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Josh Homme totally gives off “cool bro” vibes and the Queens of the Stone Age frontman sure has enough talented artist friends to prove it. Just recently,the red-headed musical behemoth sang a sultry rendition of Johnny Cash’s “Jackson” with Florence Welch on MTV Unplugged and the Hives confessed that Homme was their main homeboy at an interview with KROQ/Los Angeles at Coachella.
Now Homme is showing off his really awful/hilarious/weirdly erotic acting skills with an album “infomercial” for the Scissor Sisters’ forthcoming album Magic Hour which will include collaborations with artists like Diplo and Pharrell.
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Either we’ve just happened upon a highly-competitive time in musical history or our musicians are bored. Recently, Jack White brought up his beef with the Guinness Book of World Records people for not putting his “shortest concert ever” into the book; it wasn’t a viable option. But White decided that he wants to use the most metaphors in a concert. His recent try was rendered uncountable.
Now the Flaming Lips’ quirky Wayne Coyne–who bottled up his collaborator’s blood for his Record Story Day project–wants to break his own World Record by playing the most amount of concerts in a day. Currently, Jay-Z broke that record in 2006 with seven concerts and seven cities.
Coyne is planning to attempt his concerts on June 27th with eight shows across the American South. He tweeted that he’s interested in getting bands like Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, Grimes, and Ke$ha to join him.
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This past month has seen quite a battle between the top five bands. Linkin Park’s newest single, “Burn It Down” has once again taken the #1 spot after coming in at #3 last week, bumping last week’s top played, Fun.’s “We Are Young”, down to #2. But Fun. is still having a good week, landing a second song on the most-played list with “Some Nights” at the #5 spot.
“Midnight City” by M83 climbed back to #3, while Grouplove’s “Tongue Tied” held firm at #4. See the full playlist here.
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On today’s Kevin & Bean show: An all new Bean’s Death Corner, local news coverage of the LA Kings, Jemaine Clement talks about Men in Black 3, Kevin’s assistant Linus, comedian Bobby Slayton, Maxim’s Editor in Chief Dan Bova defends the Maxim Hot 100 list and more.
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Where’s the fun in rock n roll?
One Canadian band is leading the charge to bring the glory back to good ‘ol rock n roll. For their latest album titled Sick And Twisted Affair, My Darkest Days has helped themselves to an extra scoop of sex, a second swirl of whipped cream and fully intend to dump a jar of Maraschino cherries on top.
In a behind-the-scenes peek at their second album, the guys say it’s heavier, faster and darker than anything they’ve done before.
“A huge part of the reason we got into music was that music was fun. It was about rock and roll, that whole culture,” says mohawked guitar player Sal Costa. “Over the last little while, I think that’s started to die. Everyone’s writing music about depressing things. We wanted to bring back that edge that a lot of those 80′s bands had.”Go behind the scenes and listen to the full album.
With much anticipation, millions from around the world anxiously await the awarding of one of the biggest prizes in music history – The Black Keys’ 1991 Dodge Grand Caravan Limited Edition (aka El Camino). One lucky KROQ fan will be the center of attention as they drive home in this piece of rock n’ roll history on Friday afternoon.
Carpenters Union Local 409 has declared “that’s some real nice wood.” Rent-A-Wheel’s Bakersfield location Associate Manager says, “love those murdered out 12′s.”
Dodge Museum’s curator says, “Impressive,” while the Mayor of Kansas City, Missouri is petitioning for the return of the city’s most iconic motor vehicle. “It’s not every day a vehicle of this stature rolls through your streets.”
Ferrari F1 Racing Team manager Luigi Rigitoni requested it’s use for wind tunnel testing due to aerodynamic efficiencies. “Questo è il più grande macchina mai fatto!” he exclaimed.
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Wonder how your favorite albums get made? Neon Trees say, in a behind the scenes look at their new album, that for them it started with a concept.
“The themes of the songs are a lot about playing pretend and so I thought that a movie theater would be a great way to kind of be a visual,” singer Tyler Glenn said. “It started back with the idea for the album being the ability that someone has to escape for two hours in someone else’s life.”
See Neon Trees’ 80s influences.
M83's Anthony Gonzales
Happy birthday Bob Moog, creator of the Moog synthesizer, the device that made it possible to make every song sound like a science-fiction classic. Moog’s invention was such an important milestone in modern music that Google has dedicated their homepage to the keyboard with a creative play-it-yourself “Doodle Synthesizer.”
A Theremin salesman at 20 years old in 1954, Bob Moog eventually created the first modular synthesizer in 1963. One year later he began taking orders for his creation.
Modern day bands that are vocal about their love of Moog synthesizers include Franz Ferdinand, MGMT, Passion Pit, Stereolab, Brian Eno, Blur, The Cure, The Cars and Depeche Mode.
In an interview during Moog Fest, appropriately located at the Moog factory in Asheville, North Carolina last November, Anthony Gonzales from M83 explained his fascination with the instrument. “I have a love for vintage synthesizers, and this is how it all started. My love of synthesizers is coming from my childhood. And since this moment, I’m obsessed with synthesizers because it looks beautiful and it has a sound of my childhood memories. I don’t think I can ever get rid of this. The history of the bands that played with Moog… they’re timeless.”
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Say, are you all caught up on the latest hilarious deaths? Our team spans the globe looking for ordinary people who die in extraordinary ways.
You will marvel at the strip club customer who died after too many lapdances…
You will wince at the professional boxer who died 32 seconds into the first round of his first fight…
You will sympathize with the man who hired a real-life porn star to have sex with him when afterward she killed him with a hammer.
And you will cringe at the woman who settled a parking space dispute with another driver by killing him with a well-placed testicle squeeze!
Ouch!
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Beastie Boys Ad-Rock And Mike D have broken their media silence. Aside from a posting to the Beastie Boys website, the two have kept a low profile since Adam Yauch’s passing on May 4.
In an interview with Rolling Stone, the Adam Horovitz (Ad-Rock) reflected reflected on Yauch’s uplifting spirit and the group’s belief in his full recovery. “He said, ‘I’m gonna be okay.’ He’s been right about most sh*t so far. So I believe him. You would get swept up in his excitement and positivity.”
Horovitz spoke about the band members’ roles, stating that “Yauch was in charge. “He was smarter, more organized.” “He had that extra drive to see things through. We each had our roles. One of his was the make-it-happen person.”
Horovitz admits it’s been rough since his death, “My wife is like, ‘I want to make sure you’re getting it out.’ But then I’m walking the dog and I’ll start crying on the street.”
Watch the Beastie Boys ‘Intergalactic.’
Most Played
- Linkin Park – Burn It Down
- Fun. – We Are Young
- M83 – Midnight City
- Grouplove – Tongue Tied
- Fun – Some Nights
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