. Shit sounds nice from what we've heard so far and it only took them two years... lets hear it for Radio Vago! We'll get it in stores sometime before 2007.
It’s almost the end of the year kids, and you know what that means… No, we’re not talking about drinking so many eggnog-vodka mixers that you start puking out your nose, we’re talking about the Buddyhead “2004 Best and Worst list”. Just keep it in your pants a couple more weeks kiddies! Until then, we’ve been busy with all kinds of fun stuff. Expect to see the debut of the “Buddyhead Radio Show” very soon. You’ll be able to stream our show anytime online containing music, guest interviews, blabbermouth bullshit, and all sorts of surprises. We will make it our job to JACK YOUR EARS OFF!
Wire On Fire’s “Homewrecker” is for sale in our online store, at Amoeba in Hollywood, and at their upcoming shows (which are listed on the label site’s tour dates page). Click here to buy “Homewrecker” in our store. It’ll be in stores January 18th. And that whole “Gashwrecker” thing last update, IT WAS A JOKE! The band is also hard at work on writing the material for their debut album which will be titled, “Raw Dog, Bust On Her Stomach”.
Speaking of The BURNING Brides, the band is taking a break to write some songs for their next record, find themselves a new drummer, and get realllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllly stoned. We’ve got proof, click here and here. As far as the drummer thing goes, if you fucking slay on drums, are cool as fuck, and ain't tied down to a lame job or girlfriend, contact The BURNING Brides at
brides@burningbrides.com
There’s a new White Stripes dvd out now. We haven’t seen it but it’s probably pretty damn good, especially considering that Jack White went to “Music School” in his younger days. Word on the street is that Jack majored in “bass playing” and “lyric writing” or some shit. Mmmhmmm.
Josh Homme from Queens of the Stone Age decked Blag (from the Dwarves) in the face backstage at a Dwarves show recently at the Dragonfly in Hollywood. Keep in mind, Blag is a big dude… not too many people would fuck with him, so the lesson here is, DON’T FUCK WITH 8 FOOT TALL DUDES WHO PLAYED HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL AND WERE IN STONER ROCK BANDS. Especially ones named JOSH HOMME. So yeah… we don’t have anything negative to say about Josh, only good GOOD things. NICE things too. We LOVE Queens Of The Stoneage and Eagles Of Death Metal and anything else that dude plays in. Please don’t tear our arms off and beat us with them, Josh.
Ian Brown has a funny new video for his song “Take What Ya Get”. It has him and Noel from Oasis strutting, posing, and being the arrogant brits they are. It’s great!
Fugazi is selling a bunch of really cool live bootlegs on
www.fugaziliveseries.com so they can buy more porn and hard drugs. Joe Lally recently emailed us about them and here’s what he had to say: “For many years, Fugazi has made a point of taping our live shows. We started out using a simple cassette recorder, then moved on to a digital audio tape recorder (DAT) and finally just burned straight on to cd’s. Most of the tapes were made from a combination of board mixes and live mic-ing and over the years we have amassed literally hundreds of these recordings in our tape library. This site is a way to offer our audience access to selected tapes from that bank of recordings. We have digitally transferred to compact disc an initial sampling of twenty of these shows from various points in the band's career and outfitted each with a uniform generic cover with individual concert information and a track listing. Shorter shows that fit on one disc are available for $8 postpaid. Longer sets are on 2 discs and are available for $10 postpaid. It should be noted that these are very much the original recordings without any attempt to correct for things like volume changes, strange mixing effects, the occasionally out-of-tune guitar or the tape running out. Though the sound quality on these tapes does vary, if a show was too poorly recorded it didn't make the cut. We hope to add more shows in the future but for now here's twenty. Please buy them so I can add more hardcore amateur anal porn to my ever growing collection, and so that Guy and Ian can continue their growing smack habit.”
Thanks,
Joe Lally
Speaking of Fugazi and porn, it looks like Ian is even a porn star now.
http://www.eonmckai.com/
Speaking of drugs, My Chemical Romance are on them! Well that’ s what it says in Alternative Press magazine. Yeah, there’s an interview with this new band My Chemical Romance and it’s all about the singer’s “crazy drugs problems”. The singer dude, who looks like Joe from The Icarus Line if he was a fat ass, talks about how he was “going through $150 worth of illegal pills a month, mostly Xanax, and drinking a whole bottle of Vodka every day and a half”. And how he was “wasted” from a “whole bar of xanax” and a “beer or two”. Hey pussy, my mom parties harder than you do! What’s with you just telling the world what a huge geek you are in print? How about next time you lie a little so you don’t seem like such a huge weenie. Later on in the interview he talks about how he did coke once and it made him puke in the street, made his head throb, and then his manager “had to talk him down over the phone for three hours” cuz he “was depressed”. Hey dipshit, it’s called coming down, go lie in your bunk and listen to your walkman and ride it out pussylips. And for the record, Xanax isn’t a hard drug. The other funny part in the interview is when the singer of Thursday tells them that they should check out Ink & Dagger records cuz My Chemical Romance is doing what they were, only better! Yeah dude, and Whitesnake totally kicked Led Zeppelin’s ass too!
