Like seeing your sister naked

Actually it looks like seeing your brother naked

STP: Better Days Behind Them?

It sucks getting old. Just an hour ago I was training our new Intern Laura, a 19 year old chick who looks and dresses like a Tom Boy. She came in wash the cars so she wasn't showing up in Church clothes. Amen. So the elder talk host of the A. M. station walks out and asks "IS THAT YOUR SON?" He then proceeded to kick me in the balls, sleep with my girlfriend and, blow up my house. Laura the Intern wasn't insulted. ME at one month before I turn 32 was HIGHLY insulted. SON????? 19 YEARS OLD??????

So I know how Scott Weiland must have felt when he limped out onto the stage at the Susqehana back on Sunday and huffed through a version of Vasoline that sounded like it was dipped in quicksand and strapped to the shell of a turtle pumped on Valium. The first three songs were a little off and it wasn't all Weiland's fault. I'm pretty sure it was the DeLeo brothers on stage but they played like a 19 year old cover band that I might be the father of. The middle of the set list came together so Sour Girl and Plush and the new songs sounded great. Sex Type Thing was an encore and I can't tell you what it sounded like because I was too busy losing my mind as Jerry Mother F@CKING Cantrell from Alice In Chains came out to blaze the solo. Some kid was pulled from the audience to sing the beginning of Dead and Bloated. I hate that kid. He's my idol. Tripping On A Hole In A Paper Heart was the last song and fell apart as badly as VAsoline did. The versus were good, but those pesky kids in my cover band seemed to forget the chord changes into the chorus and made Weiland's slightly off key singing sound a lot worse than it really was. Look, a bad STP concert is a F*&%ing awesome show. It just sucks not being able to rock like your 22 anymore.....or look like your 32

The color of purity

They are remaking The Karate Kid and Daniel La Russo is now a 9 year old black kid. All I'm gonna say about it is this: Would you get Jim Carrie to play Shaft? Would you give Speedy Gonzalez a Swedish Accent?

Btw, Ralph Macchio is my second cousin by marriage. My Granmothers Sisters husband was his cousin which made me the coolest kid in the history of second grade. Nobody fucked with me out of fear my cousin taught me teh crane technique

Ticket Blitz Friday Password

The password you need for today after 6 p. m. is Slipknot. It really sucks to lose someone like Paul Gray. Metal has enough problems staying alive without the untimely death of one of it's most important bass players

PASSWORD for Coheed AND Collective

I'll have a shot at Coheed and Cambria AND Collective Soul tickets for you Friday sometime after 8:00. The ONLY thing you'll need is this password tomorrow when the time comes to call in. The password? Well we lost a legend this week so this one's for RJD: Holy Diver. Just be caller seven tomorrow and say Holy Diver sometime after 8

STP LIVE FRIDAY NIGHT

Well On your T. V. set anyway

STONE TEMPLE PILOTS will be featured on VH1's "Friday Night Alright" concert series on Friday, May 21 at 11:00 p.m. The performance footage was filmed on March 27, 2010 at Chicago's Riviera Theatre.

Making Of: MGMT Flash Delirium

http://www.whoismgmt.com/us/news/making-flash-delirium

New footage of MGMT's video FLASH DELIRIUM

Bandwagon About To Tip Over?

Three Americans play on the Flyers. EVERY other player is Canadian. Last night the classy Philly fans booed the Canadian National Anthem and then cheered wildly for the same guys to win for THEIR team. BTW, I lived in the same town for six years and NEVER noticed all of those Flyers flags hanging out on peoples front porches before. Weird

The Greatest Song You Never Heard: Danzig

Ever hear the original version of a song AFTER you heard the cover a million times and feel like it's being played in slow motion? You MIGHT get that with the Misfits Last Caress after tearing up parkways and highways with MEtallica's version in your CASSETTE deck. Even so, the other day I talked about Danzing getting back together and before Glenn Danzig formed a band named after himself, he was revoultionizing the punk scene with this song

Life Sucks Sometimes

Rest in Peace Ronnie James Dio. Little guy. Big presence. I'm not gonna go on and on with how he inspired me and so many musicians. That's been done before. I'm gonna offer up some Dio videos and let his music live on. When you make music like this, you live forever. Ride high tonight Ronnie. Say hello to Randy for me. We miss you

The Greatest Song You Never Heard: The Gracious Few

I've been talking about this band for a while now. I'm a huge Kevin Martin fan. Candlebox music has spoke to me since I was 14 and the way they capture the honesty, shame, and anger of addicting and coping with it has been an important part of my dealing with really fucked up, difficult issues. Live? Well you cant not like live. If you lived your teen years in the 90's, chances are you made out with someone parked on the water while a Live song played on the radio. They were everywhere for a while. When I found out Kevin Martin was teaming with the members of Live, I figured we might have an album for the summer. This stuff has an our Lady Of Peace but darker feel to it. The first video is good, the second one is Honest Man and that might be my song for the summer

GreenDay Games

We recently had a chance to speak to Green Day drummer Tre Cool about the upcoming Green Day: Rock Band. The outspoken stickmaster gave us the inside skinny on the band’s involvement in the production of the game, the exciting unlockable bonus features, and his “sneaky uncle.”

