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OK, if you want to be a little lazy before you grow your handlebar mustache and bake the apple pie, here’s something to placate you.
Old Crow Medicine Show just announced the release date of their new full-length, Tennessee Pusher. It’ll be out Sept. 23. If you can’t wait that long, the three-song Caroline EP will be out Aug. 29. If you can’t wait that long, listen to the EP’s title track:
Old Crow Medicine Show - Caroline
Embedding for Lee Greenwood’s tribute to the U, S and A was disabled on YouTube, so you have to be a little less lazy today and click a link.
However, you could always be a lot less lazy, too. Bypass the crappy video and go do something not internet-related. Get out of your parents’ basement and bake an apple pie. Or play some baseball. Or ride your bike with festive red, white and blue streamers attached to the handlebars. Or, speaking of handlebars, go grow an awesome mustache. The possibilities are endless.
Get ready for a song that’s insanely catchy and a song that’s insane. Well, maybe not insane, but certainly experimental. NYC’s Pretendo, powerpoppers-by-way-of-post-punk, put out ][ a few months back. One of today’s songs, Mandy I Mean Mindy, is from that record. It’s the catchy one.
The other is a bit of freeform jazz odyssey recorded roughly around the same time, known as Grey. It’s the experimental one. The Pretendo boys were kind enough to give us a glimpse into their improvisational tendencies. So now you get to hear it and say “What the hell is this?!?!?!” It’s Pretendo, dummy!
Natasha Shneider of the band Eleven, and who worked alongside Chris Cornell and Queens of the Stone Age, died of cancer Tuesday.
If you feel so inclined, you can donate at Natasha’s site to offset medical costs.
Dragonforce, everyone’s favorite D&D-playing guitar shredders, have announced their new album, Ultra Beatdown. With track titles like Heartbreak Armageddon and The Warrior Inside, it’s sure to be as wanker-iffic as Inhuman Rampage.
Jay’s probably gonna kill me for posting album art on Buzzgrinder instead of letting him use it on A Grand Design, but the art for Ultra Beatdown is so awesomely bad that I couldn’t help myself:
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New music from former Rage Against the Machine frontman Zach de la Rocha seems to be coming just around the bend — finally. One Day As A Lion is de la Rocha and ex-Mars Volta drummer Jon Theodore, and they recently signed to Anti-. Here’s what their site has to say about the duo’s music:
A defiant affirmation of the possibilities that exist in the space between kick and snare. It’s a sonic reflection of the visceral tension between a picturesque fabricated cultural landscape, and the brutal socioeconomic realities it attempts to mask. One Day As A Lion is a recorded interaction between Zack de la Rocha and Jon Theodore…
Talk, talk, talk. With an album coming out July 22, you’d think the band would have at least one song on their MySpace page. I guess music isn’t an important part of its visceral tension and defiant affirmations. I’ll just go listen to Guerilla Radio instead.
I must admit, I wasn’t a big fan of Grizzly Bear at first. Yeah, I just lost some scene points. However, I talked to Sufjan Stevens briefly about the band when they performed at MusicNow this past year. I agree with his sentiments: When you see them, you can’t help but love them. The harmonies are so rich and expressive. The textures are out of this world.
And this is why I was looking forward to seeing them debut a new song on Letterman tonight. Alas, Worldwide Pants has rescheduled the performance. So now I have to wait until July 23 to see that. At least it’s still happening. And this cloudy evening’s silver lining is that the band will now be joined by Doveman on keys.
On a side note, I’m eager to see the Grizz Aug. 2 in Louisville. They’ll be playing The 930 Listening Room with Violens. The band probably won’t be playing this song:
Grizzly Bear - Owner of a Lonely Heart
Louisville’s Uncle Pleasants will be hopping Thursday night. I’ll be there.
This show should be incredible. I’ve wanted to see Maps and Atlases for a while now, and everyone knows mewithoutYou always kills on stage. Last time I saw mwY, my wife and I ended up sitting indian-style in a circle with Aaron Weiss while listening to a dude talk about apocalyptic dreams and visions for two hours. That’s the kind of thing that happens when the boys from Philly are in town.
Maps and Atlases just released a new EP on Sargent House, You and Me and the Mountain. It’s everything you’d expect from the band, and then some. Here’s the title track. I also dug up this version of Bob Dylan’s The Times They Are a-Changin’ performed by Aaron Weiss in the middle of the street.
Maps and Atlases - You and Me and the Mountain
Aaron Weiss - The Times They Are a-Changin’
Also, the first person to say hi gets a free drink. Don’t say Buzzgrinder never took care of you.
M. Shadows of Avenged Sevenfold recently commented via their Myspace blog about the band’s current tour with Iron Maiden.
We just started the tour with Maiden and I hear a lot of you guys are getting really worked up about the shows… Now just so you’re clear, when we took this tour we knew it was going to be hard and we knew that Iron Maiden fans were very dedicated people. So when we heard a “Sevenfold” chant before we hit the stage we knew it would cause a stir with the crowd, but it made us proud and really got us excited about our fans over in Italy.
Everything’s not all peaches and cream over there though.
We heard horror stories about opening for “Maiden.” Everything from standing backwards on stage so that the trash coming from the audience didn’t hit you in the face to having bottles filled with piss thrown at your head… So when you go to these shows don’t get upset if people don’t understand just yet what Avenged Sevenfold is all about. We are not a straight up metal band that is catering to their audience, we do our own thing and thats why we have so many dedicated fans.
Don’t you not-catered-to audience worry though, they’re putting a positive spin on the situation.
So the point is we are having a great time at the shows, and you should too. Don’t get all upset about a couple bottles being thrown, next year half those kids may have A7X on their IPOD and we could be their new favorite band. Like I said, we knew what we were signing up for and we are glad so many of you are supporting us through this tour. You are some passionate motherfuckers! See ya’ll soon!
I wonder what the ratio of bottles of piss thrown at their heads to new fans is.
Poison drummer Ricki Rockett has been cleared of rape charges, when it was discovered that he was a dozen states away when the alleged incident took place. Rockett believes it was an impersonator.
“So, what we believe is that there was an impostor that was using my name and it turns out this guy has used rock stars’ names before…I guess he was claiming he was me, I’m not even sure about that. Somehow my name got in the mix.”
The Neshoba County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that it is investigating another suspect, apparently the so-called impostor who’s accused of trying to pass himself off as Rockett, whose real name is Richard Ream.
A few dozen witnesses came forward, supporting the claim that Rockett was at a rooftop party in LA, where he was seen assaulting the band’s tour manager for bad routing.
