Usher protege Justin Bieber canceled a signing in Long Island, a riot ensued, a girl has been hospitalized… and worst off, according to Justin, one of his peeps has been detained by police, according to a Tweet he published following the event:
“The event at Roosevelt mall is cancelled. please go home. the police have already arrested one person from my camp. I don’t want anyone hurt.”
You can’t make up this stuff. If like many people you don’t know who Justin Bieber is (or what a Tweet is for a matter), catch our own Rebecca Brayton interviewing the teen sensation below:
Founded in Mississauga (it’s near Toronto), Ontario in the year 2001, illScarlett plays what they now call ‘pop-infused rock reggae.’ While this description is mostly a joke, that is basically the best way to describe their sound. With influences including Sublime, the band was broke when they played in the parking lot outside of Warped Tour in 2004, but founder Kevin Lyman heard them and invited them on Warped Tour the following year. In this video, http://www.WatchMojo.com sits down with the boys from illScarlett to learn more about the subjects they like to write about, and about a very messy video shoot.
For more information check out http://www.illscarlett.com
Christmas is around the corner, and what better way to start thinking about the holiday season than to watch a bizarro music video where Bob Dylan sings a hyper active version of the classic tune, “Must Be Santa”… I love this:
In this music interview http://www.WatchMojo.com gets the chance to sit down with Matt McGinley drummer of Gym Class Heroes to find out more about the band.
RJD2 fans rejoice. The producer/musician/singer extraordinaire has just released three deluxe reissues of his groundbreaking albums originally released on Definitive Jux Records. 2002’s Deadringer, 2003’s The Horror and 2004’s Since We Last Spoke, lauded as one of Spin Magazine’s Top 40 Albums of the Year, are now all in stores with two previously unreleased bonus tracks per album.
All three reissues are streaming in full at AOL Spinner through the end of the week.
This year has marked a turning point in the innovative producer’s 10 year career. After scoring the theme to the hit AMC show, “Mad Men,” and starting his own label RJ’s Electrical Connections, RJ reissued 2001’s Your Face Or Your Kneecaps as well as a box set entitled RJD2 2002-2010 and announced that his first new LP in three years, The Colossus, will hit stores on January 19th, the same month RJ hits the road for a massive cross country tour.
And as if that’s not enough, he also decided that he’d spend his holiday season giving free gifts to all of his fans! On October 29th, RJ announced via his RJ’s Electrical Connections website that he’d be giving away free records, MP3s, and more each Monday until the release of The Colossus. Visit http://rjselectricalconnections.com/ for this week’s contest.
Listen to Deadringer, Since We Last Spoke & The Horror on AOL Spinner:
http://www.spinner.com/new-releases#/15
RJD2 on Tour
01/09 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
01/10 - Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle
01/11 - Charlotte, NC - Visualite Theater
01/12 - Savannah, GA - Live Wire
01/13 - Orlando, FL - The Social
01/14 - Tampa, FL - Crowbar
01/15 - Tallahassee, FL - Club Downunder
01/16 - Atlanta, GA - Masquerade (Heavan Room)
01/17 - Birmingham, AL - Bottletree
01/18 - Chattanooga, TN - Rhythm and Brews
01/19 - Knoxville, TN - Valarium
01/20 - Asheville, NC - Orange Peel
01/21 - Charlottesville, VA - Jefferson Theatre
01/22 - Morgantown, WV - 123 Pleasant Street
01/05 - Columbus, OH - Sully’s Music Diner
02/06 - Newport, KY - Southgate House
02/07 - Louisville, KY - Headliners Music Hall
02/08 - Nashville, TN - Exit In
02/09 - Memphis, TN - Hi-Tone Cafe
02/10 - Oxford, MS - The Lyric Oxford
02/11 - New Orleans, LA - Tipitinas
02/12 - Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon
02/13 - Austin, TX - Emos
02/14 - Denton, TX - Hailey’s
02/18 - Columbia, MO - The Blue Note
02/19 - Grinnell, IA - Grinnell College - Harris Center
02/20 - Urbana, IL - Canopy Club
More RJD2
Vagrant Records will release EELS’ eighth studio album End Times on January 19. EELS is the ever-changing project of singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mark Oliver Everett (aka E). End Times follows on the heels of EELS’ critically acclaimed 2009 release Hombre Lobo, hailed by Vanity Fair as “anti-anthems that get your dopamine pumping instead of your fist” and praised by Rolling Stone for its “muddy roadhouse rockers.” Largely self-recorded on an old four track tape machine in the basement of Everettt’s Los Angeles home, the “end times” he writes about isn’t “Mayan calendar conspiracy theory bullshit,” says Everett, but, “the state of the desperate times we live in. The bottom line-ness of it all.”
