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- My Chemical Romance Recording New Album Next Month, Love New Drummer
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- Rock The Bells 2012 Lineup Announced As 2-Day Festival, Headliners Include Kid Cudi, Nas, Wiz Khalifa, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
- Photo Gallery: Rock The Bells 2012 Launch Party
- Fun. And Paramore’s Hayley Williams Cover Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know”
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My Chemical Romance enjoyed several years as the musical addiction of the alternative emo-punk set, but after the release of their 2010 album Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous KillJoys and the loss of their last drummer Michael Pedicone, whom guitarist Frank Iero dubbed a “thieving piece of garbage,” there was no word if the band was working on new music.
Now, according to Iero in an interview, My Chemical Romance has enlisted their tour drummer Jarrod Alexander and “can’t wait to start tracking” with producer Doug McKean.
“It’s going really well, actually,” said Iero when asked about what would be My Chemical Romance’s fifth studio album. “I’m really excited…I think we’re maybe a month away from the record button lighting up. ”
Courtesy Sumarian Records
British metalcore lads, Asking Alexandria, didn’t want to wait to get their “sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll” Hollywood fix when they play the 5th Annual Mayhem Festival on June 30th in Southern California.
Instead the fierce five-piece made a scandalous short film called Through Sin and Self-Destruction that features the band wandering Los Angeles’ infamous Sunset Strip with the likes of porn stars Belladonna and Andy San Dimas and Skid Row’s controversial ex-frontman, Sebastian Bach.
Directed by Frankie Nasso and written by Sumerian Records founder Ash Avildsen, the 15-minute mini-flick includes music videos for “Dear Insanity,” “Reckless and Relentless,” and “To The Stage.”
Supernatural, RZA and Guerilla Union's Chang Weisberg (Photo: Cody Black)
Photo Gallery: Rock The Bells 2012…Last night was the official Rock The Bells 2012 launch party at the House of Blues Sunset Strip, where the annual lineup was revealed and a few acts performed for a crowd of hip hop enthusiasts.
Among the performers on this year’s lineup include Kid Cudi, Atmosphere, Wiz Khalifa, Ice Cube, DJ Lance Rock & Friends, Missy Elliot + Timbaland, and the 20th Anniversary reunion of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony. For the first time ever, the show will be a 2-day festival – taking place at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, CA on August 18-19, Moutnain View, CA on August 25-26 and Sept 1-2 in Holmdel , NJ.
As usual, Supernatural came out and freestyled the entire lineup. When DJ Rocky Rock (as you may know from Sublime With Rome) was nowhere to be found, legendary LA producer DJ Quik started beat boxing for Supernatural. This is one of the biggest lineups in this festival’s history and is sure to be an awesome show, for not only hip hop fans, but for fans of great music in general.
See the full lineup and watch Supernatural freestyle the lineup.
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Throughout the course of history, there are not many musicians as innovative as Jack White.
The delightfully eccentric rock star is now celebrating his first charted number one album with his recent solo work Blunderbuss and his record label–Third Man Records–has kept up accordingly with balloon music delivery systems, party favor vinyl that is nearly impossible to play, and White’s plans to be the first-ever person to play vinyl in space.
Most recently, White has unveiled a video of a Triple Decker Poster that was created, designed, and printed by Matthew Jacobsen and Bryce McCloud for White’s Ryman Auditorium Nashville, Tennessee shows with the Alabama Shakes.
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Courtesy Fueled by Ramen
“It’s a miracle of technology.” The phrase relegated to the elderly seems rather appropriate here.
Nestled comfortably in BBC Radio 1′s Live Lounge, fun. performed a live collaboration yesterday with Paramore’s Hayley Williams who sat thousands of miles away in the legendary Capitol Records studio in Los Angeles.
Typically, when artists contribute parts to a song, they send recordings back and forth via email. An engineer is involved and time is spent mixing and tweaking before the track is sent back and forth a few more times. This was something far more adventurous. While fun. strummed away live in London, Hayley sung live in L.A. And, the song they performed is currently #1 on the Billboard Top 100: Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know.”
Courtesy James Winter
James Winter, an aspiring film maker from Portland, Oregon, along with his wife, kids and nephew spent last week creating an entertaining tribute to the Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch a.k.a. MCA.
The family followed the original Spike Jonze-directed music video as closely as possible. The end result is a fun twist on one of the most iconic videos of all time, the 1994 classic “Sabotage.”
In a phone interview this morning with Winter he explained that not only is he a fan but his sons recently fell in love with The Beastie Boys, “When their last album came out, Hot Sauce Committee, we got that and and somehow managed to get a clean version so we’ve just been bumpin’ the heck out of it and they’ve just been lovin’ it.”
“When we decided to do the project I showed them the Sabotage video and one of the recent videos for “Don’t Play No Game That I Can’t Win” featuring G.I. Joe figures getting blown up… and they loved that.”
When asked about the response so far, Winter says that this is the first interview he’s accepted, “This was done because I’m a fan. And I’ve been a fan since I was a kid. I saw them when I was 14 at the Palladium in Hollywood and they changed my life.” He continues about his 1987 concert experience, “I was a punk rock kid and they introduced me to hip hop. When I was at the show it was general admission, open floor, and there were gang bangers and punk rockers and jocks and cholos but everybody was united under these guys. To me, that what the Beastie Boys represent… this spirit of joy no matter who you are, get into the moment and get down.”
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What’s your sign? Do you read your horoscope every day? Follow your sign on Twitter? Think it’s a great way to find out what the future holds or think it’s a waste of time?
“I don’t believe in it, but I love it,” said singer Tyler Glenn. “I think it’s so entertaining. I’m a Sagittarius and there are so many thing about Sagittarius that are applicable to me. But I don’t use it as a daily tool.”
Appropriately enough the @Sagittastrology Twitter handle recently said:
#Sagittarius laugh at people who take things too seriously.—
Sagittarius Facts♐ (@Sagittastrology) May 11, 2012
Photo by Ellen Von Unwerth
Bassist Flea Balzary and guitarist Josh Klinghoffer from the Red Hot Chili Peppers joined the multi-genre, multi-dimensional music maker, Damon Albarn, as part of Africa Express.
The music project has helped bring Western musicians to Africian nations and African musicians to perform collaborations in the United Kingdom. Flea and Klinghoffer were two of the lucky musicians who got to perform in Ethiopia because of the “profound” Damon Albarn co-founded initiative.
“Josh [Klinghoffer - guitarist] and I went to Ethiopia as part of Africa Express with Damon, who was so kind to invite us, said Flea in an interview with NME. “What an amazing place it is. We meet all kind of people, artists, poets, intellectuals. It’s like another world.”
“We had such a good time,” Flea continued. “One time me and Josh went to this orphanage and we took these two little amps and we just started rocking and they left just started laughing. Like three hundred kids standing all in this circle, all from this orphanage and we just started rocking. Just the two of us. They thought it was the craziest thing. It was righteous man. It was a really profound experience.”
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