Speaking of fat goth dudes, Robert Smith of The Cure is bald. Yeah all that hair is pieced on, tied on, and fluffed out so you can’t tell homeboy is bald.
Eddie Spaghetti is bald too.
Bono is bald too. We swear.
Dimebag Darrell from Pantera died. He was playing guitar in some other shitty metal band and someone ran on stage with a gun killing Dimebag, another member of the band, as well as several other people. We never thought we’d be watching the news and see the word “Dimebag” on the screen. Joe Burns is gonna be bummed.
Motley Crue is back together… again. Who fuckin cares is right. They billed themselves at their comeback press show at the Palladium as “The most infamous band in the world”. Maybe infamously lame! Motley Crue is about as cool as Winger was. Tommy Lee holds the record for saying the words “dude” and “fucker” more times than anyone else in the history of mankind (even more than us… no, really). “Dude, you fuckin’ fucker!”
How come Vice Magazine takes every chance they get to make fun of Kelly Osbourne, but then they stop doing so when she starts dating the drummer from the “dance-punk” band Death From Above, who happens to be on the Vice label? Wussup dudes? Don’t pussy out! Kelly and her Canuck friend attended the American Music Awards, stood on the red carpet, and hung out with all the other lame people there. Click HERE for a photo.
Twiggy, err… Jordy, is in Nine Inch Nails now.
The Wrangler Brutes broke up. They’re in Japan and when they come home they claim they will no longer be a band. Their singer Sam didn’t sing their last U.S. show, he was sick and Dean from The Wives sang for him.
Ol’ Dirty Bastard died at age 36. ODB was also known as Big Baby Jesus, Osirus, Joe Bannanas [sic], Dirt Dog, Unique Ason, Big Baby Jesus, Dirt McKirk and Dirt McGirt. Ol’ Dirty Bastard inspired Buddyhead and was for the children. He will be missed.
Death Cab For Cutie signed to Atlantic… but we’re sure that won’t get in the way of them still being super boring, disgustingly white, and only appealing to a sea of geeks who go to college. We’d love to blow their minds with a James Brown record. Or just throw on “Maggotbrain” and really bum their party out!
Speaking of mediocre white guy not-so-rocking rock bands, how boring was that All Tommorrow’s Parties thing in L.A.? Guess that’s what ya get when you have Modest Mouse curate. Flaming Lips, Built To Spill, Modest Mouse? They shoulda just set up hammocks instead of a stage and handed out sleeping pills! BUZZKILL! But The Cramps fucking KILLED IT!
Check it out kids… start a record label that gets rich off of kids buying bad hardcore and mall emo records at hot topic, and you could live in a house just like this one that Tony Brummel from Victory Records lives in! Go for it! Click HERE.
The singer of that Distillers band owes Aaron $100 bucks. Quit fuckin around… he’s gotta get the new Bill Hicks dvd and turn the gas in his apartment back on.
The kid in The Explosion who plays guitar and keeps quitting the band, quit again.
So Gwen Stefani just put out a solo record. Yeah, you knew this was coming, right? For starters, pretty much every song on it is co-written by that dreadlocked slob from Four Non Blondes who wrote Courtney Love’s last “record”. Not to mention, every song has a different rap producer. Yeah it’s totally unlistenable, but the photos on the back of her slutting out ain’t bad. Gwen scrapped the original “art” concept when she heard that her boyfriend knocked some other slut up. She figured shots of her spread eagle in jean shorts would bum his party out. Touche! Oh and another thing, the single (“What You Waiting For?”) has the exact same melody as Weezer’s “Hash Pipe” song. Hey Rivers, normally we think suing people is lame (especially when we’re on the receiving end), but call your lawyer up and sue the pants off that ska tramp!
Speaking of Weezer, no sign of their new record anytime soon. The drummer just had a kid (let’s hope his son has better luck in the coolness department) and Rivers is still at school wasting his time. Hey dude, you’re Rivers Cuomo… you made it… you’re a rock star… you don’t have to make yourself learn anymore… just write some fucking pop songs, do drugs, and nail chicks. We’re hoping that Rivers will take our advice by dropping outta school and growing his hair back out.
Shat needs help booking a tour. He wants to come from New Jersey to Los Angeles and back. If you can throw Shat on a show or two or more, send Jeff an email at
jeffwoodofshat@yahoo.com
The Nirvana boxset sucks. Yeah dude, don’t give me all the rad Peel session stuff, I want 8 versions of that shitty “Rape Me” song. Killer. Whoever was in charge of picking the cover photo needs a dick in their ear. We smell greed.
A few months ago we told you that the bass player dude from Interpol, Carlos, is addicted to fat chicks (speaking of… Shat also has a song called “Fat Attack”) and that he also likes to fuck men sometimes too. Well if you thought that was tweaked, wait til you hear this new shit. We heard Carlos also always makes the first move, and when he does he says, “this is how it usually happens” as he smothers his prey. Classy indeed!