While Hombre Lobo was written from the point of view of a fictional character (namely, the Dog Faced Boy of EELS’ 2001 album Souljacker), End Times is purely real life as Everett sees it: a “divorce album” with a modern twist. He equates his personal loss with the world he lives in losing its integrity. This isn’t Everett’s first break-up record. His 1993 solo effort, Broken Toy Shop, chronicled the broken heart of a young man in his twenties. End Times focuses on the loss of a middle-aged man growing as an artist. The loss has more weight.
As for the timing of the release, “I felt guilty about the long gap between the last two albums so I’m making up for lost time,” Everett says. The longest gap between EELS albums (four years between the 2005 release Blinking Lights and Other Revelations and the 2009 Hombre Lobo) is being followed by the shortest (six months between Hombre Lobo and End Times).
During the four years prior to Hombre Lobo Everett embarked on a number of projects including his acclaimed book Things the Grandchildren Should Know and the BBC produced multiple-award winning Parallel Worlds, Parallel Lives documentary film about Everett and his quantum physicist father, Hugh Everett III, which was broadcast on PBS’ Nova series in the fall of 2008. Everett says he’s now “back to my real job: making music full time.”
Check out the new track “Little Bird” from End Times :
U2 have just released three never before seen interview clips on MySpace Music, AOL’s Spinner, and The Wall Street Journal to coincide with the 25th anniversary of their creative breakthrough release, The Unforgettable Fire.
The largest rock band in the world sat down to discuss their favorite tracks from the album, what they really thought of their biggest single at the time, “Pride (In the Name of Love),” and what it was like working with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois for the first time at Ireland’s Slane Castle for the making of this landmark album.
The recently re-mastered version of The Unforgettable Fire is now available everywhere in limited edition 2CD+DVD box set, 2CD deluxe edition, single CD and LP vinyl.
Watch each video in its entirety to learn something new about the band and make sure to check out www.U2.com for the band’s most recent tour dates.
I’m not sure exactly what this says about Weezer… The band has unfortunately gone from nerd rock heroes in the mid 90’s, to comeback kings in the early 00’s, to mainstream poop-rock weirdos in the current musical landscape. I can’t for the life of me figure out why they’d brand a retarded infomercial product with their band name, but I keep falling back on the answer that lead singer Rivers Cuomo must have had a mental breakdown in the last few years that has rendered him oblivious to right and wrong, up and down how to make meaningful music anymore… Here’s hoping one day they can return to form, in the meantime watch the Weezer Snuggie Commercial and try and make sense of it all…
Hailing from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, The Stills are a rock band formed in the year 2000. The band members have known each other since the age of twelve, and have been in other bands previous to their success in The Stills. After playing for a crowd of 270 thousand opening for Sir Paul McCartney in 2008, the band is definitely on the upswing. 2009 saw the band win a Juno Award for Best New Band – three albums and nine years into their career together. In this video, http://www.WatchMojo.com chats with Tim and Liam from the band to learn about their beginnings as a band, and to find out more about the meaning of their songs.
There aren’t many details yet, but The Magnetic Fields will be releasing a new album on January 26th called Realism. This will be the bands 9th full length album and first since 2008’s Distortion. Check out the tracklist below and the band performing a classic tune from their back catalog.
Realism Tracklist:
1. You Must Be Out of Your Mind
2. Interlude
3. We Are Having a Hootenanny
4. I Don’t Know What to Say
5. The Dolls’ Tea Party
6. Everything Is One Big Christmas Tree
7. Walk a Lonely Road
8. Always Already Gone
9. Seduced and Abandoned
10. Better Things
11. Painted Flower
12. The Dada Polka
13. From a Sinking Boat
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