How did you get approached to do this project? Was it after you had seen the Beatles game?

It was during development of the Beatles game. They had a lot of the bonus material already compiled, some of the unseen Beatles stuff. That’s what really impressed me. I had played Rock Band 1 and 2 before, but the fact that they were doing an entire game devoted to the Beatles really impressed me. The fact that they were offering us the second game after the Beatles was an honor. I didn’t know how much Rock Band had beside the gameplay. There’s so much to it, the special features and old interviews and things. With us, there is all this old stuff we hadn’t seen in years – us getting interviewed high on the Bookmobile, crazy stuff. So many old pictures and great memories. It’s a trip. I thought it would just be the gameplay.

Did you dig into your own personal vaults for some of the bonus material or did MTV help provide that?

I don’t know if you’re old enough to remember but MTV used to be a music channel! [Laughs]

I am definitely old enough.

Back when they were a music channel, we used to do quite a bit of stuff with them, since we play music. [Laughs] So, they have dirt on Green Day for miles. They have all sorts of stuff showing Green Day acting badly. They dug it up and they used it. It’s pretty cool.

I know you wanted the game to really reflect what a Green Day show is like. Did you do motion capture for full takes of songs done how you would do them on stage?

We actually went back and forth with them on that. They wanted us to go in that little room with the balls on us. The only person putting balls on me is my sneaky uncle, you know what I mean? [Laughs] So we tried to weasel our way out of that, and we figured out a way to do it by cross referencing old video with a special filming we did for them, where they had their cameras in just the right spots. They used that and I think they got some guys that are in a Green Day tribute band to go in the room with the suits with the balls. So, we amalgamated that in a scientific and artistic way. It’s a trip. These video game dudes are super smart, yet they have creativity.

Are you happy with how you’re portrayed in the game?

Oh man, we look like f---ing superheroes!

The game draws tracks mostly from Dookie, American Idiot, and 21st Century Breakdown.

Yeah, three albums on one disc, who knew?

Are there songs from other records in the game?

Yeah, there are select songs from other records. We wanted to get stuff from 39/Smooth and Kerplunk! on there, too, but the tapes are really old. I don’t know if you know about analog tapes, but to transfer them you need to play them. They are kind of stuck together right now. You have to “bake” them, and then you have one chance to run it over the machine to transfer it to make stems. Once it hits the head, it comes off the other side shredded. We’re making sure we have the right dudes to do it. We’re actually booking it; there’s one place in Burbank that still does it. We’re going to bite the bullet and shred our old tapes and put it to digital.

Talk about the venues in the game.

The Fox Theater is the third venue in the game, and that’s a real venue in our hometown of Oakland, California. They just refurbished it after 35 years; it’s an old 1920s Persian style theater. They did everything from vaudeville to show music in it over the years. It was dilapidated and run-down, and finally the Friends of the Fox Theater repaired it and we were the second show after it reopened. We played 21st Century Breakdown in its entirety. That was a really special moment in our career. Then, going back to the Milton Keynes in England was our first stadium gig. The Warehouse in the game is a mix of Slim’s and some other venues of that sort back in the day. I think they used a lot of video from the Slim’s performance we did back in 1994 – also Bottom of the Hill was another venue they used. We did a live MTV performance there where Mike broke his nose. [Laughs]

Did you guys have specific songs from the albums besides the three big ones that you wanted to make sure were in the game?

We wanted it all to go on there, but I guess you have to leave something for later. The technology is pretty sweet. You can download more material on all the consoles. Personally, I like PS3. I watch Netflix on my PlayStation 3. So, we’re going to have more stuff going through the pipeline later, like the old records once we get them on digital and get the stems. Hopefully, we’ll come up with some new looks.

Is it bizarre to be sitting there playing a game with your own likeness?

It’s very, very bizarre. But it kinda gives you a tech boner! [Laughs] It gets my tech weenie hard.

What’s your favorite tracks to play?

I like when you f--- up. You get rewarded for mistakes. If you screw up enough and they boo you off stage, you get in a band fight onstage. That’s priceless because we never really do that.

American Idiot was a big change for Green Day, because you had some of the longer, multi-part epics like “Jesus of Suburbia”. Are you going to be able to play those in their entirety?