Oh, and some dude started a website and is claiming Carlos gave his girlfriend herpes. By our math that means his girlfriend is either 1) a chunky monkey or 2) a dude.
Check it out kids! You get a free cd from The Shins with every purchase over $500 at Urban Outfitters from now until Christmas! Wait a minute… who the fuck spends $500 at once? Not anybody we know, we’re fuckin’ poor. Wait a minute. Urban Outfitters sucks.
Alice Cooper hates the Shins. He says they remind him of Spinal Tap.
We hate Alice Cooper, he reminds us of an old dude with a ponytail who plays golf.
Maynard was a pig for a Halloween.
Maynard told us to tell you all to buy the new A Perfect Circle record “emotive” cuz his record label sucks and they’re afraid to tell people it’s even out. They cover Black Flag, John Lennon, and Depeche Mode.
Lenny Kravitz has to pay one of his downstairs neighbors for water damage cuz homeboy pinched a loaf off that was just too big for his toilet! Lenny’s big shit is gonna cost him big bucks! $300,000 to be exact. That’s a lot of money for some shit. It’s either homeboy is just dropping mad logs or he’s gotta learn to give it a preliminary flush before he goes and wipes his ass with eight years worth of toilet paper. That’s how toilets get clogged man! Flush, before the wipe Lenny!
Every A&R person is jacking off to this band called The Arcade Fire. Ummm guess what? They’re Canadian.
Watch this.
Depeche Mode just released a collection of remixes, which is pretty whatever… if you aren’t into the MODE yet, check out “Violator”, “Music For The Masses” or play it safe and get the greatest hits. The real news is that they are getting back together next year to write and record a brand new record. Siiick.
Wire just came out with a new live dvd/cd set called “On the Box: 1979” on their label “pinkflag” (Aaron’s gonna start a sub-label of Buddyhead called Pinkfag). “On The Box” is a dvd of a one hour concert that was once aired on German television between their second and third records (Chairs Missing and 154) which means it’s killer, plus a really poorly lit but rad interview with the band on the same TV show, and audio of the performance in case you’re blind. Buy this.
The Alarm recently played a pretty amazing joke on the UK music industry by releasing a single under the guise of a “hip new young band” called The Poppyfields. The band had a group of teenagers perform in the video to make their story believable. Well it worked cuz the single went Top 30 and tons of labels asked to sign the “hip new young band”. The band has now agreed to let Sara Sugarman direct a film about how the band duped the UK press.
Fearless re-released the At The Drive-In catalog, even the nu-metal one.
The masked dude is back in Limp Biscuit even though he called them all sellouts and talked shit on them when he quit, cuz his band Big Stupid Head didn’t really work out and he needed to make the payments on his Ferarri’s.
Don’t forget to check up on Fred Durst’s blog. It’s an amazing experiment in handicapped writing and thinking. Lately he’s been listening to Pegboy, Paw, and Sparklehorse. Haha, is right. Dude’s tripping hard. Click HERE.
The members of Battles dress like Kanye West.
Check out this cum dumpster’s fake boob.
Andre 3000 revealed recently that his song “Hey Ya!” contains a Kool Keith diss. “What’s cooler than being Kool?” Kool Keith has called Andre out several times on record for “stealing his wigs and capes”. Keith just released “The Personal Album” (which we think you can only buy on his website) and it’s supposed to be “what The Love Below wishes it was”.
John Peel died. R.I.P.
In other sad news, Greg Shaw of Bomp Records died of heart failure. Our thoughts go out to his friends and family. Dude put out records by tons of great bands like Spacemen 3, The Stooges, The Warlocks, and many others. If you don’t know who Greg or Bomp are, read up here.
You Have Bad Taste In Music dot com has added a video of their protest of a “Story of the Year” show. Once again, support their cause. Click HERE.
Check out The Duke Spirit from London. Best new British band out there. Go check out their website at: Click HERE.
We’ve had enough of “the media” pushing The Donna’s in our face as “wild party chicks”. My mom parties harder than these girls. How about, “The Donnas: 4 pothead geeks who like to read books”
Primal Scream will have a new record out in stores around Easter time next year. And in a recent interview Mani said that he heard fellow Stone Roses alumni Ian Brown's new album, “Solarized”, and wants to record some new music with him.
In other “Scream” news, The Hoping Foundation is releasing a DVD with footage from the Primal Scream and Spiritualized benefit concert for the children of Palestine at Brixton, October 16. All profits from the gig went to this charity, as will the proceeds from the forthcoming DVD. The setlist goes like this:
Accelerator
Miss Lucifer
Rise
Shoot Speed Kill Light
Xtrmntr
Burning Wheel
99th Floor
Kill All Hippies
Detroit
Sick City
Rocks
Kowalski
Swastika Eyes
Skull X
Jailbird
Medication
Movin' On Up
