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category: music
01 Oct 2007

Poor Britney… but she seems to have done this to herself.

Here are CNN’s and TMZ’s takes on the situation.

category: music
01 Oct 2007

A quartet of dedicated rockers, Article A is primed to make their big splash with the debut album Stay Now, due out in early 2008. Hailing from North Jersey, the band has grown from a local band, who earned their stripes performing around their hometowns, to a true touring band. Their unique blend of power-pop and alternative rock has garnered interest in the industry since their inception in 2000.

Austin, TX-based four-piece 54 Seconds has inked a deal with Rock Ridge Music.  The band will see its new album, “Postcards from California,” released on August 7th.  54 Seconds was born in Southern England but burst out as a musical force in Austin, TX in the late 1990’s.  Best described as psychedelic-pop headphone music with swirling guitar textures and freakish keyboards, the band renders excellent melodies, heartening lyrics and eerie, otherworldly atmospheres that wrench the gut of the listener.  “We’re very excited about signing with Rock Ridge,” says band vocalist Spencer Gibb.  “Tom [Derr] and his team understand better than most where this industry is heading and we are proud to be part of such a forward-thinking and creative family.”

Stroke 9, the band that made little black backpacks infamous back in the day, are back with more of their brand of sunny, slightly quirky, California rock music.  “Last Of The International Playboys,” the new album, follows on the heels of “Café Cuts,” the acoustic record the band released last year on Rock Ridge Music.  The album, which is decorated with drawings of the band in jaunty garb created by a friend of the band, afforded the band the opportunity to really embrace the DIY mentality.  It was recorded in their home studios (in Los Angeles and San Francisco) with the band emailing parts of songs to each other and writing and recording the entire album long distance.  “The four of us were technically never in the studio together recording on this album,” says lead singer Luke Esterkyn.  “But it worked for us with the band split in half geographically between LA and San Francisco.”  You’d never know it to listen to the seamless results.

Here are this week’s GHIDRAH songs:

SONG 1: Article A – “Don’t Change”
SONG 2: 54 Seconds – “Dirty Little Secret”
SONG 3: Stroke 9 – “The One”