Yeah, absolutely. It’s a big challenge, a nine-minute song on a video game. You’re trying to hang on through it, and if you screw up you get booed offstage and have to start over. But that’s how it is in real life; you can’t take a break and smoke a bowl onstage. You can’t hit the pause button and pack the bong. [Laughs]

If you get some of the older tapes baked and get them to digital –

Speaking of bongs! [Laughs]

[Laughs] But do you hope to have timetable for when you can do that stuff as downloadable content?

Whenever’s clever, baby.

As a drummer, do you play as yourself or do you like to see what it’s like to be the guitarist or bassist?

I like singing it, because I’m just hopeless on the drums.

That’s weird, why do you think you’re so bad at drums?

Well, I’ve been playing a trap kit since I was 11, and it’s kind of a different thing. I’ll get it; I’ll learn. But right now I’m completely dogs--- at it. I can’t even finish a song on easy. But I can do it on guitar, bass, and vocals. Everything but drums.

When the game comes out, maybe you can get practiced up at drums.

What’s cool about the game is that you can go to a practice mode. I’m going to have to re-learn drumming. The practice mode will teach you different rhythms and beats. If you scroll down, you can also go to free play and basically just drum like on a real kit. I predict that suburban white kids will use it to make beats and do really crappy rap music. [Laughs] They’ll record it on their iPhones and dump it on YouTube. It’s going to happen.

It’s the future of music.

Exactly.

MGMT In Color

From Antimusic.com

MGMT's Ben Goldwasser, Yeasayer's Ira Wolf, singer/songwriter Sean Bones and Norah Jones all have roles in the upcoming film Wah Do Dem, out on DVD on Oct. 26.

The movie's about a skateboarder named Max (Bones) who gets dumped and heads to Jamaica via a free cruise. He meets a Rastafarian who shows him a secret beach, but Max loses his belongings and starts wandering through Jamaica looking for the American embassy to go home.

Brooklyn, N.Y.'s Suckers also perform in the movie, which was directed by Sam Fleischner and Ben Chace. The soundtrack features music from Santigold, Yeasayer, MGMT, Suckers, The Congos, Bones and others.

Here's the trailer:

WAH DO DEM trailer from Ben Chace on Vimeo.

Your My Boy Green

Check out this rare Greenday track where they go old school. Cheap Trick is a band I tried to hate and I couldn't and pretty much every song you hear on JSE comes from the Replacements somehow. Deepest lyrics I ever heard. Check it out. Let me know what you think

Sneak Peak at the new STP: Bagman

http://www.amazon.com/gp/entity/Stone-Temple-Pilots/B000ARC4TI

The latest track off of the brand new sixth Stone Temple Pilots album to get leaked is Bagman. Check it out, then let me know what you think: BrianAnthony616@yahoo.com

The Greatest Song You Never Heard : Staind

Okay so you heard of the song and you heard of the band but have you heard THIS band doing THIS song??? I'm not a fan of the Black album era Metallica and this song always seemed like a huge EFF U to the fans (listen closely to the lyrics) but Staind makes this song sound like a Staind song. Perfect fit and excellent interpretation

This Will Work Better Than Sending A Virus

http://blogs.tvland.com/prime/tv-land-awards-classic-glee-club-does-dont-stop-believin/

You will love this if either you're an 80's pop culture ADDICT, or somebody you were once close to slept with your girlfriend/boyfriend and you need revenge. Send this. You couldn't get more 80's if you covered this in Spandex and used hairspray to light it on fire. The best part about this, and when I say best part I'm truly searching for the needle in the haystack, is the background singers including Janet from Three's Company, JJ Walker from Good Times, and Bull from Night Court. Don't say I didn't warn you

Thrice Times the charm

Dude, Thrice. BACK. The story below is from Antimusic.com



Thrice drummer Riley Breckenridge took to the band's website on Tuesday to reassure fans that the group still plans to hit the road this summer. Here is what he had to say:

Since the situation with Dustin's Dad arose and we had to cancel the remainder of our tour with Manchester Orchestra and O'Brother, there have been many questions regarding the status of our summer headline tour. Today we got word from Dustin that he's good to go, and as a result, we will be continuing with our plans to do that tour in it's entirety.

It has been an indescribably difficult seven months for all of us. In September, my and Ed's Dad was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer in his throat and tongue and has since undergone seven weeks of chemo and radiation, and a major surgery three weeks ago to remove the remaining tumors. No more than two weeks after my Dad's diagnosis in September, Teppei's Mom was diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer, and passed away in January. And most recently, Dustin's Dad's diagnosis and surgery last week. It's just been relentless.

We really appreciate the support, positive thoughts, and understanding you've shown us in person or via the comments on this blog as we've dealt with all of this and had to play shows without Teppei late last year & this January, or cancel this past tour. Thankfully, at this time we can focus on healing our folks at home while we share music with you on the road. I don't think they'd want it any other way.

So with that said, we'll see you guys this Summer. Tour dates and tickets are available here, with more dates being announced soon. Keep sending positive thoughts and/or prayers in the the direction of Mr. Kensrue and my Pops, and hold fast hope.

If Only we could see the way to the Mid West

Nothing close by yet, but I have a feeling Tonic will be making their way around our parts closer than we think. If your up for a road trip and a .........really big Tonic fan, the current tour dates are below

TONIC confirmed tour dates:
5/20 Sundown in the City Knoxville, TN
5/21 The Windjammer Isle of Palms, SC
5/22 Chesapeake City Park Chesapeake, VA
5/28 Montgomery Jubilee City Fest Montgomery, AL
5/29 Moody Gardens Convention Ctr Galveston, TX
6/3 Nitefall on the River Des Moine, IA
7/4 Naperville Ribfest Naperville, IL
7/15 Moondance Jame Walker, MN
7/16 Windy City Ribfest Chicago, IL
7/25 Churchill Downs Music Fest Louisville, KY
8/6 Kiwanis Park Sheboygan, WI

New Taking Back Sunday Tour Dates

Taking Back Sunday headline tour dates are as follows:

June 22 – Starland Ballrooom Sayreville, NJ
June 23 – Irving Plaza New York, NY
June 24 – Electric Factory Philadelphia, PA
June 25 – House of Blues Boston, MA
June 27 – Metro Chicago, IL
June 29 – The Wiltern Los Angeles, CAjavascript:void(0)

New Band To Check Out : JYN

http://www.myspace.com/briksavj


I'm fucking bored. I have been for about twelve years. There hasn't been a new song or band that seems like it Will have a lasting effect on my life now the way bands like Pearl Jam, Pantera, STP, Life Of Agony and Alice in Chains did back in the 90's. Maybe I'm just getting older? No Effin Way!!!!!! Dude there's some great music out there right now with the Sick Puppies and Silversun Pickups but do you really see yourself in five years reaching for that old Shinedown CD to pop n the obscure track 7 to take you back to your youth? Stuff today seems so forgettable. Last year was a nice step with Pearl Jam, Weezer, Creed, and Alice In Chains making comeback albums but things just don't seem to have the same impact anymore that they used to. In 99 Creed, for better or for worse was the biggest band in the country selling out arenas before the tickets ever went on sale. This year Creed tickets are ten bucks. Maybe we have heard it all before? I don't buy it. I think we accept to the point where we don't challenge anymore. The new stuff we play on JSE is good music. You need good music throughout the day but where is that mind blowing GREAT music? The life changing kind? The holy crap get me a guitar I wanna do that music? I'm looking for it and I believe you should too. Maybe we got complacent. There is new stuff out there but I think I've been jaded enough to turn off a new song a soon as I hear the words "NEW BAND" If you're in a band or know a great one I'd like you to get some songs to me.

My buddy lives in Brooklyn but he joined a South Carolina based band called Jyn. At first I kind of shrugged it off but today I finally got to their Myspace page. No I don't think Jyn is the next GREAT thing, not yet. I think they're on the right track though.

The first song Kat In the Chair s the most fusteratng because it's really good. It' just missing SOMETHING. The entire time I'm listening I'm expecting something just a little more an it never comes. Slowly Melting is a jam. Put on your sunglasses, jump on the expressway and jut let this song take you wherever. Porcelain Dog marries Blind Melon with Candlebox. The lyics Jyn offers are from different place than bands who make similar style music which makes songs like this one stand out.Ornamental is the ballad and my favorite of the four offered. Maybe I AM getting too old, liking the ballad the best? Jyn offers something I haven't heard in a long time though and that's an outside of the box approach to making an age old product: The song. Bands like Paramore and Flyleaf ARE great now. I'm just saying Jyn is something to look forward to in the future because hey might be around for a while one day

The Greatest Song You Never Heard : Velvet Revolver

Since I'm doing nights again, I'm doing it right. One of the complaints I hear a lot about JSE is that the play list is way too short. Hey I just work here. I CAN post whatever the I want here, and get a little music networking thing going. One of the features I liked to do early on was a feature one rarley played song everyday here and talk about it. That first Velvet Revolver album is pretty much forgotten about now with Weiland going back to STP and Slash flying solo. Velvet never reached the status I think they should have, but when you put one of the greatest bands of the 80's together with one of the 90's best singers,expectations seem to get the best of us and I think the public expected the album to come with ten sample pills of Viagra. This album was full of epitomizing Rock songs like Headspace. Killer Riff. Killer Sound. Why the hell did this song get ignored?